‘Fatima Was Me City’ reveals searingly honest testimonies from a group of 6 men who grew up in Fatima Mansions, Rialto, Dublin during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. The marks of those decades are revealed, from the brutality of growing up with violence, drug addiction and the devastation caused to a community to the realities of being stigmatised and left to tether on the edge of a society that treated them as outcasts. Filmmaker Vinny Murphy, alongside local community facilitator Joanie Whyte, worked with the men’s group on documenting different stages in their lives as they reveal their experience of trauma and violence living with drugs, crime, incarceration, brutality, and death. As one of the men reminds us, “we buried a generation”.
- Runtime61 minutes
‘Fatima Was Me City’ reveals searingly honest testimonies from a group of 6 men who grew up in Fatima Mansions, Rialto, Dublin during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. The marks of those decades are revealed, from the brutality of growing up with violence, drug addiction and the devastation caused to a community to the realities of being stigmatised and left to tether on the edge of a society that treated them as outcasts. Filmmaker Vinny Murphy, alongside local community facilitator Joanie Whyte, worked with the men’s group on documenting different stages in their lives as they reveal their experience of trauma and violence living with drugs, crime, incarceration, brutality, and death. As one of the men reminds us, “we buried a generation”.
- Runtime61 minutes
