A FILMMAKER based in Mexico City is appealing to readers to share any old photographs they may have of Gerry Adams for a documentary she is making on the former Sinn Féin President. Trisha Ziff is also on the look-out for any photos or old film reel that captures what life was like in West Belfast and Ballymurphy in the 1960s and 1970s – and the rarer the better. Speaking to the Andersonstown News Trisha said she hopes the documentary will be ready for broadcast at next year’s Féile an Phobail. “The first time I discussed making a documentary with Gerry Adams was when he was still a TD in Leinster House,” she said. “It was Christmas 2017. I was surprised when he said yes. And we began developing the film soon after. The idea was to tell Gerry's story in his own words. “There are many documentaries out there about Gerry Adams but few from his perspective. It seems like a lifetime ago, since cinematographer Seamus McGarvey and I first filmed with Gerry. In total to date we have filmed on four occasions lasting many days and countless hours. We were interrupted by Covid-19 and finally returned to Belfast in May of this year.” Trisha lived in Derry from 1981 to 1986 where she established a community photography workshop. It was during her weekends in Belfast staying with friends that she first met Gerry Adams. “Over the years our paths would cross many times,” she recalled. “In 2000 he came with Richard McAuley and Rita O’Hare to Mexico City – where I now live and work as a filmmaker – to open an exhibition on Bloody Sunday that I had put together with the help of the families.