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UNQUIET GRAVES

Unquiet Graves Image Name: Unquiet Graves Description: Unquiet Graves RTÉ One Monday July 29th 21:35 Copyright: RTÉ. UNQUIET GRAVES | A FILM BY SEÁN MURRAY.
Unquiet Graves Image Name: Unquiet Graves Description: Unquiet Graves RTÉ One Monday July 29th 21:35 Copyright: RTÉ. UNQUIET GRAVES | A FILM BY SEÁN MURRAY.
Unquiet Graves Image Name: Unquiet Graves Description: Unquiet Graves RTÉ One Monday July 29th 21:35 Copyright: RTÉ. UNQUIET GRAVES | A FILM BY SEÁN MURRAY.
Unquiet Graves Image Name: Unquiet Graves Description: Unquiet Graves RTÉ One Monday July 29th 21:35 Copyright: RTÉ. UNQUIET GRAVES | A FILM BY SEÁN MURRAY.

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