CCA 5
Saturday 20th October
3pm - followed by a Q&A with the director [tbc]
Rain
in my Heart
Paul Watson
UK … 2005 … 100 mins
Rain in my Heart was a difficult
project for Paul Watson, it hoped to
reveal on film the troubled psyches
of a group of people for whom
booze had become the only reliable
method of medicating their 'daily
monsters', the 'gremlins' that drove
them to alcohol.
He found it very difficult to find a
hospital authority in the UK that
would trust the necessary intrusions
of a television production but
eventually he managed to establish
trust between the hospital staff, their
patients and himself by revealing as
much of his own life as he asked of
them.
Four patients volunteered to have
their lives, treatment and problems
intimately filmed over ten
months, both on Dickens Ward in
the Gillingham hospital and in their
homes. Two died during filming. The
resulting film is their story, sober and
in wretched drunkenness, while being
treated by their doctor, Gray Smith
Laing.
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Closing Party
CCA Cafe
Sunday 21st Oct 10.30pm
 Sheila
Stewart is one of Scotland's traditional Traveller storytellers,
and Ballad singers. She has a rich repertoire and has a style
of singing that is strong and passionate and distinctively her
own yet in the fi nest mainstream of the Scottish tradition.
Last in the Line is screened in CCA 4 earlier in the day 1.15pm-
2.00pm where Sheila will also read from her biography of her
mother (Belle Stewart) Queen Amang The Heather.
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