Filmed during the Belfast based production of the BBC drama, Best: His Mother’s Son, Best: Made in Belfast is a short ‘making-of’ documentary telling the story behind the 90-minute drama and the creative aims of the team involved.

With an intriguing new take on the George Best story, the drama presents a view of how an ordinary, loving, close-knit family deals with the extraordinary phenomenon of celebrity in an age where there were no precedents, and crucially how alcohol begins to assert a malign influence on all their lives.

Insightful interviews from Scottish director Colin Barr, Northern Irish writer Terry Cafolla and a largely Northern Irish cast including Michelle Fairley and Lorcan Cranitch, all combine with the wintry Belfast locations to remind us that this a poignant and salutary tale for our times.

Michelle Fairley as Ann Best on the set of Best: His Mother’s Son filmed in The Painthall Studios in old Harland and Wolff

Dermot Lavery of DoubleBand Films, producer of Best: Made in Belfast and one of the Executive Producers on the drama said: “I knew when we first became involved with Best: His Mother’s Son that it would be special. There is something profoundly moving and emblematic in the relationship between George Best and his mother Ann, with their simultaneous and heart rending struggles with alcoholism. It’s a chapter of George’s story that often gets lost in the versions that highlight his football genius, rocketing fame then long lingering and painful fall from grace.

“But perhaps George Best’s continuing iconic status and enduring legacy leads us to conclude that there is an appetite among the wider public to extract something more meaningful from his story, something that tells us about the nature of alcoholism and celebrity. I knew that a film like Best: His Mother’s Son could only add to that potential.”

Best: Made in Belfast is a Doubleband Films production for BBC Northern Ireland on Sunday, April 26, BBC Two Northern Ireland at 10.30pm, following on from the network screening of Best: His Mother’s Son also on BBC Two at 9pm.