'LOCKERBIE' IS OUT NOW!
Be sure to catch LOCKERBIE on Sky and NowTV! The four part documentary about the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, features Cinematography by echo DoP Will Pugh. Here are the lovely words Will wrote about his time on the project:
John Dower’s LOCKERBIE, produced at Mindhouse for Sky, was shot over 12 months - a long weaving thread from the Isle of Skye, to Lockerbie itself, then on to Zurich, D.C, New York, Paris, Malta, Tunisia and London.
In the world of documentary we seemed to have reached peak style, that is to say doc filmmaking seems to have become about Hollywood lenses & aspect ratios, multiple cameras, gliding gimbals and stylised lighting. On LOCKERBIE we just went back to basics. 16:9. Camera on sticks. Old school. Tell the story.
And what a story. Others will be writing more eloquently about the worst terrorist attack before 9/11. I am just left with a feeling. We went around the world talking to people whose entire lives have been defined by this event. Who, 35 years later, are still deeply haunted, all of whom will go to their graves without knowing the whole truth, without real closure. Today terrorism seems almost accepted as part of the warp & weft of global politics. But really it just represents political failure and nihilism. When you zoom into a single family’s life it represents unimaginable pain and suffering for the rest of their lives. It’s hard not to think of the thousands of people undergoing this appalling transformation at this very moment in Palestine & Israel (and depressingly so many other countries). And yet these people often display unbelievable resilience, courage and humanity.
Congratulations to John who had to pick his way through an unbelievably complicated narrative yet kept his contributors front & centre. Also to Barnaby Fry his talented producer and Clare McFall who came in to take some of the tail pressure off. It’s hard to make a great series without a supportive exec & commissioner, so major props also to Nancy Strang & Poppy Dixon. From me, thanks to the production team at Mindhouse, esp Dejan Cancar & Dami Mabadeje, to my ACs Ben Crossley & Katie Soper, and to DOP Jamie Quantrill for so ably stepping into a couple of gaps!
