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Synopsis
Laura begins her first adult job and is immediately torn between the professional advice of colleagues and instinctive empathy for the patients in her care. Tragic events bring conflict to crisis forcing a final and defining choice.
Details
- Year
- 2002
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 24 mins 57 secs
- Format
- Video
- Director
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Christeen Winford
- Producer
- Steve McIntyre, Mark Grindle
- Editor
- Fiona MacDonald
- Screenwriter
- Christeen Winford
- Director of Photography
- Roger Chapman
- Sound
- Colin McNab
- Composer
- Wendy Weatherby
- Principal cast
- Eileen McCallum, Edith McArthur
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Cormorant Productions
Contact: Christeen Winford72 Promenade Portobello
Edinburgh EH15 2DX
UK
T 00 44 (0)131 657 3393
christeen@cormorantfilms.co.uk
Sales Company
Scottish Screen
Contact: Katie McNaly249 West George Street
Glasgow
G2 4QE
UK
T 00 44 (0) 141 302 1700
distribution@scottishscreen.com
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