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Title: DIFFICULT CASE, a

Reference number: 7634

Date: 2005

Director: d. Alice Nelson

Sponsor: Bridging the Gap in association with Scottish Screen

Producer: Jason Hall, Liam Tanner

Production company: Teebster Productions

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.00 mins

Description: A remarkable story of hallucinatory voices that diagnosed a brain tumour and the Harley Street psychiatrist who was prepared to gamble his professional credibility and believe them. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2005"]

Part of Season 2 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "Silence".

View this film at Scottish Documentary Institute website at http://www.docscene.org/A-Difficult-Case.html [last accessed 15/2/2010]

Original shooting format was MiniDV and super 8mm.

Credits: Bridging the Gap in association with Scottish Screen presents

Cast
Woman Pauline Goldsmith
Doctor Jay Otagoya

d. ph. Minttu Mantynen
ed. Tadhg O'Sullivan
ass. camera Umang Bhattu
grip Dave Thom
sd. rec. Angus McPake
1st ass. d. Gemma Mitchell
runners Paul McGuire, Gerry McGuire, Craig Nicol
set design and construction Guy Bishop
model shoot camera Chris McCulloch
stills ph. Marisa Privatera, Umang Bhattu
sd. design Matt Hulse
online ed, Hamish @ Freakworks

Thanks to Ike Azuonye and family, Fountainpark Centre, Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle, Chris Lowry

A Bridging the Gap production supported by Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, Scottish Enterprise, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute, Edinburgh College of Art.

Teebster Productions

Shotlist: In 1984, Mrs A heard voices in her head. They said “don’t be afraid”. They tried to re-assure her she wasn’t crazy. And they informed her she had a brain tumour that could kill her stone dead.

Filmed using a blend of stylized reconstruction and the personal testimony of Dr Azuonye – the psychiatrist who gambled his professional credibility on listening to the voices - this is the remarkable story of a woman who owes her life to unseen angels and an eminent scientist who was prepared to believe.

“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” (Albert Einstein).