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Title: CHRISTMAS WITH DAD

Reference number: 8266

Date: 2008

Director: d. Connor McCormack

Sponsor: supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, 55 Degrees, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Insitute

Producer: Sarah Tierney

Production company: Clarity Productions / Bridging the Gap

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.43 mins

Description: Christmas with Dad follows 22 year old AJ as he and his family prepare for the festive season and the arrival of an eighth child. With remarkable access and insight the film reveals a young man struggling to define his role as a father, haunted by his own childhood and facing an uncertain future. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Films New Talent Best of Scottish Shorts 2008"]

Best Scottish Documentary winner at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008. View preview clip at http://www.docscene.org/christmas-with-dad.html [last accessed 27/4/2010]

Part of Season 5 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "Home".

Credits: Scottish Documentary Institute presents a Bridging the Gap production in association with Scottish Screen and Clarity Productions

camera Becky Bell
ed. Matt Meech
m. Theo Weywood
sd. design Jamie Talbutt
online ed. Guido Schneider
short film exec. for Scottish Screen Leslie Finlay
Bridging the Gap p. man. Finlay Pretsell
exec. p. Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle

Thank you to A.J. and Family, Alice Bowerman, Louie Blystad-Collins, Hussein Kanore, Carmen Cox, Menekse Meech

Supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, 55 Degrees, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Insitute

© Clarity Productions Ltd. MMVIII