A documentary on tragic award-winning Journalist Lyra McKee will open in Irish and UK cinemas next month.
Lyra will be available to watch in cinemas from Friday, November 4.
Directed by BAFTA-winning Alison Millar and executively produced by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions, Lyra tells the story about the life and death of the internationally renowned Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead while observing rioting in the Creggan estate in Derry on 18 April 2019.
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Niall Sheerin, 29, from Tyrconnell Street in Derry, previously admitted possession of the gun on dates between September 2018 and June 2020 believed to have killed Lyra. He was sentenced to seven years in prison followed by five years on licence.
Lyra highlighted the consequences of the Troubles, seeking justice for crimes that had been forgotten since the Good Friday Agreement. Her death the day before Good Friday in 2019 sent shockwaves across the world.
Speaking about the cinema release, director Alison Millar said: “Thanks to Wildcard Distribution, we are delighted to be able to share the incredible Lyra with the world.
"Alongside projecting Lyra McKee as a 'fearless investigative journalist, determined and tenacious, honest in her approach' I wanted this film to also capture the great warmth and infectious humour of the person I'd known for so many years.
“Through the use of her voice recordings - enabling us to have her narrate her own story - home footage and her remarkable writing, I hope Lyra will inspire and introduce a new generation to her work and the story of her homeland, the turbulently beautiful Northern Ireland, of which she wrote so much about. I've made many films about Northern Ireland - its people and its past - but with this film, with Lyra, it's different - with her, this time, it's personal.”
Using hours of voice recordings from Lyra’s own mobile, computer and dictaphone, the documentary which won the Audience Award at the Cork Film Festival, seeks answers to her senseless killing through Lyra’s own work and words.
The result is a complex picture of Northern Ireland’s political history, bringing into sharp focus the ways in which the 1998 Good Friday agreement – with its promised end to violence for future generations – has struggled to be fully realised.
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