‘Fatima Was Me City’ – is a documentary film by Vinny Murphy in collaboration with Rialto Community Drug Team and produced by Common Ground.
The film reveals searingly honest testimonies from a group of six men who grew up in Fatima Mansions, Rialto, Dublin during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. The mark of those decades are revealed, from the brutality of growing up with violence, drug addiction and the devastation caused to a community to the realities of being stigmatised and left to tether on the edge of a society that treated them as outcasts.
Film maker Vinny Murphy, alongside local community facilitator Joanie Whyte, worked with the men’s group on documenting different stages in their lives as they reveal their experience of trauma and violence living with drugs, crime, incarceration, brutality, and death. As one of the men reminds us, “we buried a generation”.
Developed over two years filmmaker Vinny Murphy documented personal and group testimonies and worked with the men’s group on exploring different stages in their lives. Their personal testimonies and analysis of those times in their lives bravely examines themes of inequality, loss, stigma, power and hope.
‘Fatima Was Me City’ marks Rialto Community Drug Teams 30th anniversary.
