Project Detail

All the Years of Trying

Synopsis

Music documentary about cult 'punk poet' Patrik Fitzgerald (born as Patrick Joseph Fitzgerald in Stratford, London, March 19, 1956) - son of working-class Irish immigrant parents, he began recording and performing during the punk rock movement in 1977.

Composer of punk anthem 'Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart', Fitzgerald kicked against the punk orthodoxy by performing waif-like and vulnerably alone with an acoustic guitar and a tattered book of poems at the height of the punk revolution

Details

Year
2010
Type of project
Features
Running time
65 mins
Format
HDV
Director
Dom Shaw
Producer
Daniel Carboni, Dom Shaw
Co-Producer
Daniel Carboni, Dom Shaw
Editor
Daniel Carboni
Composer
Patrik Fitzgerald
Principal cast
Patrik Fitzgerald, Benjamin Zephaniah, Everett True, Garry Bushell, Boff Whalley, Attila the Stockbroker

Production Status

Production Company

Anonymous Films Ltd

28 Kimberley Gardens
London N4 1LF
UK

T +44 (0)20 8802 9169

anonymousfilms@blueyonder.co.uk

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