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Title: KISSING, TICKLING AND BEING BORED

Reference number: 7089

Date: 2006

Director: d. Jim McRoberts

Sponsor: BBC Scotland, Scottish Screen Lottery Funded

Producer: David Smith

Production company: Brocken Spectre

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 20.14 mins

Description: Maddy is fifteen and everything in her life seems totally dead. Her boyfriend, Daz, is emotionally stagnant and. like most teenage boys, thinks with the wrong head. He's been pressurising her into having sex and maybe, one day, she'll give in. Sometimes, Daz's older brother sniffs around Maddy. She knows exactly what he's after and kind of likes that game, even though she hates herself for it. As pressure builds on Maddy, something has got to give. The cigarette getting closer to her skin might not be the answer - but, so far, it's the only release she's found. [synopsis from Tartan Shorts Press Pack 2006]

Premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival, August 2006. Nominated for a Bafta in January 2007.

View this film on the BBC Film Network at http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004wmc7 [last accessed 27/1/2010]

Tartan Shorts: A joint short film initiative funded by BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund. Three films per year commissioned for theatrical release and broadcast.

Credits: Maddy Megan Davis
Daz Farren Morgan
Brother Jonathan Rush
Mother Louise Ludgate
David David Maxwell

d. ph. W. Schepel
camera operators Janusz Sus, Minttu Mantynen
focus pullers Gordon McMillan, Jonny Kerr
camera runner Damien Leitch
grip Mark Donnelly
sd. rec. Douglas Kerr
boom operator Graham McCormick, Tim Dyer
costume designer Amelie Harper Gow
costume ass. Elisa Cunningham
designer Ursula Cleary
art d. Martin McNee
art dept. ass. Shona Paton
art dept. runner Laura Maxwell
gaffer David Thom
lighting Donald Campbell
make-up designer Christine Brack
ed. Anne Goudie
online ed. Ian Ballantyne
dubbing mixer John Cobban
dubbing ed. Travis Reeves
p. man. Rohanna Law
p. co-ordinator Duncan Broadfoot
1st ass. d. Dave Tarvit
2nd ass. Gillian Tod
3rd ass. d. Lisa Docherty
location man. Tim Linney
sc. supervisor Kate West
stills ph. Iona Shepherd
casting d. Laura Donnelly
p. accountants Lisa Neely, Kirsty Kyle
p. runner Jackie Thornton
floor runners Claire Taylor, David Eadie, Fraser Allison

Thanks to Pilar Anguita-Mackay, Gordon Barnes, Bill at ARC, John & Louise Butler, David Farquar, Jemma Field, Laura Ford, Samm Hailley, Hammerhead, Duane Hopkins, Ross Howieson, Jim Hummell, Kelvinside Academy, Langside College, David Lidell, Light Track, Allie Lucas, Aileen Lyndsay, Joanne MacLeod, Trish Malone, Melissa Mathieson, Tony O'Reilly, Panavision, The Red Cross and st. Andrews Ambulance Service, Reid Kerr College, Kirsty Robertson, Sophie Sexton, Inge Sorenson, Gail Webster - and the people of East Kilbride.

composer Graham Slack
"Forever is a Long Time Without You" written by Francis MacDonald, perfomed by Nice Man & the Bad Boys. p. coutesy of Shoeshine Muisc Limited. © Shoeshine Music Limited, administered by Bucks Music Group Limited.

exec. p. Sharon Chaanner, Julia Caithness
p. exec. Amanda Millen
w. and d. Jim McRoberts

© Brocken Spectre MMVI