Rank (film)

Producer Andrew O'Connell said "We first went to the London Production Fund who gave us the full grant of £15,000. Then we approached Scottish Screen but as we were not a Scots production company they could only give us £5,000. We got Scottish co-producers, re-applied and got £25,000. We also got a lot of deals on post production and post production finance from The First Film Foundation – who are backed by UGC and Universal".^[2]

In an interview with Film London, director David Yates stated that he "wanted to use non actors to tell the story, to create a reality. It was also a big break for our writer, Robbie – because it was essentially his first film and for all the kids we cast in Glasgow who had never done a film before." He went on to say that he had "just finished a period drama called The Way We Live Now, which had taken me a year, and which was a very big production ... but fairly formal in many ways as a piece of work ... this [Rank] was an opportunity to just shake all of that off and get back to my roots."^[3]

Rank tells the story of a street gang that cross Glasgow to witness the arrival of a group of Somali refugees. The themes of racism, friendship and adolescence are reflected throughout the film.^[2]

• Brian Dunn as Twist
• Christopher Gorman as Gerrad
• Ian Jarvie as Noel
• William McLachlan as Spartacus
• Rudi Neequaye as Aziz
• Stephen Ross as Frankie
• Owen Gorman as Janitor
• Steven Leach as Council Official (as Stephen Leach)
• Shouakat Hussain as Shop Owner

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