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U.K. backers moving fast for 'Hunger'


May 16, 2007 Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen's debut feature, "Hunger," which centers on IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, has attracted backing from Northern Ireland and Ireland. The movie, being presold here worldwide by Becker International, is being co-financed by the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and FilmFour. Hunger" is billed "as a highly evocative and impressionistic interpretation of the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands, leader of the 1981 IRA hunger strike at the notorious Maze prison.

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