Palestine<\/a>, protest and experiences of occupation and state violence.\n<\/p>\n\n \u201cDuring that period, we began speaking with the Bloody \u00adSunday Trust and the families, and it \u00adbecame clear how important it was to \u00addocument not only Bloody Sunday itself, but the decades-long fight for truth and justice that followed.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhat struck us most was how \u00adpersonal and intergenerational the story still is. These are not events frozen in history for the families and survivors; they continue to shape \u00adeveryday life more than 50 years later.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt also felt like an important \u00admoment to revisit Bloody Sunday because many of the wider themes within the story \u2013 protest rights, state power, civil liberties and the suppression of dissent \u2013 continue to resonate strongly in Britain today.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe wanted the film to honour the families\u2019 voices while also reminding audiences that these histories still speak very directly to the present.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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New documentary about Bloody Sunday and the fight for justice\n<\/p>\n
\n I asked: This is the third film you\u2019ve completed in 12 months. Your remarkable \u00addocumentary about Palestine Action: To Kill A War \u00adMachine has been pulled from \u00adpublic view after the organisation was \u00adproscribed. How have you navigated all this?\n<\/p>\n
\n Majid said: \u201cTo Kill A War \u00adMachine had already been \u00adcompleted and BBFC certified when the \u00adproscription was announced. We \u00adsuddenly found ourselves in a \u00adsituation where nationwide preview screenings had to be cancelled.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cRealising we had a very small \u00adwindow before the ban came into \u00adeffect, we instead made the decision to release the documentary online \u00addirectly to the public, and \u00adencouraged people to organise their own \u00adcommunity screenings.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe told audiences that if they \u00adpurchased a copy of the film, they had our permission to screen it publicly.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOver the following 10 days, more than 150 screenings took place across the country, ranging from \u00adcommunity halls and independent venues to \u00adcinemas like the Watershed in \u00adBristol, which screened the \u00addocumentary three times in one night due to \u00adaudience demand.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis is actually the first time we\u2019ve spoken publicly about that period, and we really want to acknowledge and thank everyone who organised screenings, shared the documentary, and helped keep the film alive during that moment.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe response from communities across the country was genuinely overwhelming and reminded us how important collective spaces for political discussion and solidarity still are.\n<\/p>\n
\n So they quickly pivoted to making another film?\n<\/p>\n
\n Majid replied: \u201cWhat was striking about that moment was how quickly \u00adquestions around protest, \u00adcensorship and civil liberties stopped \u00adbeing \u00adabstract political discussions and \u00adbecame something we were \u00addirectly experiencing ourselves as \u00adfilmmakers.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAt the same time, many of the \u00adactivists we had documented were being \u00adarrested, imprisoned or facing increasingly serious legal \u00adconsequences.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cRather than step away from that moment, we felt a responsibility to continue documenting what was \u00adunfolding, which ultimately became Sign Of The Times.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe film explores the growing criminalisation of protest in Britain today, but also the emotional and \u00adhuman impact this has on ordinary people who feel compelled to act.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFor us, these films are ultimately about people responding to \u00adinjustice and what happens when states \u00adattempt to suppress dissent, whether historically or in the present day.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhat connects all three films for us is the question of how ordinary people respond when institutions and systems fail them.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhether it is the families of Bloody Sunday fighting for truth and justice over decades, or contemporary activists responding to the genocide in Gaza<\/a> and increasing restrictions on protest rights today, there is a common thread of people refusing to remain silent in the face of injustice.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n The Scottish premiere of The Day Innocence Died screens at the Glasgow Film Theatre on Sunday, organised by Inclinations Film Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SO remembers John McKinney, more than 50 years after the events following Bloody Sunday, in the new documentary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}