Summary
TWINS, particularly identical ones, have always fascinated me. They are different from the rest of us, living their lives in the context of a 'we' rather than the more usual 'I'.
In 1994, I made the Bafta award-winning documentary Silent Twins: Without My Shadow, about identical twins and elective mutes June and Jennifer Gibbons, who committed arson and were sentenced, aged just 19, to an indefinite period inside Broadmoor Hospital, one of Britain's state mental institutions.See the full content of this document
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Theirs was an extreme tale of an intense love-hate relationship and a struggle for an individual personality, resolved only by Jennifer's premature death, aged 30. June struggled to carve a separate identity for herself after she lost her sister.
When Charlotte Moore, the BBC's commissioning editor for documentaries, asked me earlier this year to make a film about the twins who lost their 'other halves' in the attacks on New York's Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, I accepted without hesitation.Almost 3,000 people were killed in the attacks that terrible day, and 46 of them...See the full content of this document
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