“ My name is Jimmy
Murakami. Teruaki is the Japanese name I was born with. It was taken
from me in America after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.”
Director: Sé
Merry Doyle
Producers:
Vanessa Gildea & Martina Durac
Director of
Photography: Paddy Jordan
Editor: Nicky Dunne
Original Music: Ger
Kiely
Financiers:
The
Arts Council of Ireland – Reel Art Scheme
& Loopline Film
Duration: 90 Mins
SYNOPSIS:
Irish-based
animator Jimmy T. Murakami’s credits as director include ‘When
the Wind Blows’ and ‘The Snowman’. He
has received accolades (Oscar nominations and doctorates) across the
world but there is one dark chapter in his life that he has never
revealed until recently, during the making of this film.
When
Japan attacked Pearl Harbour during World War 2, Japanese-American
citizens like Jimmy (then eight years old) and his family were
evacuated to a concentration camp called Tule Lake in the California
desert, built specifically for this purpose. On the farcical basis
that they were a threat to national security, Jimmy and his family,
along with many thousands of other internees, were imprisoned for
four years in the camp where they suffered many deprivations and
where his young sister Sumiko died of leukemia.
Jimmy, now in early retirement,
decided to excavate this period of his life by creating a series of
stunning paintings that illuminate his recollection of the evacuation
of his family and life in a concentration camp as a young child.
Leaving Home
Our film unfolds as Jimmy starts to
paint these memories of his childhood and takes us through his
decision to undertake one of the most difficult journeys of his life
– a return to Tule Lake Camp.
Coming back from Shower
This documentary takes you on a
powerful journey with Jimmy, from his adopted country, Ireland where
he has lived for nearly 40 years, through his Hollywood career and
all the awards he has received, culminating in his return to Tule
Lake to confront his childhood and his ever-present anger with the
American government that put him there.
Mother
and Children
Freedom
Train
This painting by Jimmy depicts the day
his family left camp to return to the world outside. The Murakamis
were one of the last familes to leave Tule Lake camp.
Murakami
family living quarters inside camp, Jimmy is pictured sitting on the
bed in his father’s old shirt.
IMAGES FROM TULE LAKE CONCENTRATION
CAMP – CALIFORNIA:
A Japanese American family prepare for
evacuation to camp.
TULE LAKE CAMP BARRACKS BY DAY
TULE LAKE CAMP BY NIGHT:
About Jimmy Murakami
It
may seem surprising that a Japanese-American is one of the great
European animators of recent times. But with a track record in Europe
stretching back the best part of three decades, Jimmy Murakami is
very much a part of the European scene. Born in California, he has
spent much of his life based in Dublin. After being released from the
concentration camp Jimmy embarked on a course in Chouinard Art
Institute, Los Angeles; he joined the UPA Burbank Studio in 1956. The
following year he moved to New York to join the Pintoff Studio, where
one of his films was the Oscar-nominated The
Violinist .
In 1960 he
moved to London and worked for four years as a producer and director
with TV Cartoons. His films with the studio included the
BAFTA-winning The Insects
and Charlie
(which won a Gold Award at
the Venice Film Festival). In 1965 Jimmy returned to California to
establish Murakami Wolf Films, producing and directing theatrical
shorts, documentary film, television specials and commercials. Among
the projects that he directed and animated at this time were The
Breath (Annecy
Grand Prix), The
Magic Pear Tree (an
Oscar nomination), And of
Course You , Golden
Eagle Award winner and The
Good Friend .
In 1971 he
set up Murakami Films in Dublin, producing both live and animated TV
commercials. In 1980 in Los Angeles, he directed a live action
feature film Battle
Beyond the Stars – a
space version of The Seven Samurai-for cult producer Roger Corman.
In
1987 he directed When
The Wind Blows ,
winner of the Feature Film Grand Prix in Annecy and chosen 63 rd
out of 100 of best war films of all times by ITN and the British film
critics.
Jimmy
has directed a series of 13 half-hour programmes of The
Story Keepers for
Shepherd Films, Dublin ITV and Fox Network and 26 half hours of
Inspector Mouse ,
produced by Alegro Animation in Dublin and PMMP in Paris. Christmas
1998 saw the screening of, Oi
Get off Our Train . Made
by Varga/TVC in London, this was a 28-minute television special for
the BBC, Miramax and ZDF, directed by Jimmy.
Jimmy
Murakami also directed a feature film version of Charles Dickens’
A
Christmas Carol, produced
by London based Illuminated Film Company .
In
April
2006, he received The Golden Award in California for 50 years service
to animation. The summer of that same year, Jimmy was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate Degree from The University of Dundee, in Scotland
for his lifetime contribution and achievement in the animation
industry.
Since
2007 Jimmy has exhibited his paintings at the Gate Gallery in
Kenmare, The Tramyard Gallery in Dalkey, and Cherrywood in Wicklow,
the Warren Gallery in Castletownshend and the Kilternan Gallery,
Kilternan.
Jimmy’s
camp paintings were exhibited in Belfast & Dublin in 2009. These
recent exhibitions of oils and watercolours have been Jimmy’s first
major exhibition since Tokyo in 1958.
Most
recently, Jimmy embarked on a very personal trip into the past, when
he became involved in the making of this documentary with the
director, Sé Merry Doyle. It was a major undertaking that involved
going back to the scene of some of his most difficult memories, the
concentration camp in Northern California where he spent four years
of his childhood.
DIRECTOR SÉ
MERRY DOYLE
Sé
Merry Doyle
established the credentials of Loopline Film as a force in
documentary production when his first major work, a film on Ireland’s
most famous architect James
Gandon
- A Life ,
became a critical success.
He
started
his career in the theatre working alongside Liam Neeson, Gabriel
Byrne, and Jim Sheridan. Like his contemporaries, his destination
would be the world of film. Sé followed Gandon
with his most personal film to date, Alive
Alive O – A Requiem for Dublin, that
follows the plight of Dublin’s street traders as the scourge of
heroin and an onslaught of commercialism destroy their fragile
culture.
He
directed Patrick
Scott – Golden Boy,
a portrait of one of Ireland’s most famous living artists. It
received screenings at various film festival and was broadcast on
RTE. Golden
Boy
was published on DVD.
Sé’s
film, Patrick
Kavanagh – No Man’s Fool
was a celebration made to commemorate the poet’s centenary. The
film was financed by RTE and the Irish Film Board and won the Best
Documentary Award at the 2005 Boston Film Festival.
His
film is on the Irish sculptor John
Henry Foley
was premiered on TG4 and he is currently in production on a
documentary based on John Ford’s The
Quiet Man
and in post-production with a documentary on Kathleen
Lynn .
Sé, alongside colleague Martina Durac
, has co – coordinated several Creative Documentary Workshops for
aspiring directors on behalf of Screen Training Ireland.
PRODUCER MARTINA
DURAC
Martina has
worked with Loopline Film since the mid 1990s and has been
responsible for developing much of its arts-based programming. She is
the director and series producer of Muintir
na Mara (People of the
Sea), which just recently aired with its fourth series. She produced
Foley–Ghost of the Empire
for TG4 and BCI.
She was the
series producer/director of Soiscéal
Pháraic (The Gospel
According to Páraic), a weekly arts/cultural affairs programme that
ran for five years on TG4. She is soon to direct a documentary on the
writer, Hugo Hamilton .
Martina was
the series producer of Imprint ,
a weekly books programme that was commissioned by RTE and she was the
producer/director of its sister show, Writers
in Profile .
With Loopline, she is in post production with The
Secret Diaries of Kathleen Lynn .
She is the producer of The
Quiet Man – A Millstone or a Milestone ,
a feature doc shot in Ireland and the U.S.
Martina taught film and video
production at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
for a number of years and currently designs and runs documentary
courses at Filmbase in Dublin, Ireland. She has designed and run
Feature Documentary Workshops for Screen Training Ireland since 2001
and has brought to Ireland many of the leading film makers of the
documentary world.
Martina holds a law degree (hons) from
U.C.D. and qualified as a barrister-at-law from King’s Inns,
Dublin. She holds a a BDes (hons) from Dun Laoghaire Institute of
Art, Design and Technology. She served for two years on the Executive
Board of the European Documentary Network and is now a member of the
Advisory Panel for the magazine DOX.
PRODUCER: VANESSA GILDEA
Vanessa
studied film as part of a
Liberal Arts Degree at the University of Limerick. Subsequently she
worked in film training for nine years, mostly for Filmbase, Dublin
where she still tutors on the documentary foundation course, she has
also lectured on the film courses in Griffith College Dublin,
Colaiste Dhulaigh and the University of Limerick.
She has experience in camera,
producing and directing and has directed short documentaries for
Amnesty International Ireland and award-winning Dublin based
production company Venom Films. She has written for film publications
Film West and Film Ireland magazines.
In 2006 she
wrote and directed the Film Board funded short film The
White Dress which to date
has won five awards and a nomination for an IFTA, and has been
purchased / screened by RTÉ, Swiss, French and Italian Television.
In 2008 she produced a feature-length music documentary shot in Mali,
West Africa called Dambé –
The Mali Project, which was
nominated for an IFTA 2009 in the Best Feature Documentary category.
She
currently works for Loopline Film on a variety of projects in
different stages of development and production including The
Secret Diaries of Kathleen Lynn
for TG4 & BCI, The Quiet
Man – A Millstone or a Milestone
for IFB, TG4 & BCI, The
Dying of Patrick Ireland for Irish Film Board
and Jimmy Murakami – Non
Alien for the Arts
Council’s Reel Art scheme. Vanessa is also in development with a
new feature documentary, as director, set in Africa and currently
funded by the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund. Her favourite
documentary is Salesman .
COMPOSER GER KIELY
Ger
Kiely is a guitarist and producer/composer. Ger has been a member of
some of Ireland’s great bands from the 1980s music boom, including
Blue
in Heaven
(Island Records) and Swim
(MCA
Records).
As
a session musician he has recorded with acts such as The Chieftains,
Clannad, The Fleadh Cowboys, Iarla O’Lionaird and Mary Coughlan.
Among the successes Ger has had as a music producer are Juliet
Turner’s triple platinum-selling album Burn
the Black Suit
and award-winning Irish feature film Small
Engine Repair.
As
a composer he has worked with Loopline Film on documentaries such as
Alive
Alive O
– A
Requeim for Dublin ,
Patrick
Kavanagh – No Man’s Fool
and the current popular TG4 series Muintir
na Mara.
MURAKAMI FAMILY PHOTOS:
LEFT: Jimmy with his family before Camp
in happy times
RIGHT: Taken in camp, the last photo of his
sister Sumiko (centre) before she died
Jimmy
with sister Yuri and brother Junichi in California on the eve of his
journey back to Tule Lake camp
PRODUCTION
CREDITS:
A Loopline Film
Production
Made
Under the Arts Council of
Ireland’s
Reel Art Scheme
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
TO DATE:
OFFICIAL SELECTION DUBLIN
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEB 2010
RUNNER UP AUDIENCE PRIZE
OFFICIAL SELECTION STRANGER
THAN FICTION DOC FESTIVAL APR 2010
“ Sé Merry Doyle’s
wonderful new film follows this extraordinary journey with great
compassion and grace.”
Gráinne Humphries
Programmer
Dublin International Film Festiva l
“ It was also a strong
year for domestic documentaries. Jimmy Murakami, the veteran
Japanese-American animator, much of whose work was done in Ireland,
turned up for the premiere of Sé Merry Doyle’s very touching Jimmy
Murakami: Non Alien . During the second World War, the subject was
transported to a relocation camp for hostile aliens deep in the
Californian desert and, in recent years, has addressed the subject in
a series of delightful paintings. The film deals touchingly with his
long-delayed return to the site of the camp. Non Alien proved to be a
fitting tribute to a stalwart of his industry.”
Press Pack
A Documentary Film about
acclaimed filmmaker Jimmy T. Murakami and his emotional return to
Tule Lake concentration camp in America.
Directed by Sé Merry
Doyle
RUNNER-UP AUDIENCE
AWARD
DUBLIN
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010
PRESS PACK
For
further information please contact:
Loopline
Film, 9 Lad Lane,
Dublin
2
Ireland
Email: vanessa@loopline.com
Office: +353 1 661 9696
www.loopline.com
Self Portrait Jimmy T. Murakami
CONTENTS
INTRO ………….. ….……
……………………………………………………………………………………..
Page 1
Summary & Crew…………..
….…… …………………………………………… Page
3
Synopsis ………….. ….……
…………………………………………………… Pages
4 & 5
Paintings &
Images……………………………………………………………….
Pages 6 – 8
About
JImmy…..………………..……………….…………………………………
Page 9 & 10
Director, Producers & Crew
Biogs…………….………………………………… Pages
11-13
Murakami Family Photos – Now &
Then………………………………………… Page 14
Production
Credits…..………………..……………………………………………..Page
15
Festival Screenings &
Awards…………………………………………………….
Page 15
Press Quotes &
Articles………………………………………………………Page
16 onwards
JIMMY MURAKAMI
NON – ALIEN
A documentary by Sé
Merry Doyle
“ My name is Jimmy
Murakami. Teruaki is the Japanese name I was born with. It was taken
from me in America after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.”
Director: Sé
Merry Doyle
Producers:
Vanessa Gildea & Martina Durac
Director of
Photography: Paddy Jordan
Editor: Nicky Dunne
Original Music: Ger
Kiely
Financiers:
The
Arts Council of Ireland – Reel Art Scheme
& Loopline Film
Duration: 90 Mins
SYNOPSIS:
Irish-based
e
animator Jimmy T. Murakami’s credits as director include ‘When
the Wind Blows’ and ‘The Snowman’. H
has received accolades (Oscar nominations and doctorates) across the
world but there is one dark chapter in his life that he has never
revealed until recently, during the making of this film.
W
hen
Japan attacked Pearl Harbour during World War 2, Japanese-American
citizens like Jimmy (then eight years old) and his family were
evacuated to a concentration camp called Tule Lake in the California
desert, built specifically for this purpose. On the farcical basis
that they were a threat to national security, Jimmy and his family,
along with many thousands of other internees, were imprisoned for
four years in the camp where they suffered many deprivations and
where his young sister Sumiko died of leukemia.
Jimmy, now in early retirement,
decided to excavate this period of his life by creating a series of
stunning paintings that illuminate his recollection of the evacuation
of his family and life in a concentration camp as a young child.
Leaving Home
Our film unfolds as Jimmy starts to
paint these memories of his childhood and takes us through his
decision to undertake one of the most difficult journeys of his life
– a return to Tule Lake Camp.
Coming back from Shower
This documentary takes you on a
powerful journey with Jimmy, from his adopted country, Ireland where
he has lived for nearly 40 years, through his Hollywood career and
all the awards he has received, culminating in his return to Tule
Lake to confront his childhood and his ever-present anger with the
American government that put him there.
Mother
and Children
Freedom
Train
This painting by Jimmy depicts the day
his family left camp to return to the world outside. The Murakamis
were one of the last familes to leave Tule Lake camp.
family living quarters inside camp, Jimmy is pictured sitting on the
bed in his father’s old shirt.
IMAGES FROM TULE LAKE CONCENTRATION
CAMP – CALIFORNIA:
A Japanese American family prepare for
evacuation to camp.
TULE LAKE CAMP BARRACKS BY DAY
TULE LAKE CAMP BY NIGHT:
About Jimmy Murakami
I
t
may seem surprising that a Japanese-American is one of the great
European animators of recent times. But with a track record in Europe
stretching back the best part of three decades, Jimmy Murakami is
very much a part of the European scene. Born in California, he has
spent much of his life based in Dublin. After being released from the
concentration camp Jimmy embarked on a course in Chouinard Art
Institute, Los Angeles; he joined the UPA Burbank Studio in 1956. The
following year he moved to New York to join the Pintoff Studio, where
one of his films was the Oscar-nominated The
Violinist .
In 1960 he
moved to London and worked for four years as a producer and director
with TV Cartoons. His films with the studio included the
BAFTA-winning The Insects
and Charlie
(which won a Gold Award at
the Venice Film Festival). In 1965 Jimmy returned to California to
establish Murakami Wolf Films, producing and directing theatrical
shorts, documentary film, television specials and commercials. Among
the projects that he directed and animated at this time were The
Breath (Annecy
Grand Prix), The
Magic Pear Tree (an
Oscar nomination), And of
Course You , Golden
Eagle Award winner and The
Good Friend .
In 1971 he
set up Murakami Films in Dublin, producing both live and animated TV
commercials. In 1980 in Los Angeles, he directed a live action
feature film Battle
Beyond the Stars – a
space version of The Seven Samurai-for cult producer Roger Corman.
In
1987 he directed When
The Wind Blows ,
winner of the Feature Film Grand Prix in Annecy and chosen 63 rd
out of 100 of best war films of all times by ITN and the British film
critics.
J
immy
has directed a series of 13 half-hour programmes of The
Story Keepers for
Shepherd Films, Dublin ITV and Fox Network and 26 half hours of
Inspector Mouse ,
produced by Alegro Animation in Dublin and PMMP in Paris. Christmas
1998 saw the screening of, Oi
Get off Our Train . Made
by Varga/TVC in London, this was a 28-minute television special for
the BBC, Miramax and ZDF, directed by Jimmy.
Jimmy
Murakami also directed a feature film version of Charles Dickens’
A
Christmas Carol, produced
by London based Illuminated Film Company .
In
April
2006, he received The Golden Award in California for 50 years service
to animation. The summer of that same year, Jimmy was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate Degree from The University of Dundee, in Scotland
for his lifetime contribution and achievement in the animation
industry.
Since
2007 Jimmy has exhibited his paintings at the Gate Gallery in
Kenmare, The Tramyard Gallery in Dalkey, and Cherrywood in Wicklow,
the Warren Gallery in Castletownshend and the Kilternan Gallery,
Kilternan.
Jimmy’s
camp paintings were exhibited in Belfast & Dublin in 2009. These
recent exhibitions of oils and watercolours have been Jimmy’s first
major exhibition since Tokyo in 1958.
Most
recently, Jimmy embarked on a very personal trip into the past, when
he became involved in the making of this documentary with the
director, Sé Merry Doyle. It was a major undertaking that involved
going back to the scene of some of his most difficult memories, the
concentration camp in Northern California where he spent four years
of his childhood.
DIRECTOR SÉ
MERRY DOYLE
Sé
Merry Doyle
established the credentials of Loopline Film as a force in
documentary production when his first major work, a film on Ireland’s
most famous architect James
Gandon
- A Life ,
became a critical success.
He
started
his career in the theatre working alongside Liam Neeson, Gabriel
Byrne, and Jim Sheridan. Like his contemporaries, his destination
would be the world of film. Sé followed Gandon
with his most personal film to date, Alive
Alive O – A Requiem for Dublin, that
follows the plight of Dublin’s street traders as the scourge of
heroin and an onslaught of commercialism destroy their fragile
culture.
He
directed Patrick
Scott – Golden Boy,
a portrait of one of Ireland’s most famous living artists. It
received screenings at various film festival and was broadcast on
RTE. Golden
Boy
was published on DVD.
Sé’s
film, Patrick
Kavanagh – No Man’s Fool
was a celebration made to commemorate the poet’s centenary. The
film was financed by RTE and the Irish Film Board and won the Best
Documentary Award at the 2005 Boston Film Festival.
His
film is on the Irish sculptor John
Henry Foley
was premiered on TG4 and he is currently in production on a
documentary based on John Ford’s The
Quiet Man
and in post-production with a documentary on Kathleen
Lynn .
Sé, alongside colleague Martina Durac
, has co – coordinated several Creative Documentary Workshops for
aspiring directors on behalf of Screen Training Ireland.
PRODUCER MARTINA
DURAC
Martina has
worked with Loopline Film since the mid 1990s and has been
responsible for developing much of its arts-based programming. She is
the director and series producer of Muintir
na Mara (People of the
Sea), which just recently aired with its fourth series. She produced
Foley–Ghost of the Empire
for TG4 and BCI.
She was the
series producer/director of Soiscéal
Pháraic (The Gospel
According to Páraic), a weekly arts/cultural affairs programme that
ran for five years on TG4. She is soon to direct a documentary on the
writer, Hugo Hamilton .
Martina was
the series producer of Imprint ,
a weekly books programme that was commissioned by RTE and she was the
producer/director of its sister show, Writers
in Profile .
With Loopline, she is in post production with The
Secret Diaries of Kathleen Lynn .
She is the producer of The
Quiet Man – A Millstone or a Milestone ,
a feature doc shot in Ireland and the U.S.
Martina taught film and video
production at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
for a number of years and currently designs and runs documentary
courses at Filmbase in Dublin, Ireland. She has designed and run
Feature Documentary Workshops for Screen Training Ireland since 2001
and has brought to Ireland many of the leading film makers of the
documentary world.
Martina holds a law degree (hons) from
U.C.D. and qualified as a barrister-at-law from King’s Inns,
Dublin. She holds a a BDes (hons) from Dun Laoghaire Institute of
Art, Design and Technology. She served for two years on the Executive
Board of the European Documentary Network and is now a member of the
Advisory Panel for the magazine DOX.
PRODUCER: VANESSA GILDEA
Vanessa
studied film as part of a
Liberal Arts Degree at the University of Limerick. Subsequently she
worked in film training for nine years, mostly for Filmbase, Dublin
where she still tutors on the documentary foundation course, she has
also lectured on the film courses in Griffith College Dublin,
Colaiste Dhulaigh and the University of Limerick.
She has experience in camera,
producing and directing and has directed short documentaries for
Amnesty International Ireland and award-winning Dublin based
production company Venom Films. She has written for film publications
Film West and Film Ireland magazines.
In 2006 she
wrote and directed the Film Board funded short film The
White Dress which to date
has won five awards and a nomination for an IFTA, and has been
purchased / screened by RTÉ, Swiss, French and Italian Television.
In 2008 she produced a feature-length music documentary shot in Mali,
West Africa called Dambé –
The Mali Project, which was
nominated for an IFTA 2009 in the Best Feature Documentary category.
She
currently works for Loopline Film on a variety of projects in
different stages of development and production including The
Secret Diaries of Kathleen Lynn
for TG4 & BCI, The Quiet
Man – A Millstone or a Milestone
for IFB, TG4 & BCI, The
Dying of Patrick Ireland for Irish Film Board
and Jimmy Murakami – Non
Alien for the Arts
Council’s Reel Art scheme. Vanessa is also in development with a
new feature documentary, as director, set in Africa and currently
funded by the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund. Her favourite
documentary is Salesman .
COMPOSER GER KIELY
Ger
Kiely is a guitarist and producer/composer. Ger has been a member of
some of Ireland’s great bands from the 1980s music boom, including
Blue
in Heaven
(Island Records) and Swim
(MCA
Records).
As
a session musician he has recorded with acts such as The Chieftains,
Clannad, The Fleadh Cowboys, Iarla O’Lionaird and Mary Coughlan.
Among the successes Ger has had as a music producer are Juliet
Turner’s triple platinum-selling album Burn
the Black Suit
and award-winning Irish feature film Small
Engine Repair.
As
a composer he has worked with Loopline Film on documentaries such as
Alive
Alive O
– A
Requeim for Dublin ,
Patrick
Kavanagh – No Man’s Fool
and the current popular TG4 series Muintir
na Mara.
MURAKAMI FAMILY PHOTOS:
LEFT: Jimmy with his family before Camp
in happy times
RIGHT: Taken in camp, the last photo of his
sister Sumiko (centre) before she died
Jimmy
with sister Yuri and brother Junichi in California on the eve of his
journey back to Tule Lake camp
PRODUCTION
CREDITS:
A Loopline Film
Production
Made
Under the Arts Council of
Ireland’s
Reel Art Scheme
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
TO DATE:
OFFICIAL SELECTION DUBLIN
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEB 2010
RUNNER UP AUDIENCE PRIZE
OFFICIAL SELECTION STRANGER
THAN FICTION DOC FESTIVAL APR 2010
“ Sé Merry Doyle’s
wonderful new film follows this extraordinary journey with great
compassion and grace.”
Gráinne Humphries
Programmer
Dublin International Film Festiva l
“ It was also a strong
year for domestic documentaries. Jimmy Murakami, the veteran
Japanese-American animator, much of whose work was done in Ireland,
turned up for the premiere of Sé Merry Doyle’s very touching Jimmy
Murakami: Non Alien . During the second World War, the subject was
transported to a relocation camp for hostile aliens deep in the
Californian desert and, in recent years, has addressed the subject in
a series of delightful paintings. The film deals touchingly with his
long-delayed return to the site of the camp. Non Alien proved to be a
fitting tribute to a stalwart of his industry.”
Donald
Clarke – The Irish Times
Press
Coverage:
Irish
Independent Article Thursday 25 th
Feb 2010
FILM
IRELAND ARTICLE MAY 2010