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Title: KARMIC MOTHERS

Reference number: 7509

Date: 1997

Director: d. John Tiffany

Sponsor: BBC Scotland, Scottish Film Production Fund, Scottish Arts Council

Producer: Charlie Stuart

Production company: Fresh Film and Television

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 15.00 mins

Description: A black comedy about two women who have tried to commit suicide and are recovering in hospital close to a maternity wing. Seeing and reflecting on the mother-child bond affects them in different ways and when one is sent home for Christmas, the other tries to take her life again... [synopsis from Scottish Screen Catalogue of Short Films 1993 - 1999

Production file held by National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. The writer, Kate Atkinson, won the 1993 Ian St James Award (short story competition) for Karmic Mothers.

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: Jeannie Siobhan Redmond
Alison Molly Innes
Nurse Kath Howden
Morag Jenny Ryan
Donna Anne Marie Timoney
Young Doctor Colin McCredie
Woman with Trolley Muriel Romanes
Alison's Mother Eileen Nicholas
Baby Daisy and Baby Kylie Callum and Christopher O'Brien

p. man. Gill Parry
p. co-ordinator Paula Thorton
first ass. d. Lee Rooney
second ass. d. Jonathan Farmer
sc. supervisor Avril Watt
sd. rec. Ian Leslie
boom operator Becky Thomson
dubbing mixer Bronek Korda
focus puller Ossie McLean
grip Finlay McAllister
gaffer Donny Campbell
electrician Michael Carr
art d. Laurel Wear
standby props Doug Chatham
costume designer Ruth Sinclair
wardrobe ass. Janis Murray
make-up designer Julie Mackay
make-up ass. Paula Glass
stunt co-ordinator Tom Delmar
d. ph. John I. Brown
p. designer Tom Sayer
composer John Irvine
ed. Fiona Irvine
exec. p. Barbara McKissack, Oscar van Heek
w. Kate Atkinson

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