As part of its Small Nations in Cinema mini season at the Filmhouse cinema in Edinburgh, Beyond Borders is holding a private screening of an extraordinary new documentary, McCullin.

This is a chance to see the results of unprecedented access to the twentieth century`s most revered war photographer, and witness of mans inhumanity to man.

If you would like to attend this screening, please contact Anna Irvin at anna@bbscot.com:0207 193 0832.

From the Director, Jacqui Morris:

Don McCullin worked as the star photographer on The Sunday Times from 1966 to 1983, when it was widely acknowledged to be at the forefront of global photojournalism. He covered wars and humanitarian disasters on virtually every continent. His work has stood the test of time, evidenced by the fact that ten of his books are currently in print.

But there is a dimension to Don`s work that transcends photojournalism. The way he sees the world is very rare; his vision is distinctive and insightful even when trained on the supposedly mundane. The wounded people he photographs are not all on battlefields. Through Don`s eyes we come to understand that the thousand-yard stare of the shell-shocked American soldier in Vietnam, is a cousin to the despair on the face of the destitute old lady in London`s Chapel Market. Like the visionary William Blake, who saw the world around him with a hidden part of the spectrum, Don sees differently.

With extensive input from the Sir Harold Evans, the editor of the Sunday Times from 1967-81, our film not only explores Don`s life and work but also how the ethos of journalism changed during his career. Using the Sunday Times as an example, we compare the strictly hands off approach of proprietors like Lord Thompson – who took pride in the fact that he didn`t allow commercial considerations to censor his editors` from printing what they wanted – to how the newspaper`s independent character changed once it was taken over by Rupert Murdoch, to how the pursuit of advertising revenue became paramount, and with it, the inevitable obsession with fashion, status and celebrity.

Our made-for-cinema documentary shows how Don McCullin created some of the latter twentieth-century`s most iconic images of man`s inhumanity to man. He brought the impact and reality of human conflict to the general reader, going on war assignments sometimes with only twenty rolls of film. He was shooting with a respect for image now disappearing from the digital age; and we have shot our film on 16mm in order to compliment his work.

The birth of this film came out a desire to document the life and work of an extraordinary and charismatic person, whose work in the field of journalism was so innovative and unique of it`s time it has gone on to shape the way in which newsworthy stories are bought to the masses today.

This is the story of moments in time that can never be replicated; but with the assistance of amazing archive footage and copies of the Sunday Times unseen for fifty years, we go on a journey with him and explore his pioneering work and we show the audience the lengths to which Don went to taken some of the most important pictures of our time.”