A Very British Gangster

As a huge fan of such films as The Krays, The Long Good Friday, and the BBC miniseries, The Krays, this looks like the dog’s bollocks.

Press Release: A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER, the acclaimed profile of the notorious British gay crime boss, Dominic Noonan and his family, has qualified and been entered into the Academy Award Documentary Competition for consideration. Directed by Donal MacIntyre Рan award winning BBC investigative reporter – the film was the result of a four year odyssey with Noonan and his team of enforcers, as he lurched from trial to trial, evading convictions on charges involving a million dollar kidnap and torture case, a $1.2 million heroin deal and gun running.

Alan Maher, production executive of the Irish Film Board said, “We are thrilled with the success of A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER and are proud to have this film represent the best of Irish cinema for a chance at Oscar gold.”

A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Anywhere Road in the US, France and UK to critical acclaim. The film won the Grand Prix at the Cognac Film Festival (France) and the Gijon Film Festival (Spain). The film has been supported by the Irish Film Board and is produced by Dare Film Ireland.

MacIntyre deftly negotiates a complex and sensitive story, utilizing his journalistic skills and sensitivity to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an impoverished and damaged community of gangsters, fixers and killers without ever compromising his integrity as afilmmaker and observer. The multi-layered film presents a bleak picture of children living lives foretold, caught up in poverty and family forces beyond their control – dominated by an extraordinarily colourful and dangerous crime boss, set against the filmic Manchester cityscape and a commercial sound track that has captivated audiences across Europe.

Noonan, the crime overlord, who has been implicated but never convicted of six gangland murders, is Fagin to a posse of Olivers and is both a disturbing and avuncular influence to the young generation much to the distress of the Greater Manchester Police.