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Feature Documentary · Post-Production

Everybody
Knows

Director · Billy McCannon · 2025

A feature documentary exploring global resistance to genocide in Gaza through the lens of Irish post-colonial identity. Three narrative streams — personal, legal, and grassroots — woven across four countries and a river.

The film asks a single question: why do countries that recognise genocide remain silent?

Format

Feature · ~90 mins

Status

Post-Production

Year

2025

Trailer / Work in Progress

Trailer coming soon

"We can only see Gaza when we can see ourselves there."

The Film

Three streams,
one river.

Structure · Three acts · Eight sequences

Everybody Knows follows three interwoven narrative streams. The first is personal — Billy McCannon sculling on the River Liffey, the water as a formal spine and a place of reflection. The second is professional legal resistance, centred on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and the mechanisms of international law. The third is grassroots — the resistance movements that have grown up in the shadow of institutional failure.

The film is shot in verité style on iPhone, embedded with the movements it documents. It moves from Bogotá — where the Hague Group is inaugurated beneath a portrait of Simón Bolívar — through London's Gaza Tribunal, to the UN General Assembly in New York, and home to Ireland: Derry, the hunger strike families, and the Liffey at dawn.

Ireland's post-colonial memory is the lens. The Irish experience of state violence, resistance, and international indifference makes visible something that otherwise stays hidden. That is the central argument.

Act One

Bogotá → London → New York

From the false positives of Colombia through the Gaza Tribunal in London to the UN General Assembly — the catastrophe of institutional failure made visible.

Act Two

The Architecture

How does the silence work? The film traces the structures — legal, political, economic — that prevent action despite recognition of genocide.

Act Three

Ireland · The Liffey

Derry, the hunger strike families, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. And the Liffey — the sculling sequences as resolution, the water carrying everything home.

Key Subjects

The people
who said yes.

Interview subjects · Contributors

The film is built on access earned through decades of trust-based documentary practice. These are people who rarely speak to cameras, and when they do, they choose carefully.

Francesca Albanese

UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

Civil rights leader · Ireland

Rabbi Dovid Feldman

Neturei Karta · Anti-Zionist Orthodox

Asa Winstanley

Electronic Intifada · London

Dr. Morgan McMongial

Irish trauma surgeon · Gaza

Selena Cruz & Gloria

Colombian collaborators · Bogotá

Contact

Press &
enquiries.

For press, festival, and co-production enquiries about Everybody Knows, contact Billy McCannon at Amulet Studios.

[email protected]