::: CREDITS :::
Produced and Directed by Brendan J. Byrne
Executive Producer Ros Franey

::: TRANSMISSION DETAILS :::
How Far Home was broadcast on Channel 4 on Thursday 18th September 1997 as part of the Films of Fire season.
Running time: 40 minutes

::: SYNOPSIS :::
As Gerry Conlon emerged into the daylight outside the Old Bailey, a 15-year nightmare of wrongful imprisonment ended.

The first of the Guildford Four to walk free from British courts, his speech indicting British justice sent shockwaves around the world and heralded the biggest ever scandal in British legal history.

How Far Home examines Conlon's troubled quest to patch together the fragmented pieces of his life since his release. Did that nightmare really end the day he walked 'free'?

::: QUOTES :::
"How Far Home is one of the most affecting documentaries made in this country in recent years. It has the intimacy of The Uncle Jack (John T. Davis) and the immediacy of The Joy (Donald Taylor Black) and like both of them, it suggests a new vibrancy in Irish Documentary; a sense that the full possibilities of the form are now being explored. It provides a real touching insight into human life without dogmatism or sabre rattling and allows us to encounter a disturbing reality even though it is not part of our own human experience." - Film Ireland - Ireland's leading industry magazine. 		 
   
 
   
 
   
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