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Title: ICE PLANT, the

Reference number: 8070

Date: 2007

Director: d. Kate Burton

Sponsor: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen

Producer: Rosie Crerar

Production company: GMAC Digicult

Sound: sound

Original format: HDV

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.00 mins

Description: Emotionally challenged Ida works happily alone at an ice cube factory until her perfect world is disrupted by the arrival of a new colleague.

Filmed on location at Highland Ice Ltd (factory) in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (UK) in May 2007. Press pack held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

DigiCult: A low-budget digital film project that creates a talent pool of twenty directors, writers, producers and crafts-people. The aim is to encourage experimentation and innovation within the digital medium. Five short films are made per year with budgets of up to £5,000.

Credits: UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre present a Digicult Project in association with Scottish Screen

w. Kate Burton

Ida Rebecca Sloyan
Howie Mark Wood

d. ph. David Liddell
first ass. d. Ross Howieson
sd. rec. Douglas Fairgrieve
costumer designer Lucy Harvey
make-up designer Nicole Stafford
focus puller James Harrison
gaffer Damien Leitch
camera ass. Stuart Ewen
spark Kieran O'Halloran
sd. ass. Leo Segerius
art dept. and continuity Eona McCallum
art work Dominic Rafferty, James Harvey, Eleanor Rogers
p. co-ordinator Stuart Cadenhead
p. ass. Ashley McFarlane
catering and driver Cosmo Taylor
casting 41 Management
stills ph. Simon Ross, Stuart Cadenhead
ed. Aldo Palumbo
online David Armstrong
dubbing suiute Animal Audio
original score Daniel Padden
sc. development Richard Smith

Filmed on location at Highland Ice, Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire
Thanks to Highland Ice Ltd., Brocken Spectre, Fearsie Lodge Estate, Tron Theatre Co., The CCA, Peacock Visual Arts [... et al...]
Special thanks to David Smith

director of GMAC Dale Corlett
short film ass. Ciara Barry, Lindsay Goodall
Thanks to all the GMAC staff and trainees. GMAC is core funded by Glasgow City Council.
For UK Film Council Julia Caithness
For Scottish Screen Becky Lloyd
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
© UK Film Council and GMAC MMVII

Shotlist: Emotionally challenged Ida works happily alone at an Ice cube factory until her perfect world is disrupted by the arrival of Howie, an impulsive dreamer. Shadowed by monotony Ida exists in a world she thought she controlled, but now that world is slowly freezing her. Packing ice is not Howie’s dream vocation, he is clumsy and hates routines. Howie’s warmth and spontaneity interfere with Ida’s steady struggle to survive the cold and she must face the realisation that her cold cover is dangerously close to melting point.