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DÙTHCHAS

Name: DÙTHCHAS
Director: Andy Mackinnon, Kirsty MacDonald
Genre: Scottish, Woman Director
Released: 2022
Duration: 88 min

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Synopsis

DUTHCHAS is a poignant, touching and emotive exploration of what it means to people, especially women, to have to leave the island of their birth - Berneray in the Outer Hebrides - to get an education, work, and live and examines the effect this had on the Gaelic language and culture of the island.
The documentary features previously unseen Kodachrome 8mm archive film of everyday life on the Isle of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland through the 60s and 70s, intercut with interviews with people from the island including many featured in the archive film which reveals repeated iconic scenes of leaving the island, friends and relatives on the pier waving as they recede into the distance.
A specially composed soundtrack by Donald Shaw draws on the richness of traditional Gaelic songs from Berneray and their compelling melodies as inspiration.

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Details

Year: 2022
Type of project: Features
Running time: 88 min
Format: Digital 6k/4k
Director: Andy Mackinnon, Kirsty MacDonald 1st Feature
Producer: Andy Mackinnon
Co-Producer: John Archer
Executive Producer: Margaret Cameron, Mark Thomas
Editor: Andy Mackinnon
Screenwriter: -
Director of Photography: Andy Mackinnon
Production Designer: -
Sound: Paul Wilson, Becky Thomson
Composer: Donald Shaw
Principal cast: -

Genre

Scottish Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Fàgail Ltd

Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre
Lochmaddy
Isle of North Uist
Outer Hebrides
HS6 5AA

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