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Title: ARCHIVE OF DREAMS

Reference number: 8269

Date: 2008

Director: d. Tomás Sheridan

Sponsor: [ BBC, Scottish Screen, UK Film Council]

Producer: Lindsay Goodall

Production company: La Bella Allee

Sound: sound

Original format: XDCam

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.25 mins

Description: Carlo Roda is from the coastal town of La Spezia in northern Italy. Over the past 30 years he has collected thousands of films, from Italian Neo Realist classics to Hollywood horrors. Having once trawled shut-down cinemas and rubbish dumps for forgotten gems, his life’s work now sits in a damp, dusty warehouse. This is the story of an incredible film collection and its cynical owner, whose world is turned upside down as a group of local film lovers try to rescue, restore and bring these pieces of cinematic history back to their former glory. How will Carlo react to the invasion of his archive of dreams?

Credits: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen and Glasgow Media Access Centre (GMAC) present a Shortcuts production in association with BBC Scotland

cinemat. Leo Bruges
sd. rec. Chris Campion, Andrea Contino
addit. camera Tomás Sheridan
ed. Dave Arthur
online ed. John Sackey
re-recording mixer Rob Walker
p. man. Luca Bondielli
p. co-ordinator Emanuela Lorenzone
original score composed by Marcella Carboni - Harp
performed by Gloria Clemente - Accordion
stills ph. Sacha Beverini
story developer Kirsty McLeod
d. and p. mentor Allan Campbell
GMAC short film ass. Claire English
GMAC short film co-ordinator Kathy Spiers

archive footage from Al Cinema Garibaldi by Carlo Roda

with thanks to Carlo Roda
Thanks also to Roberto Vendasi and the Volunteers, Giacomo Merani and La Loggia de'Banchi, Silvia Staderoli and family, Franscesco Ditria and Jolly Roger Equipment hire, everyone from La Casa della Buona Novella, Napier University and Screen Academy Scotland, Karen Smyth, The faithful cinemagoers of La Spezia, the City of La Spezia and its people.

To my very special crew and those who helped plan, question, reconsider and bring this film to life.

exec. p. for UK Film Council Julia Caithness
exec. p. for Scottish Screen Robbie Allen
exec. p. for BBC Scotland Ewan Angus
exec. p. for GMAC Dale Corlett
exec. p. for Shortcuts Karen O'Hare

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