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Title: MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER

Reference number: 8056

Date: 2007

Director: d. Saleyha Ahsan

Sponsor: The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset UK Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute

Producer: Christeen Winford

Production company: Bridging the Gap, Cormorant Films

Sound: sound

Original format: DVCam

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.43 mins

Description: A convert to Islam and her Christian mother explore how they are still struggling to come to terms with the impact on their relationship. [synopsis from "New Films, New Talent: Best of Scottish Shorts 2007]

Part of Season 4 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "White".

See also Scottish Documentary Institute website at http://www.docscene.org/my-mothers-daughter.html [last accessed 24/4/2009]

Credits: Scottish Documentary Institute presents A Bridging the Gap Production in association with Scottish Screen and Cormorant Films

camera Julie Bills, Sitar Rose
sd. Becky Thomson, Kamala Manion
ed. Sitar Rose
dubbing ed. John Cobban
online ed. Simon Blakeley
development exec. for Scottish Screen Becky Lloyd
Bridging the Gap co-ordinator Sonja Henrici
exec. p. Noe Mendelle

Thanks to Yvonne and Joyce Ridley, The Sisters of Edinburgh Central Mosque, Tanfield Parish Church, Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh Central Mosque, Karim Ziem, Kebab Mahal, Palymera, The Mosque Kitchen, Arc Facilties, Edinburgh.

Supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset UK Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute.