H3 (film)

H3
Directed by	Les Blair
Written by	Brian Campbell Laurence McKeown
Produced by	James Flynn
Starring	Brendan Mackey Mark O'Halloran
Cinematography	Owen McPolin
Edited by	Niamh Fagan
Music by	Ray Harmon
Distributed by	Metropolitan Films
Release date	15 July 2001 (15 July 2001)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Ireland
Languages	English Irish

H3 is a film released in 2001 about the 1981 Irish hunger strike at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, the events leading up to it, and subsequent developments in the prisoners' struggle for Prisoner of War status. It was directed by Les Blair and was written by Brian Campbell and Laurence McKeown; McKeown was a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who participated in the hunger strike.

Cast

• Brendan Mackey as Seamus Scullion
• Dean Lennox Kelly as Ciaran
• Aidan Campbell as Declan
• Tony Devlin as Madra
• Kevin Elliot as Liam
• Mark O'Halloran as Bobby Sands
• Sean McDonagh as Proinsias
• Fergal McElherron as Francis Hughes
• Mark McCrory as Morton
• Dan Gordon as Simpson
• Gerry O'Brien as The Governor

Awards

The film was nominated for four awards and won one of them, the Golden Rosa Camuna award at the Bergamo Film Meeting.

External links

• H3 Official website Archived 2019-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
• H3 at IMDb
• H3 at AllMovie
• H3 at the British Film Catalogue