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On June 22 1985, Air India 182 left Montreal, bound for Delhi via London Heathrow. It never made it. Four hours after take-off and 200 miles off the Irish coast, a bomb ripped through the baggage compartment and the plane disintegrated at 30,000 feet, killing all 329 people on board. It was the most deadly act of air terrorism in history before 9/11 and the majority of the victims were Canadians. The bombing was the result of a Vancouver-based conspiracy whose members were under investigation by CSIS in the months leading up to the explosion.
Air India 182 is a first-person account of the conspiracy as told by those who were directly involved, including families who lost loved ones on Flight 182, key CSIS and RCMP investigators and the conspirators themselves (through wiretaps and a taped interrogation.) Intimate, direct-to-camera testimony is interwoven with reconstructions of key moments in the conspiracy, based entirely on court documents, de-classified CSIS reports and wiretaps. The film counts down the final weeks and hours before Air India 182 disappeared off Irish radar screens and Canada sleepwalked into the era of international terrorism. Air India 182 was shot in Vancouver and Duncan, British Columbia, Toronto, London and Cork.
Producers David York,Sturla Gunnarsson
Photography Kirk Tougas, Tony Westman
Script Sturla Gunnarsson
Editor Nick Hector
Music Jonathan Goldsmith
Print Source lisa@serialdigitalpost.com
Website www.airindia182.com
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| Sunday 12th | 11.00am | Triskel Arts |
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A film of intertwined tales, this documentary discreetly discovers the intimate stories of the simple customers of a 'bar de zi' (‘day bar’) in the city of Sibiu, Romania, which happens to be the last State-owned bar to have survived the Communist regime.
Through the revelation of unexpected, strange, sometimes tragic life stories, these ordinary people prove to be real, strong, and profoundly human characters: Mortura is an adventurer, still dreaming of crossing America as Western movie heroes did and living alone at the age of 44, after a life full of love affairs. Rodica was the first woman in Sibiu to drive a 30-stone truck; the Colonel, when drunk, fell over a banister from the fourth floor and landed on his head -not once, but twice, and in the same place. He’s still alive today and dreaming of going to Germany for a better life.
We also meet Dumitru, Elena, Constantin, Toader, Andrei, Ana and Vasile, each with their own varied and wonderful tales to tell in this fascinating portrait of a wholly unique entity.
Producers Dan Nutu
Photography Dragan S. Nikoli
Script Corina Radu
Editor Corina Radu
Print Source corinaradu7@yahoo.com
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| Sunday 12th | 11.00am | Triskel Arts |
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The town of Tully in tropical north Queensland was once famous for simply being the wettest town in Australia. Now it has another distinction: home of the world’s largest Wellington boot.
Tully was a very prosperous town until its prominence in the sugar industry was lost to Brazil. The townsfolk called a meeting and decided to build a large-scale tourist attraction to save the town from financial ruin. The head of the local Rotary Club brings in an ‘outsider’ to build the attraction – a massive fibreglass sculpture of a rubber Wellington boot, but local artist Roger Chadler is unhappy at being overlooked for the job.
To appease his concerns, Roger is commissioned himself to carve a tree frog – his own particular artistic speciality – to hang off the boot. As time goes on, the budgets and timescales become secondary to the endless delays due to rain, and flaring tempers amongst the townsfolk. However, the question remains: will the boot actually save the town from financial disaster? Only time will tell…
Producers Camille Hardman
Photography Camille Hardma
Script John Fink
Editors Peter Barton, Jane St Vincent
Print Source john@barkingcat.tv
Website www.bigdreamers.info
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