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Title: STRAIGHT STORIES

Reference number: 8163

Date: 2000

Director: d. Siv Hilde Meen and Ingvild Søderlind

Sponsor: [ Scottish Screen]

Production company: Napier University

Sound: sound

Original format: DVC

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 18.00 mins

Description: A documentary about a theatre project "This is the Real", offering sixteen teenagers from Harlem the chance to tell their life stories and deal with their problems through drama. [synopsis taken from VHS sleeve notes]

Titles at start of film:- "Washington Height, Harlem, New York. Jeremy Weller, Artistic Director of The Grassmarket Project, is rehearsing "This Is The Real" in which seventeen teenagers tell their life stories."

Scottish Students on Screen (SSoS) is a one day festival designed to foster stronger links between education and the moving image industries. It is managed by BAFTA and funded by Scottish Screen, and has been running a innovative programme of events since 1999. Features sessions, screenings, workshops and masterclasses providing all you need to know about getting into the industry

Credits: A film by Siv Hilde Meen and Ingvild Søderlind

To Arvin, Candise, Crystal, Donald, Eddie, Elvis, Erica, Geronimo, Joey, Jonathan, Lashaye, Leo, Miriam, Ralph, Sergio, Stephanie and Vanessa

Poems by Donald "Duck" Jenkins
Thanks to Jeremey Weller and the P.A.L. Armory Players [… et al …]

Meen and Søderlind, Napier University 2000

Jeremy Weller and The Grassmarket Project, is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and are working internationally with similar projects. email info@gmp-theatre.demon.co.uk