Trevor Jones's Score for In the Name of the Father

I’ve done a handful of films in my time that I feel are particularly significant. These are films that have commented on, and I believe contributed to, changing people’s perception or understanding of particular subjects. One such film was In The Name of the Father, which, I believe, was screened for the House of Commons and the House of Lords. I feel that this did change the British government’s attitude and their policies at that time with regard to the Irish question. Up to that point we were interviewing Sinn Féin people behind frosted glass and using actors’ voices. I wanted to score this film because I felt I could contribute, in however a small way, to such an important issue. Other such films include Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning, which looked at the question of racial tension in 1960s America, and Aegis, the Japanese film which raised the question of the North Korean threat to Japan. ¹