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Title: HUGH'S STORY

Reference number: 8519

Date: 1993c

Production company: [ Pilton Video (?)]

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 20.00 minsc

Description: Raw, unedited material related to a documentary about Hugh Collins - Saughton "Lifer" sculptor working in Muirhouse. This tape has interview material about his experience of prison life good and bad, the influence of Jimmy Boyle and the Special Unit, guilt and rehabilitation, the attitudes of people, his current sculpture project 'Mother and Child', a memorial stone for children that have died of AIDS in the Muirhouse area.

No credits. Note Scottish Screen Archive does not currently hold the finished programme - it may well be incomplete (?) Original tape has 'The Mother and the Child" written on it, presumably relating to the stone sculpture.

Pilton Video Archive appear to hold 5 videos containing material from this film, but not the final production (?) See http://www.piltonvideoarchive.org/film_detail.php?id=157 [last accessed 3/2/2010]

See also ref. 8535 for raw interview footage with director, Mike Tyson, about the making of this work.

First Reels - a joint short film initiative from Scottish Screen (and its predecessor body the Scottish Film Council) and Scottish Television. First Reels was launched during 1991 by Scottish Film Council in response to a perceived need for small grants to help young and first time film-makers to make or complete their first film or video project. Scottish Television came in as co-sponsor at an early stage and as well as contributing to half the funds they have given the scheme a tremendous public relations boost by running three half hour documentaries showing excerpts from the First Reels. Applicants were invited to submit projects in any format and on any subject they chose. All entries were considered by a jury and thirty five projects were given grants varying from £50 to £2000. On show at the GFT are a representative selection of the best of the films and videos supported by the scheme. [Editorial from Scottish Film Council held in paper archives]