The Ballymurphy Massacre
The Ballymurphy Massacre
Awarded 'Best Student Documentary' by the Royal Television Society 2012.
(21 mins)
The first ever film on the Ballymurphy Massacre. Subsequently a Channel Channel 4 (UK) feature was produced making national headlines.
In 2012 Sean Reynolds, Kyle Gibbon and myself made a documentary called The Ballymurphy Massacre which went on to win a Royal Television Society Award . Channel 4 would go on to screen another film a few years ago called Massacre at Ballymurphy but our film was the first on the subject and now after almost 50 years since the event, an inquest has found ten people killed in west Belfast almost 50 years ago in the wake of an Army operation were "entirely innocent". This was the lead story on BBC News.
Ballymurphy Inquest: Coroner finds 10 victims were innocent
Ten people killed in west Belfast almost 50 years ago in the wake of an Army operation were "entirely innocent", an inquest has found.
Royal Television Society Award Winning film. The Ballymurphy Massacre
Between the 9th and 11th of August 1971 eleven people were killed by the British Army's Parachute regiment. All eleven were unarmed civilians. One of the dead was a parish priest another was a mother of eight. The Royal Military Police were assigned as sole investigators. Not one member of the British army was held to account. It is believed that had justice been administered and those held to account charged, the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry would not have happened.. These events have remained hidden from public knowledge and focus for over 40 years, until now!
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A film by Sean Reynolds, Kyle Gibbon and Jonny Lewis
News on the Ballymurphy Massacre was recently featured on www.theguardian.com
Royal Television Society Award Winning Documentary 2012
FFresh Best Documentary 2013
NAHEMI Best in Festival 2013
Bristol Radical Film Festival, Official Selection 2013
British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin. Official Selection 2013