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Title: WHEN I'M 21

Reference number: 7598

Date: 1997

Director: d. Andrew Wilde

Sponsor: BBC Bristol in association with Scottish Film Production Fund, Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund, Glasgow City Council

Producer: John L. Cobban

Production company: Superstring Films [Flipside]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.00 mins

Description: Filmed on the streets of Glasgow, this is a short documentary that touches on the hopes and objectives of seven dispossessed and homeless teenagers. Asked what they would like to be doing when they reach the age of 21, their reactions are both uncomplicated and sobering. [synopsis from Scottish Screen Catalogue of Short Films 1993 - 1999 "Kicking up a Storm"]

Production file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. See also ref 7268

Credits: All participants are now living in hostel accommodation.

Grateful thanks to Nadia Bowman, Kevin Bradley, Christine Campbell, Suzanne Carlin, Anthony Crosthwaite, Alan Devine, Caroline Dey, Chris Drew, Arthur Foster, Michael Gillespie, Graham Gordon, Tricia Graham, Christopher Harkins, Michelle Hayes, Mary Leitch, Thomas Little, Donna McLean, Paul Simpson, Emma Jayne Smith, Gayle Young

Also Archdiocese of Glasgow (Social Services), Barnardos, Big Issue, Blue Triangle Association, City Centre Initiative, CHYP Agency, Elpis Centre, Glasgow City Mission, Glasgow Drug Crisis Centre, Hamish Allan Centre, Shelter, Stopover, Wayside Day Centre, YMCA

Special thanks John Barr, Cumbernauld Airport, Flipside Productions, Paul Keatley, Alan Robertson, Stopframe, Anne Marie Timoney

d. ph. Iain Riddick
camera ass. Hannah Rumsby
sd. John L. Cobban
ed. Dave Archibald
trainee ed. Wullie Summers
m. Tom Colquhoun
p. runners Mandy Sykes, Fiona Riddick
stills ph. Pierre Guillemin
subtitles Titra
helicopter pilot Capt. George Muir
exec. p. Oscar van Heek

A Superstring Production for BBC Bristol in association with Scottish Film Production Fund, Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund, Glasgow City Council.

© Copyright Superstring Films 1997