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Title: ROSSLYN ENIGMA, the

Reference number: 8037

Date: 2006+

Director: d. Tim Maguire

Sponsor: Scottish Screen, Visit Scotland

Producer: Sharon Ravenscroft

Production company: Tern Television

Sound: sound

Original format: Digital Betacam

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.10 mins

Description: Filmed by Tern Television, The Rosslyn Enigma was produced by Scottish Screen and Visit Scotland in advance of the worldwide blockbuster screen adaptation of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. The film was a specially commissioned documentary that featured real stories, myths and legends about Rosslyn Chapel to attract both potential visitors and filmmakers to the area.

February 2007, The Rosslyn Enigma was one of the finalists in the Tourism Sales Category of the The New York Festivals International Film & Video Awards. Winner of third place at The Golden Gate City Awards in March 2007 in Berlin, Best Screenplay at the International Tourism Film Festival in Poland and Silver at The Creusot Festival in June 2007, France.

Six centuries of myth and history are intertwined in the beautiful ornate Rosslyn Chapel, a few miles south of Scotland's historic capital, Edinburgh. Built by William Sinclair and used for worship for only a century after it was completed in 1446, it fell into disrepair when Cromwell's soldiers sacked nearby Rosslyn Chapel. Restored at the behest of Queen Victoria, the chapel has attracted streams of visitors since Sir Walter Scott wrote 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' featuring Rosslyn. A series of books, and now the Da Vinci Code film, have brought grail hunters, Templar historians, freemasons with their various passions and theories. Now undergoing major preservation to ensure it is here for another six hundred years, Rosslyn Chapel is still keeping its secrets and watching quietly as the visitors come and go... [above information taken from DVD sleeve]

See article in Roughcuts: What's Going on in the Scottish Screen Industries April/May 2006, p4.

View trailer on director's blog: http://www.maguiretim.co.uk/my_weblog/2007/07/the-rosslyn-eni.html [last accessed 20/9/2010]

Credits: Cast in order of appearance
'Lisa' Marisa Privatera
'Waiter' Richard Harris
Director, Rosslyn Chapel Trust Stuart Beattie
Tour Guide Simon Beattie
Tutor, Newbattle Abbey College Dr. Neil Hargreaves
Templar Historian John Miller
Deputy Principal Norah Fitzcharles
Historian Robert Brydon
Stone Conservator Nic Boyes
Masonic Expert Joe Lang

w. Cassian Hall
composer Paul Mounsey
lighting electrician Lenny O'Brien
sd. rec. Bob Barrow
jimmy jib operator Matthew Hardwick
d. ph. Alan McSheehy
ed. Joe Spiers
online ed. Ian Ballantyne
graphics Brendan Reilly
audio post Dan at the Dubbing Theatre
original music "The Blues are Still Blue" Belle and Sebastian, Matador Records
p. Sharon Ravenscroft
exec. p. Visit Scotland Jenni Steele, Karin Finlay
exec. p. Scottish Screen Celia Stevenson
exec. p. Tern Television David Strachan

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