Pavee Lackeen (film)

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Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl
Directed by	Perry Ogden
Written by	Perry Ogden, Mark Venner
Starring	Winnie Maughan, Michael Collins
Distributed by	Pierre Grise Distribution
Release date(s)	2005
Language	English (subtitled due to accent)
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Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl is a documentary-style film released in 2005 that depicts the life of a young Irish Traveller girl (Winnie) and her family. Most of the characters are played by the Maughan family, led by youngest daughter Winnie.

Its director and co-writer, Perry Ogden, won an IFTA Award in the category of Breakthrough Talent in 2005. Winnie was nominated for Best Actress in a Feature Film in the same awards.

Filmed entirely on video, the film was described as startlingly real, showing squalor and oppression in a non-sentimental way.

In the film, the family lives in a trailer near a construction site. They have no running water, and so they use a tap across the street and carry water home. Electrical items are powered by a generator. The mother is illiterate, and relies on friends to read things to her. Social Services visits them often, regarding a house to live in (a 6-year waiting list for a neighborhood that is safe for them, safe from discrimination and violence) and other issues. The daughter Winnie is kicked out of school for fighting. They are ordered to move their trailer when the construction site needs the space they are on, so they are moved down the street to a site with puddles and rats, and their water tap is not reinstalled by the local council.