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Title: TRUE NORTH

Reference number: 7197

Date: 2006

Director: [d. Steve Hudson]

Sponsor: [ BBC Films, Filmstiftung NRW and FFA present with the assistance of Eurimages Council of Europe; Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish Film Board ; Scottish Screen]

Producer: [ Sonja Ewers, Benjamina Mirnik, David Collins, Eddie Dick]

Production company: [ Ariel Films GmbH, Makar Productions Ltd, Samson Films Ltd.]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 92.00 mins

Description: Drama. The Providence, a heavily-indebted Scottish trawler, has failed once again to catch enough to pay the mortgage. At his wits, Sean, the ship's mate, meets a contact who has a group of Chinese immigrants all of whom have paid to get to Britain. Sean agrees to take the passengers without daring to tell his father, the skipper. Whilst the skipper sleeps, the Chinese are hidden down in the darkness of the hold. Su Li, a girl of 12, slips away unnoticed below decks. Soon the slow-witted cook notices that food is disappearing from his galley and he begins a covert quest to find the thief. [Synopsis from www.truenorth-film.com]

Catalogued from secondary sources, credits list copied from website and checked against paper records deposited. Script and press kit also held by the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Shotlist: Drama. The Providence, a heavily-indebted Scottish trawler, has failed once again to catch enough to pay the mortgage. At his wits, Sean, the ship's mate, meets a contact who has a group of Chinese immigrants all of whom have paid to get to Britain. Sean agrees to take the passengers without daring to tell his father, the skipper. Whilst the skipper sleeps, the Chinese are hidden down in the darkness of the hold. Su Li, a girl of 12, slips away unnoticed below decks. Soon the slow-witted cook notices that food is disappearing from his galley and he begins a covert quest to find the thief. [Synopsis from www.truenorth-film.com]