Jig
A 90-minute feature documentary telling the compelling story of the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships.
Thousands of dancers, their families and teachers from around the globe descend on Glasgow, Scotland for a drama-filled seven days.
Wigs, make-up, tans, diamantes and dresses costing thousands of pounds combined with blood, sweat and tears.
364 days of incredibly hard work and practice for just a few tense minutes on stage. From little ten year olds upwards they’re all competing to win a coveted World Title.
Millions know and love Riverdance and Lord of the Dance. But this is the first time the controlling body of international competitive Irish Dancing has allowed an outsider to look behind these normally closed doors. And what award-winning filmmaker Sue Bourne found is a remarkable world.
Wonderful diverse characters of all ages converge from Ireland, the United States, Holland, England, Scotland and Russia. JIG discovers a hot bed of dedication, hard work, obsession and passion.
Ecstatic success and tear- jerking defeat. Astonishing dancing talents pushed to the limit and beyond, in the quest for perfection.
Over the last decade Sue Bourne has carved out a reputation for producing films that people talk about and remember. Insightful, thought-provoking documentaries that open doors and throw a new light on subjects we thought we knew about.
Award winning, critically acclaimed and hugely popular with audiences and most recently listed in Broadcast Magazine’s 100 - Top 12 directors to look out for, Bourne’s style of documentary-making is now almost a brand - instantly recognizable and enjoyed by many all over the world.
While the fifteen plus films she has produced over the past ten years capture the essence of life in contemporary society, in her gentle, thoughtful way Bourne has repeatedly managed to find the 'extraordinary in the apparently ordinary' and bring her quirky, often humorous, vision to a rich variety of subjects.
She is most known for My Street, Mum And Me, The Red Lion and Co-executive Produced Channel 4’s The Falling Man (the phenomenal story about the unknown man who jumped from the Twin Towers) amongst a huge list of others.
Jig is released 6th May