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Title: GAS ATTACK

Reference number: 7879

Date: 2001

Director: d. Kenneth Glenaan

Sponsor: Scottish Screen, Channel Four

Producer: Samantha Kingsley

Production company: Hart Ryan Scotland Production

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 76.00 mins

Description: A girl falls ill in Glasgow in an area inhabited predominantly by refugees and an asylum support officer begins to suspect that a right-wing terrorist might be targeting the area with biological weapons. [synopsis from BFI database at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/712783, last accessed 10/2/2009]

Working title:- THE SILENT KILLER. Originated on 35mm. Screened at 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2001.

Credits: [exec. p. David Hart
Production Co-ordinator
DEVLIN, Mark
Production Manager
KACZYNSKI, Brian
Screenplay
JOFFE, Rowan
Director of Photography
SMITH, Graham
Editor
HETHERINGTON, Kristina
Production Designer
MACLEOD, Zoë
Art Director
WONG, Stephen
Music
WARDENER, Max de
Sound
BRUCE, Stuart]

Cast
Sherko Hussein
ZEN-ALOUSH, Sherko
Resa Hussein
HASSAN, Benae
Robina Dhondy
QURESHI, Robina
Dr Annie Millbrook
CALDER, Morag
Bill Grigson
VENTRY, Laurie
Brian Cooper
BRENNAN, Liam
Mother Hamez
SADOLLAH, Sana
interpreter
IBRAHIM, Peri
epidemiologist
CHRISTIE, Peter
chief executive
KELLY, Elinor
ward consultant
STEPHENSON, Gerda
medical director
PICKAVANCE, Robert
senior police detective
HANMORE, Ian
senior staff nurse
DONNELLY, Kate]

© Channel Four Television Corporation MMI

Shotlist: Modern life really is rubbish, especially if you are an asylum seeker. But life seems to be getting worse for Turkish Kurds housed on high-rise estates in Glasgow. One man dies from a 'flu virus, then a child gets sick. Is it 'flu or tuberculosis, or something worse? Focussing on the experience of a refugee father and daughter, Gas Attack paints a horrifying picture of the experience of the asylum seeker. And, in drawing comparisons with the culling of animals during the recent foot-and-mouth outbreak, this compelling low-budget film offers much to ponder on [synopsis by Rod White, in 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival Catalogue, 2001]