Synopsis:
Unquiet Graves: The story of the Glenanne Gang details how members of the RUC and UDR, (a British Army regiment) were centrally involved in the murder of over 120 innocent civilians during the recent conflict in Ireland. It will detail how members worked hand in hand with known sectarian murderers in the targeted assassinations of farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and other civilians in a campaign aimed at terrorising the most vulnerable in society. Now known as the Glenanne Gang, the group of killers rampaged through Counties Tyrone and Armagh and across into the Irish Republic in a campaign that lasted from July 1972 to the end of 1978.
Biography:
Director, Seán Murray is an award winning filmmaker from Belfast. His recent film, Fractured City won a Royal Television Society Award at the BFI in London’s South Bank.
He is also director of Relapse Pictures; a Belfast based Production Company specialising in a range of work, including Documentary & Film.
He has directed a number of testimony-based documentaries dealing with legacy issues pertaining to the recent conflict in the North of Ireland and his recent film Ballymurphy was screened at a number of international festivals.
He is also a member of Queen’s University of Belfast’s ‘Centre for Documentary Research’ where he is currently a final year PhD candidate in Film Studies.
Narrator:
Stephen Rea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Belfast High School and the Queen’s University, where he studied English.
He
later trained at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin. In 1970s, he acted in the
Focus Company in Dublin with the talented Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney After
several stage, television and film appearances, he came to international success
with his performance in The Crying Game (1992).
He was nominated an Oscar for Best Actor.
Crew:
Director & Producer – Seán Murray
Director of Photography – Kevin Treacy
Executive Producer – Callum Macrae
Film Editor – John Phillipson
Narration – Stephen Rea
Original Music – Declan Gallen
Animation – Peter Strain
Graphics – Oisín O’Brien
Colourist – Eoghan McKenna
Sound Design & Mix – Liam Yelen
Camera Operator – Carl Quinn
Website: www.unquietgraves.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/glenannefilm
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unquietgravesfilm/
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/269266157