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Title: TARTAN AMIGOS

Reference number: 7939

Date: 2002

Director: d. Andrews Bonner

Sponsor: Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund. GMAC. Edinburgh Mediabase. Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. Film Council. BBC Scotland

Producer: Rowan Aust

Production company: Cineworks

Sound: sound

Original format: Digital Betacam

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.59 mins

Description: Mexico City: the St Patrick’s Battalion Pipe Band, Mexicans one and all, prepare for the biggest concert in its history. People so obsessed with the bagpipes they paid an Irishman to emigrate and tutor them, but then other pursuits get in the way.

Cineworks: Commissions five short films a year by new filmmakers in the genres of drama, documentary and animation. Funded by Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, UK Film Council and BBC Scotland. Includes a training programme.

Credits: "Yo Me Voy" written by Salsa Celtica/Tobey Shippey
"Maggie's Pancakes" written by Stuart Morrison
Salsa Celtica appear courtesy of Greentrax Recordings

camera John Harper
sd. Simon Tomlinson
online ed. Nick Wright
dubbing mixer John Cobban
ed. Bert Eeles
w. and d. Andrews Bonner
p. Rowan Aust
exec. p. Cordelia Stephens, Abigail Howkins

Cineworks. Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund. GMAC. Edinburgh Mediabase. Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. Film Council. BBC Scotland