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Title: PROMISE LAND

Reference number: 7888

Date: 2002

Director: d. Gili Dolev

Sponsor: The Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund and produced with the assistance and support of The School of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Digital Film Lab. Goldcrest Post Production. Wing

Producer: Bob Last

Production company: Sell Out Pictures

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 15.00 mins

Description: "Promise Land is the funny and unflinching animated story of a fictional journalist’s self serving and helter-skelter attempt to cover the Arab-Israeli conflict by pursuing youthful extremists of every stripe.

Promise Land is shot from a journalist’s viewpoint. It features every reporter’s dream, intimate access to extreme events. The journalist follows six young men representing all sides, provoking them to express their ideas and beliefs and prejudices. All the characters celebrate their twentieth birthday at the time of their interview, and are separated merely by circumstance; they are young, passionate, extreme and see the world in ‘black and white’.

Bernard Shaw explained that he used humour as an anaesthetic when delivering a harsh social message. ‘Promise Land’, written and directed by former Israeli conscript Gili Dolev, but produced in Scotland, uses humour to look at the politically and emotionally charged ‘Israeli -Arab’ conflict, presenting both sides in a bitterly realistic light. The film features, amongst others, the voice of Iranian stand up comedian Omid Djalili and utilises innovative 2d and 3d animation techniques to pull together musical, drama and documentary references. Dolev and Last subsequently formed an animation company." Information from production company website at http://www.selloutpictures.com [last accessed 26/4/2010]

Winner of Best Animated Film, Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, 2003. See also ref. 8160

Credits: w. Gili Dolev
exec. p. Steve Flack
p. man. Martin Gornall
voices Omid Djalili,. Rebecca Front, Tim Robinson, Alasdair Arthur Lay
casting Wendy Brazington
musical d. Simon Richardson
sd. engineer Grant Milne
storyboards Gil Dolev
concept art David McCue, Gillian Barrette
character design Steve Lenton, Ross Burt, Ian Yeats, Ruaraidh Gillies
layout Liz Myhill, Vicki Haworth, Kyla Tomlinson, Calum Carr, Jonathan Byrne
animat. Ruaraidh Gillies, Andy Boyd, Ross Burt, Chris Brincat, Alan MacEachern
add. animat. Neil Lennox, Rowan Dewar
3D backgrounds and animat. Mark Tennant, Martin Gornall, Jonathan MacIntosh, Grame Hawkins
lead inbetweener Kyung Hwa Lee
inbetweeners Jonathan Byrne, Thomas Steadman, Karen Farquhar, Ian Gillian, Heather Wyllie
cleanup artists Paul Anderson, Se-Young Chun, Colin Barrie, Dave Shea, Lyndsey Hutton, Rebecca Barnett, Lindsey Key, Till Lassmann, Joseph Smith, Chris Cassell, Craig Cameron, Peter Clark, Alice Sutherland, Ashleigh Spence, Anita Egenbauer
colouring Garry Whitton, Paul Anderson, David Cleland, Rayah Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Byrne, Thomas Steadman
IT support Peter Bevan
compositing Gili Dolev, Martin Gornall

Music Tracks
"Intro" music composed and arrangement Simon Richardson
"Suicide Rapp" lyrics Gili Dolev; music composition and arrangement Kevin Reid
"Synagogue Song" lyrics Gili Dolev; music composition and arrangement Simon Richardson
"Slavery Song" lyrics Gili Dolev; music composition and arrangement Simon Richardson
"Peace Song" lyrics Gili Dolev; music composition and arrangement Donna Maciocia
"Grand Finale" music composed and arrangement Simon Richardson

vocals Alastair G. Bruce, Brian Ferguson, Beverly Rye, Peter Ashmore, Tim Robinson, Alasdair Arthur Lay, Morgan Petrio, Ben Flack, Hannah Henderson, Martin Gornall
musicians Kyla Tomlinson, Simon Richardson, Donna Maciocia, Alan Nolan, David Christie, Simon Carter, Kevin Reid
chorus Graeme Stewart, Jonathan MacIntosh, Thomas Steadman, Lain Gillian, Donna Maciocia, Kirstin Sands, Sonya Veelken, Ross Burt, Jonatahan Byrne, Paul Anderson, Janice Aitkin, Marian Jordan, Louise Murray, Cara Laing

Thanks Suzan Zidayck, Paul Clementsmith, Bruce Sutherland, Neil Bond, Cara Laing, Rona Dolev, Ryan Beattie, Dennis Sutton, Tracy McConnell-Wood, Sean Kiernan, Richard Carr, Tarek S. Hamad, Fiona Hislop, Mark Holmes, Mike Stubbs, Janice Aitken, Sharon Campbell, Fraser MacLean, Cora Cluett

A Sell Out Pictures film produced with financial assistance from The Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund and produced with the assistance and support of The School of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Digital Film Lab. Goldcrest Post Production. Wingate Scholarships, The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation.

© Sell Out Pictures / Gili Dolev 2002

Shotlist: Promise Land is the funny and unflinching animated story of a fictional journalist’s self serving and helter-skelter attempt to cover the Arab-Israeli conflict by pursuing youthful extremists of every stripe.