| Second Sight | |
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| Directed by | Alison McAlpine |
| Produced by | Alison McAlpine |
| Cinematography | Alison McAlpine John Walker Kim Derko |
| Edited by | Alison McAlpine |
| Music by | John Gzowski |
Production company | Second Sight Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 51 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English Scottish Gaelic |
Second Sight is a Canadian film directed by Alison McAlpine and released in 2008. It is a nonfiction ghost story.
The movie is a mystery tale filmed on the Isle of Skye, featuring Donald Angus MacLean and the last generation of a Scottish Gaelic oral tradition. Second Sight was presented at more than 35 international film festivals, [1] winning the Special Jury Mention at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival. [2] , [3] The BBC also commissioned the author, filmmaker Alison McAlpine, to make two versions of Second Sight: An Da Shealladh for BBC Alba (2005) [4] and Ghostman of Skye (2009) for the series Wonderland on BBC2. [5]
SFGATE.com summarizes the film thusly: "For residents of the remote Isle of Skye, seeing dead people isn't all that extraordinary. At least that's the implication of this delightful documentary by Canadian Alison McAlpine, who says she was inspired by images of Scotland from her childhood and hearing stories from her great-grandmother." [6] The review of the publication Caught by the River also says that the film is "full of incredible landscape photography and real warmth of heart, featuring, as it does tales from the last Gaellic storytellers on the Isle of Skye". [7]
