John Furse (director)
John Furse is a film and television director/writer/producer, son of Patrick and Elisabeth Furse (see Furse for family connections).
Work
- Blind Flight, the true story of the hostage ordeal in Lebanon of journalist John McCarthy and teacher Brian Keenan (cinema film, as director, screenwriter and executive producer).
- Living On The Edge with director Michael Grigsby (documentary film, as producer and co-deviser).
- Looks That Kill with producer Roger Graef (television documentary, as director and writer).
- Helen Bamber - On The Trail Of Torture (television documentary, as director and writer).
Further reading
- Flying Blind by John Furse in The Independent on Sunday on 4 April 2004.
- Michael Grigsby and John Furse in Interview and Film Review by Julian Petley on Monthly Film Bulletin, June 1987
- John Furse, "The NHS Dismantled", London Review of Books, vol. 41, no. 21 (7 November 2019), pp. 30–31. "The Americanisation of the NHS is... already in full swing.... [p. 30.] NHS property and land assets worth £10 billion are being sold to private developers. The fragmentation of a once fully integrated service into competing and commercially-driven units is well advanced and has been accomplished without proper public scrutiny, knowledge, consent or appropriate Parliamentary legislation.... [p. 31.]" John Furse's film, Groundswell: The Grassroots Battle for the NHS and Democracy, is available online.
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