Docudrama on Air India Flight 182 to feature in Cork Film Festival

This Sunday, a docudrama on the downing of Air India flight 182, directed by Toronto based Sturla Gunnarsson will feature at the Cork Film Festival. 

The film was originally broadcast in June of this year on the CBC network in Canada to coincide with the 23rd anniversary of the tragedy. 329 people died when a bomb exploded on the aircraft off the southwest coast of Ireland. Both Cork and Shannon airports played key roles in the subsequent search and recovery missions.

 

Gunarsson, although born in Iceland, grew up in Vancouver. When the film was first broadcast he said he hoped that it would cause Canadians to do some real hard thinking about home grown terrorism.

The film, titled 'Air India Flight 182' is 96 minutes long and combines actual news footage, modern day interviews with relatives of the survivors and re-enactment with actors playing Sikh extremists. The film also gives extensive cover to Jack Hooper, the retired former deputy director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which failed to warn authorities that a cell of militant Sikhs planned to blow up two aircraft.

The film is to be shown at 11.30am, Sunday morning in the Kino Cinema. Further details at www.corkfilmfestival.org