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Camcorder Guerilla Film
Music by Belle and Sebastian
PREMIERE SCREENING DATE: Sunday 19 Dec 2004
GFT Cinema 1. FREE
Followed by a debate and Personal Appearance by Rose Gentle and
a panel of speakers including Ewa Jasiewicz, Rev. John Mann and
A. L. Kennedy
"Dear Mrs Blair" is a video letter to Cherie Blair from
Glaswegian mother Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon was killed in Iraq
on 28 June 2004.
Gordon was 19 years old; he'd joined the Army just six months earlier
at Pollok Job Centre. Rose believes his life was wasted in an illegal
and unjustifiable war.
In the film Rose appeals to the Prime Minister's wife to listen
to her "mother to mother". Rose has never been politically active
before but she's turned her grief and pain into a campaign to bring
British soldiers home from Iraq. She doesn't want any other mothers
to Lose their sons or daughters.
"The government so far has ignored my plea" says Rose. "But
when I am on my own, I go into Gordon's room, close the door and
just think, something has to be done"
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