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The Boarding School Bomber
Debut broadcast commission
The Boarding School Bomber, a 60 min film starring Adam Deacon.
9pm Monday 21st November 2011, BBC3
The true story of how and why a public schoolboy became a would be suicide bomber.
This compelling film is the debut BBC broadcast commission for Bristol based Omni Productions. The Boarding School Bomber starring Adam Deacon (Adulthood, Kidulthood) is an hour long documentary-drama telling the story of Isa Ibrahim, the middle class public school boy from Bristol, who in 2009 was arrested in Westbury-on-Trym and convicted for planning a terrorist act.
The commission grew out of a short drama called Conviction made for Avon and Somerset Police in 2010 as part of a training package aimed at preventing violent extremism. The film focused on the story of Isa Ibrahim, highlighting a series of missed opportunities, alongside the ultimate success of police relations with the Muslim communities that resulted in Isa’s eventual arrest.
Omni Productions have a track record of making award-winning dramas for the public sector, but have always had ambitions to make longer length programmes for TV. Their chance came after Tamsin Summers, Development Executive at Omni Productions showed a commissioner at the BBC a clip from Conviction. The commissioner immediately saw the story as one of national significance and very relevant to the BBC3 audience, and was impressed by the power of the drama.
Omni brought Susannah Price on board, an independent Producer / Director who worked closely with the team to develop the film for the BBC. Richard Penfold (writer director) and Sam Hearn (co-director) created additional drama that was added to the existing drama from Conviction and integrated into the new film. The drama sits alongside interviews with Isa’s friends, the police involved with the investigation and Isa’s mother, as well as footage Isa watched on the internet. Omni were given exclusive access to CCTV footage showing Isa’s journey across the city, which is interwoven with the drama.
“Its amazing that we have been able to make the leap from Corporate drama to TV commission: we have always believed in the quality of our work, but it’s very hard to get a commission without a track record and we are thrilled that the BBC saw talent in the company, and by teaming us up with the right people, were confident to award us with this commission.”
Executive Producer, Rachel Drummond-Hay.
The Boarding School Bomber is on BBC3 on Monday 21 November at 9.00pm.
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