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Title: ARTHUR BALFOUR AND ME

Reference number: 7965

Date: 2007

Director: d. Charlotte Cornic

Sponsor: UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre present A Cineworks project in association with Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland

Producer: Jackie Thornton

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 11.05 mins

Description: How one letter from Britain has affected the life of a young Palestinian woman to this day. [synopsis from "New Films, New Talent: Best of Scottish Shorts 2007]

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: UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre present A Cineworks project in association with Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland

story Fatima [Helow]

ed. Cassandra McGrogan
d. ph. Minttu Mantynen
ph. (Lebanon) Stuart Platt
sd. rec. Douglas Fairgrieve
ass. d. Phil Chetwynd
p. ass. Stuart Cadenhead
original m. Okan Yahsi
sd. dub. John Cobban
story development Beth Armstrong
stills ph. Gareth Harper, Basharat Khan
archive Palestine Television, The National Archives of Scotland, National Library of Scotland, Palestine Remembered

Thanks Henry Maitles, Melissa Bradley, Michael Brander, Jenny Simmons, David Affleck, Abd El Salaam Abo El Nada, Dr Daud Abdullah, Hopscotch Films, All at Whittingehame House, Fran Higson, Jo King, Suki Mills, Eve McConnachie, Sabelo Macanyana, Nick Higgins, Camcorder Guerillas, Local History Centre Haddington, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Housing Association, Euro Hostel

UK Film Council Julia Caithness
Scottish Screen Becky Lloyd
BBC Scotland Jane Gilmartin
GMAC Short Film Assistants Caira Barry and Lindsay Goodall. Thanks to all the GMAC staff and trainees.

exec. p. Karen O'Hare

Made with the support of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen. Cineworks

© UK Film Council and GMAC MMVII
[w. Fatima Helow]

Shotlist: Arthur J Balfour was born in 1848 on his family’s Scottish Estate in East Lothian. In 1916 he was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

I am Fatima, a 35 year old Palestinian woman seeking Asylum in Scotland. I was born a Palestinian Refugee in Lebanon. In 2001, I came to the UK to seek refuge and rebuild my life.

Arthur Balfour and Me is a visual and emotional journey through history and present time, an untold story about how a politician’s action has to this day affected my life as a young woman from the Middle East.