Directed by BAFTA-winning Alison Millar and executively produced by Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions, LYRA is a
documentary film about the life and death of the
internationally renowned Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra
McKee.
Raised in working-class, war-torn Belfast Lyra went on to highlight the
consequences of the Troubles, seeking justice for crimes that had been
forgotten since the Good Friday Agreement. Her murder by dissident
Republicans the day before Good Friday in 2019 sent shockwaves across the
world.
Using hours of voice recordings from Lyra’s own mobile, computer and
Dictaphone the documentary, which won the Audience Award at the Cork Film
Festival, seeks answers to her senseless killing through Lyra’s own work
and words. The result is a complex picture of Northern Ireland’s political
history, bringing into sharp focus the ways in which the 1998 Good Friday
agreement – with its promised end to violence for future generations – has
struggled to be fully realised.
