 Tom, around the Northwest this Thursday afternoon there's a documentary being made at the moment about the Micah scandal. Siobhan Baal is a young filmmaker from England and is here until the end of the month to film some of the stories of families affected by defective blocks and I'm delighted that she's joining us on the line now and on Zoom so we're streaming as well. Siobhan, good afternoon to you. Hello, how are you? Good, good. Now tell us how come you've ended up, you're born and lost, how come you've ended up here and in a show and making a documentary about Micah? See I'm lucky enough that we've had a place in Greencastle since I was very young learning to walk. My mum's from Derry originally but her mum came from Cadbury and quickly's point so she spent summers on Caldaf Beach and she wanted me and my siblings to have the same so I've spent summers here and loved every second. So you're well familiar with the area and you're yeah and before you ever took out your camera well familiar I suppose with the whole Micah crisis? Yes, unfortunately so I mean it's something that I've known about from being here you can't miss the signs and I knew when I got these skills I wanted to try and contribute to all the great work that's happening here. And continues so what do you hope to what do you hope to do in the documentary? So what I'm doing is really listening to the voices of families and people involved no matter of your background job or who you are it's about that experience of being in a home with defective blocks I mean a thing away from like the policy and everything that's talk that's going on what I can do is try and bring those voices to light I'd like someone to sit and watch it and really feel all those feelings that go into it and you know a home is more than just walls and a roof it's you know hope streams family memories that go into that and I just want to try and get that across along with you know what's like to wait for so long for some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. You've already done some filming and you've heard some of the stories and it's heartbreaking and you've summed it up well there I mean you know it's much more than four walls and a roof. Well yeah exactly and I can't thank the people who've spoken to me enough they've opened their doors to me and they've been so honest and open and a lot of these people have done media interviews before so they're going over things that they've had to talk to strangers about before and so I can't thank them enough for how open they've been with me and it's just trying to collect as many of those as possible because this is not a case of one or two homes it's you know it's more a case of who doesn't have it than who does and that that's shocking in itself. Yeah yeah the scale is unimaginable but very real. Yeah and I think for myself it's been great I mean I know the area well but I've come and enjoyed the scenery and the landscape and seeing family and summers but also this has been the education for myself about the other side of inner showing that I've not seen and I'm lucky enough not to have personal experience of and I think it's like putting a pair of glasses on once you know what you're looking for you can drive around and you can spot it everywhere. And will the documentary be all around it? Will it show the look behind the scenes with the ongoing campaign? Yeah I hope so I've been talking with redress focus groups and I will be there tonight at the meeting to meet people and listen to all like the fantastic work that's going on so I'll be touching on that as well because I think that's something that we should already be celebrating as well the community voice that has come together and continues to refuse to be silent I mean all the finance stuff going on recently has been from the push of focus groups here so definitely I'm talking to people involved all the work going on to just touch on that as well in amongst some of the really upsetting stories going on too. And it's an ongoing campaign and it's important that it gets as much publicity as possible I mean even in this past week campaigners were at an important meeting and made their presence felt and I suppose things like this are important as well in the overall picture in that you know that stories are told and recorded and in this case filmed. Yes exactly I mean I can't comment on all the things going with the authors I think I can't remember how many focus groups are but so many sides but this is something I now can do and I know there's been lots of interviews that have happened over the years but collecting it all together in one place where you have I've been talking to people all stages of the scheme from demolition to rebuild and having that all in one place I think is really important almost a piece of history just there. And where are you at with filming and what would you like more of I mean if there's people listening now and they're affected by this you know would you like to hear from them or are is there any particular groups that you'd like to like to involve? So I've heard from lots of homeowners who are still waiting on their applications to be moved forward and anyone is open to approach me because I do want to capture how many people are involved but I am really looking now to film a demolition and that is something hard to ask people to do because it's obviously quite an upsetting and emotional thing but it's a piece of imagery that I don't yet have and I think it's a piece of imagery that'd be really powerful so really if I had to be selective people who know they've got a demolition coming up now if that's not happening in May that's fine because I've got a place here and I'm more than happy to come back so if you know it's coming up my email is on sort of articles and that can be shared for anyone to get in touch with me and as those have said I work by myself it's just me and quite a small camera so it's not a big crew and I won't be asking you to speak to me because I cannot appreciate you know the emotions of riding high with that and I'll try and be as inconspicuous as possible okay and if someone's listening and they are in that situation and they're happy enough to to let you film how can they reach you um so my email address is um Baal Shavon so b-a-h-l-s-i-o-b-h-a-n at gmail.com so if you just pop me an email and we can we can chat further okay Baal Shavon at gmail.com okay Shavon the best look with the project with the rest of the filming thanks for thanks for chatting