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Title: SPACE YOU LEAVE, the

Reference number: 8116

Date: 2009

Director: d. and filmed James Newton

Sponsor: The National Lottery® through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, BBC Scotland, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Edinburgh College of Art, Scottish Documentary Institute

Producer: Anna Higgs, Gavin Humphries

Production company: Quark Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.54 mins

Description: Each year, an estimated 200,000 people are reported missing in the UK alone. But when a loved one goes missing, the space left behind in their families can mean a future trapped in a tortured present, one obsessed by the past.

Part of Season 6 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "Future".

Credits: Scottish Documentary Institute presents A Bridging the Gap production in association with Scottish Screen, BBC Scotland and Quark Films

Nerissa Sloley. Her son Alex went missing on 2nd August 2008.
Nicky Durbin. Her son Luke went missing on 12th May 2006.
Tim Reilly. His son Matthew went missing on 14th January 1999.
Each year, over 200,000 people are reported missing in the UK.

ed. Kristian Hove
m. composed Chris White
sd. edit and rerecording mix Christopeher Wilson
This film would not have been possible without the courage of Nicky Durbin, Tim Reilly, Nerissa Sloley, the charity Missing People
p. ass. Philip Parker
online ed. and grade Pepper Post
equipment services Blue Tuna
[sd. mix Music4]

Thanks to Rebecca Day, Lucy Adela-Smith, Pat & Len Newton, Ayse Iben Beyarslan, Ed Edwards, Daniel Wichett, Sylvia King, Philip Higgs & Katy Jackson, Alex Hodgson

Development Producer for Highlands & Islands Enterprise Amanda Millen
Bridging the Gap Production Manager Finlay Pretsell
exec. p. Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle
exec. p. for Scottish Screen Leslie Finlay
exec. p. for BBC Ewan Angus

Supported by The National Lottery® through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, BBC Scotland, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Edinburgh College of Art, Scottish Documentary Institute

An SDI and Quark Films Production © 2009