Award-winning director Callum Macrae’s new feature documentary “The Ballymurphy Precedent” tells the story of death of 11 innocent people killed by the British Army on a Catholic estate of Belfast in 1971 and the fight by their relatives and survivors to discover the truth. The British army continues to cover it up because it cannot afford to admit the truth. The killings happened between August 9 and 11, 1971, during Operation Demetrius. The shootings have also been called Belfast Bloody Sunday, a reference to another massacre of civilians by the same battalion a few months later.“This is a massacre that few have heard of, yet it was one of the most significant events of the Troubles, coming as it did in the first days of internment and six months before Bloody Sunday. Macrae’s film is s skilful mixture of investigative journalism, documentary storytelling and a reflection on contemporary history,” writes the Curzon website.Callum Macrae is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and journalist currently with Outsider Television, which he had co-founded with Alex Sutherland in 1993. “For six years he was an on-screen reporter on Channel 4 Dispatches before becoming a director. Films he reported included the award-winning documentary “Secrets of the Gaul,” which first revealed the whereabouts of the missing trawler Gaul lost with 38 men on board amid accusations that it had been used for spying. His films include three major investigations into allegations of coalition crimes in Iraq,” writes Frontline Club website. Macrae made many films for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Al Jazeera English and PBS. His first television documentary on Sri Lanka: “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields,” won the Current Affairs – International category of the Royal Television Society’s Television Journalism Awards 2010-11, won two One World Media Awards and earned a BAFTA TV Award nomination. His last feature documentary, “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka” has won several awards, including The Audience Awards at the Nuremberg Film Festival and Watch Docs in Poland. The documentary covers the period from September 2008 until the end of the war in 2009. He and his team were also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.Director Callum Macrae will be in conversation with Jon Snow (Channel 4 News) on August 30, 2018, at 6.15 pm.The film opens on August 30, 2018, at Curzon, Soho, London. 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY.For details, visit: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/soho/infoClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the film. www.blouinartinfo.comFounder: Louise Blouin
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