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FOR documentary filmmaker Sue Bourne the phone call from Philadelphia was a good news, bad news number. Yes, said her associate producer, the Irish Dancing World Championships which Bourne had been so keen to make a film on were indeed "absolutely astonishing". But Bourne probably wouldn't get in the door when the contest came to Glasgow because this was a world that no filmmaker had ever been given permission to enter.
Bourne, originally from Alloway, Ayrshire, did get in, and the result, Jig, has its UK gala screening in Glasgow next week. Built around the March 2010 contest, Jig is a whirl of stories about the dancers, the families, the wigs, the make-up, the whole razzle- dazzle. As one parent in the film says of her first visit to a competition, "It was like a Shirley Temple convention."See the full content of this document
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Reel Drama Hits the Screens
Bourne, whose previous award-winning films include Mum and Me, which focused on her mother's Alzheimer's, and My Street, a portrait of her neighbourhood, knew nothing about Irish dancing when the idea first came to her, b...
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