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Title: BASS INVADERS

Reference number: 7823

Date: 2001

Director: d. Simon Ellis

Sponsor: [ Scottish Screen, Scottish Enterprise, Channel 4, Glasgow Film Office]

Production company: Bub Productions

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 4.00 mins

Description: Music video produced for '4 Minute Wonders' scheme, featuring the track 'Diabla' by Funk D'Void. An idyllic village in the Scottish highlands is attacked by a giant loudspeaker cone. [synopsis from BFI database at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/789101 last accessed 20/2/2009]

Screened at 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2001, part of the Mirrorball section 'Made in Scotland'. Music video to accompany `Diablo' by Funk D'Void on Soma Records. Location of shooting is Luss (?)

Formed in Glasgow in 2000, 4 Minute Wonders was the first production support scheme in the world which aimed to encourage new filmmakers to produce music videos. Providing a boost to both local filmmaking talent and independent record companies, the scheme has been a huge success producing over a dozen films in Scotland, gathering award nominations and launching the careers of a new generation of directors. It has been so successful that sister schemes based on the same format have now started to appear in other parts of the world with 4MW Wales, 4MW South Australia and 4MW Victoria already producing promos, and there are plans to expand throughout the UK, the rest of Australia and into Europe in the near future. Sweden, the Basque region of Spain and Estonia are all already in negotiations with the scheme's organisers to host their own versions of 4MW. [Information from 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival Catalogue, 2003]

Credits: [Track Diabla
Artist Funk D'Void]

[ed. Simon Ellis]