‘Right now I want to scream!’ Using participatory film with communities in Haiti and Brazil in order to expose state violence and make connections across countries

is Chair of Film Studies at Queen‘s University Belfast and Director of the Prisons Memory Archive. His most recent films are We Never Gave Up (2022), on the legacy of apartheid, made in partnership with the Human Rights Media Centre, Cape Town; Right Now I Want to Scream: Police and Army Violence in Rio – the Brazil Haiti Connection (2018); It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti (2018); and Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol (2015), on the female prison during the conflict known as the Troubles in the North of Ireland. His publications include, Challenging the Narrative: Documentary Film as Participatory Practice, Anthem Press (2024).

is Director of Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute. She is a member of the International Law Association Global Health Committee and of the UN Antiracism Committee, which was established in 2021 to work with the UN Expert Mechanism on Racial Justice in the context of Law Enforcement. From 2014–2018 she was a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force. Since 2015 she has been using participatory film practices, in collaboration with Prof McLaughlin (QUB), to research the impact of police violence on marginalised communities in Cité Soleil in Haiti, and the Manguinhos, Maré and Alemão favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.