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Title: PIOBAIREAN BHORNAIS = PIPERS OF BORNISH

Reference number: 7858

Date: 2003

Director: d. Catriona Black

Sponsor: BBC Alba, Comataidh Craolaidh Gaidhlig - CCG, Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund

Producer: Catriona Black

Production company: Am Bocsa

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.00 minsc

Description: A young boy makes a pact with a sinister fairy in this traditional Gaelic animated tale. The soundtrack is an old recording of the story, found in the School of Scottish Studies Archive. The hypnotic musical score was composed and performed especially for the film by renowned piper, Rory Campbell, and the animation, which looks like a moving oil painting, was created digitally by Catrìona Black. [synopsis from Am Bocsa website at http://www.ambocsa.co.uk/engpb.html, last accessed 11/2/2009]

Gaelic language production. Original Gaelic language version and version with English subtitles both preserved by National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Both versions have been digitised and can be viewed.

Broadcast on BBC 2 on Thursday 8 January 2004.

See also Am Bocsa website at https://ambocsa.black-prints.com/piobairean-bhornais/

Credits: animat. Catriona Black
m. Rory Campbell
story recorded by Donald Archie MacDonald, School of Scottish Studies 1975
online ed. Andrew McGregor
sd. dub Canongate Studios
sd. rec. Big Sky Studios
transfer to film Capital FX

Thanks to Angus Stewart, Margaret MacKelvie, Ishbel MacLennan, Walter McCrorie, Michael Gormley, Anna Black, Carole Sheridan, Mairi MacInnes, Natalia Stewart and Donna Bell, Alan MacInnes, Maire and Ronald Black, Cavan Convery

Supported by Comataidh Craolaidh Gaidhlig and The Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund.

© Am Bocsa 2003