No Stone Unturned + Q&A
classified 15Please note: This was screened in Nov 2019
If journalists are targeted for doing their job, what is the impact on democracy?
Two journalists at the centre of one of the biggest freedom-of-speech scandals to hit the UK in recent years are bringing their award-winning film to Bristol in partnership with the National Union of Journalists.
Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey spent years working on the story of the Loughinisland massacre – the murder of six Catholic men in a bar in Northern Ireland in 1994. Their film, No Stone Unturned, made with director Alex Gibney (Oscar®-winning director of documentaries including Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) named three suspected killers. Yet when the film was released, police didn’t arrest the murder suspects – they launched dawn raids on the journalists’ homes, seizing their files and equipment. It took almost a year before a High Court judge ruled that the police action was unwarranted and the journalists had merely been doing their job.