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07/01/2002
Bloody Sunday movie unveiled at private screening
Relatives of the victims of the Bloody Sunday shootings have watched a private showing of a new film dramatising the events in Northern Ireland 30 years ago.
Over 1,000 people including city leaders, actors and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness, the self-confessed second in command of the IRA on 30 January 1972, attended the screening of the £3 million movie ‘Bloody Sunday’ on Sunday January 6.
Ulster born ‘Cold Feet’ actor James Nesbitt also attended the event screened in Derry’s Millennium Forum. Mr Nesbitt plays Ivan Cooper – a central character in the movie who was a Protestant man involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s.
The Lottery funded movie covers the 24 hours around the tragic events of Bloody Sunday which left 13 civilians dead when British Paratroopers opened fire during a civil rights march on January 30 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry.
‘Bloody Sunday’ was written and directed by Paul Greengrass, who made the Bafta-award winning drama ‘The Murder of Stephen Lawrence”. Speaking after the screening Education Minister Martin McGuinness praised the director for tackling such a traumatic event. He said: “I think the fact that English people are prepared to tackle a subject that is of such great embarrassment to the British Government is to their eternal credit and I think helps the peace process.”
The film will be premiered at Robert Redford’s prestigious Sundance Festival in Utah on January 15. (AMcE)
Over 1,000 people including city leaders, actors and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness, the self-confessed second in command of the IRA on 30 January 1972, attended the screening of the £3 million movie ‘Bloody Sunday’ on Sunday January 6.
Ulster born ‘Cold Feet’ actor James Nesbitt also attended the event screened in Derry’s Millennium Forum. Mr Nesbitt plays Ivan Cooper – a central character in the movie who was a Protestant man involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s.
The Lottery funded movie covers the 24 hours around the tragic events of Bloody Sunday which left 13 civilians dead when British Paratroopers opened fire during a civil rights march on January 30 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry.
‘Bloody Sunday’ was written and directed by Paul Greengrass, who made the Bafta-award winning drama ‘The Murder of Stephen Lawrence”. Speaking after the screening Education Minister Martin McGuinness praised the director for tackling such a traumatic event. He said: “I think the fact that English people are prepared to tackle a subject that is of such great embarrassment to the British Government is to their eternal credit and I think helps the peace process.”
The film will be premiered at Robert Redford’s prestigious Sundance Festival in Utah on January 15. (AMcE)
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