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UPDATED EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 14th January, 2005
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New Journal Enterprises, 2004.
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Film tribute to inspiring work of dissenting writer
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Journalist Paul Foot: ‘truly remarkable’
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A FILM commemorating the life of journalist Paul Foot is due
to be released at the end of this month.
Our Left Foot, produced by film-maker Christopher Hird, who lives
in Dartmouth Park Avenue, uses archive footage of the left-wing
firebrand writer on television shows such as Question Time and includes
film of a celebration of the Mr Foot’s work, which was held
at the Hackney Empire shortly after his death in July last year.
Funds from the sale of the hour-long DVD will go towards erecting
a permanent memorial in Highgate Cemetery in Swain’s Lane,
where Mr Foot’s ashes are due to be interred next week in a
plot near his political inspiration, Karl Marx.
Mr Hird, who organised the tribute staged at the Hackney Empire,
said Mr Foot - who lived for many years in West Hampstead - had
touched so many it was important he was not forgotten.
He said: “He was a remarkable person, fantastic journalist
and a real inspiration.
“His campaigns against miscarriages of justice were phenomenal.
He was one of the few people who carried the badge of radical politics
with him throughout his life and never relented.”
As well as his writing – Mr Foot’s work appeared in publications
as diverse as the Daily Mirror, Socialist Worker and the London
Review of Books – Mr Hird cited his personality and presence
as a factor that the film seeks to portray.
He added that the film was not just a tribute, but a way of helping
people come to terms with Mr Foot’s passing.
Mr Hird said: “He was an entertaining person to know. A unique
figure, and for his readers, his friends and anyone who had come
into contact with him personally or through his writing, his death
came as a huge shock.”
Included in the film are out-takes from an early 1980s documentary
Mr Foot made for Channel 4 about his hero, the 19th-century poet
Percy Shelley. His book about his life, Red Shelley, has also been
re-published.
• To buy a copy of Our Left Foot, contact Fulcrum TV on
02079393187 or at www.fulcrumtv.com
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