Director: Lynne Ramsay
UK/1997/14mins/35mm/color
Ramsay graduated from the UK7's National Film
and Television School in 1995. In 1996 she won
the Cannes Prix du Jury for her graduation short
film SMALL DEATHS. Her second short, KILL
THE DAY, won the Clermont Ferrand Prix du Jury
and GASMAN, made the same year, won Ramsay
her second Cannes prize in 1998. GASMAN also
received a Scottish BAFTA for Best Short Film.
Ramsay's debut feature RATCATCHER
screened at Cannes in Un Certain Regard and went
on to open the Edinburgh International Film Festival
where Ramsay received the Guardian New Directors
prize. She also won the Carl Foreman Award for
Best Newcomer in British Film at the 2000 BAFTA
Awards, the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film
Festival and the Silver Hugo for Best Director at the
Chicago International Film Festival. Her second film,
MORVERN CALLER, features Samantha Morton in
the lead role. Once again Ramsay reunited with the
director of photography, production designer and
editor who she worked with on all of her short films.
"I started writing short stories at film
school. I wanted to make something
that meant more to me than the films I
was asked to photograph. I felt everyone
was trying to make a calling card for the
industry. In the end, I ended up filming
three of the stories I wrote, and in each
of them I tried to play with different
ideas and styles."
Lynne Ramsay on Gasman
Commentary by Lynne Ramsay, recorded in London, England.
Courtesy of Holy Cow Films
