Voices From Northern Ireland and 7 Day Wonder
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago Filmmakers
Northern Ireland is a name that conjures a very specific set of images: burning cars, soldiers in the street, bombed out buildings and neighbor fighting neighbor.
11/30/1995 - 11/30/1995
To see Northern Ireland for oneself, however, is a different experience, as the award winning documentary team of Ron Boyd and Michael Niederman found when they traveled there to produce Voices From Northern Ireland (video, 1989, 30 min), a street level view of what is going on in the hears and minds of both Catholics and Protestants. Their new documentary Seven Day Wonder (video, 1995, 60 min) is based on a return visit to Northern Ireland, seven years after the completion of the original videotape. It traces what happened to the lives of those portrayed and to the ghettos of Belfast and Londonderry during the interviewing years.