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Title: STELLA DOES TRICKS

Reference number: 7920

Date: 1996

Director: d. Coky Giedroyc

Sponsor: British Film Institute and Channel Four in association with The Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund and the Scottish Film Production Fund

Producer: Adam Barker

Production company: Compulsive Films / Sidewalk Production

Sound: sound

Original format: Digital Betacam

Certificate: 18

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 99.00 mins

Description: Stella comes to London to escape her abusive father. While in London she works as a prostitute for a pimp, Mr. Peters but extricates herself from him and the situation by returning up north to Glasgow. Stella finds work selling flowers but finds it is not easy to make a break from her past life. [synopsis from BFI database at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/546615, last accessed 25/3/2009]

Script held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive (4th draft)

Credits: co-exec. p. Eddie Dick, Madeleine French
exec. p. Ben Gibson

With thanks to the girls we met in Glasgow, Manchester and London whose lives inspired the making of this film

Cast
Stella [McGuire] Kelly MacDonald
Mr Peters James Bolam
Young Stella Lindsay Henderson
Young Stella's Friends Lisa Adam, Jennifer Todd
McGuire Ewan Stewart
Fitz Andy Serkis
Belle Emma Faulkner
Carol Suzanne Maddock
Edward Nick Stringer
Polish Cafe Owner Andrej Borkowksi
Auntie Aileen Joyce Henderson
Donald Richard Syms
Eddie Hans Matheson
Greek Hotelier Dimitri Andreas
Mr. Peters' Driver Shaun Williamson
Chris Paul Chahidi
Cake Shop Owner Molly Innes
Young Girl in Park Leona Walker