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Title: I AM BELFAST

Reference number: 13926

Date: 2016

Director: d. Mark Cousins

Sponsor: National Lottery through Creative Scotland, BFI Film Fund

Production company: A Hopscotch Films, Canderblinks Films production

Sound: sound

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 84.00 minsc

Description: Mark Cousins’ dreamlike evocation of his home city drives far beyond its over familiar political story to find a capital of rich history and startling beauty.

Our guide is not Cousins himself, but a 10,000-year-old lady who claims to be the spirit of the city itself, taking us on a journey through the city’s rich, complex and often tragic history. From wandering through the streets, meeting jaunty pensioners Rosie and Maud, to the horrors of the Troubles, I Am Belfast is an impassioned, politically engaged and inventive love letter from Cousins to his hometown. [Synopsis taken from the BFI, https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-i-am-belfast-2015-online, last accessed 18/11/21]

Catalogued from secondary sources including the BFI and BBFC website.

Official selection at Belfast Film Festival (2015), London Film Festival (2015) and Glasgow Film Festival (2015).

Credits: [Belfast Helena Bereen
the last bigot Sean Perry
bus driver Shane McCafferty
Betty Patricia Brook
drag queens Cherrie Ontop
drag queens Sassie Longshaft
lively women Rosie McKee
lively women Maud Bell
voices Helena Bereen
voices Mark Cousins
voices Lalor Roddy
Credits
Direction:
Director Mark Cousins
Rights:
© British Film Institute, The
© I Am Belfast Limited
Production:
A Hopscotch Films and Canderblinks Films production Hopscotch Films
A Hopscotch Films and Canderblinks Films production Canderblinks Film
Developed and produced with the partial assistance of the European Regional Development Fund
Developed and produced with the partial assistance of the European Regional Development Fund through Northern Ireland Screen
Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland
Made with the support of the BFI Film Fund
Producer John Archer
Producer Chris Martin
Writing:
Writer Mark Cousins
Photography:
Image by Christopher Doyle
Image by Mark Cousins
Editing:
Editor Timo Langer
Design:
Production Designer Shane Bunting
Music:
Music David Holmes
Sound:
Sound Recordist Martin Harrison]