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Title: SUMMER

Reference number: 8148

Date: 2008

Director: d. Kenny Glenaan

Sponsor: [ UK Film Council, Cinema Two, EM Media, Scottish Screen, Filmstiftung NRW, GFO, BBC, Hewland Intl.]

Producer: Camilla Bray

Production company: Sixteen Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 79.21 mins

Description: As kids, Shaun and Daz are inseparable, skipping school, racing bikes, knocking about down by the lake with Katy, Shaun's first love. Full of life, Shaun runs up against an education system that cannot contain him. He is squeezed and eventually spat out, taking Daz down with him as he self-destructs. Twenty years later, Daz is in a wheelchair and has eight weeks to live. Shaun is left to reflect on one gilded summer of love, sex and loyalty that marked the end of his innocence. His memories lead him to track down Katy, in a bid for personal redemption. This is a story of bright lives unfulfilled, of hopes that are snuffed out and then, finally, rekindled.

For further information see official film website at http://www.summerthemovie.co.uk/ [last accessed 26/4/2010] DVD available to buy.

Catalogued from secondary sources, namely press pack held at Scottish Screen Archive. Best Actor (Robert Carlyle) Edinburgh Film Festival 2008.

Credits: UK Film Council and EM Media presents A Sixteen Films Co-Production with Mediopolis Film, Cinema Two in association with Matador Pictures and Regent Capital Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Office and Hewland International

[Cast
Shaun Robert Carlyle
Daz Steve Evets
Katy Rachael Blake]

screenplay Hugh Ellis
exec. p. Rebecca O'Brien, Nigel Thomas
co-producers Alexander Ris, Petra Hengge
composer Stephen McKeon
cinematographer Tony Slater-Ling
ed. Kristina Heatherington
p. designer Jane Levick
casting Victoria Beattie
costume Sarah Ryan]

[locations Manager - Richard Knight]