BIOGRAPHY
GAVIN PATTON
Gavin Patton is a filmmaker from Derry city, Ireland. He has been making films about addiction since 2002, a subject he knows personally.
Gavin started the Revolutionary Derry Civil Rights project in 2015 by interviewing Ivan Cooper. To date, he has recorded over 40 hours of material and interviews regarding this period. Unsatisfied with the brief time allotted to important figures of the Civil Rights Movement in TV documentaries and news items, Gavin decided to film long-form interviews with key members of the movement so they could tell their full story, and thus save it for history. Gavin believes that this is why the project is so important and why it is unique.
FILMOGRAPHY
DERRY DETOXED
2016
Dir Gavin Patton
An unflinching feature-length documentary about the campaign to get an alcohol and drugs rehab centre opened in Derry City, Ireland.
JUST STEALING CARS
2016
DIR Gavin Patton
Banned from Derry City for dealing drugs and stealing to feed his habit, this young man explains the complexities of his exiled life.
NEW YORK EDDIE
2001
Dir Gavin Patton
A documentary short filmed in 2001 on the then mean streets of New York. A Vietnam vet, Eddie, came back from the war addicted to morphine after getting shot. He explains how his life descended into addiction and frequent incarceration.
DERRY'S CURE
2002
Dir Gavin Patton
Filmed by Gavin Patton 18 years ago, the documentary explores the life and times of Derry city's street alcoholics.
FILM FESTIVAL
2023
BEST DIRECTOR
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FILM FESTIVAL
2023
BEST SCRIPT
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FILM FESTIVAL
2023
BEST FILM
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