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Title: HALF WAY HOME

Reference number: 8271

Date: 2008

Director: d. Paul Gray

Sponsor: supported by the National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, ARC Facilities, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute

Producer: Lili Sandelin and Douglas Dougan

Production company: North Isle Productions Ltd. / Bridging the Gap

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.55 mins

Description: Melanie, 34, knows she will die within 10 years due to autoimmune disease. Having survived a near fatal operation, Melanie escaped the stresses of city life to search for her ideal home for the time she has left - but it's not as easy as that. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Films New Talent Best of Scottish Shorts 2008"]

View preview clip at http://www.docscene.org/half-way-home.html. Screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2008.

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 North Isle Productions

Special thank you Melanie Armer, Thomas Finlay, Theresa Finlay
d. ph. Ian Dodds
sd. rec. Marcelo de Oliveira, Lili Sandelin
ed. Fiona Reid
online ed. Ian Ballantyne
dub and sd. engineer Marcelo de Oliveira
co-producer Douglasd Dougan

Thank you The Cerys Project at Stratherrick Catholic Church Inverness; ARC Facilities; Gary Hall, Robert Walker at Napier University; Rebecca Day, Sirpa Norri, Brian Suttie, Professor Scott Murray, Dr. Neville Singh

short film exec. for Scottish Screen Leslie Finlay
Bridging the Gap p. man. Finlay Pretsell
exec. p. Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle

Supported by the National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, ARC Facilities, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute

Fluid Eye Productions, North Isle Productions.
© North Isle Productions 2008