Usually, when someone gets a film made about them, they tend to be relatively famous. The grabber is often a movie taking a deeper dive into a figure that people may already know a lot about but crave even more knowledge about the details of their life.
From left Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney. Photo: PA. Inset: From left Tim McInernay and Tom Brittney. Former Impartial Reporter journalist Trevor Birney of Fine Point Films is teaming up with Grantchester star Tom Brittney of Wild Nest Pictures to develop a TV drama based on his and fellow Northern Ireland journalist Barry McCaffrey’s controversial arrests in 2018. Trevor and Barry were detained in August 2018 over the alleged theft of a police watchdog document from the Police Ombudsman’s Office which appeared in their film ‘No Stone Unturned’ about the murder of six Catholic men shot dead by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in Loughinisland in 1994.