Three-Legged Horses

THREE-LEGGED HORSES follows a lonely rickshaw driver during his last night of work in Edinburgh.  The long nights, the hills, the cobblestones, the customers, the randomness of each night have put a strain on his knees and sanity.

He soon finds himself on his worst night ever, his rickshaw nearly stolen, his earnings all gone and pain constantly shooting through his knees.  As the night threatens to end with nothing to show for, he reluctantly agrees to go on his most gruelling ride yet, up to the Edinburgh Castle, an unrelenting pointless lift.

THREE-LEGGED HORSES is the second Debasers filum, a short independent film about community and the random, fleeting but powerful connections people can make on any given night.

THREE-LEGGED HORSES was shot on location in Edinburgh over five very cold nights by a crew of film professionals and enthusiasts.  It is based on real events, experienced and witnessed by writer-director Felipe Bustos Sierra.

It was funded mostly by two crowdfunding campaings on Kickstarter, then Sponsume.  Both were, at the time, the most successful campaigns for a Scottish project.

CAST AND CREW

CAST

Samuel Jameson
Nick Cheales
Cameron Bowie
Pab Roberts
Hanna Stanbridge
Tom Hutchinson
Mat Clements
Donald McDonald
Maggie MacLeod
Gavin Purdie
Simon Messer
Bryan Lowe
Gilchrist Muir
and Orkestra del Sol

CREW

Writer/Editor/Producer/Director

Felipe Bustos Sierra is a lucky fecker.

Director of Photography

Frederic Plasman is the hardest working man in Belgium.  A complete filmmaker, he’s written, directed and designed documentaries, short films, music videos, commercials and museum exhibitions.  He would be the hardest working man in the world, except for the fact that he hates flying. But one day… one day. His dog, Gimmi, suffers from paranoia and delusion.

Sound

Jack Coghill

Original Score by

Iban Perez

Original Song by

Don MacDonald

Co-Producer

Erin McElhinney has done all the film graduate jobs you can think of, and then some. A freelance journalist, project manager and now arts administrator with experimental festival purveyor arika (www.arika.org.uk), she likes the random people film work brings into her life. And jam doughnuts. Mmmmm doughnuts.

Executive Producers

Joe Allenza

Jack Blundell

Felipe Bustos Sierra

Natalia Bustos Sierra

Cameron Hall

Jo Marshall

Marilyn Nicholl

1st Assistant Director/Production Consultant

Stephen Wilson went to film school and graduated with plans to travel to America and make it big in Hollywood.  He got sidetracked on the way by a bunch of juggling weirdos and went off to work in the circus for a while.  Dragging himself away from hippie squalor, he combined his interests and produced two bestselling fire spinning DVDs and now specialises in winning viral video contests.

Production Manager/Costumes

Emma Brierley (emma-brierley.weebly.com)is a lass who dons many hats, both metaphorically and literally. Happiest when clowning with a bunch of carnies, she’s a puppeteer, costumier, milliner, theatre designer, producer, performer and a cyclist.  She exhausts herself by cutting stencils, painting, drilling, hammering and stitching for months on end without taking a moment to breathe - then cries her heart out to soppy movies like “My Girl” - and all is right with the world once more.  Did we mention that she loves her bike?

Co-Editor

Cameron Hall

2nd Unit Cinematography

Sofia Sequeiros

Production Assistants

Harriet Warman

Matthew “The Rock” Jebb

Mike Turner

Reem Behzad

Thomas Harper

Emily Nicholl

Still Photographer

Graham Clark has over twenty-five years of experience in portraits, still life, events and creative photography.  He’s a space cowboy, a gangster of love and when the light is right, his head becomes the most beautiful thing in the world.

Voice Coach

Woodstock Taylor

People We Couldn’t Live Without

Siân Bevan is a writer and performer based in Edinburgh. She’s performed stand-up comedy since 2004, including two Edinburgh Fringe shows, and launched on the cabaret circuit in 2008 in character as Mme Myfanwy. She writes stuff for magazines. Not dirty magazines, although she did try that once, which led to an incredibly embarrassing series of events. Never again. Unless the money was right.

Lizzy Treacy is a mother, a community development worker and has no time for this, Felipe.  Leave me alone.  Fine, I’ll help.

Rachel Yerbury-Wilson

Emma Browne