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Title: WITCHES, the

Reference number: 7515

Date: 2002

Director: d. Elizabeth Hobbs

Sponsor: Cineworks presents in association with the Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund

Production company: Red Kite

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 6.35 mins

Description: In 1590 the reigning monarch, King James the VI of Scotland, was in danger of being toppled from his throne by the blight of witchcraft. In North Berwick, three fishwives, Margaret, Ina and Sandra, have good reason to believe that they might be targeted in the King's witch hunt and set about devising a plan to save themselves from the fearful witch-dooking apparatus. [synopsis from Red Kite Animation website at http://www.redkite-animation.com, last accessed 12/2/2010]

View this animation on the Red Kite website http://redkite-animation.com/_redkite/projects/the-witches/ [last accessed 18/3/2013]

This film was shortlisted for the Kodak / BAFTA short film award and the Jim Poole Short Film Award and has been shown at many international film festivals.

Cineworks: Commissions five short films a year by new filmmakers in the genres of drama, documentary and animation. Funded by Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, UK Film Council and BBC Scotland. Includes a training programme.

Credits: Cineworks presents in association with the Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund and Red Kite Productions

animated by Elizabeth Hobbs
w. Morag Mackinnon
voices by Colin McLaren
ed. Mark Jenkins
sd. mix and dub John Cobban
film transfer Hokus Bogus
m. and SFX Phillip Pinsky
violins Kirsty Orton, Brigid McFall
percussion Peter Vilk


Thank you Simon Payne, Rachel Bevan Baker, Ken Anderson, Abilgail Howkins, David Smith, Edinburgh City Council

p. Katja Anderson
exec. p. Cordelia Stephens

BBC Scotland, Cineworks, GMAC, Edinburgh Mediabase

© Cineworks / Elizabeth Hobbs 2002