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Title: SNIPER 470

Reference number: 7063

Date: 2002

Director: d. Paul Holmes

Sponsor: Scottish TV, Grampian TV, Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund

Producer: Michael Hines

Production company: Brassneck

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 26.37 mins

Description: The Gunner sits in his pod and waits, millions of miles away from Earth. This is Sniper 470. His task is to destroy convoys of ships that cross the Trojan Asteroid Belt, and, with a little luck, survive. [synopsis from official Billy Boyd website at http://www.billyboyd.net/bio/sniper.html. Last accessed 31/7/2006]

Filmed over a six day period in Glasgow. World premiere was at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 23rd August 2002. Poster held.

"I play a sniper on tour of duty out in space. It's my job to gun down enemy ships and alien outlaws trying to invade earth. The gun is his only company, it's really like a giant video game. It's nothing like Star Wars. It's taking the army mentality to extremes. It's all about this huge gun and his relationship with it." [Quote from Billy Boyd in The Sun newspaper, 26th August 2002]

New Found Land commissions six digital 24-minute dramas for television broadcast and theatrical distribution. The scheme runs every two years.

Credits: The Gunner Billy Boyd
The Mother Eliza Langland
The Intruder Carmen Pieraccini

picture model Taryn Studzinski
additional graphics Craig Lamberton
2nd unit camera Alan Nicol

art dept ass. Jenni Cormack
standby props George Booth, Toy O'Donnell
construction maanager Peter Dickson
props master John Knight
art d. James Lapsley
electrician Robert Allan
gaffer Ray Broadfoot
camera ass. Gary Downie
jimmy jib operator Stephen Pitt
camera operator Kevin O'Brien
3rd ass. d. Derek Ritchie
p. co-ordinator Margaret McDonald
animal agent Creature Feature
visual effects Tony Steers
sd. rec. Kenny Allan
sc. superviser Janis Watt
makeup designer Jacqui Mallett
costume designer Paul Farrow
computer display designer Garry Harper
p. man. / 1st ass. d. Maryann Wilson
subbing mixer & sd. design Chris MacLean at Marmalade
CGI effects John Butler at Non Sono Un Robot
ed. Robert Scott
p. designer Alan Wright
d. ph. Michael Miles
exec. p. Carole Sheridan, Agnes Wilkie
p. and m. composed by Michael Hines
w. and d. Paul Holmes

A Brassneck Production for Scottish Television, Grampian Television and the Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund. © 2002.