Episode 140 - Vincent Lambe has a pint with Seaniebee

A Pint With Seaniebee

“They were saying ‘certain stories shouldn’t be told’…that was the reason they wanted it to be removed…like a quarter of a million people…there was one festival in the UK, they got so much hate mail, people saying they were going to boycott the festival if they were going to show the film, they ended up dropping it.” Filmmaker Vincent Lambe was the centre of much controversy earlier this year, when his short film – Detainment - was nominated for an Oscar. The movie charts the immediate aftermath of the arrest of two young boys charged with, and subsequently found guilty of, the 1993 murder of a two-year-old toddler named Jamie Bulger in Liverpool. The case was so disturbing it left a nation floundering for answers that never really came, and it remains a raw wound to the degree that a film such as this can cause the visceral backlash it did with many believing it should never have been made, not to mind being accepted into the Oscars. Vincent came under huge criticism for not engaging with Jamie Bulger’s mother prior to making the film. The tabloid media eviscerated him and his film (including spreading many mistruths about its content), and more mainstream journalists found themselves gagged by editors when it came to reviews and any attempts to divorce content from hysteria. Detainment is a powerful work that is difficult to watch, and raises many questions about what constitutes responsible film-making around such sensitive subjects. Links: www.detainmentfilm.com A Pint With Seaniebee Please subscribe to support the podcast: www.patreon.com/seaniebee Audible Feast list of Best Podcast Series of 2016 & 2017: https://tinyurl.com/ya5yj9vs 50 Best Podcast Episodes list 2016 &2017: https://tinyurl.com/y7ryajat Release date: November 20th 2019 Runtime: 50m Recorded: Cork