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Title: SOMERSAULT

Reference number: 7857

Date: 1999

Director: d. David MacKenzie

Sponsor: Channel 4 in association with The Glasgow Film Office, The Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund

Producer: Gillian Berry

Production company: Sigma Films

Sound: sound

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 13.50 mins

Description: Story set in Glasgow about a lively single woman trying to bring up her teenage daughter and maintain some kind of life for herself.
[synopsis from BFI database at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/635617, last accessed 19/2/2009]

Screened at 53rd Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1999.

Credits: w. Gillian Berrie
co-producer Helen Boyes
d. ph. Jerry Kelly
p. designer Laura Donnelly
m. Paul Leonard-Morgan, Martin Roberts
ed. Jake Roberts, Simon Cull

Katy Nichola Given
Trish Mandy Matthews
Willie Paul Hickey
Cath Jenny McCrindle
Kirsten Anne Sillars
Mags Barbara Bland
Jane Emily Wither

Crew
p. man. Su Bainbridge
p. ass. Jill Pryde
sc. supervisor Ella MacLean
location man. Tom Kelly
stills ph. Alan Wylie
storyboard artist Derek Gray
1st ass. d. Robbie Sandison
2nd ass. d. Su Bainbridge
3rd ass. d. Drew Cain
floor runner Alysia Maciejowska
p. trainees Deborah Dingwall, Gemma Wallace, Alison MacRae
focus puller Ossie McLean
clapper loader Neil Davidson
video ass. Greg Nieuviarts
camera driver Walter McNabb
sd. rec. Martin Belshaw
boom operator David McMillan
art d. Emer O'Sullivan
art dept. ass. Dee Rimbaud
art dept. runner Fiona Hutchison
art dept. trainees Morris Milne, Jim Buchanan, Stuart Reldman
p. buyer Hazel Storey
standby props Tony Sheridan
ass. production buyer Ann Marie Coulter
costume designer Alison Mitchell
costume ass. Amalie Harper Gow
costume dailies Alissa Galloway, Denise Coombes
make-up designer Claire Davies
make-up ass. Karen Brothertson
make-up daily Caroline Hamilton
gaffer Stephen Arthur
lighting ass. Paul Shirley, David Kelly
unit nurses Stefania Swiatek, Kenny McGhee
ed. supervisor Colin Monie
post production supervisor Angus Pigott
p. accountant John McKain
accounts ass. Jonathon Goodfellow
catering Reel Food
caterers Guy Cowan, Robert Bowman, Claire Berry, Tommy Bryce
unit driver Jas Brown
titles Paul Magee
facilities Serious Facilities, Deluxe London, Tru-Cut, Black Information Design, Malcolm Paris Rostrum Camera, VFG, Light Track

Thanks to Pauline McCarry, John Morrison @ Malmaison, Frances Higson, Alasdair Rae, Glasgow City Council [... et al ...]

"Helps Both Ways" and "Punk Rock/Puff Daddy/Antichrist" written and performed by Mogwai. Published by Chrysalis Music. Copyright Chemikal Underground Records.

A Sigma Films Production for Channel 4 in association with The Glasgow Film Office, The Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund. Copyright Sigma Films.