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Lost Boys

BELFAST'S MISSING CHILDREN

Broadcaster

Independent Cinema Release

Episode Count

1 x 90'

Toronto Independent Film FestivalBest Long feature Human Rights Film2024

Disappear Here Film FestivalBest Feature2024

CREDITS

Written & Directed by: Des Henderson

Produced by: Ed Stobart

Executive Producers: Kevin Winters, Mark Wright, Peter Grimsdale

Head of Production: Judy Wilson

Financial Controller: Will Skidmore

Director of Photography: Brian Martin

Editor: Declan McCann

DESCRIPTION

A 4-week run across 8 Omniplex cinema screens in Northern Ireland, Irish Film Institute’s Opening Gala film, and a special one-off screening at Docs Ireland.

During the winter of 1969, young boys started to disappear from the streets of Belfast, never to be seen again. By 1974, as the Troubles were reaching a bloody and vicious peak, five boys in total had vanished within a five-mile radius. Fifty years later, as the disappearances remain unsolved and families continue to search for answers, filmmaker Des Henderson reopens these largely forgotten cold-cases, unearthing disturbing revelations in secret state documents to tell an extraordinary tale of abuse, trauma and potential cover-up.