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Paul Greengrass
There are two events that frame the Troubles: one was Bloody Sunday – the moment at which the progress towards conflict became unstoppable and Omagh, which marked the moment at which everyone knew the conflict had to end. The Omagh bomb remains the single greatest atrocity of the Troubles and was all the more tragic in that it happened at a time when the people of these islands were beginning to believe that the bloody conflict they had lived with all their lives might be coming to an end. Out of tragedy the families of the Omagh Support and Self Help Group have pursued a campaign for justice that symbolizes hope for us all. And it was important for me, having made the first film, to bookend the conflict with this one.
It's terribly difficult to make a judgement about the right time to make a film like this and obviously some families wish to grieve privately, but the families of the Omagh Support and Self Help Group have been in the public eye throughout the last five years, pursuing a legal campaign, shortly to come before the courts, with far reaching implications for all of us and it feels the right moment for them to be heard, to bring their story to a wider audience so we can all understand the courageous journey they have made.
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Paul Greengrass is Co-Writer and Co-Producer of 'Omagh'.
He has worked extensively across film, television and theatre.
In 2002 he wrote and directed the film Bloody Sunday which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Paul's other credits include The Murder Of Stephen Lawrence, The Fix, Theory of Flight and Resurrected. He has also written and directed many documentaries.
He was co-writer with Peter Wright of the controversial, best-seller Spycatcher.
Paul is currently completing The Bourne Supremacy, starring Matt Damon, for Universal.
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