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Title: Shields Stories (1988)

Producer: Amber Films

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Ten 10 minute video dramas using the soap format to highlight a number of the issues affecting the community of North Shields, where Amber creatively based itself between 1986 and 1991. ..more »

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Shields Stories (1988)

Amber Films (Producer)

10 mins x 10, video Drama

Royal Television Special Award, 1987
Silver Medal Film & TV Festival, New York, 1987

Featuring the first screen appearance of Tyneside actor Robson Green, this package of ten short dramas aimed at highlighting a variety of social issues within a soap format. They follow the fortunes of seven interlinked characters as they try to make sense of their lives in a community which has suffered the effects of government policies: cuts in the health, education and social services; unemployment; lack of resources for the elderly and the lack of future promise for youth.

1. Ray Gets a Job
2. Accident
3. Truant
4. Debt
5. Joyride
6. Probation
7. Florrie
8. Reading and Writing
9. Hot Dogs
10. Pregnancy

AMBER FILMS
Made under the auspices of the ACTT Workshop Declaration with financial assistance from Northern Arts and Channel Four Television.

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