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Title: CRY FOR BOBO, a

Reference number: 7569

Date: 2001

Director: d. David Cairns

Sponsor: BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund

Producer: Nigel R. Smith

Production company: Forged Film

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 9.59 mins

Description: Frantic knockabout tragedy as Bobo is sent to clown prison for a daring but silly crime. [synopsis from BFI database]

Watch this film on the BBC Film Network website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A38199513 [last accessed 27/1/2010]

Production file held by National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Post production script also held at the Scottish Theatre Archive, Glasgow University. Ref. code GB 247 STA Jy 17(16)

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.

Awards: Royal Television Society Award, Royal Television Society Awards, London, 2002; Jim Poole Award for Best Scottish Short, Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, 2002; Federazione Italiana Cinema D’essai Award, Napoli Film Festival, Naples, Italy, 2002; Melies D'argent Best European Fantasy Short Film Award, Sitges Film Festival, Sitges, Spain, 2002; Best Fiction Award, Evora International Short Film Festival, Evora, Portugal, 2002; Special Jury Mention, International Fiction Section, Chilean International Short Film Festival, Santiago, Chile, 2002; Prix Du Public Award, Bruxelles International Fantasy Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2003; Audience Choice Award, Down Under Film Festival, Darwin, Australia, 2003; Audience Award, Night of the Living Shorts, Italy, 2003; Audience Award - Narrative Short, Dahlonega International Film Festival, USA, 2003; Audience Choice Award, Portland International Short Shorts Film Festival, USA, 2003; Monkey D'or Best of Festival Gold Award, Can Short Film Festival, Leicester, 2003; Gold Bear Award, Ebensee Festival, Austria, 2003; Best Super Short Film, Anchorage International Film Festival, Alaska, USA, 2003

Credits: Cast
Bobo Mark McDonnell
Coco Steven McNicoll
Betty Tracey Robertson
D.I. Harry Martineau Gavin Mitchell
Shopkeeper James Bryce
Joey Lewis Read
Prison Warden J. William Andrews
Background Artists William Angold, Emilie Besset, Finlay Cairns, Sheila Cairns, Simon Carr, Neil Davidson, Glen Dickson, Carola Gordon, Mary Gordon, Catherine L. Gourlay, Serena Field, Florent Burgaud, Niall Grieg Fulton, Andrew Gonzales, Nigel Harper, Mark Henrichsen, David Henry, P.J. Henry, Omar Ibrahim, Alex Janssen, Kevin James Kelly, Ian Robert Lennard, Carolyn Lincoln, Grace Mangan, Julien Maury, Isa McEvers, Lissa McIntyre, Andy Meechan, Robert Melrose, Steven Morrison, Angela Murray, Jasper Pettie, Barbara Portman, Brian Robinson, John Ross, Andrew Shortel, Padam Singh, Ryrie Smoth, Wakako Smith, Ben Somerville, Kerry Swindale, Ralph Taylor, Edzard von Wedel, Fiona Watson, Robert Williamson

p. accountant Hazel Brady
p. co-ordinator Rebecca Knapp
p. ass. (trainee) Kirsty McDonald
office runner Ben Somerville
1st ass. d. Tim Franklin
2nd ass. d. Jill Pryde
3rd ass. d. Morris Milne
location man. Naomi Liston
continuity / sc. superviser Belinda Newman
focus puller Kenneth Simpson
clapper loader Steph Bates
video ass. Alexander Hill
grips Mark Donnelly, Lucien Grieve, Keith Ingram
gaffer Ewan Epton
best boy Andrew Mitwamwari
boom operator Simon Paget Tomlinson
dubbing mixer John Cobban
stills ph. Sue Osmond
art d. Sarah Bremner
stand-by props Luke Oldale
stand-by construction Craig Castle
SFX co--ordinator / armourer Perry Costello
scenic artist Alistair Ross
art dept. trainees Ira Forgie, Paul Melone, Sarah Sandison
costume supervisor Amalie Harper Gow
costume cutter Connie Fairbairn
costume maker Harriet Edmonds
costume ass. Katherine Hyland
costume trainees Fiona Stewart, Susie Usher
make-up / hair artist Claire McAndrew
make-up / hair trainees Jennifer Ann Jones, Mopira McLaughlin
chaperone Robert Read
unit nurse Jacqueline Weiss
ass. ed. Anne Mehta
video insert ed. Mark Heinrichsen, Andrew Henderson
original score composer Haftor Medboe
musicians Angela McEwan, Nicola Miles, Kirsty Smith, David Webster
"I Pagliacci" (R. Leoncavello) sung by Enrico Caruso
catering Argyll Caterers
catering man. Ian Murray
chef Natalie Bain
ass. chefs Emma Murray, Andrew Robertson
camera / grip equipment Panavision
lighting Lee Lighting
edit facility Digital Facilities
laboratory Soho Images
negative cutter Tony Bungey
titles and optical Cineimage
sound mix De Lane Lea

Thanks to Paul Morrow, Paul Williamson, All @ Filmhouse, Dan MacRae [.... et al]

telecine Simon Bourne
on-line ed. Oliver Newbould
p. man. Angela Murray
d. ph. Scott Ward
sd. rec. Angus McPake
p. designer Tom Sayer
costume designer Alison Mitchell
make-up / hair designer Stephen Murphy
film ed. Bert Eeles
exec. p. (BBC Scotland) Victoria Evans
exec. p. (Scottish Screen) Oscar van Heek
w. and d. David Cairns

From an original story by Colin McLaren and David Cairns
p. Nigel R. Smith

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