"No one person could tell this story;" Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy, and Maeve O'Boyle discuss The 8th
The 8th makes its Video-On-Demand release in Ireland and the UK on Tuesday, May 25 th, to coincide with the third anniversary of the referendum. Directed by Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy and Maeve O’Boyle’s The 8th is the first independently made documentary about the triumphant referendum campaign led by a group of women including Ailbhe Smyth and Andrea Horan to repeal the Eighth Amendment and change Ireland’s abortion laws after a 35-year long struggle. “We came together as three Irish women working in documentary filmmaking with a keen interest in the subject - we h...
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