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Title: WHO'S MY FAVOURITE GIRL?

Reference number: 7862

Date: 1999

Director: d. Adrian J. McDowall

Producer: Kara Johnston and Joern Utkilen

Production company: Johnston & Utkilen Productions

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 15.00 mins

Description: Entertaining tale of two boys and the onset of puberty set in a small Scottish town in the mid-1980s. [synopsis from BFI database at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/635628 last accessed 20/2/2009]

Winner of Best Short Film at BAFTA Awards, 2000. Shown at 53rd Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1999. First transmission on Channel Four 04/12/2001, part of "Shooting Gallery" slot. Second transmission Channel Four 01/02/2002. Shot in various locations in Wigtown and at the Douglas Ewart High School, Newton Stewart.

Credits: Introducing Ross Wright and Tarek Hamad

Sponsored by Groundbase Going for Growth, The Holywood Trust, Royal Mail, South West Scotland Screen Commission, Dumfries and Galloway Council, Janet Ray Health and Beauty Salon, Brian Lees, Dumries and Galloway Arts Association, GNER, Ferguson Ltd., Glasgow Galloway Association, Koopon, Ronnie Soriani

exec. p. Adrian J. McDowall
cinematography Monica Heilpern and Martin Radich
m. Angus McPake
credit theme tune Matt Aldworth MJA Productions 1999
title designer Richard Horne
ed. Adrian J. McDowall

Cast
Andy Ross Wright
John Tarek Hamad
May Katrina Bryan
Mother Claire McKie
Angie b Melanie Hay
Graveyard Lady Sandra McDowall
Mr Davies James McGill
Coalman John McDowall
Young May Naomi Stevenson
Voice of John's Mother Nacy McKinnell
May's Understudy Emm Jardine
Extra Schoolkids Pupils of the Douglas Ewart High School

Crew 1st ass. d. Richard Adamson
sd / stills Joon Kim
lighting Martin Radich
camera ass. Amy Newstead
grip Liam McCallum
2nd ass. d. Kenny Gold
continuity Vivien Lin
stills developer Elizabeth Harris
driver Joern Utkilen
cabinet construction Garry McDowall
crane operator Martin Radich
dance choreographer Kara Johnston
extra supervisors Sheila Brown & Zoe Brown
film advisor Kenny Eggo
credits themes tune performed by Matt Aldsworth
courtesy of MJA Productions 1999
catering William Brown

Thanks to Graham Platt, Louise Cluckie, Caroline Stevenson, Mike Grierson, Keith Chappell, Keith Bowman, Roddy Simpson [... et al ...]

Special thanks to Sandra McDowall, Zoe Brown, Sheila Brown, James Judge, Stewrat Anderson [... et al ...] Dedicated to old friends.

Copyright Adrian McDowall 1999

Edinburgh College of Art