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Title: WISH

Reference number: 8038

Date: 2001

Director: d. René Mohandas

Sponsor: Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, Cineworks London Production Fund, BBC Scotland

Producer: Abigail Howkins

Production company: Cineworks (Glasgow Media Access Centre)

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 17.06 mins

Description: An unusual love story between a young Glaswegian male carer and an elderly Japanese lady. From their mundane council estate lives blossoms an inspirational exchange of experience, culture and romance, crossing the boundaries of time, place, generations and imaginations. [synopsis from http://www.britfilms.com/]

Screened at 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2001.

"A mixing of cultures, a meeting of minds, a simple kiss, a simple wish."

Note: This is a different title to ref. 7901

Credits: Cineworks London Production Fund in association with the Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund present

Miss Kaori Vasanta Mata
Fraser Neil McCormack
Young Miss Kaori Grace Chua
Fraser's Girlfriend Fiona Kennedy
Shell Suited Lads Ian Lafferty, Roddy Fraser, Roger Kennedy, Barry McLean
Shell Suited Girl Angela Burns
Father Taketuro Hamamoto
Fujimoto Peter Lui
Young Women Debbie Foley, Gail Evans
Old Man Jim McLean
Small Children Gabriel Adams, Nolly Adams
Medics Marion Sangster, Peter Zani
Ned Boys Joe Murpgy, Paul O'Donnell
Ned Girl Samantha Kimmett
Elderly Man John Keenan
Elderly Woman Alice Bell
Rubbish Collector Chris Lang

d. ph. Ian Dodds
p. designer Janice Flint
costume designer Lindsey Davidson
makeup designer Claire McAndrew
ed. Mark Jenkins
composer Iain Cook
sd. dubber John Cobban
p. man. Bill Clark
1st ass. d. Jonathan Farmer, Bill Clark
sd. rec. Rupert Castle
location man. Dearbhla McNulty, Alona McNicol
sc. supervisor Sheila Johnston
gaffer Ewan Epton
focus puller Jaspreet Bal
grip Mark Donnelly
boom operator Graham Davy
clapper loader Alysia Maciejowska
electrician Andrew M'Itwamwari
art d. Althea McGhie
standby art d. Michael Barclay
props buyer Christine Gibson
construction J&B Scenery
p. accountant Ian Reid
p. co-ordinator Beverley Murray
2nd ass. d. Jill Pryde
3rd ass. d. / extras co-ordinator Emma Bedford
researcher Kirsty Tarbet
assistant production team Andrew Bonner, Marie Olesen, Inge Ejbye Sorensen
locations ass. Catriona Skinner, Ben Geoghegan, Nick Evans, Rowan McAllister
costume ass. Kirsten Lamb, Alison Brown, Joy Sherlock
p. runner Rod Tamime
floor runner Heather Wilson
camera trainee Stuart Anderson
trainee sc. supervisor Dee Edmonds
casting (Japan) Amy Neil
casting (UK) Godfrey King at The South West, Anglo Japanese Society, Beverley Murray
stills ph. Sue Osmond
titles design Louise Orr
storyboard artist Jaeson Finn
insurance AON / Albert G. Ruben
camera and lenses by GHS Scotland Ltd
lighting equipment Lee Lighting (Edinburgh)
sd. equipment Warehouse Sound Services (Glasgow)
catering Argyll Catering
cutting room Glasgow Media Access Centre, Digital Facilities
film stock Kodak
film laboratory Soho Images

"Speak Low written by Ogden Nash and Kurt Weil, performed by Lotte Lenya © Chappell and Co. Inc / Kurt Weil Foundation for Music Inc / WB Music Corp by kind permission of Warner Chappell Music Ltd. Licence courtesy of Sony Classical

"Kokiriko Melody written and performed by Joji Hirota from the album "The Gate" © Real World Records Ltd. by kind permission of Joji Hirota

Special thanks to Arnold Clark, Jim Kerr at the South West Arts and Music Project, Aspen Business Solutions, Drumchapel Home Visiting Scheme, Mobile Phone Centre, Katherine Brough at BBC (Scotland) Resources, Glasgow University Japanese Society [... et al...]

additional support from Japan 2001, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, British Council Japan, Scottish Screen Training Bursary, Morrison Bowmore Distillers, University of Dundee Graduates Council

exec. p. for Cineworks Cordelia Stephens
production exec. for London Production Fund Maggie Ellis
p. Abigail Howkins
w. and d. René Mohandas
Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, BBC Scotland
filmed on location in Glasgow and at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

© René Mohandas / Abigail Howkins / Cineworks 2001