Bloody Sunday is a 2002 film about the 1972 "
Bloody Sunday" shootings in
Derry,
Northern Ireland. Although produced by
Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on
ITV on 20 January, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by
Paul Greengrass. Though set in Derry, the film was actually shot in
Ballymun in North
Dublin. However, some location scenes were shot in Derry, in Guildhall Square and in Creggan on the actual route of the in 1972.