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Title: BLACKOUT

Reference number: 7896

Date: 2001

Director: d. Stuart Grieve

Sponsor: Scottish TV, Grampian TV, Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund

Producer: Barbara Doyle

Production company: In Amongst It

Sound: sound

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 25.00 minsc

Description: Flying bin bags, missing sofas, broken lifts and a complete power failure make an interesting night for tenants of a council tower block [synopsis from Edinburgh International Film Festival Catalogue, 2001]

Screened at 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2001.

New Found Land commissions six digital 24-minute dramas for television broadcast and theatrical distribution. The scheme runs every two years.

Credits: p. designer Suzanne Field
costume designer Louise Noble
make-up artist Lorraine Prosser
sd. rec. Duncan Reid
original music composed and performed Haile Suspect Productions
ed. Hilary McCusker-Thomson
d. ph. Philip Robertson
exec. p. Mark Grindle, Steve McIntyre
w. John Rooney

Rab Stephen McCole
Jake Alan McCafferty,
Katy Joanna McLeod
Alice Anne Downie
Delivery Man John Comerford
Janet Lori McLean
Frank John Rooney
Donna Joanne McNulty
Jimmy Paul McCole
Peter Kevin James Kelly
Concierge Owen Gorman
Priest Rony Bridges
Mr. Murphy Charles Aitchison
Vijay Razwan Shafi
Taxi Driver Joseph Cassidy
Policeman 1 Eric Barlow
Policeman 2 Dave Thomson
Shifty Guy 1 Grant Burns
Shifty Guy 2 Craigv Stewart
Woman at Door 1 Joyce Miller
Woman at Door 2 Joyce Smith
Boy in Lift Michael Keenan
Girl in Lift Heather Keenan
Woman in Church Sheena Moss
Raj Takir Hussain

1st ass. d. Robbie Sandison
3rd ass. d. Morris Milne
p. man Rebecca Knapp
location man. Mark McGhee
unit man. Jason Hendrikson
sc. supervisor Anne McGarrity
camera operator Alan Nicol
camera ass. Gary Downie
boom operator Alan MacNicol
gaffer Ray Broadfoot
electrician Willie Cadden
grip Allan Henderson
graphics Graham Campbell
online ed. Tom Malcolm
stills ph. Charlie Crawford
location ass. Kevin MacDonald
location runners Sarah Sandison, Kari Brekke, Richard Cockerill, Colin Smith
art dept. ass. Lucy Vaughan
prop hands David O'Neill, Steven Yull
p. ass. Lindsay Grieve, Vicky Stoller
storyboard artist Matthew Kerr
dubbing mixer Cy Jack

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? clip courtesy of Celador Productions

Thanks to Chris Coombes, Jo Brown, Sandra Grieve, Ron Waddell, Karen Rooney, Graeme Kerr, Lorna Meek, Michael Wilkin, Steve Arthur

In Amongst It Productions © MMI