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Title: DAYBREAK

Reference number: 5554

Date: 2000

Director: [d. Bernard Rudden]

Sponsor: [ Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund and FilmFour, Starhaus Produktionen]

Producer: Jim Hickey, James Mackay

Production company: [ Basilisk, Daybreak Films]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 99.28 mins

Description: Shauna MacDonald and Jean-Philippe Écoffey star in a low-budget digital video drama set over the course of a single night in Edinburgh's clubland.

Catalogued from secondary sources. CD held by Archive on this title with additional information on press, legal, technical and production information.
Low budget film shot originally on a digital video format transferred onto 35mm film using film recorder. Originally set to commence production c. 1996.

Credits: Cast
[Diane Bell Eve
Jean-Philippe Écoffey Pierre
Flash Jed
Gaynor Purvis Anna]

[w. Bernard Rudden
exec. p. Robin Gutch
ass. p. Christopher Harrison
p. Jim Hickey, James Mackay
line p. & p. man. Matthew Hobbs
orig. m. Mathew Herbert
film ed. Alan Knight
1st ass. d. Robbie Sandison]

Shotlist: Shauna Macdonald and Jean-Philippe Écoffey star in a low-budget digital video drama set over the course of a single night in Edinburgh's clubland.

A hit at 2000's Edinburgh International Film Festival but subsequently overlooked, this first release from FilmFour Lab (FilmFour's experimental, low budget department, which also produced This Filthy Earth) is a brave attempt to capture club culture and some of its attendant chaos on film. Shooting using digital technology, first-time writer-director Bernard Rudden manages to make a virtue of the small budget as he voyages into the dark heart of one long neon-lit night.

Hassled DJ Jed (played by Glasgow DJ Flash) is experiencing serious financial problems when he falls for hippy-ish Emily (Macdonald - subsequently seen in Late Night Shopping). Unfortunately, Jed already has a girlfriend - Anna (Purvis). She, in turn, has her eyes on a French porn film director (Ecoffey - Ma Vie En Rose), whose offer of a starring role is starting to look dangerously tempting. Complicating matters further is the fact that Jed and Anna's friend Eve (Bell) is being sought by the family she thought she'd managed to escape. It's a swift, no-frills affair but Rudden stays with each of these characters as they approach their own personal crises. A pumping soundtrack comes courtesy of Matthew Herbert (who, in a fair indication of the film's ambit, also scored Human Traffic), and a hip, young cast are clearly committed to an ambitious, authentic-looking piece of drink-and-drug-driven drama.

[Source: Channel 4 website]

Reel 1 = 1545 ft (16.28)
Reel 2 = 1653 ft (18.22)
Reel 3 = 1664 ft (18.29)
Reel 4 = 1467 ft (16.18)
Reel 5 = 1736 ft (19.17)
Reel 6 = 952 ft (10.34)