Like any story, this one has an inciting moment: meeting a drunk boxer on Botanic Avenue, near Queens University. However, this story took five years in the telling, as it turned into a 48 minute 16mm film drama, much of which was filmed in a car driving through Troubles-era Belfast.

Each night involved being checked by the security forces and at one point the camera was on a car bonnet mount with director, Brian Drysdale, strapped to a roof rack. This got the security forces thinking that the camera was a rocket launcher and he was going to fire it.

This screening will provide an early opportunity to see a new restoration of the film, and hear the original, work-in-progress soundtrack and audio mix by Score Draw Music. Director, Brian Drysdale will introduce the film. 

Supported by Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive.

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