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Title: LOOKING FOR KARMA KEEP THE PROMISE

Reference number: 7849

Date: 2002

Director: d. Jak Milroy

Sponsor: Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund

Production company: GMAC

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 49.56 mins

Description: Cameraman Jak Milroy returns to a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal to fulfill his promise of helping young refugees to create their dream of forming a Tibetan national football team. He takes with him football equipment and two scottish football coaches to reinact the 1971 Scottish League Cup Final between Celtic and Partick Thistle. [synopsis from http://www.mandy.com/, last accessed 14/1/2009]

Credits: Special thanks to all the people of Tashi Palkheil and Tashi Ling Tibetan Refugee Camps, Pokhara, Nepal

camera Jak Milroy
sd. Fiona McEwan, Jak Milroy
sd. trainee Fiona Kelly
sd. advisor Alan Young
sd. dub John Cobban
offline ed. Caroline Buono, Jak Milroy, Holger Mohaupt
online ed. Holger Mohaupt
titles Jamie Russell
co-producer Ian Reid at GMAC
p. accountant Ian Reid
m. composed by Tom Richardson, David Crighton, Simon McKerrell
recorded at Unfinished Business Studios
rec. engineer Trevor Helliwell
football coach Charles Adams
ass. coach Alan Thompson
video equipment Sony UK
funded by Scottish Screen

With thanks to Partick Thistle F.C., Celtic F.C., Diadora UK Ltd., Umbro Ltd., Glasgow Football Development, CIFAP Paris, D.H. Morris Group Ltd. [... et al ...]

w. and d. Jak Milroy
© Jak Milroy 2002

A GMAC Production in association with Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund

Shotlist: [introductory titles to the programme]

After the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1951, many Tibetans fled to freedom in neighbouring Nepal and Northern India. When the Dalai Lama had to flee Tibet in 1959, many refugee camps were set up in these friendly countries to accomodate the influx of Tibetans. In 1997 while visiting Pokhara in Nepal, I came across a Tibetan refugee camp at the foot of the Annapurna region of the Himalayas. I watched some boys play a game of football and I joined in. As I left the camp I promised I would try to help them in some way with their football. I wrote to the boys for four years sending them football magazines and books about coaching. After writing to several Scottish Football Clubs, I was given strips from two Glasgow clubs, Celtic and Partick Thistle. In 1971 against all the odds, Partick Thistle beat Celtic in the Scottish League Cup Final. Was it Karma that these were the only Scottish clubs to donate strips? With the help of a young Scottish football coach and his volunteer assistant I arranged to return to Nepal in January 2001 to keep my promise to the boys and at the same time try to relive that 1971 Scottish League Cup Final. Would history repeat itself?