LYRA

by Alison Millar

SYNOPSIS

Born into the “ceasefire baby” generation of Northern Ireland, Lyra McKee was a dedicated journalist and queer activist. She was gunned down while covering a riot in Derry at the age of 29. The film is an intimate examination of “post-conflict” Northern Ireland twenty-five years after the Good Friday Agreements.

DETAILS

91 mins

2022

Ireland, UK

English

TRAILER

CREDITS

Written and Directed by Alison Millar

Produced by Alison Millar, Jackie Doyle

Edited by Chloe Lambourne

Cinematographer: Mark McCauley

Composer: David Holmes

Executive Producers: Siobhan Sinnerton, Edward Watts, Andrew Eaton, Greg Darby

Executive Producers: Hillary and Chelsea Clinton

Production Company: Erica Starling Productions Ltd.

In Co-Production with Channel 4

With Northern Ireland Screen, TG4

BIOGRAPHY

DIRECTOR - ALISON MILLAR

Alison Millar is one of the U.K. and Ireland's most respected documentary filmmakers. She is a BAFTA, IFTA and Prix Italia winner as well as winning both the UK and Northern Ireland Royal Television Society award in 2016 for Channel 4's Dispatches documentary "Kids In Crisis." She is a critically acclaimed filmmaker with a reputation for making emotionally compelling films. In 2010, Alison founded Erica Starling Productions Ltd, an independent documentary production company in Belfast.

SELECT FESTIVALS

CORK IFF - AUDIENCE AWARD〡SHEFFIELD DOCFEST - TIM HETHERINGTON AWARD〡GIFFONI - GEX DOC BEST FILM AWARD〡SOLIDARITY FILM FEST - BEST INT'L DOCUMENTARY AWARD〡SANTA BARBARA IFF〡MILLENNIUM DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY 2023

PRESS

★★★★★
"A vivid and heartfelt portrait of a remarkable young woman"
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"Excellent... Millar is to be praised for organising her material in a taut montage that adroitly balances the public with the private."
- Donald Clarke, The Irish Times