Kathryn Ferguson

worked with me before and I was an Irish woman and I had a lot of the same rage and fury about injustice as Sinéad herself that he felt this could be a good option.

But of course, when we began, it was my first feature documentary.

We had no funding, we had no backers.

We just had a lot of passion and belief that this needed to happen and it needed to happen soon.

So that really set us off on our way.

It took, goodness, I think it took three years to fund fully, then with a final year in the edit.

And then during that, COVID happened.

I had my first baby.

Everything just kind of seemed to collide at the same time.

It was hard to make nothing compares.

It felt like in some ways,

every door flung open eventually everyone wanted to see this happen but it felt like there were these big kind of like sticky obstacles not having a baby but certainly covid there were just things that kept happening and continued to happen that made it difficult but i think it was our own tenacity and my friends say i'm like a stubborn mountain goat i don't uh i don't

to walk away from things easily.

I was determined that we were going to make this and get it out there.

And amazingly, we did.

And it's launched in January 2022 at Sundance.

Oh, I mean, it was everything, really.

You know, we had began the archive process way back in, I think, 2018, certainly by 2019 at the very latest.

So we were gathering and gathering and we were also speaking to so many people and really trying to test our thesis and make sure that we weren't making anything sensationalist or wrong or, I don't know, or like a hagiography.

You know, we were really trying to test and test again.