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2 PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH AND written and directed by ALEX GIBNEY produced by TREVOR BIRNEY executive producers MAIKEN BAIRD GREG PHILLIPS JONATHAN FORD RICH PERELLO BRENDAN J BYRNE Press contact details Donna Daniels Daniels Murphy Communications, LLC 79 Madison Avenue Floor 7, NYC, NY Office:

3 SYNOPSIS No Stone Unturned is a murder mystery that reveals the kind of secrets governments keep. In 1994, six people were gunned down as they watched the World Cup in a small pub in a village in Northern Ireland. Decades later, family members looking for answers discover a cover-up. Ireland s victory over Italy at the World Cup in New Jersey in 1994, remains a source of Irish pride. But it is haunted by memories of a massacre: terrorists opened fire and killed six innocents while they watched the match in a small village pub in Northern Ireland. Remarkably, no one was ever charged for the crime. For more than twenty years the victims families have searched for answers. Now, at last, they may have found them. But what they learn turns a murder mystery into a bigger inquiry relevant for us all: what happens when governments cover up the truth? A Fine Point Films and Jigsaw Productions project 3

4 KEY PRODUCTION TEAM Director Alex Gibney has been called the most important documentarian of our time (Esquire) and one of America s most successful and prolific documentary filmmakers (The NY Times T Magazine). Known for his cinematic, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries, the filmmaker has won the Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, the Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia, The Independent Spirit, The Writers Guild of America Awards, and more. Gibney was honored with the International Documentary Association s Career Achievement Award in 2013 and the first ever Christopher Hitchens Prize in DIRECTOR ALEX GIBNEY Films: Taxi to the Dark Side (2008 Oscar) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Oscar nominated 2006), Triple Emmy Award winning and Peabody Award Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (HBO) and Emmy winning The History of the Eagles (Showtime), 2015 Peabody Award and Grammy nominated Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, The Armstrong Lie (2013), which was short-listed for the 2014 Academy Award and nominated for the 2014 BAFTA Award, along with his film We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks (2013); and Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010), which was nominated for three Emmys. Gibney s Jigsaw Productions TV series: The New Yorker Presents, a series which brings to life the award-winning The New Yorker magazine, Cooked, a four part docuseries based on Michael Pollan s book, Death Row Stories, a popular CNN series executive produced by Gibney and Robert Redford, Edge of Eighteen, a groundbreaking series for Al Jazeera America where Jigsaw mentored high school seniors as they filmed their lives on the brink of adulthood and Parched, a four part investigative docu-series about the water crisis, which will air globally on NatGeo and in a limited theater release. Gibney s latest films include: the triple Emmy and Peabody award-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, the most-watched HBO documentary in a decade; Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, a two-part special on legendary entertainer Frank Sinatra (HBO), Steve Jobs: The Man in The Machine, an evocative portrait that re-examines the legacy of Steve Jobs and our relationship with the computer, and Zero Days which was released by Magnolia Pictures in July of 2016 and had its broadcast premiere on Showtime on November 5, Gibney is set to direct his first narrative feature film, The Action, for Lionsgate, based on Betty Medsger s book The Burglary: The Discovery of J Edgar Hoover s Secret FBI. He is developing a drama series for HBO, with Laura Dern starring and executive producing, a drama series for Hulu based on Lawrence Wright s bestseller The Looming Tower, as well as a drama series based on his documentary Zero Days. 4

5 KEY PRODUCTION TEAM Award-winning producer / director and founder of Fine Point Films, Trevor Birney has a long track record in making high-end documentaries for international distribution. In 2016, he produced Bobby Sands: 66 Days, (BBC Storyville, DR and SVT). The film, directed by Brendan J. Byrne, premiered at the 2016 Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto and was described by Variety magazine as a finely crafted documentary [which] may well long stand as the most balanced among such treatments. In addition to No Stone Unturned, current projects he is producing include: Elián - a CNN Film exploring US /Cuba relations through the story of Elián González PRODUCER TREVOR BIRNEY Best - an ESPN / BBC feature-doc about troubled footballer George Best, directed by Daniel Gordon A collaboration with Fork Films for their latest Women, War and Peace series Birney co-produced the Emmy award winning, Alex Gibney feature-documentary, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, which also won an Irish Film & Television Award in February, During his career he has produced and directed a wealth of landmark documentaries about the conflict in Northern Ireland - for national and international broadcasters. In 2016, he directed a BBC documentary about the 1996 London Docklands bombing by the IRA, described by the Irish News as a triumph of journalism. 5

6 KEY PRODUCTION TEAM EDITOR ANDY GRIEVE Emmy Award-winning editor Andy Grieve is known for his work with top documentary directors including Oscarwinners Alex Gibney and Errol Morris, and on other notable films such as the Oscar nominated Cutie and the Boxer, and Sundance hits The Carter and Manda Bala (2007 Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner) No Stone Unturned is Andy s fifth collaboration with Gibney, following Oscar shortlisted films Zero Days, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Armstrong Lie, as well as We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2012 Andy directed his first feature-length documentary, Can t Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police. COMPOSER IVOR GUEST Ivor is best known for his work with Grace Jones (Hurricane / Hurricane Dub, 2011) and Brigitte Fontaine (Prohibition, 2009 / L un n empêche pas l autre, 2011). His film credits as composer include the Oscar-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side (Dir. Alex Gibney), Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (Dir. Alex Gibney), for which he was Emmy nominated, the Oscar shortlisted Semper Fi- Always Faithful and the British cult movie The Football Factory. He generally works with Robert Logan on scores. In November 2014, he produced and co-wrote the Grace Jones track Original Beast, featured on the Lorde curated soundtrack album for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 movie. 6

7 PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH AND a film by ALEX GIBNEY director of photography STAN HARLOW ROSS MC DONNELL original music IVOR GUEST co-producer EIMHEAR O NEILL edited by ANDY GRIEVE executive producers MAIKEN BAIRD GREG PHILLIPS JONATHAN FORD RICH PERELLO BRENDAN J BYRNE produced by TREVOR BIRNEY written and directed by ALEX GIBNEY 7

8 INTERNATIONAL and US SALES BY CONTENT MEDIA CORPORATION Contact: Jonathan Ford or Additional film details: Production Country: Northern Ireland, United States Type of film: Feature Documentary Premiere status: World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, 2017 Year: 2017 Run time: 1hr 51 mins Production companies: Fine Point Films, Jigsaw Productions Camera type: Arri Amira, Arri Mini, Canon C300 mkii 8

9 COMPANY PROFILES Fine Point Films was established in February 2013 by award-winning producer / director and former journalist Trevor Birney. In 2012, Trevor co-produced the Emmy award winning, Alex Gibney directed featuredocumentary, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God and founded Fine Point to build on the success of that collaboration. The company specialises in the development, production and co-production of high-end feature documentaries for the international market; projects that attract top international directing talent. In addition to No Stone Unturned, Fine Point s current production slate includes, Bobby Sands: 66 Days (BBC Storyville, DR and SVT), which premiered at the 2016 Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto and was described by Variety magazine as a finely crafted documentary [which] may well long stand as the most balanced among such treatments, Elián - a CNN Film exploring US /Cuba relations through the story of Elián González, Best - an ESPN / BBC feature-doc about George Best directed by Daniel Gordon and a collaboration with Fork Films for their latest Women, War and Peace series. Jigsaw Productions is helmed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, considered one of the most prolific and thought-provoking documentary filmmakers of our generation. Jigsaw has produced many acclaimed films, including the triple Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, one of the most watched documentaries in HBO s history; the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side; and the Grammy and Peabody Award-winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise and Fall of James Brown. Gibney s latest film, Zero Days, a cyberthriller chronicling the Stuxnet cyber-attack, premiered at the 2016 Berlinale. Jigsaw s 2012 partnership with Content Media has seen the company expand from award-winning features to long-form series on such platforms as CNN (Death Row Stories), Amazon (The New Yorker Presents), Netflix (Cooked, Dirty Money), A&E (The Killing Season), and Nat Geo (Parched) with a number of scripted and non-fiction series in development. From geopolitics to sports, from finance to music, all of Jigsaw s projects reflect the myriad interests of its founder. And whether the company is creating a documentary or narrative film, a scripted or unscripted series, Jigsaw adheres to the ethos: well-told, scrupulously researched, artfully filmed stories which ignite our curiosity will always have an audience, on screens small or large, on platforms digital or traditional, and can achieve critical and commercial success without sacrificing style or authenticity. Loughinisland Films Ltd, All Rights Reserved. 9