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Title: FANTASTIC CHICKEN

Reference number: 7835

Date: 2002

Director: d. Bronagh Keegan

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

Producer: Gus Niven, Bronagh Keegan

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 4.00 mins

Description: Music video produced for '4 Minute Wonders' scheme, featuring the track 'Fantastic Chicken' by Bendy Toy. Schoolchildren, dance and animation collide in this fun interpretation of the music.

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 Fantastic Chicken
Artist Bendy Toy

For Karol "Nobody Ever Really Dies"
ed. Simon Hamilton

Featured cast
Laundrette Boys Ali Grant and Gordon Douglas
Ballboy Johnny Danzig
Sweetie Girl Amy Christison
Sweet Lady Margaret Casey
Cheeky Girls Vanessa Robertson and Rachel Barkey
Trendy Girls Rona Steven and Claire Breckenridge
Chicken Boy Harry Smart

camera Stephen Wilson, Shu Lorimer
choreography Lisa Robertson
effects ?? [timecode obscures]
animat. Bengi Brothers
p. ass. Gavin Turnbull, Migs, Dianne Maine, Lisa Fleming, Anthony Keegan
catering Maura Keegan

Thanks to Ferry Road Laundrette, Caseys Sweet Shop, Edinburgh City Council, Residents of "The Banana Flats", Leith, Lee Lighting, Leith Parish Church

Special thanks to 21st Century Dance Academy, Dancebase, ?? [timecode obscures]

exec. p. ? Cook

www.4minutewonder.com