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Title: GREAT BREAKFAST RACE, the

Reference number: 7497

Date: 2003

Director: d. Mark Ash

Sponsor: UK Film Council's First Light Initiative and Scottish Screen

Producer: Lucy Brown

Production company: Edinburgh Mediabase

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 5.27 mins

Description: A boy finds a unique way of escaping the monotony of everyday life. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2003"]

First Writes: This scheme commissions three scripts for short, 5 minute dramas written by young people between the ages of 11 and 16 years.

Credits: Matt Tate, Maureen Allan, Mark Coleman, Liam Stewart
ph. Mikael Kanerva
camera ass. Minttu Mantynen
designed by Natalie Astridge
gaffer John Duncan
spark Douglas Walker
sd. rec. Graham McCormick
boom operator Craig Gaskin
make-up / hair Lynn S. Gordon
costume Lorraine Boyle & Kirsta Dartnell
ed Ladhg O'Sullivan
online ed. Ian Ballantyne at ARC
effects ed. Alan Brown
sd. dubbing John Cobban
ass. dubbing mixer Craig Aitchison
m. Fahad Kindy
1st ass. d. Jonathan Farmer
3rd ass. d. Neil Murray & Chris Willshaw
sc. supervisor Amber Parsons
p. advisor Clare Kerr
p. co-ordinator / 2nd ass. d. Stephanie Wright
p. ass. Siobhan Shields
location man. David Hancock
location ass. Russell Beard & Esther Giminez
stills Sue Osmond

Supporting artists Max Boyla, Gemma Brown, Kate Carter, Samantha Davies, Josh Denholm, Annie Faichney, Jonny Fordie, Kent Giboin, Joe Hendry, Carole Jacobs, Lauren Keenan, Keith Lyall, Claire McIntosh, Danny Miller, Anna Pomery, Charlotte Reid, Georgina Reid, Katie Thomson, Catriona Tyre, Morag Wright.

With thanks to all the staff at Edinburgh Mediabase, Al Anderson, Audio Link, Camcast, The Edinburgh Acting School, Edinburgh Roads Services, Chris Edmonds, Robin Gillanders, Hammerhead TV Scotland, Lorraine and Hewden Hire, Jeff Fallow, Janice @ Fur & Feathers, Brian McIntosh, PLA, Jimmy Donahue & The Pleasance Societies' Centre, Anna Price, The Roy Family and Loopy, The Royal Lyceum Youth Theatre, Mary Ellen Lang & St. Thomas of Aquinas RC High School, The Scottish Youth Theatre, Brian Suda, Brian Suttie, West End Management.

Special thankyou to Lee Lighting and Mark Ritchie.

The producers would like to give assurance that no animals were harmed in the making of this film.

exec. p. Mark Grindle
w. Lewis Clark
p. Lucy Brown
d. Mark Ash

First Light: Inspiring Young Film. Film Council. HI8US. Scottish Screen Lottery Funded. Edinburgh Mediabase.

Supported by the Lottery through The UK Film Council's First Light Initiative and through Scottish Screen. © First Light & Scottish Screen 2003.