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PACK
Palm Tree Press
Packs 2011
PALM TREE ENTERTAINMENT
A FILM BY ROBBIE MOFFAT
Running Time: 102
mins
Palm Tree
Entertainment Ltd
630 Props Building
Pinewood Studios
SL0 0NH
Tel: +44(0) 1753 656424
Fax: +44(0) 1753 657086
Email:
palmtree@deevee.net
Nudes in Tartan
SYNOPSIS
Nudes in Tartan is a fun filled film
about three young women and their useless boyfriends who are taking advantage
of them.
It takes a while for the penny to drop with the girls that the guys are not on the level - Ross is a puppeteer with artistic pretensions and he has promised Katrina that his brother will publish her poetry. Hamilton a rip-off married art dealer who’s having an affair with Lorna and is treating her badly. Meanwhile, Carmen who’s a musician finds that Victor, a Russian looking for a wife, is just too manipulating for her freethinking tastes.
All of them
end up living in the same flat with an easy mixture of free love and bickering.
Their scams are unraveled when they can’t raise the money for their rent.
Hamilton has promised Lorna he will arrange an exhibition for her work. Victor
has told Carmen he will get her onto the largest music venues in Russia.
None of this
will pay the rent so the girls reclaim Lorna’s paintings from Hamilton’s
gallery and sell them themselves. In the process they come to the conclusion
that the boyfriends are parasites.
The upshot
is that he girls throw over the useless lads and decide to make their own way
in life instead of relying on men.
Nudes in Tartan
Screenwriter and Director
Written and
directed by Robbie Moffat, who has made eighteen films in the last ten years.
Known for different types of genre for film both historical and modern, Robbie
is not afraid to tackle any subject from the mundane to the octane.
Nudes in
Tartan has been abated from a Robbie Moffat’s musical staged in Scotland in
1990. He has modernized his own script - updating it, giving it an edge for
film. Nudes in Tartan is a funny ironic comic story about three women who learn
the hard way that men can hold them back, not help them achieve success. The
story has well-drawn characters who have a Bohemian lifestyle with no money but
lots of pretensions.
Robbie’s film-making has stood him in good stead – this year, he is an Nominee as Johnny Walker Great Scot 2011 for outstanding contribution to Scottish culture.
His first movie was 35mm shoestring budget Love The One
You're With which was nominated for best Scottish Film 2000. Thereafter his
output has been prolific with no-budget adventure films like the Winter
Warrior, Bone Hunter and Axe Raiders, and contemporary
features Hawk and the Dove, Finding Fortune, Rain Dogs, Cycle.
After making ten Scottish features in six years, Moffat
moved his company to Pinewood Studios just outside London where he has made
Dark Side of Heaven, Inside Out, Seven Crosses and Sisters Grimm. Moffat
has a thriving career as a producer, director and screenwriter, most recently
with Got To Run, Beast In The Basement and Nudes In Tartan
Nudes in Tartan
Cast
Suzanne Kendall
Suzie is a graduate of the Bridge Theatre Training Company. An accomplished actress, she has worked with a variety of theatre companies including The Cockpit, The Bridge and MOPA youth theatre. She has appeared in a number of notable films including ‘Sisters Grimm’, ‘Deep Lies’, ‘Seven Crosses’ and ‘Got to Run’. Suzie plays the part of Katrina in Nudes in Tartan.
Lily Brown
Lily has
recently cast in the leading role in the comedy web series ‘Temp’. In Feb 20011 the feature film Sinbad and
the Minotaur played in cinemas. Lily had a featured part as a creature that
is possessed by the Minotaur. She’s also had her fair share of TV commercials.
Earlier last year she was in the horror movie as a zombie in Stag Night of the
Dead by Neil Jones. In Nudes in Tartan she plays the part of the Lorna the
artist.
Louise
Hawthorne
Trained at
Trinity College Carmarthen in Wales for three years. After a stint at the
London Theatre in the Queen of Spades directed by Victor Sobchak, she
moved onto the Actors studio of Tim Kent to do the Acting for Camera course.
She was spotted by Robbie who cast her in small parts for the films Got to
Run and Beast in the Basement. In Nudes in Tartan, she plays Carman
the bouncy musician.
Haydn
Holden
Trained
at the Manchester School of Acting Theatre. He then settled in Wales where he
achieved success and fame in a pop band with their own TV show. His first film
break came with Mystery Files when he got to play the role of William Cecil. He
plays the role of the hapless Ross in Nudes in Tartan.
Stephen
McLeod
He learned
his trade at the Mountview Academy of Theatre. Currently he is preparing for a
role in the National Theatre’s Emperor and Galilean by Jonathon Kents.
In his early career, he was a member of the Young Shakespeare Company. Last
year he was at the Edinburgh Festival in Chekov’s Ivanvo. He plays
Hamilton in Nudes in Tartan.
Robert
Feldman
At the London School of Dramatic Art for three years
where he also trained as a dancer. He got his first theatre break in Beautiful
Bodies at the Leicester Square Theatre, directed by Caroline Devlin. He got
his first film break with Frank Scantori in the horror film Dead Crazy.
He plays Victor the Russian in Nudes in Tartan.
Nudes in Tartan
Cast Credits
Katrina*Suzanne Kendall
Lorna*Lily Brown
Carmen*Louise
Hawthorne
Hamilton*Stephen
Mcleod
Ross*Hayden Holden
Victor*Robert
Feldman
Noel*Peter Bradleigh
Kaybal*Tim
Hilborne
Georgia*Sam
McNicol
Romano*Joe Rainbow
Tommy*Jon Paul
Gates
A&R Man
1*Darren Sean Enright
A&R Man 2*Dean
Merritt
Eduardo*Ben de
Halpert
Agnes*Lia Alu
Barman*Klement
Brahaj
Crew Credits
Director* Robbie
Moffat
Producer* Simon
Harris
Robbie Moffat
Writer* Robbie
Moffat
Executive
Producer* Mairi Sutherland
Production
Manager*Joanna Rodgers
Director Of
Photography*Bob Ramsay
Camera
Operator*Alfie Cole
Camera
Assistant*Alistair Campbell
Costume
Design*June Hudson
Wardrobe
Supervisor*Jill Bennett
Make Up &
Hair*Joanna Sims
Sound
Recordist*Neil Sherman
Boom
Opertator*Jillian Speed
Re-recording
Mixer*Adam Scrivner
Re-recording
Mixer*Andy Caller
Film & Sound
Editing*Simon Harris
Associate
Editor*Mark Cullis
Associate Editor*Christopher
Court
Assembly
Editor*Elmer George
Production
Runner*Linda Blacker
Special Thanks to Sarah Owen and all the staff of the Ordanance Arms.
All the characters portrayed in this film are entirely
fictional. Any resemblance to individuals
living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Made at Pinewood Studios.
Filmed on location around
London, England.
Produced By
Sterling Films Limited
Distributed By
Palm Tree Entertainment © MMXI
Nudes in Tartan
Palm Tree Entertainment
Nudes in Tartan has a bespoke distribution arrangement with
the Empire Cinema Chain and it is expected to go out in screens in September
after premiering at the Empire Leicester Square, London.
Palm Tree Entertainment also brokers the worldwide sales of theatrical, DVD and TV to other companies and interested
parties attending the major film market events.
It is helmed by Mairi Sutherland who also helps to produce
and direct some of the films on the Palm Tree sales slates.
The next up and coming market debut for Nudes in Tartan is
the May 2011 Cannes Film Market.
Contact details
Palm Tree
Entertainment Ltd
630 Props
Building
Pinewood
Studios
SL0 0NH
Tel: +44(0) 1753 656424
Fax: +44(0)
1753 657086
Email:
palmtree@deevee.net