Titanic Town

General Release: 1998

  • Writer: Anne Devlin (from the novel by Mary Costello)
  • Producers: George Faber, Charles Pattinson
  • Director: Roger Michell
  • Executive Producers: David M. Thompson, Robert Cooper
  • Financers: BBC Films, British Screen, Hollywood Partners, Northern Ireland Arts Council, Pandora
  • Starring: Julie Walters, Ciaran Hinds, Nuala O'Neill, Ciaran McMenamin

Titanic Town (1998) was directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and starred Julie Walters as an ordinary mother and housewife crusading for peace amidst the bullets and tanks of 1970's Belfast. Funny and poignant Titanic Town played at a host of major festivals around the world. The film opened in the US in October 2000 distributed by The Shooting Gallery and was released in the U.K by Alliance Atlantis.

PRESS

  • "Magnificent...Julie Walters' best role in years" - The Express
  • "Stirs your blood" - New York Times
  • "Vivid and all too authentic" - Boston Globe

AWARDS

  • Locarno international Film Festival
    Winner, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 1998
  • Locarno Gilm Festival
    Nominated, Golden Leopard 1998
  • Dincard British Film festival
    Nominated, Golden Hitchcock 1998
  • Carrousel International du Film
    Winner, Camerio 1999
  • Emden international Film festival
    Winner, Award of the German Unions Association 1999
  • Political Film Society, USA
    Nominated, PFS Award 2001