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Title: PAPER CUTS

Reference number: 7620

Date: 2006

Director: d. Ben Soper

Sponsor: Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland

Producer: Katie Crook

Production company: UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre presents A Little Pictures Production

Sound: sound

Original format: Digital Betacam

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 5.54 mins

Description: Obsessed with a paper effigy of his loving wife an introverted stationer lives in a fantasy world of staples and photocopies. But when the doll leaves him torn and bleeding and his real wife starts asking awkward questions he must make a choice between flesh and paper. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Films, New Talent, Best of Scottish Shorts 2006]

Credits: UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre presents A Little Pictures Production in association with Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland

Webster Dewi Wynne Jones
Alma Gabrielle Barker
The Kissing Couple Ash Reid & Graham Stewart

ph. and original m. Malcolm Benzie
ed. Ian Waugh
sd. design Matt Palmer
illustrations Ash Reid
make-up Julie Flowers
p. ass. Siobhan Shields
p. Katie Crook
w. and d. Ben Soper

For GMAC
GMAC director Dale Corlett
p. Ciara Barry
exec. p. Karen O'Hare

Shot on location at Rogarth & Brown the Stationers

Special thanks to Edinburgh Film Focus, Aimee Jack, Claire Thacker, Chris Dennis, Dee Custance, Frances Benton, Helen Jones, Liz & Ron Beard, Michael Fife, Russell Beard, Lynsey Sutherland and Tom Shields, Wullie Summers.

Made with the support of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen.

© UK Film Council and GMAC MMVI