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Title: SONNY'S PRIDE

Reference number: 7648

Date: 1998

Director: d. Brian Kelly

Sponsor: Scottish Screen, British Screen and Scottish Television in association with The Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund

Producer: Carole Sheridan

Production company: Southside Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 7.00 mins

Description: Sonny, who has alcoholism, has to swallow his pride and plead to be allowed to return to the pub he has been banned from in order to take his son Mark for a drink. Despite the obstacles he has to overcome he manages to hold himself together enough to enjoy their final meeting and to see his son's success in the business he is proud to have passed on. [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. Festivals attended: Edinburgh International, BAFTA, Clermont Ferrand, East Landsing, New Zealand, Premi International Flaianio.

Prime Cuts: A joint short film initiative from Scottish Screen, British Screen, Scottish Television and the Scottish Arts Council. Films were produced on 16mm.

Credits: w. Barry Gornell

Sonny Tom Watson
Alec Gary Lewis
Mark Stevie Allen
Davey Michael O'Brien
d. ph. Scott Ward

p. designer Niki Longmuir
ed. James Hamilton
sd. rec. Brian Howell
lighting gaffer Derrick Ritchie
incidental music Gregor Philp
associate p. Gaynor Holmes
1st ass. d. Gus MacLean
2nd ass. d. Karen McConnell
location man. / 3rd ass. d. Donald MacKinnon
continuity Lucy Enfield
floor runner John Morgan
p. accountant Caroline Bond
p. ass. Dee Rimbaud
p. runners Scott Mauchlen, Jill Pryde
focus puller Graeme Scott
clapper loader Julie Bills
grip Lucien Grieve
electrician Paul Shirley
boom operator Alan McNicol
art d. Adam Squires
standby props Perry Costello
ass. costume designer Cat Shirley
costume ass. John Parks
make-up artist Cicely O'Connelly
dubbing mixer Dave Murricane
stills ph. Marc Marnie
camera equipment & gear GHS
film stock Kodak
laboratory Soho
exec. p. Dan MacRae, Jenny Borgars, Mark Grindle

"Someone Different", "I Don't Know What To Say" by Kit Clark and performed by The Swiss Family Orbison © 1998.

Special thanks to Glasgow City Council Dept. of Performing Arts and Venues, Arnold Clark Car and Van Hire, Royalty Alehouse and the Pringle Family, Slater Menswear, Wark Clements, Prop Portfolio, Schuh Clothing for Feet, Burt Greener, Hammerhead, The Warehouse, Propworks, Satellite Information Services, Mandor Textiles, Glasgow City Council Dept. of Roads and Transportation, Christime MacLean, Sine Foster, Cindy Thomson, Bill Gower, Jessie McGurk, Staff at Woodside Halls, Nolan Wall, Charlie Cunningham, Jolene Finnie, Jane Valentine, Gus Lamont, Su Bainbridge, Kirsty Wark, Marie, Jim, Anne and all who participated in the making of "Sonny's Pride".

Shot on location in Glasgow with the financial assistance of The Glasgow Film Office.

Prime Cuts A Southside Films Production for Scottish Screen, British Screen and Scottish Television in association with The Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund.

© Southside Films Ltd. 1998