Donal MacIntyre

The war in Iraq is a strong theme at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the US for the second year running.

Sixty-four films are competing at the world’s leading independent festival which begins on 18 January in Utah.

Movies in competition include Grace is Gone starring John Cusack as a man whose wife is killed in Iraq.

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib about the abuses that occurred in an Iraqi prison in 2003 is one of several films based on war in the documentary category.

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Fest has 82 world preems among 122 features

 
Citing what he defines as "a new maturity" in the indie movement, a more complex way of looking at the world and a bracing fusion of the personal and the political in much of the work, Sundance Film Festival director Geoffrey Gilmore said that selecting the 64 entries in four competition categories for the 2007 fest was more difficult than ever.

"There were easily 40 or 50 films we could have programmed, ones I have regrets about not showing. That makes it really hard to hold the line and not expand the festival."

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TERROR leader Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair’s life in exile came under the spotlight in a controversial television documentary last night.

Film maker Donal MacIntyre made the hour-long MacIntyre’s Underworld programme for channel Five, entitled Mad Dog, about the former Ulster Defence Association godfather settling in to life in Scotland.

He set up home in Troon after leaving Bolton last year following a troubled stay which saw him convicted of harassment and assaulting his wife near their Horwich home.

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Nominated: A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER / UK (Director: Donal MacIntyre) — Given his many contradictions, Dominic Noonan, head of one of Britain’s biggest crime families, is a man who defies stereotypes. This close up look at his life, from gun trials to the murder of his brother on the streets of Manchester , reveals a community struggling with poverty, violence and drugs. World Premiere. For more go here www.averybritishgangster.com

The films was selected from 506 submissions.

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Ulster terrorist Johnny Adair’s claimed conversion from brutal killer to do-good charity worker has been met with ridicule.

The exiled UDA leader has claimed he is teaming up with a German neo-Nazi bomber to travel to Africa to help build an orphanage.

His pledge to fund the project in Uganda along with Nick Greger, a notorious far-right skinhead who is barred from the UK, has been branded as nothing more than a publicity stunt and an insult to his victims.

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Notorious loyalist paramilitary Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair defied death threats from former comrades to return to Belfast for a television documentary being screened tomorrow night. Acclaimed investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre spent six months filming Adair in Scotland, Germany and on a clandestine return to his former Lower Shankill heartland. He talks to Laurence White about why he made the film – part of the Underworld series for Five – and what life is like now for the former leader of the UDA’s C Company, which was responsible for a reputed 40 murders

Why did you decide to make a programme on Adair?

I think he is an interesting character and an important character. Anyone doing work on the recent history of Northern Ireland has to mention Johnny Adair, not just as a footnote but as a paragraph or two.

Of course, he was responsible for some very despicable crimes, but our job was to get inside his world and paint it as it is. We made no moral judgement.

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Go to Darefilms for Donal’s latest videos HERE

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A new series of the award winning and internationally acclaimed MacIntyre’s Underworld  comes to our screens on Monday 10th September at ten on FIVE.

 The documentary `Wayne’s World` is a remarkable update on  a year long undercover investigation into the drug empire of Wayne Hardy by World In Action. . Ten years on we go back and revisit the award winning investigation and reveal the personal world of this dangerous gangster. Catch the Underworld promotional films on youtube HERE.

For more videos, check out the Macintyre youtube page HERE

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