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Title: AT THE END OF THE SENTENCE

Reference number: 7280

Date: 2005

Director: d. Marisa Zanotti

Sponsor: BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen

Producer: Angela Murray, Susan Nickalls

Production company: Brazen Hussies in association with Oxygen Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.00 minsc

Description: An uptight newspaper sub-editor and his teenage brother organise a Christmas homecoming for their convict father in this surreal tale of cowboys, prison and punctuation in the wild west of Scotland. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2005"]

View this film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_cYusRrzog [last accessed 31/1/2020]

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.

Festivals, awards and screenings include:
Winner of the UK Film Council Audience Award, Encounters, Bristol 2006
Nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award for best new screenplay 2005
Nominated for best British short, British Independent Film Awards 2006
Edinburgh International Film Festival August 2005
Screened BBC 2 November 2005
Message to Man Film Festival, St Petersburg, July 2006
Big Sur International Short Film Series, August 2006
Los Angeles Short Film Festival, September 2006
Boulder Internatinal Film Festival, February 2007
The End of the Pier film festival, Brighton
Woodgreen International Short Film Festival, London

Credits: Cast (in order of appearance)
Sue Stephen McCole
Kylie Jamie Quinn
Helena Louise McMenemy
Mad Dog Jim Twaddale
Max Callum Cuthbertson
Lash Sam Magdaleno
General Custer Laurie Ventry

first ass. d. Fay Selby
second ass. d. Derek Ritchie
third ass. d. Jo Gibson
location man. Martin Henderson
locations trainee David Riordan
p. man. Pam Roberts
ass. p. co-ordinator Margaret Edwards
p. runner Duncan Broadfoot
p. trainee Heather Winship
sc. supervisor Kate West
p. accountant Catrina Luna
ass. p. accountant Shawn Fleming
focus puller Tony Kay
clapper loader Stuart Anderson
camera trainee David Hutton
grip Robert Etherson
sd. rec. Cameron Mercer
boom operator Stephen McBride
re-recording mixer Chris Sinclair
dialogue ed. Iain Anderson
FX ed. Douglas MacDougall
gaffer Andy Stewart
electrician David Wilson
fight co-ordinator Carter Ferguson
art. d. Jason Orr
art. dept. ass. Stephen Mason
dressing props Dan Roberts
production buyer Christine Gibson
special effects Clive Mitchell
costume ass. Laura Spring
stills photographer Sue Osmond
unit nurse Stef Swiateck
catering Argyll Catering Ltd.
security Drum Security
editing Arc Facilities
post production sd. Savalas Audio Post Production
camera equipment supplied by Axis Glasgow
originated on motion picture film from Kodak Entertainment Imaging
rushes processing Film Labs North
video to film transfer RPS

With special thanks to Auidiolink, Bill Fairweather / ARC Facilities, AG Barr, Blackwood Distilleries, Carol McMillan, Courtney Travel / Ethnika Casting, East Glasgow Youth Theatre, Gabriel Quigley, Glasgow Gunslingers, Glengoyne Distillery, GMB Casting, The Grand Ole Oprey, Headspoint Garden Centre, Grey Wolf [... et al ...]

costume designer Denise Coombes
make-up designer Claire McAndrew
composer Giles Lamb
p. designer Laura Donnelly
film ed. Ian Ballantyne
d. ph. Ian Dodds
p. exec. Amanda Millen
exec. p. Trish Malone, Becky Lloyd
w. David Greig
produced by Angela Murray, Susan Nickalls
d. Maria Zanotti

Brazen Hussies in association with Oxygen Films for Scottish Screen Lottery Funded, BBC Scotland
© Brazen Hussies Ltd. MMV