Pray for Our Sinners
Irelanddocumentary82'Focus on Ireland
Director Sinead O’Shea returns to her hometown, Navan, to expose abuse in Catholic institutions. Her documentary tells a story of victims of abuse by teachers and nuns in the 1960s and 1970s, when no one dared to question the authority of the Church. The film gives voice to the pupils of former teachers for whom beating and humiliation was the only known to them method of work with young people, and to teenage mothers who ended up in the Magdalene nuns’ laundries. O’Shea also remembers those who had the courage to defy the system by supporting the most disadvantaged.
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- Sinead O'Shead
Her first feature documentary 'A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot' premiered at the London Film Festival and CPH:DOX where it was nominated for a FACT Award. It was one of the most successful documentary releases in Irish cinemas of 2018. In 2018 Sinead was named as one of the top 10 European female filmmakers to watch by the European Film Promotion network and Screen International. She has also directed and produced over 100 films and reports with Al Jazeera English, BBC, Channel 4 and RTÉ. She won an Irish Media Justice Award for Lives in Limbo with The Irish Times and an Irish Film and Television Award for Sampler with RTE. Previously Sinéad covered Ireland for The New York Times.
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