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Title: TATTOO

Reference number: 7942

Date: 2001

Director: d. Jules Willamson

Sponsor: [ Short Film Factory]

Producer: Arabella Page Croft, Sara Putt

Production company: Three Sisters

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 14.57 mins

Description: Billy returns home for his father's funeral. He is forced to confront his father's artistic legacy, the expectations of a rural community and the flame he still carries for his first love. [synopsis from BFI database at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/717702, last accessed 19/2/2009]

Screened at 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2001.2002 BAFTA Nomination - Best Short Film ; 2002 Palm Springs Film Festival - Winner of Best Short Film ; 2002 Oscar short list for Best Short Film.

Credits: w. Jemma Field, Jules Williamson
d. ph. Daf Hobson
ed. Howard Reay
sd. rec. Simon Bishop
designer Marius van der Werff
costume designer Alison Trett
make-up designer Irene Napier
casting d. Victoria Beattie, Gillian Berrie, Anna Robertson

Cast
Billy Charles Daish
Kate Louise Goodall
Terry Ford Kiernan
Young Billy William Eadie
Young Kate Lynne Ramsay Jnr.
Man with tattoo Steve Barker
Man 1 Mike Geddes
Big John Ian Hanmore
Jess Anne Downie
1st ass. d. Gerry Wigzerll
unit p. ,mna. Kieran Parker
2nd ass. Lisa Anderson
3rd ass. d. Emma Bedford
p. co-ordinator Linda Fraser
p. ass. Marissa Carrara
d. ph. Daf Hobson
focus puller Matt Poynter
clapper loader Peter-John Knox
grip Lucien Grieve
camera runner Rodney Bolton
sc. supervisor Mark Murray
supervising sd. ed. Simon Gershon
rerecodring mixer James Andrews
dialogue ed. Edward Bulman
foley ed. Owen Bleasdale
sd. rerecording studios Videosonics, Cinema Sound
gaffer Paul McGeachan
best boy Paul Bates
genny operator Frank McConalogue
electrician Campbell McIntosh
boom operator Andy Griffin
p. designer Marius van der Werff
art d. Laura Donnelly
art dept. ass. Andy Drummond
painter William Bryden
props buyer Katie Lee
daily prop driver Matt Mooney
standby props Jim Elliot
standby joiner Alex Robertson
stills ph. Christina Lloses Armstrong
m. supervisor Howard Reay
original m. composed by Jason Creasey
'Back from the Border' written and performed by Jamie Page Croft
neg cutting Trucut
film grader Dave Kelly
lab. contact Len Thorton
processing Soho Images
titles and opticals Cineimage
tattoo advisor Ritchie Bains, Boneyard Tattoo Studio, Edinburgh
catering Argyll Catering

The producers would like to thank The people of Brechin, Jacqueline Cameron, John Ritchie, Rith Leslie Melville, Brechin and District Charitable Trust, The Brechin Business Association, The Angus District Council, The Dalhousie Pub [... et al ...]

Dedicated to our parents.