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Mickey B DVD

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ESC’s award-winning film, Mickey B, is a feature-length film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and set in the fictional Burnam Prison. It tells the story of one prisoner’s quest for power through betrayal, violence and murder and the insanity and death that results.

Mickey B is available at two licensing rates – individual and institutional and is available as either NTSC (America) or PAL (rest of the world) versions.

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Description

Mickey B was the winner of the 2008 Roger Graef Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at the national Arthur Koestler awards for Arts in Prisons.

The film was shot in Northern Ireland’s Maghaberry Prison and features 42 characters played almost entirely by prisoners and prison staff. Prisoners carried out crew work, including set building, painting, continuity and assistance with production, sound and make-up.

The DVD includes the documentary ‘Category A Mickey B‘, which tells the story of how the film was made. It also includes an introduction by the NI Prison Service Director and a bonus feature about the impact of violence on prisoners who grew up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Format: DVD, PAL/NTSC
Rating: 15
Release Date:2007

DVD licensing information

Individual rate DVDs are licensed for individuals (home and private use) only.

Institutional Rate DVDs are licensed for hospitals, outpatient clinics, universities, colleges, libraries, companies, societies and other organisations. These rates include a licence which grants permission to loan the DVDs to the customers (including inter-library loan) and/or screen the DVD before a public audience within the organisation that bought that particular DVD only (it does not include radio, TV, internet and other means of broadcasting of the whole or part of the DVD outside of the physical address of the organisation concerned).

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