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Title: SNAKEBITE

Reference number: 8065

Date: 2006

Director: d. Matt Pinder

Sponsor: Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland

Producer: Stuart Dobbs

Production company: UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre

Sound: sound

Original format: DVCam

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 9.18 mins

Description: 7-year-old Sammy Gillanders mistakenly thinks he’s been bitten by a poisonous snake. For the rest of the afternoon he considers his slow and painful demise. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Films, New Talent, Best of Scottish Shorts 2006]

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 Production in association with Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland

Cast
Sammy Reiss MacDonald
David Josh Hughes
Mrs Gillanders Beth Marshall
Mr Gillanders Steve Tomas
Lauren Gillanders Liya de Laet Pinder
Teacher Sarah O'Toole
Vicar David Carmichael

Crew
p. designer Natalie Astridge
d. ph. Minttu Mantynen
sd. rec. Chris Campion
1st ass. d. Yvonne Bray
make-up and costume Julie Cain
lighting Derrick Ritchie
boom operator John Dinning
camera ass. Kirsteen Bell
art dept. ass. Aoife McKim
construction Dennis Knotts
3rd ass. d. Jamie Houstin
runner Lorna Rose Simpson
sc. ed. Sarah Tripp
original music by David Scott
sd. dub John Cobban
dubbing ass. Travis Reeves
online Brendan Reilly
film ed. Alistair Ferguson

Kit supplied by Hammerhead TV, Glasgow.
Offline and online at Serious Facilities, Glasgow
Sound dub at The Base, Glasgow
Catering by Amii and Jim Bannerman at the Aldessan Gallery

Thanks to Out & Out Films Ltd., Anne and Kevin MacDonald, David McGregor, Gillian Hughes, Robert O'Donnell, David Neill, LeslieAnne McGhee, Carla Wilson [... et al ...]

Director of GMAC Dale Corlett
GMAC short film ass. Ciara Barry
for Scottish Screen Julian Caithness
for UK Film Council Rebecca Mark-Lawson

w. and d. Mark Pinder
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

© U Film Council / GMAC MMVI