She Sings of Murder and Love
Synopsis
An anti-true-crime documentary, the film is a bold, cinematic portrayal of a unique Irish singer-song writer Keeley Moss. Every song Keeley writes and performs celebrates the life of, and demands justice for, Inga Maria Hauser, a young German backpacker, sexually assaulted and murdered in Northern Ireland in 1988.
As the facts of Inga Maria's case migrate from Keeley's meticulous blog into her songs, the Director ‘investigates the investigator’ to capture Keeley's fever dream of the intense week of adolescent freedom Inga Maria enjoyed, before she became a 'murder victim'. Through the prism of the Director's feminist gaze, and the actress-cast-as-Inga, Keeley and Inga Maria's personas blur, a rejection of the murder porn audiences are so fatigued by. Through the empathy the Director clearly feels for Keeley’s difficult adolescence and her subsequent obsessive mission, we feel the devastating impact Inga Maria's violent death had on two generations of her family and their anguish at the continuing lack of justice. Perhaps most remarkable of all, we discover the unexpected and profound gifts that Inga Maria has rewarded Keeley's dedication with.
Details
- Year
- 2027
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 95 min
- Format
- 4K
- Director
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Virginia Heath 2nd Feature
- Producer
- Grant Keir
- Co-Producer
- David Power, David Clarke, Rene Goossens, Annemiek van Gorp
- Executive Producer
- Mark Thomas
- Editor
- Cara Holmes, Stella Heath Keir
- Screenwriter
- Virginia Heath
- Director of Photography
- Thomas Hogben
- Sound
- Alex Booy
- Composer
- David McAulay
- Principal cast
- Keeley Moss, Greta Trusina
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Faction North Ltd
Grant KeirProducer
1 (T2f3) Summerhall
Edinburgh
EH9 1PL
Mobile +447811383911
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