One night a few years ago in Derry, Northern Ireland, Majella O Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Film-maker Sinead O'Shea is a journalist who writes for the Irish Times, The Guardian and the New York Times and visited the family to find out what could have propelled them to this. Her film A Mother Brings her Son to be Shot is showing at the NZ International Film Festival.
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