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Title: QUICKEN

Reference number: 7628

Date: 2005

Director: d. Victoria Beattie

Sponsor: National Lottery through the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund

Producer: Ditte Solgaard

Production company: GMAC

Sound: sound

Original format: Digital Betacam

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 13.35 mins

Description: A lyrical examination of change within a family where silent isolation is passed on from parent to child and where loss, cruelty and love are both inextricably combined and continually shifting. Poignant performances and atmospheric photography. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2005"]

DigiCult: A low-budget digital film project that creates a talent pool of twenty directors, writers, producers and crafts-people. The aim is to encourage experimentation and innovation within the digital medium. Five short films are made per year with budgets of up to £5,000.

Credits: w. Victoria Beattie

Woman Pamela Drynan
Old Man John McFarlane
Girl Rosa Edwards
Boy Tom Hayes
Milkman Colin McArthur
Carer Ronald Robertson
p. Ditte Solgaard
d. ph. Marcel Zyskind
p. sd. mixer Stuart Wilson
ed. Ida Bregninge
p. designer James Lapsley
costume designers Amber O'Keefe, Maggie Moffat
dubbing mixer John Cobban
add. ed. Victoria Beattie, Bert Eeles, Andy Kennedy
online ed. Ian Ballantyne
film titles Frankie&Jonny
p. co-ordinator Sarah Carswell
p. ass. Orla O'Connor
runner Hazel Robertson
art dept. ass. Ciara Barry
stills ph. Andy Walters
animal handler Ronald Robertson
catering Helen Robertson
p. co-ordinator for GMAC Alice Stilgoe
p. accountant for GMAC Kirsty Kyle
camera equipment by AXIS

This film could not have been made without the kind support of Jim & Jenny Beattie.

Thank you Icon Corporate Wear, VilleneuveWines Edinburgh, Calmac, Touch of Paradise Edinburgh, Service Master Glasgow, Mr & Mrs Ronnie Scott, The Weir Family, Christine McArthur, John MacKenzie, Zam Salim, Stuart Elliot, Dave Cumings, Debbie Campher, Chris Cooke, David MacKenzie, Nigel Smith, Heather Millington, Ali Mitchell, Kate Pybus, Laura Edwards, Angela Hayes, Bute Community Link, Joan Walters, Rothesay Primary School, St. Andrews Primary School Rothesay, Eddie McDaid, ARC Facilities, Alice Nelson, Adam Elder.

exec. p. Paul Welsh & Caroline Cooper Charles

Made with the support of the National Lottery through the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund.