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Title: DANCING

Reference number: 7606

Date: 1995

Director: [d. Stevan Rimkus]

Sponsor: [ Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland]

Producer: [ Pamela Wilson]

Production company: [ Stoneybridge]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 22.00 minsc

Description: Stevan Rimkus's evocative "Dancing" stars an admirably crumpled Sylvia Syms as an old woman confined in her Glasgow bedsit. Dying of cancer, she relieves her pain by drinking morphine and whisky cocktails and dreaming of her youth and dancing to the bittersweet music of The Inkspots. Trapped in the rude and intrusive 90's, she holds on to her memories of an earlier, more romantic time. [synopsis from Scottish Screen Catalogue of Short Films 1993 - 1999 "Kicking up a Storm"]

Post production script held at the Scottish Theatre Archive, Glasgow University. Ref. code GB 247 STA Jy 17(5).

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: [Crew
w. Stevan Rimkus
p. Pamela Wilson
ed. John Wilson
m. Peter Baikie
ph. Bob Pendar Hughes
p. design Chrysoula Sofitsi
sd. Graham Headicar
costume designer Bobby McCulla

Cast
Sylvia Syms Rose
Patricia Kerrigan Antonette
Jason Flemyng Michael
John Kazek Ian
Jack Docherty Builder
Natasha Little Young Rose
Daniella Nardini Her Lover]