Feature FILms - Irish Film Board

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Introduction
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Features / Coming Soon
Happy Ever Afters
Cherrybomb
Savage
Ondine
The Eclipse The Wake Wood Occi Versus the World
One Hundred Mornings
One Hundred to One Outsiders
Eamon
The Race
The Secret of Kells
Wide Open Spaces Perrier’s Bounty
Cracks
Love and Savagery
Helen
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Creative co-production
Triage
Five Minutes of Heaven
The Hanged Man
Vasha
Little Foxes
A Shine of Rainbows
Nothing Personal
Princess
The Investigator
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FEATURES / 2008 RELEASES
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A Film With Me In It
Alarm
Eden
Kisses
Niko and the Way to the Stars
Saviours Summer of the Flying Saucer
The Escapist
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DOCUMENTaries
Colony
Little Matador
Identities
The Trial
Til The Tenth Generation
A Boatload of Wild Irishmen A Subtle Movement of Air
A Very British Gangster
An Paiste Beo Bocht
Aosdána
Big Time
Broken Tail’s Last Journey
Counting Sheep
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Creative Chaos: Round One
Hold the Passion
The Bass Player
The Father, The Son and The House Keeper
(At Home With The Cleary’s)
Documenting The Arts
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TELEVISION / DRAMA
Father & Son
George Gently III Rasaí na Gaillimhe
The Tudors III The Take
Uncle Max II
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animation
Abbi’s Circle
Ballybraddan
Fadó Fadó
Garth and Bev
Miss Remarkable & Her Career
Roy
The Trembling Veil of Bones
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SHORT FILM SCHEMES
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Short Films / LIVE ACTION & Animation
An Ranger Atlantic
Enough Farewell Packets of Ten
Féileachán Foireann Codladh Hoor
Lowland Fell
No Regrets in the West Nollaig Shona
Of Best Intentions Scoring
Shapes
Spacemen Three The Beekeeper’s Son
The Door The German
The Man in 301
The Man Inside
The Sound of People
The Wednesdays
Two Point Five Billion Uncle Bill’s Barrel
Visiting Day
Whatever Turns You On
Water Bodies
Colour Contamination
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Sandpiper
The Rooster, The Crocodile and The Night Sky
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INTRODUCTION
The year ended quite differently from the way
it began. In the first half of 2008 production
starts were few and far between, reflecting the
brutal market facing producers trying to make
independent films – not just in Ireland but across
the world – and the weakness of the dollar
besetting international films that might have chosen
Ireland as a location. But during the summer, while
there was still no sign of Hollywood, we counted
the number of Irish films that by then were set to
go into production in the coming months with Bord
Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB)
support and realised we were in for a record year.
So much so that by October we had effectively run
out of money.
aspiration of the IFB on my watch. A good many of
the films that started production this year see that
aspiration put into practice, and will serve to test it.
Twenty-five IFB-backed feature films will have
started production in Ireland during 2008, and that
does not include animation (two animated features
were delivered, Cartoon Saloon’s The Secret of
Kells and Magma’s Niko & the Way to the Stars) or
documentaries, where the emphasis of IFB support
is now on feature-length films with theatrical
potential. The tendency towards ever lower-budget
production continues here as everywhere in Europe,
with several films being made, as was last year’s
Once, for 1250,000 or even less. So it was good to
see Neil Jordan back at work in West Cork with
Ondine, and Bosnian director Danis Tanovic coming
here to make an Irish film, Triage, both on ‘doublefigure’ budgets.
Further, this was the year in which Ireland, and
Irish stories, seemed to become more than usually
interesting to non-Irish filmmakers. Besides Triage,
an unexpected consequence of the IFB’s openness
to support co-productions originated in other
countries (on a reciprocal basis) has been that a
number of these will be perceived by audiences
as Irish films, as was Ken Loach’s The Wind That
Shakes the Barley two years ago. Mira Fornayova’s
Little Foxes depicts the lives of young Slovak women
in contemporary Dublin; German director Oliver
Hirschbiegel tackles a tale from the Troubles in Five
Minutes of Heaven; Vic Sarin’s A Shine of Rainbows is
a Canadian take on a family movie set in Donegal;
and in Nothing Personal, Dutch-Polish director
Urszula Antoniak conjures up a unique relationship
between a Dutch woman escaping her past and a
Connemara man played by Stephen Rea.
This volume of production invites analysis of what
is going on in terms of trends and new departures.
During the Galway Film Fleadh, Irish Times critic
Michael Dwyer described Lance Daly’s new film,
Kisses, which premiered there before playing
the Locarno, Telluride, Toronto, London and
Thessaloniki festivals, as “Truffaut meets Roddy
Doyle”. The prospect of Irish filmmakers becoming
known for a type of cinema that is both auteurist
and popular is undeniably alluring, and is an
Our pursuit of strong, authorial filmmaking talent
led us to back, among others, Ken Wardrop to make
his first feature, One Hundred to One Outsiders;
Margaret Corkery to make hers, Eamon, the first
of the Catalyst Project films to get underway; and
Conor McPherson to return to the screen after
another Broadway triumph, with The Eclipse.
Meanwhile The Secret of Kells, unveiled by Tomm
Moore and his team in September, represents the
first animated feature with palpable Irish authorship
– manifest in its narrative, visuals and accents.
In documentaries, too, the IFB’s determination
to encourage Irish filmmakers to think bigger
and further has had the consequential effect of
attracting other world-class filmmakers to work
in and from Ireland: veteran British director Mike
Grigsby with I Was a Soldier: the Revisit, to be shot in
Texas; US director Liz Mermin with Horses, made
in the heart of Ireland; Sandra Jordan, recently
returned home from the UK, with Little Matador,
made in Mexico and Spain; and, still Dublin-based
but taking photographs all over the world, Perry
Ogden with The Palestine Project.
kisses
If all this adds up to new Irish cinema, and if the
profile of Irish filmmaking is lifting in the eyes of the
rest of the world, there is still much to be done in
order to ensure that Irish films consistently reach
Irish audiences and make more than an occasional
impact on our home market.
The IFB’s inevitable budget cut for 2009 will not
prevent us from applying resources to the next
frontier where we believe intervention is needed
to bring about change, namely the distribution
and exhibition of Irish films in Ireland. We are
closely examining ways in which Irish distribution
companies can be sustained and enabled to derive
benefits from an Irish theatrical market that is
independent of the UK.
With the Arts Council, we have provided a first
round of grants – linked to a commitment by
exhibitors to show a diverse range of films – for the
installation of digital projection equipment in 10
screens, with more to follow. The characteristics
of the Irish market mean the task that lies beyond
our continuing responsibility to maintain production
support is huge, but vital, and we relish it.
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Simon Perry
Chief Executive
Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board
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Features /
Coming soon
HAPPY EVER AFTERS
A screwball wedding comedy where two couples
are married in different churches on the
same day. Maura marries Wilson, a Nigerian
immigrant and Freddie marries the uptight
Sophie for the second time. However, trouble
begins when the two weddings collide with both
receptions booked for the same hotel and the
fun really starts when the immigration police
arrive.
Director/Script Stephen Burke Producer Lesley McKimm
Photography Jonathan Kovel Editor Guido Krajewski
Production Design John Hand Main Cast Sally Hawkins, Tom
Riley, Jade Yourell, Aryon Bakare, Sinead Maguire, Deirdre
Molloy, Simon Delaney, Tina Kellegher, Stanley Townsend,
Michael McElhatton, Ger Ryan Irish Locations Wicklow,
Dublin Running Time 95 minutes
Production Company Newgrange Pictures Tel +353 1 498
8028 lesley@newgrangepictures.com Financiers IFB,
Filmstiftung NRW, Films Distributions Distributors Walt
Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (Ireland),
Haut et Court (France), Hopscotch (Australia/New Zealand),
Frénetic (Switzerland), Cinéart (Benelux) Sales Agent Films
Distribution Tel + 33 1 53 10 19 47 info@filmsdistribution.com
Status Delivery mid 2009
CHERRYBOMB
Teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle embark
on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting
and stealing cars. But what starts as a game
turns deadly serious when they discover the wild
ride they’ve set in motion won’t let them get off.
Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn Producers
Michael Casey, Mark Huffam, Brian Kirk Script Daragh
Carville Photography Damian Elliott Editor Nick Emerson
Production Design David Craig Main Cast Rupert Grint,
Robert Sheehan, Kimberley Nixon Irish Location Down
Production Companies Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276
9468 aaron@metro.iol.ie, Green Park Films, Generator
Entertainment Financiers IFB, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC
NI, BCI Sales Agent The Little Film Company Tel +1 818 762
6999 info@thelittlefilmcompany.com
Status Delivery early 2009
Official Selection
Berlin Film Festival 2009
SAVAGE
A meditation on violence and masculinity,
this is the story of Paul Gaynor, a young press
photographer who lives, lonely and alienated, in
a hostile city and must struggle to rebuild his life
following a brutal, random attack.
Director/Script Brendan Muldowney Producer Conor Barry
Photography Tom Comerford, Michael O’Donovan Editor
Mairead McIvor Production Design Padraig O’Neill Main
Cast Darren Healy, Nora-Jane Noone Irish Location Dublin
Running Time 84 minutes
Production Company SP Films Tel +353 1 460 4760
info@spfilms.ie Financiers IFB, Filmbase
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ONDINE
Ondine is a tale about hope, love and the
value of believing in magic. It tells the story of
Syracuse, a local fisherman whose everyday life
is transformed by a beautiful and mysterious
woman, whom he fishes from the sea and who
his young daughter believes is a mermaid. But
as in all fairytales, enchantment and darkness
go hand in hand.
Director/Script Neil Jordan Producers Neil Jordan, James
Flynn, Ben Browning Photography Christopher Doyle Editor
Tony Lawson Production Design Anna Rackard Main Cast
Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Stephen Rea, Alison Barry
Irish Location Cork
Production Company Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276 9528
james@metro.iol.ie Financiers IFB, Wayfare Entertainment,
BCI, RTE Sales Agent Paramount Vantage Tel +1 323 956
5000 Status Delivery mid 2009
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THE ECLIPSE
Widower Michael Farr has been seeing and
hearing strange things late at night in his house.
He isn’t sure if he is simply having terrifying
nightmares or if his house is haunted. When
he volunteers at a local international literary
festival, he is drawn to the attractive Lena
Morelle who writes supernatural novels.
Lena has come to the festival at the bidding of
world-renowned novelist Nicholas Holden with
whom she had a brief affair with. As the festival
progresses, the trajectories of these three
people draw them into a life-altering collision
between the living and the dead.
Director Conor McPherson Producer Rob Walpole Script
Conor McPherson, Billy Roche Photography Ivan McCullough
Editor Emer Reynolds Production Design Mark Geraghty
Main Cast Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn
Irish Location Cork
Production Company Treasure Entertainment Tel +353 1
475 8820 info@treasure.ie Financiers IFB, RTE, BCI Status
Delivery early 2009
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THE WAKE WOOD
The villagers of Wake Wood perform an ancient
ritual to bring the dead back to life for three
days, in order to say farewell before their journey
to the spirit world. A young couple beg the
villagers to bring their daughter back but find
themselves unable to lose her for a second time.
Their attempts to keep her alive mean they must
pay a terrible price.
Director David Keating Producers John McDonnell, Brendan
McCarthy Script Brendan McCarthy, David Keating
Director of Photography Chris Maris Editor Dermot Diskin
Production Design John Hand Main Cast Aidan Gillen,
Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall, Ella Connolly Irish Location
Donegal Running Time 100 minutes
Production Companies Fantastic Films Tel +353 1 853 2300
info@fantasticfilms.ie, Solid Entertainment Financiers IFB,
Hammer Films Distributor Vertigo Films (UK, Ireland) Sales
Agent Exclusive Films Distribution info@hammerfilms.com
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OCCI VERSUS THE WORLD
Austin ‘Occi’ Byrne’s life begins when his mother
brings him back to her village in Sligo after she
fails to have an abortion in England. Occi suffers
traumatic bullying at the hands of a local gang,
but remains devoted to his increasingly alcoholic
mother, convinced that his lost father will one
day re-enter his life.
When the mental asylum he’s committed to as
an adolescent closes down, he finds work on a
trawler where he causes the death of a fellow
sailor. The murder goes undiscovered, but worse
awaits Occi when he returns home and learns
the truth about his parentage.
Director/Script Conor McDermottroe Producers Hermann
Florin, Edwina Forkin, Tom Maguire Photography Alexander
Du Prel Editor Mairead McIvor Production Design Padraig
O’Neill Main Cast Martin McCann, Jodie Whittaker, Marcella
Plunkett, Gerard McSorley, Brid Brennan, Owen Roe
Irish Location Sligo Running Time 100 minutes
Production Companies Zanzibar Films Tel +353 1 671 948
edwina@zanzibarfilms.net, Florin Film Financiers IFB, RTE,
Eurimage, Kinowelt, ZDF/Arte Distributors Kinowelt, ZDF/
Arte Sales Agent The Little Film Company Tel +1 818 762
6999 info@thelittlefilmcompany.com
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ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS
Two couples hide out in a remote holiday
home, trying to escape the consequences of
a breakdown of society. Their relationships
deteriorate as supplies grow scarce and they
face increasing threats from hungry outsiders. In
order to increase their chances of survival, they
each have to make choices they never imagined
would confront them.
Director/Script Conor Horgan Producer Katie Holly
Photography Suzie Lavelle Editor Frank Reid Main Cast Rory
Keenan, Ciarán McMenamin, Kelly Campbell, Alex Reid
Irish Location Wicklow Running Time 90 minutes
Production Company Blinder Films Tel +353 1 667 8066
katie@blinder.ie Financiers IFB, Filmbase, TV3, BCI Status
Delivery mid 2009
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ONE HUNDRED TO ONE OUTSIDERS
Essentially a creative documentary that
combines observation and imagination to
illustrate reality, the film follows the love life of
one woman through the experiences of several
women. It accumulates and explores moments
from the ordinary to create a life extraordinary.
Director/Script/Editor Ken Wardrop Producer Andrew
Freedman Photography Kate McCullough, Michael Lavelle
Irish Locations Offaly, Kildare, Laois, Westmeath, Meath,
Cavan Running Time 90 minutes
Production Company Venom Tel +353 1 497 5980 freedman@
venom.ie Financiers IFB Status Delivery mid 2009
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EAMON
A family holiday brings to a head the destructive
love triangle between Eamon, a little boy with
behavioural problems, his selfish mother Grace
and his sexually frustrated father Daniel.
Director/Script Margaret Corkery Producer Seamus
Byrne Photography David Grennan Editor Mairead McIvor
Production Design Paki Smith Main Cast Darren Healy, Amy
Kirwan, Robert Donnelly Irish Location Wicklow Running
Time 85 minutes
Production Company Zanita Films Tel +353 1 276 9540
production@zanita.ie Financiers IFB, BCI, Filmbase, TV3
Status Completed
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THE RACE
Thirteen-year-old Mary lives on a farm in a
small town and dreams of becoming a racing
driver. Despite the disapproval of her parents
and the local community, she enters a kart race
with the hope of accomplishing her heartfelt
ambitions. But as she builds the go-kart to take
part in the race, Mary must face the break-up
of her family and the prospect of a world of
opportunity beyond the farm.
Director André Nebe Producers Michael Garland, Martin
Hagemann Script Rowan O’Neill Photography Dirk
Morgernstern Production Design Grant Hicks Main Cast
Colm Meaney, Susan Lynch, Niamh McGirr Irish Locations
Monaghan, Down, Antrim Running Time 90 minutes
Production Companies Grand Pictures Tel +353 1 860
2290 michael@grandpictures.ie, Zero West Film Produkton
Financiers IFB, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC NI, NRW
Bank, Horsebridge Sales Agent High Point Films and
Television Tel +44 20 7424 6870 carey@highpointfilms.co.uk
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THE SECRET OF KELLS
Twelve hundred years ago an orphan named
Brendan met Brother Aidan, the keeper of
an extraordinary, but unfinished, book of
illuminations. Aidan sets Brendan a great task,
to complete the Book of Kells, which sees him
called to a new life of creativity and imagination
where adventure, danger and action await him.
With the threat of invading Vikings all around
and the help of Aisling, a mysterious young girl,
Brendan faces his deepest fears to complete the
task.
The Book of Kells is one of the masterpieces of
European art and this story, a blend of fantasy
and legend, tells of its creation.
Director Tomm Moore Co-Director Nora Twomey Producers
Paul Young, Didier Brunner, Viviane Vanfleteren Script Tomm
Moore, Fabrice Ziolkowski Editor Fabienne Alvarez-Giro
Art Director Ross Stewart Music Bruno Coulais, Kila Main
Cast Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally, Evan McGuire, Christen
Mooney Running Time 75 minutes
Production Companies Cartoon Saloon Tel +353 56 77
64481 info@cartoonsaloon.ie, Les Armateurs, Vivi Film
Financiers IFB, BCI, France 2 Cinema, Eurimages, Media
programme, Canal+ Cine cinema, Conseil General de la
Charente, Piste rouge, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Centre
du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française
de Belgique et des Télédistributeurs Wallons, Promimage,
Wallimage Distributors Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
International (Ireland), Gebeka (France), KFD (Belgium)
Sales Agent Celluloid Dreams Tel + 33 1 4970 0370
alessandro@celluloid-dreams.com Status Completed
Directors Finders Series Award - Tomm Moore 2008
Screen Directors Guild of Ireland
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WIDE OPEN SPACES
Myles and Austin are working off a debt by
helping to convert an old tin mine into an Irish
Famine theme park for local entrepreneur
Owen. Marooned by apathy and inertia, Myles
is determined to change and get back to a life
more ordinary in the big city. The discovery of a
brown envelope of cash looks like a way out for
the pair until Austin’s on-line gambling habit
resurfaces and raises the stakes for both of
them. They’ll soon learn it can be easier to break
up with a girl than with your best male friend.
Director Tom Hall Producers Paul Donovan, Clare Kerr
Script Arthur Matthews Photography Tim Fleming Editor
Kristina Hetherington Production Design Laurel Wear Main
Cast Ardal O’Hanlon, Ewen Bremner, Owen Roe, Morwenna
Banks Irish Location Kildare
Production Companies Grand Pictures Tel +353 1 860 2290
paul@grandpictures.ie, Mead Kerr Financiers IFB, Scottish
Screen, E1 Entertainment, RTÉ Distributor Element Pictures
Distribution (Ireland) Sales Agent Maximum Films
Tel +1 618 5032 Status Delivery mid 2009
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Perrier’s Bounty
Set in contemporary Dublin, Perrier’s Bounty
is a fast paced comedy-thriller featuring three
unlikely fugitives on the run from gangster
supremo, Perrier, who is desperate to retain
his pride and cash after the accidental murder
of one of his loyal gang. With only 24 hours to
escape certain death, the trio must beat the
clock, stay awake, and above all, pay Perrier’s
bounty.
Director Ian Fitzgibbon Producers Alan Moloney, Stephen
Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen Script Mark O’Rowe Photography
Seamus Deasy Editor Tony Cranstoun Production Design
Amanda McArthur Main Cast Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent,
Jodie Whittaker, Brendan Gleeson Irish Locations Dublin,
Louth Running Time 90 minutes
Production Company Parallel Film Productions Tel +353
1 236 0757 info@parallelfilms.ie Financiers IFB, Limelight
Films, Premiere Picture, Optimum Releasing Distributor
Optimum Releasing (UK/Ireland) Sales Agent HanWay Films
Tel +44 207 290 0750 info@hanwayfilms.com
Status Delivery late 2009
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cracks
In an austere and cloistered girl’s boarding
school in 1930’s England, a girl’s unhealthy
bond with a beloved teacher, known as Miss
G, is threatened by the arrival of an exotic and
beautiful foreign student - whose rejection of
Miss G’s attentions threatens the status quo and
brings tragic consequences for her entire class.
Director Jordan Scott Producers Julie Payne, Kwesi Dickson,
Rosalie Swedlin, Andrew Lowe, Christine Vachon Script
Caroline Ip, Ben Court, Jordan Scott Photography John
Mathieson Editor Valerio Bonelli Production Design Ben
Scott Main Cast Eva Green, Juno Temple, Imogen Poots,
Maria Valverde, Sinead Cusack Irish Locations Dublin,
Wicklow Running Time 96 minutes
Production Companies Element Pictures Tel +353 1 618
5032 mail@elementpictures.ie, Future Films, Antenna 3
Films, Scott Free Financiers IFB, Legende, Optimum, Zantos
Pinewood, Future Films Distributors Optimum Releasing
(UK/Ireland), Studio Canal (France/Benelux) Sales Agent
HandMade Films International Tel +44 207 518 8230
info@handmadefilms.com Status Delivery early 2009
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LOVE AND SAVAGERY
Newfoundland poet Michael McCarthy arrives in
the west of Ireland in 1968 to study the rocks of
the Burren, the perfect place for quiet reflection.
But Michael soon becomes preoccupied with
a young and beautiful local woman, Cathleen
O’Connor. Cathleen’s passions are aroused by
the new man but she has long since chosen the
path of religion. Michael’s persistence collides
with the townspeople’s hostility towards a
foreigner’s attempt to impede the path of purity,
and Cathleen must choose whether to give her
life to a man or to God.
Director John Smith Producers Barbara Doran, Lynne
Wilson, Kevin Tierney, Tristan Orpen Lynch Script Des Walsh
Photography Pierre Letarte Editor Michel Arcand Production
Design Raymond Dupuis Main Cast Allan Hawco, Sarah
Greene Irish Location Clare Running Time 92 minutes
Production Companies Subotica Entertainment Tel +353 1
662 2226 info@subotica.ie, Morag Loves Company (Canada),
Park Ex Pictures (Canada) Financiers IFB, Telefilm Canada,
NLFDC, Mongrel Media, RTE Distributor Mongrel Media
(Canada) Tel +1 416 516 9775 Status Delivery early 2009
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HELEN
An 18-year-old girl called Joy has gone missing.
Another girl called Helen is a few weeks away
from leaving her care home. Helen is asked
to ‘play’ Joy in a police reconstruction that
will retrace Joy’s last known movements. Joy
had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a
bright future. Helen, parentless, has lived in
institutions all her life and has never been close
to anyone. Gradually Helen begins to immerse
herself in the role, visiting the people and places
that Joy knew, insinuating herself into the lost
girl’s life. But is Helen trying to find out what
happened to Joy, or is she searching for an
identity of her own?
Director/Script Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor Producer Joe
Lawlor Photography Ole Birkeland Editor Christine Molloy
Main Cast Annie Townsend, Sandie Malia, Danny Groenland,
Dennis Jobling Irish Location Dublin Running Time 79
minutes
Production Company Desperate Optimists Tel +44 78 7043
1722 info@desperateoptimists.com Financiers IFB, Arts
Council England, Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, Dublin
Docklands Development Authority, Liverpool Culture
Company, Birmingham City Council Distributor New Wave
Films (UK, Ireland)
Michael Powell Award Nominee
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008
Sutherland Trophy Award Nominee
London Film Festival 2008
In Competition
Dinard Film Festival 2008
Torino Film Festival 2008
Official Selection
Sydney Film Festival 2008
Telluride Film Festival 2008
Pusan International Film Festival 2008
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2008
“An impressive, beautifully shot debut feature”
Variety
“A hypnotic first feature”
Screen Daily
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Features /
CREATIVE
CO-PRODUCTION
Creative co-productions are feature films originating
outside Ireland in which an Irish producer is involved
as a creative collaborator and provider of a minority of
the finance; where the film is structured as an official
co-production; and where - if the content of the film
has little or no visible connection to Irish culture - there
is a commitment by a funding body in the principal
producer’s country to provide reciprocal support for an
Irish film.
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TRIAGE
War photographer Mark comes home to Ireland
battle-weary from a dangerous assignment in
Kurdistan. When his colleague and best friend
fails to return, Mark’s girlfriend Elena must find
the clues to the mystery that’s slowly killing her
boyfriend.
Director/Script Danis Tanovic Producers Alan Moloney,
Cedomir Kolar, Mark Baschet Photography Seamus Deasy
Editor Francesca Calvelli Production Design Derek Wallace
Main Cast Colin Farrell, Paz Vega, Kelly Reilly, Christopher
Lee, Jamie Sives Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90
minutes
Production Companies Parallel Film Productions Tel +353 1
236 0757 info@parallelfilms.ie, ASAP Films, Tornasol Films,
Freeform Spain Financiers IFB, Aramid Entertainment,
Sofica Coficup Films, Backup Films, Eurimages, Canal +,
RAI Cinema, Ciudad de la Luz Distributor RAI Cinema (Italy)
Sales Agent HanWay Films Tel +44 207 290 0750
info@hanwayfilms.com Status Delivery early 2009
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FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN
Two Ulstermen; one a murderer, the other
the brother of the man he killed. Since 1975
each of these two men has lived in dread of
encountering the other. One, Alistair, feels he
dare not ask forgiveness, the other, Joe, feels
incapable of giving it. When they do eventually
meet, Joe is armed and on the point of claiming
his revenge. But something extraordinary
happens – something that will change the rest of
their lives.
Director Oliver Hirschbiegel Producers Eoin O’Callaghan, Ed
Guiney, Andrew Lowe Script Guy Hibbert Photography Ruairí
O’Brien Editor Hans Funck Production Design Mark Lowry
Main Cast Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt Irish Location Down
5032 mail@elementpictures, Big Fish Films, Ruby Films
Financiers IFB, BBC Films, Pathé, Northern Ireland Screen
Distributor Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland) Sales
Agent Pathé Tel +44 20 7462 4416 info@pathe-uk.com Status
Delivery early 2009
Official Selection
Sundance Film Festival 2009
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THE HANGED MAN
(EL JUEGO DEL ADHORCADO)
Sandra and David have been the best of friends
since childhood, always defying the social
conventions of provincial Gerona. Just as
adolescence is bringing huge changes for them
and their relationship, they are victims of a
shocking incident, the truth of which becomes
a terrible secret between them. Sandra’s
restlessness and yearning for the wider world,
and her curiosity about the only thing her friend
has never been able to share with her, will have
fatal consequences for them and their growing
love.
Director Manuel Gómez Pereira Producers Ana Amigo,
Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic Wright Script Manuel Gómez
Pereira, Salvador Garcia Ruiz Photography Juan Amoros
Editor Jose Salcedo Production Design Ana Alvargonzalez,
Ciara O’Donnell Main Cast Clara Lago, Alvaro Cervantes,
Adriana Ugarte, Mary Murray Irish Location Dublin Running
Time 113 minutes
Production Companies Subotica Entertainment Tel
+353 1 662 2226 info@subotica.ie, Amigo Producciones,
Cinematograficas, Lennon Producciones Financiers IFB,
ICCA, TVE (Spain), ICIC (Catalan Film Institute), TV3 (Spain),
Mesfilms Distributor Sony Pictures (Spain)
Tel +34 91 377 71 00 Status Completed
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VASHA
Tom, a wide-eyed, Estonian sixteen-year-old,
finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a
deadly game on the streets of Tallinn when he
befriends Artur, a Chechen terrorist hell-bent on
avenging the torture and murder of his family.
Director/Script Hannu Salonen Producers Piret TibboHudgins, Philipp Homberg, Jarkko Hentula, Nathalie
Lichtenthaeler Photography Rein Kotov Editor Julia
Oehring Production Design Jaagup Roomet Main Cast Mart
Muurisepp, Mehmet Kurtulus, Tim Seyfi Running Time 100
minutes
Production Companies Wide Eye Films Tel +353 1 678 7930
mail@wideeyefilms.com, Homberg Film Producktion, All
Film, Juoni Filmi Financiers IFB, Estonian Film Foundation,
Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture,
TV3, Tallink, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein,
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, ARD Degeto, Finnish Film
Foundation, YLE TV1 Status Completed
43
LITTLE FOXES (LíSTICKY)
Dubliner Steve and his Slovak girlfriend Tina
are building their life in Ireland. Then Tina’s
sister Alzbeta arrives, ostensibly to follow Tina’s
example and find a job and an Irish partner. But
Alzbeta is carrying a secret that will shatter the
sisters’ dreams of a cosy future.
Director/Script Mira Fornayovà Producers David Collins,
Brian Willis, Viktor Schwarcz, Juraj Buzalka Photography
Tomas Pavlacky Editor Hedvika Hansalova Production
Design Jan Vicek, Cos Egan Main Cast Aaron Monaghan,
Rita Banci, Reka Dersziova, Jitka Joskova Irish Locations
Wicklow, Dublin Running Time 90 minutes
Production Companies Samson Films Tel +353 1 667
0533 info@samsonfilms.com, Cineart TV Prague, Miras
SRO Financiers IFB, Czech Film Fund, Slovak Film Fund,
Eurimages, Ceska Televize Status Delivery early 2009
44
A SHINE OF RAINBOWS
In the far west of Ireland, a lonely orphan’s
life is transformed by an extraordinary woman
who defies her dour husband’s disapproval,
and suppresses the tragic truth about her own
future, to teach the boy to conquer grief and
discover the magic in nature and in himself.
Director/Photography Vic Sarin Producers Tina Pehme,
Kim Roberts, James Flynn Script Dennis Foon, Catherine
Spear, Vic Sarin Editor Alison Grace Production Design Tom
McCullagh Main Cast Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, John Bell
Irish Location Donegal
Production Companies Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276 9468
aaron@metro.iol.ie, Sepia Films Financiers IFB, Telefilm,
Corus Family Feature Fund, Shaw Rocket Fund, Harold
Greenberg Fund Sales Agent Seville Pictures International
(Canada) Tel +1 514 841 1910 maripierred@sevillepicture.ca
45
NOTHING PERSONAL
Anne is a Dutch woman who hits the road to
escape a personal grief. Hitching her way to
the west coast of Ireland, she happens upon an
isolated farm belonging to Martin, a man who
has chosen the freedom that solitude brings
him. When he offers Anne work on the farm in
exchange for food and shelter, she agrees on
condition there will be no questions, no small
talk between them.
Slowly they become curious about each other,
determined to keep the deal but increasingly
tempted to break it. Both are faced with the
challenge of trying to know someone without
asking questions, of expressing feelings without
using words. In time, despite their ardent desire
not to be shackled by dependence on another
person, they develop a unique relationship that
awakens both of them to the real value of love.
Director/Script Urszula Antoniak Producers Reinier Selen,
Edwin van Meurs, Morgan Bushe Photography Daniel
Bouquet Editor Nathalie Alonso Casale Production Design
Jane English Main Cast Lotte Verbeek, Stephen Rea Irish
Location Galway Running Time 90 minutes
Production Companies Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9566
morgan@fastnetfilms.com, Rinkel Film, Family Affair Films
Financiers IFB, Dutch Film Fund, Co-BO Fund, VPRO Status
Delivery mid 2009
46
PRINCESS (PRINsESSA)
In this contemporary comedy, 18 year-old Maja
dreams of becoming an actress, so that she can
be the centre of attention and people will see
past her overweight exterior. Erika, an aspiring
documentary filmmaker, sees an opportunity
to create tragicomic entertainment at Maja’s
expense. Maja agrees to be in Erika’s film but,
as filming progresses, Maja realises she is being
used. It then dawns on her that Erika needs her
subject as much as Maja needs Erika’s camera
– maybe even more - and Maja will eventually
take centre-stage, on her own terms.
Director/Script Teresa Fabik Producers Sandra Harms,
Morgan Bushe Photography Tobias Höiem-Flyckt Editor
Martin Hunter Production Design Gilles Balabaud Main Cast
Zandra Andersson, Moa Silen, Anastasios Soulis
morgan@fastnetfilms.com, Breidablick Film Production
Financiers IFB, Sonet Film, Film i Vast, Kanal 5, Swedish
Film Institute, Nordisk Film, Film i Dalarna, Canal+
Distributor Svensk Filmindustri (Sweden, Norway) Status
Delivery mid 2009
47
THE INVESTIGATOR (A NYOMAZÓ)
The hero of this unconventional crime story is
37-year-old Tibor. In the city hospital where he
works as a pathologist, his mother is dying of
cancer. He discovers there is a possible cure for
her, but it requires the kind of money he just
doesn’t have. But then a mysterious one-eyed
man called Cyclops comes into his life and offers
him the money he needs if he agrees to carry
out an assassination for him. Tibor accepts the
job, without knowing the identity of the intended
target. A letter he receives after the killing,
however, reveals circumstances that shed a
totally new light on the contract.
Director/Script Attila Galambos Producers Ferenc Pusztai,
Macdara Kelleher, Martin Persson Photography Mate Herbai
Editor Zoltan Kovacs Production Design Sandra Sztevanovity
Main Cast Zsolt Anger, Judit Rezes, Sandor Terhes Running
Time 108 minutes
macdara@fastnetfilms.com, KMH Film, Anagram Production
Financiers IFB, Film i Vast, HMPF Sales Agent TrustNordisk
Tel +45 36 868 788 info@trustnordisk.com Status Completed
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008
Special Mention of the Jury
Don Quijote Award
Warsaw International Film Festival 2008
FIPRESCI Award
Hungarian Film Week 2008
Best Screenplay
Best Genre Film
Official Selection
Montreal International Film Festival 2008
48
Features /
2008 Releases
49
32A
This story is set in the ‘in-between’ time of a
girl’s life, when she is no longer a child and not
yet a woman. We open on our heroine, Maeve,
putting on her new snow white bra and stepping
out into the world as a young woman. Her world
revolves around her three best friends who
despair of her ever getting a boyfriend. But what
no one expected, least of all Maeve, was that she
would snare the local 16-year-old heart-throb.
Director/Script Marian Quinn Producers Tommy Weir,
James Flynn Photography PJ Dillon Editor Rune Schweitzer
Production Design Paki Smith Main Cast Aidan Quinn, Orla
Brady, Jared Harris, Ailish McCarthy, Sophie Jo Wasson,
Riona Smyth, Orla Long Irish Locations Dublin, Roscommon,
Sligo Running Time 95 minutes
Production Company Janey Pictures Tel +353 71 913 88 info@
janeypictures.com Financiers IFB, BCI, RTE, Medienboard
Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Distributor Janey Pictures Sales Agent Beta Cinema, Tel +49
89 673 469 829 ARothbauer@betacinema.com
Best First Feature
Galway Film Fleadh 2007
Official Selection
Seattle International Film Festival 2008
Newport International Film Festival Rhode Island 2008
Melbourne International Film Festival 2008
Woodstock Film Festival New York 2008
Sao Paolo International Film Festival Brazil 2008
“Sweet and brightly lit coming-of-ager. Quinn makes a
strong impression”
Variety
“32A possesses a sweetness to it rarely seen in modern
youth dramas, Quinn, making her directorial debut, shows
a flair for bittersweet teenage romance and burgeoning
relationships with a refreshingly sincere approach”
Indiewire
“Refreshingly simple, a coming of age drama laced with
easy charm and a touch of class”
Sunday Tribune
“Costume, production design and soundtrack are all noteperfect, superbly photographed”
Sunday Business Post
50
A FILM WITH ME IN IT
A black comedy which tells the story of a downon-his-luck actor who, through no fault of his
own, ends up with a dead dog, a dead brother,
a dead girlfriend and a dead landlord in his
apartment. Shocked and unable to process what
has occurred, he enlists the help of a hapless
but hilarious friend. Together they hatch a
genius plan to treat their predicament as a film
scenario and try to rewrite the day.
Director Ian Fitzgibbon Producers Alan Moloney, Susan
Mullen Script Mark Doherty Photography Seamus Deasy
Editor Tony Cranstoun Production Design Eleanor Wood
Music Denis Woods Main Cast Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty,
Amy Huberman Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90
minutes
Production Company Parallel Film Productions
Tel +353 1 236 0757 info@parallelfilms.ie Distributor Vertigo
Distribution (Ireland/UK)
Official Selection
Toronto International Film Festival 2008
Edinburgh Film Festival 2008
“It’s a low-fi comedy, a black brew of frenzy and farce that
does an awful lot with very little”
Sunday Tribune
“Ian Fitzgibbon makes the most of his mordant set up, his
instantly recognisable characters, his expressionist mood
and some wickedly sharp dialogue, concocting something
that in the end comes to resemble Withnail & I as rejigged
by Abbot & Costello”
“A Film With Me In It is, without a doubt, the darkest comedy
I have seen in a very, very long time. It is also, without a
doubt, the funniest and most satisfying”
Todd Brown, Toronto Film Festival 2008
51
ALARM
This contemporary psychological thriller tells
the story of Molly, grieving after her father’s
violent death. With hopes of a fresh start, she
buys a house in a new out-of-town commuter
estate. But the promised suburban idyll turns
increasingly sinister as Molly becomes the
victim of what appears to be a violent and
personal vendetta. Her life is transformed into
a tightening vice of fear as she’s gripped by
suspicion of everyone around her - her oldest
friends, the local handymen and her new lover.
Director/Script Gerard Stembridge Producers Anna Devlin,
Marina Hughes Photography Bruno de Keyser Editor Mary
Finlay Production Design Fiona Daly Music Donnacha
Dennehy Main Cast Ruth Bradley, Aidan Turner Irish
Locations Wicklow, Dublin Running Time 98 minutes
Production Company Venus Productions Tel +353 1 670
4274 venus.productions@ireland.com Financiers IFB, BCI,
RTE, GötaFilm International, Film i Väst Distributor Venus
Productions Sales Agent Cinema Vault Tel +1 415 363 6060
admin@cinemavault.com
52
EDEN
Set in a thriving midlands town, Eden tells
the story of a week in the lives of Billy and
Breda Farrell as they approach their 10th
wedding anniversary. Breda is determined
that the milestone will re-ignite the passion in
their marriage. Billy, on the other hand, has
developed an obsession with Imelda Egan, a
pretty but unobtainable local young girl, and
convinced himself that the coming weekend
will see them become lovers. As the date draws
closer Billy’s behaviour becomes more and more
chaotic, while Breda’s frustrations crystallize
and find more mature, high-risk expression.
Director Declan Recks Producer David Collins Script Eugene
O’Brien Photography Owen McPoilin Editor Gareth Young
Production Design John Hand Main Cast Aidan Kelly, Eileen
Walsh, Karl Shiels, Padraic Delaney, Lesley Conroy Irish
Location Offaly Running Time 84 minutes
Production Company Samson Films Tel +353 1 667 0533
info@samsonfilms.com Financiers IFB, BCI, RTE Distributor
Liberation Entertainment (North America)
Best Actress Eileen Walsh
Tribeca Film Festival 2008
Best Film
Boston Irish Film Festival 2008
Official Selection
Edinburgh Film Festival 2008
Alexandria Film Festival Cairo 2008
Warsaw international Film Festival 2008
Vancouver International Film Festival 2008
Kaunas Lithuania Film Festival 2008
“...pure cinema...brilliantly directed by Declan Recks...it’s
the yardstick by which all other Irish films this year will be
judged, and the standard is set very high.”
Michael Dwyer, Chief Film Critic, Irish Times
“…one of the most honest, touching and quietly insightful
stories I’ve seen in quite some time…this is a great little
movie…Eden is almost achingly personal in a way you
rarely see outside art houses or film festivals… and it’s
a testament to the small but powerful Irish film industry
that…stories like this one get funding.”
Cinematical
“Recks and O’Brien masterfully maneuver the emotional
complexities of their characters, parlaying the utmost
minutiae into brilliant indications of depth, and giving equal
footing to both their beautiful and devastating sides.”
David Kwok, Tribeca Film Festival 2008
53
KISSES
Two ten-year-old kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away
from dysfunctional homes into the streets of
inner city Dublin. Searching for Dylan’s elder
brother as the night closes in, they’re led into
encounters that open their eyes not only to the
wider world but to each other. Their new-found
freedom turns sour when the darker side of
Dublin’s nightlife starts to emerge and Dylan
discovers that Kylie has deeper motives for
running away. He is forced to choose between
his common sense and his loyalty to her and
they will need more than everyday luck if they
are to make it through to the morning.
Director/Script Lance Daly Producer Macdara Kelleher
Photography Jake Corbitt Editor J. Patrick Duffner
Production Design Waldemar Kalinawski Music Go Blimps
Go Main Cast Kelly O’Neill, Shane Curry, Nellie Conroy, Paul
Roe, Stephen Rea Irish Location Dublin Running Time 75
minutes
Production Company Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9566
producer@fastnetfilms.com Financiers IFB, Film I Vast, TV3,
Zentropa, BCI. Distributor Element Pictures (Ireland) Sales
Agent Focus Features International Tel +44 207 307 5591
karen.finnegan@focusfeatures.com
Best Irish Feature
Official Selection
Locarno Film Festival 2008
Toronto International Film Festival 2008
Telluride Film Festival 2008
London Film Festival 2008
AFI FEST 2008
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2008
“Gritty yet poetic…. the best film to come out of Ireland
since Adam & Paul”
Irish Examiner
“Unforgettable…. Foul-mouthed and full of life”
Hollywood Reporter
“Kisses is one of those fragile films which could be
discovered by audiences if it is given the chance to build
word-of-mouth like last year’s Irish charmer Once”
Screen Daily
54
NIKO AND THE WAY TO THE STARS
Animated adventure about a boy reindeer Niko
who longs to learn to fly like his father who is a
member of Santa’s Flying Forces. After an attack
on the reindeer herd by wolves, an event for
which Niko takes the blame, he heads off on a
journey to find his father and warn him of the evil
Black Wolf’s plan to destroy the Flying Forces.
Niko is joined on his heroic journey by his
guardian and surrogate father Julius, a clumsy
flying squirrel, and by a wild weasel girl called
Wilma. But, in the end, Niko will be alone to face
the father he has idolised for so long.
Directors Michael Hegner, Kari Juusonen Producers Hannu
Tuomainen, Petteri Pasanen, Moe Honan, Irene Sparre
Hjorthøj Script Hannu Tuomainen, Marteinn Thorisson,
Mark Hodkinson Editor Per Risager Music Stephen McKeon
Main Cast Voices Morgan Jones, Andrew McMahon, Aileen
Mythen, Paul Tyla Running Time 80 minutes
Production Companies Magma Films Tel +353 91 569 142
moe@magmaworld.com, Animaker, Ulysses Films, AFilm
Financiers IFB, HFF, NFTVF, DFI, FFF, YLE, TV2, Eurimages,
Telepool, ZDF, Europool Distributor Telepool GMBH Tel +49
89 55 87 61 88 telepool@telepool.de
Cinekid Lion Award for Best Film
Cinekid Festival, Amsterdam 2008
Audience Award for Best Film
Cinekid Festival, Amsterdam 2008
55
SAVIOURS
An intimate, gripping documentary following
three young boxers from the same Dublin boxing
club, St. Saviours Olympic Boxing Academy. The
club is a safe haven amongst the dangerous
flats of Dublin’s north inner city, where, under
the guidance of the club’s canny coaches, three
boxers fight for a better life both inside and
outside the ring.
Directors/Producers/Photography Ross Whitaker, Liam
Nolan Editor Bob Caldwell Music Stephen Shannon Running
Time 80 minutes
Production Company Street Films Tel +353 86 081 6004
streetfilmsireland@gmail.com; www.myspace.com/
savioursfilm Financier IFB Distributor Eclispe Pictures
(Ireland)
Best European Documentary
International Film Festival of South Africa 2008
Best Feature Documentary
Waterford Film Festival 2007
Official Selection
SXSW Festival 2008
Boston Independent Film Festival 2008
Chicago Irish Film Festival 2008
“Packs as much of a punch as Champ, Raging Bull and all
the Rocky films put together”
Irish Times
“Saviours is the kind of film-making that bottles
inspiration”
Sunday Tribune
“A brilliantly observed exploration…. a film well worth
seeing”
“Saviours is a small miracle... a perfectly formed drama...
this year’s Once.”
Hot Press
“Saviours represents the best in bare-bones, small-scale
filmmaking...”
Chicago Tribune
“A wonderful film that, like any great documentary, offers a
riveting slice of real life that’s both parochial and universal”
The Irish Examiner
56
SUMMER OF THE FLYING SAUCER
Set in 1967, Dan’s dull existence on a farm in the
west of Ireland is turned topsy-turvy when aliens
land in his back-yard. He must use all his guile
to help them pass as humans while at the same
time he falls for the alien girl.
Director Martin Duffy Producers Clodagh Freeman, Ralph
Christians Script Marteinn Thorisson Photography Seamus
Deasy Editor Michal Leszczylowski Production Design Nicola
Moroney Main Cast Robert Sheehan, Joanne Kerrnan, Dan
Colly, Hugh O’Connor Irish Location Galway Running Time
95 minutes
Production Company Magma Films Tel +353 91 569 142
clodagh@magmaworld.com Financiers IFB, Swedish Film
Institute, Film I Vast,Telepool, Eurimages, RTE Distributors
Folkets Bio (Nordic Countries), Ulysses Music Publishing
(Ireland) Sales Agent Telepool GMBH Tel +49 89 55 876 0
telepool@telepool.de
Official Selection
LUCAS International Children’s Film Festival, Frankfurt 2008
Carrousel International du Film, Canada 2008
‘Summer of the Flying Saucer boasts an innocent charm….
Robert Sheehan puts in a charismatic performance’
Irish Examiner
57
THE ESCAPIST
Contemporary prison drama that unfolds as
two parallel stories: one leads us through
events building up to an escape attempt by five
inmates; the other shows us the escape itself
in minute, intense detail. But a twist at the end
reveals that for one of the escapists his personal
outcome is far more tragic than we had been
induced to believe.
Director Rupert Wyatt Producers Adrian Sturges, Alan
Moloney Script Rupert Wyatt, Daniel Hardy Photography
Philip Blaubach Editor Joe Walker Production Design Jim
Furlong Music Benjamin Wallfisch Main Cast Brian Cox,
Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic
Cooper, Steven Macintosh, Damien Lewis Irish Location
Dublin Running Time 100 minutes
Production Company Parallel Film Productions Tel +353 1
236 0757 info@parallelfilms.ie Financiers IFB, UKFC, Anglo
Irish Bank, A&E Films, Vertigo Distribution Distributors
Vertigo Distribution (UK/Ireland), Think Film (North
America), Indie Circle (Italy, France, Belgium, Benelux) Sales
Agent Goalpost Films (UK/Ireland) Tel +44 77 7196 6190
Best Achievement in Production
British Independent Film Awards 2008
Official Selection
“Brian Cox calmly registers ranges of steely determination,
fatherly care and regret-filled sadness with great
authority”
Variety
“Through an exhilarating mix of sublime editing, artful
compositions and a very fine ensemble cast… (Wyatt) ends
up producing a little gem”
Irish Independent
“The story telling is undeniably exciting and tense…”
Screen Daily
58
Documentaries /
59
COLONY
Colony explores the phenomenon of Colony
Collapse Disorder devastating the honeybee
population in North America. As a result of this
occurance bees are dying in massive numbers
and nobody knows why. In this documentary
commercial beekeepers tell their stories of
their two year battle against the effects of this
mysterious disorder.
Director Ross McDonnell Producers Morgan Bushe,
Macdara Kelleher Photography/Editor Carter Gunn
Production Company Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9566
producer@fastnetfilms.com Financier IFB Status Delivery
early 2009
60
LITTLE MATADOR
This film charts the new wave of child matadors
and the challenges they face in their attempts
to realise their dreams of becoming top
bullfighters in Mexico. This story explores the
parents and trainers who are ready to risk their
children’s lives in the hope they’ll become a
star. Little Matador describes the extreme rites
of passage these children make – an intense
and unnatural test of children’s courage - that
is at once harrowing, beautiful and utterly
compelling.
Director Sandra Jordan Producers Ed Guiney, Gabriel Range
Photography Mark Garrett
5032 mail@elementpictures.ie, The Borough Film Company
Financiers IFB, Film Agency Wales Distributor Element
Pictures (Ireland) Status Delivery late 2009
61
IDENTITIES
TILL THE TENTH GENERATION
“Man is least himself when he speaks in his own
person, give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
For almost 60 years Tomi Reichental was silent
about his experiences in the Nazi death camp of
Bergen Belsen. Now, as the ranks of Holocaust
survivors dwindle, Tomi has found his voice and
returns for the first time to the place where he
witnessed as a nine-year-old, the annihilation of
thousands through starvation, disease and mass
murder.
Charting the multicoloured, multicultural
transgender community in Ireland, five stories
give shape to the different but parallel worlds of
transvestism, transsexualism, drag, sexual identity,
and gender dysphoria. At its heart, this is a film
about the human spirit, overcoming stereotype and
categorisation thereby allowing personality and
human emotion a path to expression.
Director Vittoria Colonna Producer Rachel Lysaght Photography
Raja Nundlall, Tim Fleming Editor Eoin McGuirk Production
Design Briana Hegarty Main Cast Fabio Ferri, Lenny Dale, Shani
Williams, Lee Stella, Sean Leslie Running Time 84 minutes
Production Company Underground Films Tel +353 86 358 7979
info@undergroundfilms.ie Financiers IFB, Arts Council of Ireland
Status Completed
“The tenderness, almost love Vittoria shows towards these
misfits turned Identities into a triumph”
Helen Lucy Burke, Film Critic.
THE TRIAL
In 1998 in western Kosovo, 37 people were found
dead in a concrete canal. A decade later, Ramush
Haradinaj - the former Prime Minister of Kosovo
- was wrongly accused of their murder. Now, in The
Hague, a small team of lawyers are engaged in a
battle to prove the innocence of a man they have
come to respect and admire. This is their story.
Directors/Producers John Murphy, Rob O’Reilly Photography
Rob O’Reilly, Paddy Jordan Editor Hugh Williams Running Time
75 minutes
Production Companies Headland Pictures john@
headlandpictures.com; rob@headlandpictures.com, Little Bird Tel
+353 1 667 0114 info@littlebird.ie Financiers IFB, SBS Australia
62
Director Gerry Gregg Producers Oliver Donohoe, Gerry Gregg
Script Tomi Reichental, Gerry Gregg Photography Seamus
Deasy Editor Juangus Dinsmore Main Cast Tomi Reichental Irish
Locations Dublin, Meath Running Time 80 minutes
Production Company Praxis Pictures Tel +353 1 210 8088, +353
87 220 6295 praxispictures@eircom.net Financiers IFB, RTE
Status Completed
THE TRIAL
IDENTITIES
TILL THE TENTH GENERATION
63
A BOATLOAD OF WILD IRISHMEN
A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER
Bhí Robert Flaherty, fócas an scannáin seo, ina
athair ar an scannán faisnéise, agus ar dhuine de
na daoine ba mhó a raibh tionchar acu ar chúrsaí
cineama. Ba é an chéad duine a léirigh go bhféadfaí
scéalta drámatúla agus siamsúla a dhéanamh as
scannáin faoi shaol laethúil an ‘ghnáth’dhuine.
An all access film inside one of Britain’s most
dangerous crime families. For the first time, a gang
of contemporary criminals open their lives to reveal
a brutal world and an underclass which relies upon
gangsters for justice, rather than police.
Robert Flaherty, the focus of this film, was the
father of documentary, and one of cinema’s most
influential figures. He was the first to show that
filming the every day life of ‘real’ people could be
moulded into dramatic, entertaining narratives.
Stiúrthóir/Director, Léiritheoir/Producer Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
Scríbhneoir/Script Brian Winston Fótografaocht/Photography
Ronán Fox Eagarthóir/Editor David Sleight Suíomhanna in
Éirinn/Irish Location Galway Fad Reatha/Running Time 78
minutes
Cuideachta Léiriúcháin/Production Company Léirithe le Mac
Dara Ó Curraidhín Teo Tel +353 91 504 858
macdaraocurraidhin@eircom.net Airgeadaíthe/Financiers IFB,
TG4, BCI, EM Media Status Delivery mid 2009
A SUBTLE MOVEMENT OF AIR
A Subtle Movement of Air looks at the inspirational
friendship between a Dane and an Icelander in the
context of providing a social service for the disabled.
It draws on the achievements of the Danish model
of home help care which is regarded as the best in
the world as it provides the maximum independence
and freedom for the users.
This documentary explores how this freedom
and independence is being looked at in Iceland in
a creative and humane way and how friendship
provides a context to pursue it.
Director/Script/Producer Art O’Briain Editor Manuela Corbari
Production Company Moving Still Productions Tel +353 87 238
6509 Financier IFB Status Delivery early 2009
64
Director Donal MacIntyre Producers Lil Cranfield, Donal
MacIntyre Photography Nick Manley, Mike Turnbully Editor Sally
Hilton
Production Companies Dare Films lilcranfield@darefilms.
co.uk, Extreme Productions Financiers IFB, Channel 5 (UK)
Distributors Le Pacte (International), Anywhere Road (US) Status
Completed
AN PAISTE BEO BOCHT
(CHILD OF THE DEAD END)
Léargas samhlaíoch ar shaol Patrick MacGill, file,
úrscéalaí agus ‘navvy’, a úsáideann ábhar cartlainne
agus drámaíocht chun saol MacGill a iniúchadh
trína scríbhneoireacht dírbheathaisnéiseach.
Leanann an scannán faisnéise seo a thuras ó bheith
ina spailpín fíor-bhocht i nDún na nGall agus é fós
ina pháiste, trína bhlianta mar navvy in Albain, go dtí
go dtagann sé chun cinn mar scríbhneoir i Londain,
áit ar foilsíodh a úrscéal claisiceach Children of the
Dead End.
An imaginative look at the life of navvy poet and
novelist Patrick MacGill, using archive and drama to
explore MacGill’s life through his autobiographical
writing. The documentary explores his journey from
impoverished child labourer in Donegal, through his
years as a navvy in Scotland, to his emergence as a
writer in London, where his classic novel Children of
the Dead End was published.
Stiúrthóir/Director, Léiritheoir/Producer, Scríbhneoir/Script
Desmond Bell Fótografaocht/Photography Sam Mitchell
Eagarthóir/Editor Simon Hipkins Dearadh Léiriúcháin/
Production Design Elle Kent, Rebecca Dover Aisteoirí/Main Cast
Stephen Rea, Cian Bell Suíomhanna in Éirinn/Irish Location
Donegal, Down Fad Reatha/Running Time 78 minutes
Cuideachta Léiriúcháin/Production Company Glass Machine
Productions Tel +44 289 147 2263 d.l.bell@qub.ac.uk
Airgeadaíthe/Financiers IFB, TG4, BCI, Northern Ireland Screen
A BOATLOAD OF WILD IRISHMEN
A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER
A SUBTLE MOVEMENT OF AIR
AN PAISTE BEO BOCHT (CHILD OF THE DEAD END)
65
AOSDÁNA
BROKEN TAIL’S LAST JOURNEY
Staidéar spreagúil ar sheasamh ealaíontóirí sa
sochaí in Éirinn agus ar nádúr na cruthaitheachta,
cúrsaí cultúir agus airgead poiblí.
One of the world’s leading wildlife cameramen
travels through India on a personal pilgrimage,
piecing together the extraordinary last journey
of Broken Tail – the tiger he helped to transform
into one of the worlds most famous before it fled
Ranthambhore National Park and went on the run.
I measc na rannpháirtithe tá Robert Ballagh,
Raymond Deane, Mannix Flynn, Paula Meehan,
Patrick Scott, Sean Scully, Colm Toíbín, Brian
Henderson, Gwen O’Dowd, Anne Haverty, Paul
Mosse, Trevor Knight, Samuel Walsh agus Mick
O’Dea.
A thought-provoking examination of the position
of artists in Irish society, the nature of creativity,
culture and the public purse.
Contributors include Robert Ballagh, Raymond
Deane, Mannix Flynn, Paula Meehan, Patrick Scott,
Sean Scully, Colm Toíbín, Brian Henderson, Gwen
O’Dowd, Anne Haverty, Paul Mosse, Trevor Knight,
Samuel Walsh and Mick O’Dea.
Stiúrthóir/Director Fintan Connolly Léiritheoir/Producer Fiona
Bergin Fótografaocht/Photography Owen McPolin Eagarthóir/
Editor Ross Killeen Fad Reatha/Running Time 60 minutes
Cuideachta Léiriúcháin/Production Company Fubar Film Tel +
353 1 476 3914 fubarfilm@eircom.net Airgeadaíthe/Financiers
IFB, Arts Council Status Delivery late 2009
BIG TIME
This documentary goes behind-the-scenes with
Irish Super-Bantamweight boxer, Bernard Dunne,
and his manager and promoter, Brian Peters. It’s a
story of highs and lows, of dreams and ambition, of
relationships - set against the tough, and at times
cruel backdrop of big time international boxing Irish style.
Director Ross Whitaker Producer Maria Horgan Photography
Richard Kendrick, Ross O’ Callaghan Editor Derek Pelly Main
Cast Bernard Dunne, Brian Peters Running Time 52 minutes
Production Company Liberty Films Tel +353 1 675 3816
info@libertyfilms.ie Financiers IFB, BCI, RTE Status Delivery
early 2009
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Colin Stafford-Johnson retraces Broken Tail’s
200km journey across Rajasthan, examining his
route and his behaviour, solving the mystery of why
he abandoned his habitat to travel so far and survive
for so long in hostile country.
Directors Colin Stafford-Johnson, Stephen Gooder Producer
John Murray Script Colin Stafford-Johnson, John Murray,
Stephen Gooder Photography Robin Cox, Colin Stafford-Johnson,
John Murray Main Cast Colin Stafford-Johnson, Salim Ali
Production Company Crossing the Lines Films Tel +353 1 287
5394 jmurray@ctlfilms.com Financiers IFB, RTE, CBC, Arte/ZDF,
CTL Films Status Delivery mid 2009
COUNTING SHEEP
Dogs, horses, donkeys, clubs and ringing
mobile phones: this is Petis, a remote village in
Transylvania. Romania is officially an EU member
and modernity is causing a clash between
generations.
The story centres around Albin, a content young
shepherd practicing his inherited trade which
comes under threat as his brother and friends
migrate for seasonal work to Germany. Scenes of
intense emotion are juxtaposed against the slow
pace of the shepherds’ routine, as the film reflects
on a year of change in the village and asks what is
quality of life, progress and prosperity?
Director/Script Dieter Auner Producer Suin Ni Raghallaigh
Photography Nora Agapi Running Time 90 minutes
Production Company Ikandi Productions Tel +353 87 248 2681
siun@ikandi.ie Status Delivery late 2009
AOSDÁNA
BROKEN TAIL’S LAST JOURNEY
BIG TIME
COUNTING SHEEP
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CREATIVE CHAOS: ROUND ONE
THE BASS PLAYER
A Paris-based film director returns home to
his village in South Lebanon after the 2006 war
and witnesses how people are coping with the
destruction.
This intimate documentary about the relationship
between film director Niall McKay and his jazz
musician father Jim, reveals an absorbing and
very moving story of two journeys. The first
journey follows Jim as he returns to Ireland from
Switzerland following the death of his second wife
Anna. The second journey is more grueling, as
father and son recall the events of Niall’s childhood
thirty years ago, his parents’ separation and his
mother’s depression, alcoholism and tragic death.
The resulting film is a visually striking diary piece,
featuring a collection of conversations, observations,
and reflections about rebuilding and surviving.
Inevitably the film also explores the cycles of life,
destiny, religion, war, peace, and olive-picking.
Above all, it is an intimate and special insight into a
community, starting with the director’s own family.
Director/Script/Photography Hassan Zbib Producers
Bartolomeo Dibenedetto, Jeremiah Cullinane, Olivier Delahaye
Editor Ruben Korenfeld Running Time 66 minutes
Production Companies Planet Korda Pictures Tel +353 1 839 45
20 planetkorda@eircom.net, Odelion Films Financiers IFB, Planet
Korda Pictures, Odelion Films, Organisation Internationale de la
Francophonie, Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia Distributor
Illegitime Defénse Status Completed
Official Selection
Iran International Documentary Festival 2008
HOLD THE PASSION
Hold The Passion tells of the artistic journey of
actress and teacher Deirdre O’Connell, who set up
the Focus Theatre in 1963 and introduced a whole
generation of Irish actors, including Gabriel Byrne,
Tom Hickey, Johnny Murphy and Olwen Fouere,
to the teachings of Stanislavski and the Actors
Studio. The film provides a unique insight into the
mind and work of a remarkable Irish woman whose
contribution to the cultural life of this country has
yet to be fully recognised and acknowledged.
Director/Script Ronan O’Leary Producer Ann McRory
Photography John Conroy Editors Nicky Dunne, Mick Reilly
Music C.S.L. Parker Main Cast Deirdre O’Connell, Gabriel Byrne,
Tom Hickey, Johnny Murphy, Olwen Fouere, Joan Bergin Running
Time 68 minutes
Production Company Focus Films Tel +353 87 2430126
redhen@iol.ie Financiers IFB, Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City
Council Sales Agent Network Ireland Tel + 353 1 679 7309 Status
Completed
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Director/Script Niall McKay Producers Seamus Duggan, Niall
McKay, Marissa Aroy Photography Niall McKay, Marissa Aroy
Editor Tony Cranstoun Running Time 61 minutes
Production Companies Portarlington MultiMedia Tel +353 86 396
9775 seamus.duggan@gmail.com, The Media Factory
niall@meidafactory.tv Financiers IFB, Arts Council of Ireland,
RTE Status Delivery early 2009
THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE
HOUSEKEEPER (AT HOME WITH THE CLEARYS)
Father Michael Cleary was at one time the most
powerful and charismatic figures in Catholic
Ireland. Well-known for his staunch Catholic views
on sex, divorce and abortion it became clear after
his death that he had lived a contradictory ‘secret
life’ where his own housekeeper was his lover and
mother of his children. This film is a moving and
shocking portrait of a man trapped by the conflict
between his vocation and the role the church
gave him, his ego, and the impossible demands of
celibacy.
Director/Producer Alison Millar Photography Seamas
McCracken Editor Brad Manning Music Danny Todd, Jeremy Vass
Production Company Tern Television Productions Tel +44 2890
326061 belfast@terntv.com Status Completed
Best Documentary
Irish Film and Television Awards 2008
Prix Italia 2008
CREATIVE CHAOS: ROUND ONE
THE BASS PLAYER
HOLD THE PASSION
THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOUSEKEEPER (AT HOME
WITH THE CLEARYS)
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documenting the arts
CIRCUS BORN
DEREK MAHON: WHAT IS MEANT BY HOME
This is the story of life in the travelling village that
revolves around the Big Top; getting to know the
extended family of three generations who carry on
the tradition of Ireland’s oldest travelling circus.
Why would anyone choose to follow such a difficult
and challenging way of life?
Regarded by many as ‘the poets’ poet, Derek
Mahon has written some of the most admired and
respected contemporary poetry in the English
language, winning numerous awards for his work
including the prestigious David Cohen Prize for a
lifetime achievement in literature. He has produced
in excess of twenty collections of poetry, has
adapted literary novels for film and television and
has worked as a literary journalist for many Irish
and UK newspapers and magazines
This documentary traces Mahon’s life, influences,
poetic themes and issues.
Director/Producer Roger Greene Script Roger Greene, Donald
Taylor Black Photography Nick O’Neill Editor Maurice Healy
Irish Locations Dublin, Cork, Down Running Time 57 minutes
Production Company Caranna Productions Tel +353 1 285 4232,
+353 87 23 55 939 roger.greene@iadt.ie Financiers IFB, The Arts
Council of Ireland Status Delivery early 2009
THE ART OF TIME
In contemporary culture we are often told that
‘time’ as we have experienced it historically is
being obliterated by the speed and acceleration of
present society. Many artists, writers and creative
practitioners in various fields feel that the work they
make contests this process, with many questioning
the nature of memory and perception today and
inventing new and radical notions of ‘time’.
Director Fergus Daly Producer Pat Collins Script Katherine
Waugh Photography Roberto Guerra, Alexei Jankowski, Mirko
Tzotschew Editor Tadhg O’Sullivan Music Federico Pelle Main
Cast Robert Wilson, Alexander Sokurov, Peter Eisenman, Paul
Morley, Chantal Akerman, the Brothers Quay, David Claerbout,
Sylvere Lotringer, Vito Acconci Running Time 75 minutes
Production Company Harvest Films Tel +353 28 21486
harvestfilms@eircom.net Financiers IFB, Arts Council of Ireland
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Director/Script/Photography Matt Skinner Producers Tom
Maguire, Matt Skinner Main Cast Members of Fossetts circus
Irish Locations Dublin, Longford, Louth, Meath, Longford, Laois,
Galway, Cork, Kerry Running Time 90 minutes
Production Company Borderline Productions Tel +353 87 241
4766 mattskinner@iol.ie Financiers IFB, Arts Council of Ireland
GOOD CAKE BAD CAKE
A Dublin band called LIR dreamed of conquering
the musical world, only to see their hopes destroyed
by a multitude of disasters and tragedies. Once
feted by the music industry as ‘the next U2’, their
downfall is only matched in grandeur by the scale
of their ambition. Unlike the thousands of ‘success
stories’ told in music documentaries, this is the
other side of the coin, the story that will inevitably
befall most bands.
Director/Script Shimmy Marcus Producers Shimmy Marcus,
Edwina Forkin Photography David O’Sullivan, Shimmy Marcus
Editor Joe Marcus Music LIR Main Cast LIR, Bronagh Gallagher,
David Reilly Irish Location Dublin Running Time 70 minutes
Production Companies Zanzibar Films Tel +353 1 671 948
edwina@zanzibarfilms.net, Let’s Not Lose It Productions
Financiers IFB, Arts Council of Ireland Status Delivery early 2009
DEREK MAHON: WHAT IS MEANT BY HOME
CIRCUS BORN
THE ART OF TIME
GOOD CAKE BAD CAKE
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television /
drama
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FATHER AND SOn
RÁSAÍ NA GAILLIMHE
This four-part contemporary thriller follows
Michael, a reformed gang leader as he leaves
Manchester to start a new life in Clare with his
pregnant girlfriend Anna. However, when his
estranged son Vincent is imprisoned for a gang
murder, Michael must return to Manchester and the
scenes of his criminal past in order to save him. But
Vincent has been set up for the murder in order to
lure Michael back to Manchester.
Contemporary comedy drama series spanning the
seven days of Galway’s most famous festival - Race
Week. The annual Galway Races provide the magnet
for a group of disparate characters which converge
in Galway, crossing paths with each other with
hilarious, tragic and often disastrous results.
Director Brian Kirk Producers Michael Casey, James Flynn
Script Frank Deasy Photography Ruairí O’Brien Editor Tim
Murrell Production Design Dave Arrowsmith Main Cast Dougray
Scott, Sophie Okonedo Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow Running
Time 4 x 1 hour
Production Companies Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276 9468
aaron@metro.iol.ie, Left Bank Pictures Financiers IFB, ITV, RTE,
BBC Worldwide Sale Agent BBC Worldwide Tel +44 20 8433 2000
GEORGE GENTLY III
It’s 1964, the world is changing fast and George
Gently is one of the unsung detective heroes
of the time. With thrilling storylines, Gently’s
investigations reveal the dark underbelly of a
society on the cusp of change.
Directors Ciaran Donnelly, Daniel O’Hara Producers Johann
Knobel, George Faber, Andrew Lowe Script Peter Flannery,
Mick Ford, Chris Lang Photography Peter Robertson Editor Ray
Roantree Production Design David Wilson Main Cast Martin
Shaw, Lee Ingleby Irish Locations Wicklow, Dublin Running Time
4 x 90 minutes
Production Companies Element Pictures Tel +353 1 618 5032
mail@elementpictures.ie, Company Pictures Financiers IFB,
All3Media, BBC Sales Agent All3Media Tel +44 207 845 4377
information@all3media.com Status Delivery early 2009
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Director Robert Quinn Producers Eoin Holmes, Tricia Perrott
Script James Phelan Photography Cian de Buitlear Editor
Declan McGrath Production Design Mags Linnane Main Cast
Don Wycherley, Tomás O’Suilleabhhán, Ruth Bradley, Frankie
McCafferty, Darine Ní Dhonnchú, Owen McDonnell, Olga Wehrly
Irish Location Galway Running Time 7 x 40 minutes
Production Company Great Western Films Tel +353 1 889
8040 info@greatwesternfilms.com Financiers IFB, TG4, BCI
Distributor TG4 Status Delivery early 2009
RÁSAÍ NA GAILLIMHE
FATHER AND SON
GEORGE GENTLY III
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THE TUDORS III
THE TAKE
Following the execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII
enjoys a blissful but short-lived third marriage
to Jane Seymour, who gives him a male heir but
dies in childbirth. Cromwell engineers a politically
expedient marriage to Anne of Cleves. When it’s
a disaster Cromwell pays with his head. Then
from the north comes the Pilgrimage of Grace,
an uprising led by Catholic nobles against the
Reformation. Henry’s throne is threatened as never
before, but he defeats the rebels and exacts a
terrible revenge.
If you want it badly enough, take it…
Directors Ciaran Donnelly, Jeremy Podeswa Producers James
Flynn, Morgan O’Sullivan Script Michael Hirst Photography
Ousawa Rawi Editors Lisa Grootenboer, Wendy Hallam Martin
Production Design Tom Conroy Music Trevor Morris Main Cast
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill Irish Locations Wicklow,
Dublin Running Time 8 x 1 hour
Production Company World 2000 Entertainment Tel +353 1 276
9523 ciara@world2000.ie Financiers IFB, Showtime, Peace Arch
Entertainment Sales Agent Sony Pictures Television International
sptimarketing@spe.sony.com
UNCLE MAX ii
The over-active Uncle Max is like a human cartoon.
A big kid himself, he’s just the kind of uncle every
kid would love. His weekly outings with 9-yearold Luke are always hilarious and unpredictable.
Whatever they do, wherever they go, it’s chaos,
disaster and great, great fun!
Director Simon Hynd Producer Nahrein Mirza Script David
Schneider, David Armand Photography Jonathan Kovel Editors
Michael Wolf, Callum Ross Main Cast David Schneider, Jonathan
Hanly Irish Location Galway Running Time 13 x 12 minutes
Production Company Little Bird Television Tel + 353 1 667 0114
nahrein.mirza@littlebird.org.uk Financiers IFB, BBC, Starz Sales
Agent Indigo Film and Television Tel +44 207 424 1980
info@indigofilm.com Status Completed
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Freddie Jackson is just out of prison. He’s done
his time, made the right connections, and now
he’s ready to use them. With the help of his cousin
Jimmy, Freddie cultivates his crime empire, gaining
all the respect and money he’s hungered for… but at
whose expense? Families should stick together, but
behind closed doors, jealousy and betrayal fester
until everyone’s life is infected.
Director David Drury Producers Willow Grylls, Andrew Lowe
Script Neil Biswas Photography Owen McPolin Editor Chris
Ridsdale Production Design Susie Cullen Main Cast Shaun
Evans, Charlotte Riley, Kierston Wareing, Tom Hardy Irish
Location Dublin Running Time 4 x 60 minutes
Production Companies Company Pictures, Element Pictures
Tel +353 1 618 5032 mail@elementpictures.ie; Warner Sisters
Financiers IFB, Sky, ITV Global Entertainment Sales Agent
ITV Global Entertainment Tel +44 207 491 1441 int.info@
granadamedia.com Status Delivery mid 2009
THE TUDORS III
THE TAKE
UNCLE MAX II
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animation /
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ABBI’S CIRCLE
FADÓ FADÓ
Abbi’s Circle is a series of three short films following
the adventures of Abbi, a young Nigerian girl
living in Dublin and her circle of friends. Against
the backdrop of graduation ceremonies, gruelling
football matches and high school musicals, Abbi
and her friends negotiate what it means to be a
young immigrant living in contemporary Ireland.
Fadó Fadó (Long, Long Ago) is a children’s series
which combines animation with live action. Irish
children between the ages of 6 and 12 years tell
their versions of traditional myths and legends and
use their own illustrations and designs to animate
these tales.
Director/Production Design Siobhan Twomey Producers Áine
O’Brien, Alan Grossman Script Siobhan Twomey, Liz Morris
Animation Ciara McLean Editor Áodan Ó Coileáin Main Cast Oyin
Animashuan, Lauren Murphy, Yemi Adenuga, Ngor Tong, Shyam
Gollapalli Running Time 3 x 5 minutes
Directors Noel Kelly, Rachael Moriarty Producer Michael Algar
Animators Andy Clarke, Stephen Fagan, Jim Fleming, Heidi
Madsen, Paul McGrath, Dale Robinson, Faye Tucker Photography
Declan Emerson Editors Juniper Calder, Ciara Brophy, Oleg Jitov
Music Dean Valentine Running Time 26 x 4.5 minutes
Production Company Ned Kelly Pictures Tel +353 1 454 8790
telwell@iol.ie Financiers IFB, Atlantic Philanthropies Status
Delivery mid 2009
Production Company Keg Kartoonz Tel +353 1 284 3426 algar@
ireland.com Financiers IFB, BCI, RTE Sales Agent Network
Ireland Television Tel +353 1 679 7309 info@network-irl-tv.com
Best Irish Short
Stranger Than Fiction Film Festival 2007
GARTH AND BEV
Official Selection
European MEDIA4ME Conference The Hague 2008
BALLYBRADDAN
This animated drama series follows the lives of the
fifth class children of Ballybraddan primary school.
Growing and maturing faster than we can imagine,
the boys and girls are trying to find their place in the
world. The one place that brings them all together,
where their differences don’t matter is the hurling
pitch.
Ballybraddan follows the lives of these children and
the adults that support them as they grow, mature,
play, compete and find out who they really are. On
and off the pitch, everyone needs to find their own
place.
Director Jason Tammemagi Producer Gerard O’Rourke Script
Noel Magee Script Producer Brigie deCourcy Music Jonathan
Atkinson Running Time 20 x 13 minutes
Production Company Monster Animation Tel + 353 1 603 4980
gerard@monsteranimation.ie Financiers IFB, BCI, RTE Status
Delivery early 2009
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Garth is a kid with a huge appetite for adventure.
He and his sister Bev live back in the Bronze
Age, but with a little magical help from their
druid grandfather Lir, they can travel anywhere
in time to satisfy their curiosity about the world
and everything in it. More often than not, Garth
and Bev discover on their adventures that using a
little know-how from Nature is as relevant to their
everyday life as it is throughout history!
Director Andrew Kavanagh Producers Gary Timpson, Paul Rigg
Script Andrew Kavanagh, Michele English, Anna Starky, Cathy
Moss, Jill Brett, Kathy Slevin, Sheila Prescott, Patrick Chapman
Art Director Graham Corcoran Animation Director Andrew
Holland Main Cast Mia Murphy, Daniel Culliton, Gerry O’Brian,
Morgan Jones, Flo McSweeney Running Time 26 x 11 minutes
Production Companies Kavaleer Productions Tel +353 1 488 5873
gary@kavaleer.com , Copernicus (Canada) Financiers IFB, BCI,
RTE, BBC Worldwide, BBC Status Delivery mid 2009
ABBI’S CIRCLE
FADÓ FADÓ
BALLYBRADDAN
GARTH AND BEV
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Miss remarkable & her career
the trembling veil of bones
This darkly comedic animated story depicts Miss
Remarkable as she struggles with her own demons,
crushing parental expectations and rising above
a career meltdown. She fails fatally to become
‘strong, best and happy’ but finally realizes what she
really wants for herself - she wants life! When the
film ends she is ‘nobody, nobody at all’ but she is
still around.
This animated tale tells the story of a reclusive
watchmaker who receives a mysterious box in the
post, which sends him on a tense journey across the
city as he tries to face up to what’s inside the box.
Director/Script Joanna Rubin Dranger Producers Jeremy
Purcell, Vibeke Vogul, Michael Lennon Running Time 28 minutes
Production Companies A Man & Ink Tel +353 91 86 5901
info@amanandink.com, Bullitt Film, Lisbet Gabrielsson Film,
Financiers IFB, Swedish Film Institute, Danish Film Institute,
Nordisk Film & TV Fund Distributors Folkets Bio (Sweden)
Status Delivery late 2009
ROY
Set in modern day Dublin, Roy is the story of
Ireland’s only living animated character born into
a live-action family. The film charts the progress of
this 11-year-old boy as he struggles to grow up as a
cartoon character in an ordinary environment. Roy’s
attempts to blend in are complicated by the fact
that he can squash and stretch, involuntarily turn
blue when sad, green when jealous and produce a
flock of twittering birds when he gets a bump on the
head. Roy is truly a fish out of water.
Directors Alan Shannon, Ian Bevitt, Alan MacMillan Producers
Mark Cumberton, John Rice, Sue Nott Script Declan de Barra,
Rory Bresnihan, Pat Connolly, Richie Conroy, Mark Hodkinson,
Alan Keane, Neil Leyden, Paul McLoone, Derek O’Connor, Paul
Smith, Danny Stack Photography PJ Dillon Editors Gareth Young,
Gary Shorthall, Maureen O’Faolain Production Design Jason
Carlin Main Cast Simon Delaney, Cathy Belton, Mark Lambert,
Maude Fahy Running Time 13 x 28 minutes
Production Company Jam Media Tel +353 1 405 3484
info@jammedia.ie Financiers IFB, BCI, RTE, BBC Status Delivery
late 2009
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Director/Script/Production Design Matthew Talbot Kelly
Producers Nicky Gogan, Martin Rose Photography Tim Fleming
Editors Matthew Talbot Kelly, Gareth Young Main Cast Brian
Quinn Irish Location Dublin Running Time 11 minutes
Production Company Glimpse Digital Tel + 353 87 996 6777
nicky@stillfilms.com Financiers IFB, National Film Board of
Canada Status Delivery late 2009
MISS REMARKABLE & HER CAREER
ROY
THE TREMBLING VEIL OF BONES
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Short Film Schemes
The IFB aims to invest in new talent by providing
opportunities for filmmakers to develop skills in live
action filmmaking, documentary, animation and digital
technology. To this end we provide funding for short
films through a series of schemes all of which welcome
and actively encourage Irish language entries.
SIGNATURES
Signatures is our new flagship scheme showcasing
live action short filmmaking, encouraging strong,
original storytelling, visual flair and production values
appropriate to the big screen. The short films act as
a proving-ground for Irish creative talents aspiring to
write, direct and produce films for the cinema.
The 2008 Signatures films premiered at the Cork Film
Festival and were selected by Andrew Meehan (IFB),
Fran Keaveney (IFB), Ed Guiney (Element Pictures) and
Mick Hannigan (Cork Film Festival).
REALITY BITES
Reality Bites is a new short documentary scheme
which encourages the experimentation and realization
of fresh approaches to non-fiction filmmaking,
whether the documentary is journalistic or creative,
observational or aesthetic, objective or personal.
The 2008 Reality Bites films premiered at the Cork
Film Festival and were selected by Alan Maher (IFB),
Fran Keaveney (IFB), Suzanne Keane (IFB) and Sandra
Whipman (More 4).
Frameworks
The 2008 Oscailt films which premiered at the Cork
Film Festival were selected by Fran Keaveney (IFB),
Prionsias Ni Ghrainne (TG4), Mary Ellen Ni Chualain
(TG4) and Robert Quinn.
Short Cuts
Short Cuts has now finished and has been replaced by
the Signatures scheme.
The 2008 Short Cuts films which premiered at the
Galway Film Fleadh were selected by Andrew Meehan
(IFB), Fran Keaveney (IFB), Seamus Duggan (RTE) and
Kirsten Sheridan.
SHORT SHORTS
Short Shorts aims to produce ultra short pieces, which
can be used to promote Irish filmmaking with the high
impact power of advertisements, but without a product
to sell.
The 2008 Short Shorts films which premiered at the
Galway Film Fleadh were selected by Simon Perry (IFB),
Fran Keaveney (IFB) and Bertrand Faivre (Le Bureau).
VIRTUAL CINEMA
Virtual Cinema aims to encourage cinema for the YouTube generation by funding quality shorts which are
suitable for viewing across multi-platforms. These
films are exclusively for an online audience and can
be viewed on our website http://www.irishfilmboard.
ie/film_directory/virtual_cinema/
Frameworks aims to encourage filmmakers with
imagination, visual flair and commitment to innovative
animation. It is also open to established animators
who may wish to realize more personal and creative
projects.
The 2008 Virtual Cinema films which premiered at the
Darklight Film Festival were selected by Fran Keaveney
(IFB), Louise Ryan (IFB), Steve McCormack (Wildwave)
and David Coffey.
The 2008 Frameworks films premiered at the Galway
Film Fleadh and were selected by Emma Scott (IFB),
Brendan McCarthy (Arts Council), Seamus Duggan
(RTE) and Helen Brunsdon (Aardman Animation).
Network Ireland Television, Tel +353 1 679 7309,
derry@network-irl-tv.com.
Oscailt
Oscailt promotes and encourages new talent in all
areas of Irish language film production. This scheme
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has finished and now all other schemes are open to
and actively encourage Irish language entries.
SALES ENQUIRIES
Short Films /
Live Action
& Animation
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AN RANGER
ATLANTIC
Conamara, 1854 – Cúig bhliana tar éis an Ghorta
Mór Tar éis dó roinnt mhaith blianta a chaitheamh
thar lear in Airm na Breataine, filleann saighdiúir
abhaile agus faigheann sé amach go bhfuil
a mhuintir ar fad caillte. Tugann sé cuairt ar
chomharsa le fáil amach céard a tharla dóibh.
Atmospheric, poignant tale of a lonely farmer
passing his endless days, unaware of the letter
that’s on its way from the woman he once loved. A
letter that could change his life…
Conamara, 1854 – Five years after the Great
Famine. After many years abroad in the service of
the British Army, a soldier returns home to find
that his family are all dead. He visits a neighbour to
establish what happened to them.
Stiúrthóir/Director PJ Dillon Léiritheoir/Producer Alex Jones
Scríbhneoir/Script PJ Dillon, Pierce Ryan Fótografaíocht/
Photography Ken Byrne Eagarthóir/Editor Eamonn Power
Príomh-fhoireann Aisteoirí/Main Cast Owen McDonnell, Máirtín
Jaimsie Fad Reatha/Running Time 10 minutes
Cuideachta Léiriúcháin/Production Company Carbon Films
Tel +353 86 848 3047 rangerfilm@gmail.com,
www.anranger.com
Official Selection
Raindance Film Festival London 2008
Radar Hamburg International Independent Film Festival
Germany 2008
Montreal World Film Festival 2008
ENOUGH
A young deaf couple’s screaming row goes
unnoticed in a restaurant.
Director/Script Barry Dignam Producer Jean Rice Photography
Russell Gleeson Editor Daibhi Doran Main Cast Sarah Jane
Moloney, Sean Herlihy Running Time 3 minutes
Production Company Fantastic Films Tel +353 87 255 1666 info@
fantasticfilms.ie
Official Selection
Deaf Festival 2008
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Director/Script Conor Ferguson Producer AnneMarie Naughton
Photography Cedric Culliton Editor Paul Giles Main Cast Liam
Cunningham, Marian Quinn Running Time 4 minutes
Production Company Park Films Tel +353 1 285 3755, +353 86
855 5468 info@parkfilms.ie
Highly Commended
TCM Classic Shorts Competition 2008
Official Selection
Released in cinemas nationwide in front of the feature film 32A
AN RANGER
ATLANTIC
ENOUGH
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FAREWELL PACKETS OF TEN
FOIREANN CODLADH
Ethel and Nancy have tried giving up the fags
before, but haven’t had much luck. The two ladies
discuss the pros and cons of their mutual addictions
to the dreaded weed.
In aoir ghrinn dorcha ar nós Groundhog Day,
scoireann fear óg gnó go dtí tigín deas pictiúrtha i
sráidbhaile codlatach. Tá an suíomh foirfe, ciúin,
álainn agus tá séipéal beag deas díreach trasna an
bhóthair uaidh.
Director/Editor Ken Wardrop Producer Andrew Freedman
Photography Michael Lavelle Main Cast Ethel Wardrop, Nancy
Howlin Running Time 3 minutes
Production Company Venom Films Tel +353 1 497 5980
info@venom.ie
Best Short Documentary
Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto 2007
Filmmaker Grand Prix
Sapporo Short Film Festival Japan 2008
Official Selection
LA Film Festival 2008
Silverdocs Documentary Festival Washington DC 2008
AFA Dallas Film Festival 2008
FÉILEACHÁN
Tarlaíonn cliseadh intinne do mháthair óg agus tá
sí ag iarraidh an caidreamh idir í féin agus a hiníon
a athógail ach ní thiteann cúrsaí amach mar a bhí
beartaithe aici.
A young mother has suffered a mental breakdown
and tries to rebuild her relationship with her
daughter but things don’t work out the way she
planned.
Stiúrthóir/Director, Scríbhneoir/Script Cecilia McAllister
Léiritheoir/Producer Bronagh McCartan Fótografaíocht/
Photography Patrick Jordan Eagarthóir/Editor Dean Hagan
Príomh-fhoireann Aisteoirí/Main Cast Dairine Ni Dhonnchu,
Aine Hanlon Fad Reatha/Running Time 12 minutes
Cuideachta Léiriúcháin/Production Company Lunah Productions
Tel +44 7801 654 236 Bmcc79@aol.com
Best Irish Short
Cork Film Festival 2008
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Ach ní mhaireann an ciúnas ró-fhada….
In a darkly comic Groundhog Day-like satire, a
young businessman retires to a picturesque cottage
in a sleepy village. It’s the perfect location, quiet,
beautiful and there’s even a cute church across the
road from him.
But the quiet doesn’t last long…
Stiúrthóir/Director Danann Breathnach Léiritheoir/Producer
Aislinn Ní Chuinneagáin Scríbhneoir/Script Guy Fee
Fótografaíocht/Photography Colm Whelan Eagarthóir/Editor
Roisin O’Donnell Príomh-fhoireann Aisteoirí/Main Cast Tomas
O’Suilleabhain, Peadar O’Treasaigh Fad Reatha/Running Time
15 minutes
Cuideachta Léiriúcháin/Production Company Newgrange
Pictures Tel +353 1 498 8928 aislinn79@gmail.com
Best Irish Language Short
Cork Film Festival 2008
Official Selection
FAREWELL PACKETS OF TEN
FOIREANN CODLADH
FÉILEACHÁN
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HOOR
No Regrets in the west
Hoor tells the short story of three young lads paying
a visit to the local prostitute in order to lose their
virginity. The prostitute, Desire, sizes them up, takes
their money and one by one she leads us to believe
she gives them what they have paid for. Only with
the last boy, Ciaran, clearly the youngest and most
nervous of the boys do we see what Desire is really
up to.
An intimate portrait is offered by the director of his
father – Paddy Quinn.
Director/Editor John Kennedy Producer Mary McCarthy Script
John Kennedy, Ruairi O’Brien Photography Ruairi O’Brien Main
Cast Fionn O’Shea, Craig Connelly, Paul Donnelly, Floriano
Mancuso Running Time 3 minutes
Production Company Redjam Productions, Tel +353 1 230 0118
mary@redjamproductions.com
Official Selection
Los Angeles Irish Film Festival 2008
LOWLAND FELL
Lowland is living with her workaholic Dad for the
summer and she’s very bored. It’s the day before
her 17th birthday and with little else to do she
goes riding around the countryside on her scooter.
Going off the beaten track leads to an unexpected
discovery and an unforgettable encounter with two
brothers.
Director Michael Kinirons Producer Katie Holly Script Michael
Kinirons, Elaine Harrington Photography Suzie Lavelle Editor
Zoe Ellis Main Cast Jane McGrath, Robbie Sheehan, Michael
Winder, Conor Horgan Running Time 20 minutes
Production Company Blinder Films Tel +353 1 667 8066
katie@blinder.ie
Official Selection
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2008
Director/Producer/Photography/Editor Colm Quinn Main Cast
Paddy Quinn Running Time 6 minutes
Production Company Last Light Films Tel +353 86 304 2660 info@
lastlightfilm.com
Best Short Film Nominee
Irish Film & Television Awards 2008
Official Selection
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008
Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg 2008
NOLLAIG SHONA
Nuair a shiúlann a chailín amach air Oíche Nollag,
luíonn Alan le bréagnú agus le diúltú, ag insint dá
chrann Nollag atá 12 troigh ar airde ‘go bhfillfidh
sí lá ar bith anois’. Tar éis dó roinnt oícheanta
uaigneacha a chaitheamh ag luí ina aonair agus
tromluí amháin briseann a dhóchas ar Alan.
Amach leis, an crann lánmhaisithe á tharraingt
aige trí shráideanna na cathrach agus an t-ionad
athchúrsála mar cheann scríbe… ach ní bheidh sé
chomh fuirist sin scaoileadh leis an ualach eile.
When Alan’s girlfriend walks out on him on
Christmas Eve, he plunges into denial and delusion,
reassuring his 12 foot Christmas tree that “she’ll be
back any day now”. Several lonely nights and one
nightmare later, Alan snaps. He sets out, hauling
the fully decorated tree through the city streets,
destination the recycling yard… but letting go won’t
be that easy.
Stiúrthóir/Director, Scríbhneoir/Script Orla Murphy Léiritheoir/
Producer Freya Mackenzie Fótografaíocht/Photography Liam
Iandoli Eagarthóir/Editor John E Turner Príomh-fhoireann
Aisteoirí/Main Cast Sean McDonagh, Aine Ni Dhroighneain,
Eamonn Hunt Fad Reatha/Running Time 14 minutes
Cuideachta Léiriúcháin/Production Companies Vico Films,
Princess Pictures Tel +353 87 646 0406 cormac@vicofilms.com,
+353 86 377 9229 princesspictures@eircom.net
90
HOOR
NO REGRETS IN THE WEST
LOWLAND FELL
NOLLAIG SHONA
91
OF BEST INTENTIONS
SHAPES
Broken hearts, shattered dreams and the
destruction of the earth’s ozone layer, Of Best
Intentions is a film that examines the lives of
five well-meaning individuals as fate decides to
intervene.
Claire’s night terrors are taking their toll on her
relationship with Will. Scared he’s leaving her,
Claire seeks assurance that everything is fine, and
that there’s no monster in the bedroom…
Director/Script Brian Durnin Producer Paul Holmes Photography
Ivan McCullough Editor Lee Hickey Main Cast Stuart Graham,
Fiona O’Shaugnessy, Prasad Jadhav, Rita Davies, Delrick Vinu,
Deva Naidu, Ian McElhinney. Running Time 14 minutes
Director/Script/Editor Alan Brennan Producer Heidi Madsen
Photography Gavin O’Reilly Main Cast Mark Huberman, Elaine
Murphy Running Time 5 minutes
Production Company Paper Dreams Tel +353 1 842 1022 alan.
paperdreams@gmail.com
Production Company Red Rage Films Tel +353 1 662
3582 lauren@redragefilms.com, www.redragefilms.com/
ofbestintentions
Official Selection
Best Film
Best Director
Kerry International Film Festival 2008
SPACEMEN THREE
Official Selection
SCORING
A young man explains the true power of a kiss.
Following an accident, a young man has been left
with no sensation from his shoulder blades down.
This is a story of one man’s expression of sensuality
through a kiss.
Director/Editor Ken Wardrop Producer Andrew Freedman
Photography Michael Lavelle Running Time 3 minutes
Production Company Venom Films Tel +353 1 497 5980
info@venom.ie
Filmmaker Grand Prix
Sapporo Short Film Festival Japan 2008
Official Selection
LA Film Festival 2008
Silverdocs Documentary Festival Washington DC 2008
AFA Dallas Film Festival 2008
Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto 2007
Aspen Film Festival 2007
92
Astro-geologist Dr. Glen Hosey is in space for the
first time. His unusual method of passing the time
isn’t exactly compatible with the peaceful voyage the
other two astronauts anticipated…
Director Hugh O’Conor Producer Lucy Dyke Script John Butler,
Hugh O’Conor Photography Cian de Buitléar Editor Hugh
Chaloner Main Cast Pat Shortt, Michael McElhatton, Peter
McDonald Running Time 12 minutes
Production Company Broken Pictures Tel +353 86 819 3903
lafillelucy@gmail.com
OF BEST INTENTIONS
SHAPES
SCORING
SPACEMEN THREE
93
THE BEEKEEPER’S SON
THE GERMAN
A young boy steals away from an old man’s wake
and wanders into the surrounding countryside.
A duel between a British and German fighter pilot
leads to an unforeseen conclusion.
Director/Script Jamie Hannigan Producer Shirley Weir
Photography Paddy Jordan Editor Frank Reid Main Cast Brian
Fortune, Cain Lennon, Bernie Fitzgerald Running Time 10
minutes
Director/Script Nick Ryan Producer Olivia Leahy Photography
Robbie Ryan Editor Joe McHugh Main Cast Toby Kebbell,
Christian Brassington Running Time 10 minutes
Production Company Stitch Films Tel +353 86 395 3460
Production Company Image Now Films Tel +353 1 411 3310
Olivia@imagenow.ie
shirley@stitchfilms.ie
UIP Prize Nominee
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008
THE DOOR
A father’s desperate attempt to come to terms
with the devastating affects of the 1986 Chernobyl
disaster.
Director/Script Juanita Wilson Producers Louise Curran, James
Flynn Photography Tim Fleming Editor Nathan Nugent Main
Cast Igor Sigov, Juliette Gering, Liliya Grechk Running Time 17
minutes
Production Company Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276 9528
louise@metro.iol.ie
Best Irish Short
Foyle Film Festival 2008
Gold Medal Award (Fiction)
Bilbao International Festival of Documentry and Short Films 2008
94
THE MAN IN 301
Three prisoners in each of their cells recount the
story of their crimes in song, with each blaming
their excesses on an accomplice, the enigmatic man
in 301.
Director David Freyne Producers David Freyne, Rachael O’ Kane,
Rory Dungan Script Patrick Freyne Photography Arthur Mulhern
Editor Alan Freir Main Cast Patrick Freyne and the band His Bad
Intentions Running Time 14 minutes
Production Company Tilted Pictures Tel +353 87 791 2857
david@tiltedpictures.ie
Official Selection
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008
NexT International Short and Medium Length Film Festival
Romania 2008
THE BEEKEEPERS SON
THE GERMAN
THE DOOR
THE MAN IN 301
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THE MAN INSIDE
THE WEDNESDAYs
A short story in memory of Lisandro who accidently
locked himself in.
Sometimes, when you’re in the autumn of your days,
you’ll try anything just to put a smile on your face
again. And so in this funny, sad (and sometimes
wobbly) tale we meet two pensioners who manage
to re-ignite the love they’d almost forgotten about.
Unfortunately, the law comes knocking at their
door…
Director/Script/Editor Rory Bresnihan (based on a short story
by Fernando Sorrentino) Producer Lucy Dyke Photography Tim
Fleming Main Cast Marty Rea Running Time 14 minutes
Production Company Broken Pictures Tel +44 75 95 53 4975
lafillelucy@gmail.com
THE SOUND OF PEOPLE
A story of a moment in the life of an 18-year-old
boy, standing on the brink of his life and death.
Director/Script Simon Fitzmaurice Producer Noreen Donohoe
Photography Ivan McCullough Editors Lawrence Fee, Simon
Fitzmaurice Main Cast Martin McCann, Kevin O’Dwyer, Jayne
Stynes, Aidan Turner, Seamus Hanly Running Time 7.5 minutes
Production Company Diva Media Tel +353 87 239 6772
noreen@divamedia.ie
Jameson Best Short Film
Belfast Film Festival 2008
Jury Award
Festival Opaclice, Paris 2008
Jury Award
Huesca Film Festival 2008
Commendation
Foyle Film Festival 2007
Official Selection
Released in cinemas nationwide by Eclipse Pictures in front of
feature film Charlie Bartlett
Director Conor Ferguson Producer AnneMarie Naughton Script
Luke Clancy, Conor Ferguson Photography Cedric Culliton
Editor Grainne Gavigan Main Cast Doreen Keogh, Des Keogh,
Alan Devlin, Tina Kellegher, Pat Laffan Running Time 13 minutes
Production Company Park Films Tel +353 87 934 0173
orla@parkfilms.ie
International Audience Award
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival 2008
Ellen Jury Special Recognition
Aspen Shortfest 2008
Audience Award
FICA Portugal 2008
Audience Choice Award
NYC Downtown 2008
Audience Award (1st Place), Jury Award (3rd Place)
Chicago Irish Film Festival 2008
Olympus Award for Best Photography
Badalona International Film Festival, Barcelona 2008
TWO POINT FIVE BILLION
A scientist working in a revolutionary new field of
quantum mechanics volunteers for a risky new
experiment - despite the strong objections of his
wife and misgivings of his colleagues.
Director Jamie Hannigan Producer Shirley Weir Script Jamie
Hannigan, Shirley Weir Photography Paddy Jordan Editor Frank
Reid Main Cast Mark O Halloran, Ion Caramittru, Charlotte
Bradley Running Time 16 minutes
Production Company Stitch Films Tel +353 86 395 3460
shirley@stitchfilms.ie
96
THE MAN INSIDE
THE WEDNESDAYS
THE SOUND OF PEOPLE
TWO POINT FIVE BILLION
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UNCLE BILL’S BARREL
WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON
How a rural family copes with a deceased uncle who
refuses to stay in his grave.
The well ordered running of an electronics store is
disrupted when a homeless man arrives to make
a purchase. A humorous but poignant story of the
need to belong.
Director/Script Eoin Ryan Producers Nick Ryan, Olivia Leahy
Photography Robbie Ryan Editors Eoin Ryan, Joe Mc Hugh
Main Cast Luke Hayden, Niall Bruton, Mark O’Regan, Cillian
O’Sullivan Running Time 10 minutes
Production Company Image Now Films Tel +353 1 411 3310
Olivia@imagenow.ie
VISITING DAY
Parents of prisoners share their fears, hopes and
hearts as they stand by their sons.
Director/Script/Editor Ciaran Deeney Producers Dave Clarke,
Ciaran Deeney Photography JJ Rolfe Running Time 12 minutes
Production Company El Zorrero Films Tel +353 85 720 6653
Dave@elzorrerofilms.ie
Director/Script/Editor Declan Cassidy Producer Bill Tyson
Photography Shane Tobin Main Cast Luke Cameron, Caoimhe
O’Malley, Richard Wall Running Time 4 minutes
Production Company Timesnap Tel +353 87 662 1233
declan@timesnap.com
Best Irish Narrative Short Film
Kerry International Film Festival 2008
Official Selection
CineCity Brighton Film Festival 2008
Released in Irish Film Institute in front of feature film Kisses
WATER BODIES
Set in two sites of so-called ‘pilgrimage’, the
Ganges in India and the Forty Foot in County Dublin,
this documentary takes a gentle, reflective look at
our need to rejuvenate ourselves through bathing.
Director Jennifer Keegan Producers Jonny Speers, Clare
Connolly Photography Ciaran Tanham Editor Roisín O’Donnell
Production Company Speers Film Tel +353 1 677 9642
speers@speers.ie
98
UNCLE BILL’S BARREL
WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON
VISITING DAY
WATER BODIES
99
COLOUR CONTAMINATION
SANDPIPER
A clean cut business man who is adverse to all
things colourful enters a waiting room filled with
colourful plastic chairs and is forced to confront his
worst fears.
A poignant story of a young boy who saves a
sandpiper with a broken wing from vicious seagulls.
The boy tends the injured bird and releases it back
into the wild.
Director/Script/Editor Louise Bagnall Producer Niamh
O’Donoghue Running Time 3 minutes
Director Jimmy Murakami Producer Peter Fleming Script Aidan
Hickey Animator Bruce Ryder Main Cast Kathleen O’Rourke
Production Company Barley Films Tel +353 1 214 5940
info@barleyfilms.net
Production Company Cliff Merlin Productions Tel +353 1 280 4787
flemng@eircom.net.
Official Selection
4th Children’s Film Festival, Seattle 2009
GRANNY O’GRIMMS SLEEPING BEAUTY
Granny O’Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, loses
the plot as she tells her version of ‘Sleeping Beauty’
to her terrified grand-daughter.
Director Nicky Phelan Producer Darragh O’Connell Script/Main
Cast Kathleen O’Rourke Running Time 5 minutes
Production Company Brown Bag Films Tel +353 1 872 1608
studio@brownbagfilms.com
1st Prize, New Irish Animation
2nd Prize, Audience Award
Audience Award
Denver Film Festival 2008
Official Selection
Encounters Festival Bristol 2008
The Craic Festival Brooklyn NYC 2008
Heart of Gold Film Festival Australia 2008
Newport Beach Film Festival California 2008
Bilbao Film Festival Spain 2008
100
THE ROOSTER, THE CROCODILE AND THE
NIGHT SKY
A tale of passion, loss, surreal comedy and explosive
violence animated in a cut-out style combining
cardboard, tinfoil, paint on glass and super 8 film to
create a dreamy, hand-made aesthetic.
Director/Script Pádraig Fagan Producer Barry O’Donoghue
Animation Eimhin McNamara, Orla McHardy, Pádraig Fagan
Running Time 6.5 minutes
Production Company Barley Films Tel +353 1 214 5940
info@barleyfilms.net
Official Selection
Supporting animation for The Secret of Kells, the winner of 2008
Screen Directors Guild of Ireland Finders Series, Hollywood, USA
Official Screening
Film Industry Night at Villa Lounge, West Hollywood, USA 2008
COLOUR CONTAMINATION
SANDPIPER
GRANNY O’GRIMMS SLEEPING BEAUTY
THE ROOSTER, THE CROCODILE AND THE NIGHT SKY
101
FEATURE
FILMS /
1993 - 2008
32A 2007 / Director/Script: Marian Quinn,
Producers: Tommy Weir, Roshanak Behesht
Nedjad, Production Company: Janey Pictures.
48 Angels 2006 / Director: Marion Comer,
Writers: Marion Comer, Craig Holland,
Producers: John McDonnell, Robert
Medema, Marion Comer, Production
Company: Reflected Light Pictures.
A
About Adam 1999 / Director: Gerard
Stembridge, Producers: Anna Devlin,
Marina Hughes, Script: Gerard Stembridge,
Production Company: Venus Film & Television.
The Actors 2003 / Director/Script:
Conor McPherson, Story by: Neil Jordan,
Producers: Neil Jordan, Redmond Morris,
Stephen Woolley, Production Company:
Company of Wolves.
Ailsa 1993 / Director: Paddy Breathnach,
Producer: Ed Guiney, Script: Joe O’Connor,
Production Company: Temple Films.
Accelerator 1999 / Director: Vinny Murphy,
Producer: Michael Garland, Script:
Mark Stewart, Vinny Murphy, Production
Company: Two For the Show.
Adam & Paul 2004 / Director: Lenny
Abrahamson, Producer: Jonny Speers,
Executive Producers: Andrew Lowe, Ed
Guiney, Script: Mark O’Halloran, Production
Company: Porridge Pictures.
A Further Gesture 1996 / Director: Robert
Dornhelm, Producers: David Collins, Chris
Curling, Script: Ronan Bennett, Production
Company: Samson Films.
Agnes Browne 1999 / Director: Anjelica
Huston, Producers: Jim Sheridan, Arthur
Lappin, Greg Smith, Anjelica Huston,
Script: Brendan O’Carroll, John Goldsmith,
Production Company: Hell’s Kitchen.
102
Alarm 2008 / Director/ Script Gerard
Stembridge, Producers: Anna Devlin, Marina
Hughes, Production Company: Venus
Productions.
All Soul’s Day 1997 / Writer/Director: Alan
Gilsenan, Producer: David McLoughlin,
Production Company: Yellow Asylum Films.
All Things Bright and Beautiful 1993 /
Director: Barry Devlin, Producer: Katy
McGuinness, Script: Barry Devlin,
Production Company: The Good Film Co.
A Film With Me In It 2008 / Director: Ian
Fitzgibbon, Producers: Alan Moloney, Susan
Mullen, Script: Mark Doherty, Production
Company: Parallel Film Productions.
A Love Divided 1998 / Director: Syd
Macartney, Producers: Tim Palmer,
Alan Moloney, Gerry Gregg, Script:
Stuart Hepburn, Production Company:
Parallel Films.
A Man of No Importance 1993 / Director:
Suri Krishnama, Producer: Jonathan
Cavendish, Script: Barry Devlin,
Production Company: Little Bird.
B
Beckett on Film 2000 / Act Without Words
I, Director: Karel Reisz, Act Without
Words II, Director: Enda Hughes, A Piece
of Monologue, Director: Robin Lefevre,
Breath, Director: Damien Hirst, Catastrophe,
Director: David Mamet, Come and Go,
Director: John Crowley, Endgame, Director:
Conor McPherson, Footfalls, Director:
Walter Aasmus, Happy Days, Director:
Patricia Rozema, Krapp’s Last Tape,
Director: Atom Egoyan, Not I, Director: Neil
Jordan, Ohio Impromptu, Director: Charles
Surridge, Play, Director: Anthony Minghella,
Rockaby, Director: Richard Eyre, Rough for
Theatre I, Director: Kieron J. Walsh, Rough
for Theatre II, Director: Katie Mitchell, That
Time, Director: Hales Garrad, Waiting for
Godot, Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg,
What Where, Director: Damien O’Donnell,
Producers: Alan Moloney, Michael Colgan
Production Company: Blue Angel Films.
Becoming Jane 2007 / Director: Julian
Jarrold, Producers: Robert Bernstein,
Douglas Rae, Graham Broadbent, James
Flynn, Morgan O’Sullivan, Script: Kevin Hood,
Sarah Williams, Production Company: Ecosse
Films, Blueprint Films, Octagon Films.
Black Day at Black Rock 2000 / Director/
Script: Gerard Stembridge, Producers:
Anna Devlin, Marina Hughes, Production
Company: Venus Films.
Blind Flight 2004 / Director: John Furse,
Producers: Sally Hibbin, David Collins, Eddie
Dick, Script: Brian Keenan, John Furse,
Production Company: Samson Films.
Bloody Sunday 2001 / Director/Script: Paul
Greengrass, Producers: Mark Redhead,
Jim Sheridan, Arthur Lappin, Production
Company: Hell’s Kitchen.
Bloom 2004 / Director/Script: Sean Walsh,
Producers: Sean Walsh, Gerry Murphy,
Mark Byrne, Production Company: Odyssey
Pictures.
Bogwoman 1997 / Writer/Director: Tom
Collins, Producers: Martha O’Neill, Tom
Collins, Production Company: De Facto
Film & Video.
Borstal Boy 2000 / Director: Peter Sheridan,
Producers: Pat Moylan, Arthur Lappin, Jim
Sheridan, Script: Peter Sheridan, Nye Heron,
Production Company: Hell’s Kitchen.
Boxed 2003 / Director/Script: Marion
Comer, Producers: Laurence Penn, Lene
Bausager, Douglas Graham, Production
Companies: Fireproof Films,
Ugly Duckling Films.
The Boxer 1998 / Producer/Director:
Jim Sheridan, Producer: Arthur Lappin,
Script: Terry George, Production Company:
Hell’s Kitchen.
Boy Eats Girl 2005 / Director/Script:
Stephen Bradley, Producers: Ed Guiney,
Andrew Lowe, Script: Derek Landy,
Prouction Company: Element Films.
The Boy from Mercury 1996 / Director/
Writer: Martin Duffy, Producer: Marina
Hughes, Production Company: Mercurian
Films.
Breakfast on Pluto 2006 / Director: Neil
Jordan Writer: Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe
(based on the book by Patrick McCabe),
Producers: Alan Moloney, Neil Jordan,
Stephen Woolley, Production Companies:
Parallel Films, Number 9 Films.
Broken Harvest 1993 / Director: Maurice
O’Callaghan, Producer: Jerry O’Callaghan,
Script: Kate O’Callaghan, Maurice
O’Callaghan, Production Company:
Destiny Films.
C
Chaos 2001 / Director/Script: Geraldine
Creed, Producer: Brendan McCarthy,
Production Company: Blue Light
Productions.
Circle of Friends 1993 / Director:Pat
O’Connor, Producers: Frank Price, Arlene
Sellers, Alex Winitsky, Script: Andrew
Davies, Production Company: Good Girls.
Conamara 2000 / Director: Eoin Moore,
Producer: Ingrid Holzapfel, Script: Greg
Brennan, Production Company: Boje Buck
Produktion.
Country 2000 / Director/Script: Kevin Liddy,
Producer: Jack Armstrong, Production
Company: Indi Films.
Cowboys & Angels 2004 / Director/Script:
David Gleeson, Producer: Nathalie
Lichtenthaeler, Production Company:
Wide Eye Films.
The Crooked Mile 2001 / Director/Script:
Stephen Kane, Producers: Triona Campbell,
Avril Ryan, Production Company: Campbell
Ryan Productions.
Crushproof 1997 / Director: Paul Tickell,
Producers: Nicholas O’Neill, Kees
Kassander, Script: James Mathers,
Production Company: Liquid Films.
D
The Daisy Chain 2008 / Director:
Aisling Walsh, Producers: Tristan Orpen
Lynch, Dominic Wright, Script: Lauren
Mackenzie, Production Company: Subotica
Entertainment.
Dancing at Lughnasa 1998 / Director: Pat
O’Connor, Producer: Noel Pearson, Script:
Frank McGuinness, Production Company:
Ferndale Films.
Dead Bodies 2003 / Director: Robert Quinn,
Producers: David McLoughlin, Clare Scully,
Script: Derek Landy, Production Company:
Distinguished Features.
Dead Long Enough 2006 / Director: Tom
Collins, Script: James Hawes, Tom Collins,
Producer: Paul Donovan, Production
Company: Grand Pictures.
Dead Meat 2004 / Director/Script: Conor
McMahon, Producers: Ed King, Michael
Griffin, Production Company: 3 Way
Productions.
The Disappearance of Finbar 1994/95 /
Director: Sue Clayton, Producers: David
Collins/Bertil Ohlsson, Martin Bruce
Clayton, Script: Dermot Bolger,
Disco Pigs 2000 / Director: Kirsten Seridan,
Producer: Ed Guiney, Script: Enda Walsh,
Drinking Crude 1997 / Writer/Director:
Owen McPolin, Producers: Kim Tapsell,
Gerry Johnston, Production Company:
Sweetskin.
Dorothy Mills 2008 / Director: Agnes Merlet,
Producers: Marc Missonnier, Eric Jehelman,
James Flynn, Script: Agnes Merlet, Juliette
Sales, Production Companies: Fidélité Films,
Octagon Films.
E
Eden 2008 / Director: Declan Recks,
Producer: David Collins, Script:
Eugene O’Brien, Production Company:
Samson Films.
The Englishman 2008 / Director: Ian
Sellers, Producers: Teresa Mulqueen, David
Collins, Script: Ian Sellers, Brendan Grant,
The Escapist 2007 / Director: Rupert
Wyatt, Producers: Adrian Sturges, Alan
Moloney, Script: Rupert Wyatt, Daniel
Hardy, Production Company: Parallel Film
Productions.
F
The Fifth Province 1997 / Director:
Frank Stapleton, Producer: Catherine
Tiernan, Nina Fitzpatrick, Frank Stapleton,
Production Company: Ocean Films.
Flick 1999 / Director: Fintan Connolly,
Producer: Fiona Bergin, Script: Fintan
Connolly, Production Company: Fubar.
Frankie Starlight 1994/95 / Director:
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Producer: Noel
Pearson, Script: Chet Raymo, Ronan
O’Leary, Production Company:
Ferndale Films.
Freeze Frame 2004 / Director/Script:
John Simpson, Producers: Michael Casey,
Martha O’Neill, Production Companies:
Parallel World Productions, Wildfire Films.
The Front Line 2006 / Director/Writer:
David Gleeson, Producers: Natalie
Lichtenhaler, James Flynn, Production
Company: Wide Eye Films.
G
Garage 2007 / Director: Lenny Abrahamson,
Producers: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Script:
Mark O’Halloran, Production Company:
Element Pictures.
The General 1998 / Writer/Producer/
Director: John Boorman, Production
Company: Merlin Films.
Gold in the Streets 1996 / Director: Elizabeth
Gill, Producer: Noel Pearson, Script: Janet
Noble, Noel Pearson, Production Company:
Ferndale Films.
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Goldfish Memory 2003 / Director/Script:
Liz Gill, Producer: Breda Walsh, Production
Company: Goldfish Films.
Guiltrip 1994/95 / Director: Gerry
Stembridge, Producer: Ed Guiney,
Script: Gerry Stembridge, Production
Company: Temple Films.
H
H3 2001 / Director: Les Blair, Producers:
James Flynn, Juanita Wilson, Script:
Laurence McKeown, Brian Campbell,
Production Company: Metropolitan Films.
The Halo Effect 2004 / Director/Script:
Lance Daly, Producers: Macdara Kelleher,
Hughie Kelly, Executive Producers: John
Kelleher, Les Kelly, Production Company:
Fastnet Films.
I
I Could Read the Sky 1999 / Director:
Nichola Bruce, Producers: Janine Marmot,
Nicholas O’Neill, Script: Nichola Bruce,
based on the book by Timothy O’Grady &
Steve Pyke, Production Company: Liquid
Films.
I Went Down 1997 / Director: Paddy
Breathnach, Producer: Rob Walpole, Script:
Conor McPherson, Production Company:
Treasure Films.
Inside I’m Dancing 2004 / Director: Damien
O’Donnell, Producers: James Flynn, Juanita
Wilson, Catherine Tiernan, Script: Jeffrey
Caine, based on a story by Christian O’Reilly,
Production Company: Octagon Films.
Headrush 2003 / Director/Script: Shimmy
Marcus, Producer: Edwina Forkin,
Production Company: Zanzibar Films.
Intermission 2003 / Director: John Crowley,
Producers: Neil Jordan, Alan Moloney,
Stephen Woolley, Writer: Mark O’Rowe,
Production Companies: Parallel Films,
Company of Wolves.
The Honeymooners 2004 / Director/Script:
Karl Golden, Producers: Martina Niland,
Martin Brinkler, Production Company:
Samson Films.
Isolation 2006 / Director/Script: Billy
O’Brien, Producers: Ruth Kenley-Letts,
Bertrand Faivre, Ed Guiney, Production
Companies: Element Films, The Bureau.
How About You 2007 / Director: Anthony
Byrne, Producer: Noel Pearson, Script: Jean
Paisley, Production Companies: Ferndale
Films.
J
Johnny Was 2006 / Director: Mark
Hammond, Writer: Brendan Foley,
Producers: Patrick Fitzsymons, Tom
Maguire, Paul Largan, Lars Hermann, Ira
Besserman, Brendan Foley, Production
Company: Borderline Productions.
How Harry Became a Tree 2001 / Director:
Goran Paskaljevic, Producer: Liam O’Neill,
Script: Goran Paskaljevic, Stephen Walsh,
Production Company: Paradox Films.
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate
1997 / Director: Graham Jones, Producers:
Graham Jones, Ciara Flanagan, Script:
Graham Jones, Tadhg O’Higgins, Aislinn
O’Loughlin, Production Company:
Graham Jones.
High Boot Benny 1993 / Director: Joe
Comerford, Producer: David Kelly, Script:
Joe Comerford, Production Company:
Sandy Films.
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K
Kill Daddy, Goodnight (Das Vaterspiel)
2008 / Director/Script: Michael Glawogger,
Producers: Christine Ruppert, Lesley McKinn,
Production Companies: Tatfilm, Newgrange
Films.
Kings 2007 / Director/Script: Tom Collins,
Producer: Jackie Larkin, Production
Company: Newgrange Pictures.
Kisses 2008 / Director/Script: Lance Daly,
Producer: Macdara Kelleher, Production
Company: Fastnet Films.
Korea 1993 / Director: Cathal Black,
Producer: Darryl Collins, Script: Joe
O’Byrne, Production Company: Black
Star Films/Cathal Black Films.
L
The Last Bus Home 1997 / Writer/Director:
Johnny Gogan, Producer: Paul Donovan,
Production Company: Grand Pictures.
The Last of the High Kings 1994/95 /
Director: David Keating, Producer: Tim
Palmer, Script: David Keating, Gabriel
Byrne, Production Company: Parallel Films.
The Last September 1999 / Director:
Deborah Warner, Producer: Yvonne Thunder,
Script: John Banville, Production Company:
Thunder Pictures.
Le Dernier Mot 1999 / Director: Sebastien
Grall, Producers: John Kelleher, Fabienne
Servan-Schreiber, Script: Anne Valton,
Marina Ní Dhubhain, Production Company:
Fastnet Films.
Love and Rage 1998 / Producer/Director:
Cathal Black, Producer: Rudolf Wichmann,
Script: Brian Lynch, Production Company:
Cathal Black.
M
The Magdalene Sisters 2003 / Director/
Script: Peter Mullan, Producers: Ed Guiney,
Frances Higson, Production Company:
Element Films.
Man About Dog 2004 / Director: Paddy
Breathnach, Producers: Robert Walpole,
Simon Channing Williams, Script: Pearse
Elliott, Production Companies: Treasure
Entertainment, Potboiler Productions.
Mapmaker 2001 / Director/Script: Johnny
Gogan, Producer: Paul Donovan, Production
Company: Grand Pictures.
Mickybo & Me 2005 / Director/Script: Terry
Loane, Producers: Mark Huffam, Mike
McGeagh, Production Companies: Octagon
Films, New Moon Pictures.
Middletown 2006 / Director: Brian Kirk,
Script: Daragh Carville, Producers:
Michael Casey, Mark Byrne, Martha O’Neill,
Production Company: Green Park Films.
Not Afraid, Not Afraid 2001 / Director:
Peaches 2000 / Director/Script: Nick
Annette Carducci, Producers: Morgan
O’Sullivan, James Flynn, Howard
Gibbins, Script: Annette Carducci, Barry
Devlin, Production Company: World 2000.
Grosso, Producer: Ronan Glennane,
Production Company: Stone Ridge Films.
Pete’s Meteor 1998 / Writer/Director:
Joe O’Byrne, Producer: Liam O’Neill,
John Lyons, Production Company:
Paradox Pictures.
The Mighty Celt 2005 / Director/Script:
Pearse Elliott, Producers: Robert Walpole,
Paddy McDonald, Paddy Breathnach, Michael
Casey, Production Companies: Treasure
Entertainment, Green Park Films.
Nothing Personal 1994/95 / Director:
Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Producers: Tracey
Seaward, Jonathan Cavendish, Script: Danny
Mornin, Production Company: Little Bird.
Moondance 1993 / Director: Dagmar Hirtz,
Producers: James Mitchell, Jonathan
Cavendish, Script: Burt Weinshanker,
November Afternoon 1996 / Directors:
John Carney, Tom Hall, Producer: Pat
O’Donoghue, Script: John Carney, Tom Hall,
Production Company: High Hat Productions.
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland 2000 /
Director: Dudi Appleton, Producer: David
Collins, Script: Jim Keeble, Production
Company: Samson Films.
O
Omagh 2004 / Director: Pete Travis,
Producers: Ed Guiney, Paul Greengrass,
Script: Guy Hibbert, Paul Greengrass,
Production Companies: Hells Kitchen
International.
My Friend Joe 1994/95 / Director: Chris
Bould, Producers: Michael O’Connell,
Gerhard Schmidt, Script: David Howard,
Declan Hughes, Production Company:
ProMedia.
Once 2007 / Director/ Script: John Carney,
Producers: Martina Niland, David Collins,
Mystics 2003 / Director: David Blair,
Producers: Mark O’Sullivan, Michael Ryan,
46/47 Nigel Warren Green, Script: Wesley
Burrows, Production Company: MR Films
On the Nose 2000 / Director: David Caffrey,
Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Scott
Kennedy, Script: Tony Philpott, Production
Company: Subotica Entertainment.
N
Night Train 1998 / Director:John Lynch,
Producer: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Script:
Aodhan Madden, Production Company:
Subotica Entertainment.
Ordinary Decent Criminal 1999 / Director:
Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Producer: Jonathan
Cavendish, Script: Gerry Stembridge,
Niko and the Way to the Stars 2008 /
Directors: Michael Hegner, Kari Juusonen,
Script: Hannu Tuomainen, Marteinn
Thorisson, Mark Hodkinson,
Production Companies: Magma Films,
Animaker, Ulysses Films, Afilm.
Nora 1999 / Director: Pat Murphy,
Producers: James Flynn, Tracey Seaward,
Script: Pat Murphy, Gerard Stembridge,
Production Company: Volta/ Metropolitan
Films.
Our Wonderful Home 2008 / Director/Script:
Ivan Kavanagh, Producers: Dominic Wright,
Jacqueline Kerrin, Production Company:
Ripple World Pictures.
P
Park 1999 / Directors: John Carney, Tom
Hall, Producers: John Carney, Tom Hall,
Script: John Carney, Production Company:
High Hat Productions.
Pavee Lackeen 2005 / Director: Perry
Ogden, Producers: Perry Ogden, Martina
Niland, John Rocha, Script: Perry Ogden,
Mark Venner, Production Company: An
Lár Films.
Puckoon 2001 / Director/Script:
Terence Ryan, Producers: Ken Tuohy,
Terence Ryan, Production Company:
Distinguished Features.
S
Saltwater 1999 / Director: Conor
McPherson, Producer: Robert Walpole,
Script: Conor McPherson, Production
Company: Treasure Films.
The Secret of Kells 2008 / Directors: Tomm
Moore, Nora Twomey, Producers: Paul Young,
Didier Brunner, Vivian Van Fleteran, Script:
Fabirce Ziolkowski, Tomm Moore Production
Company: Cartoon Saloon.
Separation Anxiety 1997 / Director: Mark
Staunton, Producer: Liam O’Neill, Script:
Shelagh Harcourt, Production Company:
Paradox Pictures/Dogtown Films.
Shrooms 2007 / Director: Paddy Breathnach,
Producers: Robert Walpole, Paddy McDonald,
Script: Pearse Elliott, Production Company:
Treasure Entertainment.
Silent Grace 2001 / Director/Producer/
Script: Maeve Murphy, Production Company:
Follower Productions.
Small Engine Repair 2007 / Director/Script:
Niall Heery, Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch,
Dominic Wright, Production Company:
Subotica Entertainment.
Snakes and Ladders 1994/95 / Director:
Trish McAdam, Producers: Lilyan Sievernich,
Chris Sievernich, Script: Trish McAdam,
Production Company: Livia Films.
Some Mother’s Son 1996 / Director/Writer:
Terry George, Producers: Jim Sheridan,
Arthur Lappin, Ed Burke, Production
Company: Hell’s Kitchen.
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Song for a Raggy Boy 2003 / Director:
Aisling Walsh, Producers: Tristan Orpen
Lynch, Dominic Wright, John McDonnell,
Kevin Byron Murphy, Script: Aisling Walsh,
Kevin Byron Murphy, based on book by
Patrick Galvin, Production Company:
Subotica.
Spaghetti Slow 1996 / Director: Valerio
Jalongo, Producers: Katy McGuinness,
Carlos Pasini Hansen, Script: Barry Devlin,
Valerio Jalongo, Lucinda Coxon, Production
Company: The Good Film Company.
Speed Dating 2007 / Director/Script: Tony
Herbert, Producers: John Conroy, Tony
Herbert, Production Company: System 48.
Spin the Bottle 2003 / Director: Ian
FitzGibbon, Producer: Michael Garland,
Script: Ian FitzGibbon, Michael McElhatton,
Production Company: Grand Pictures.
Studs 2006 / Director/Writer: Paul Mercier,
Producers: Fiach Mac Conghail, Cuán
Mac Conghail, Production Company:
Brother Films.
Sugar 2005 / Directors: Patrick
Jolley, Reynold Reynolds, Producers:
Samara Golden, Patrick Jolley, Reynold
Reynolds,Edwina Forkin Script: Reynold
Reynolds, Samara Golden, Patrick Jolley,
Production Companies: Zanzibar Films,
Make Films.
Summer of the Flying Saucer 2008 /
Director: Martin Duffy, Producers: Ralph
Christians, Clodagh Freeman, Script:
Marleinn Thorisson, Production Company:
Magma Films.
The Sun, the Moon and the Stars 1996 /
Director/Writer: Geraldine Creed, Producer:
Brendan McCarthy, Production Company:
Blue Light.
Sunset Heights 1998 / Director: Colm Villa,
Producers: Denis Bradley, James Flynn,
Script: Colm Villa, Production Company:
Northland Films.
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Sweety Barrett 1998 / Writer/Director:
When The Sky Falls 1999 / Director: John
Stephen Bradley, Producer: Ed Guiney,
Mackenzie, Producers: Nigel Warren-Green,
Michael Wearing, Script: Colum McCann,
Michael Sheridan, Ronan Gallagher,
Production Company: Irish Screen.
T
Tara Road 2005 / Director: Gillies
MacKinnon, Producers: Noel Pearson,
Miron Blumental, Sarah Radclyffe, Script:
Cynthia Cidre, Shane Connaughton,
Production Company: Ferndale Films.
The Tiger’s Tail 2006 / Director/Writer: John
Boorman, Producers: John Boorman, Kieran
Corrigan, John McDonnell, John Buchanan,
Production Company: Merlin Films.
This is the Sea 1996 / Director/Writer:
Mary McGuckian, Producer: Michael
Garland, Production Company: Pembridge
Productions.
Timbuktu 2003 / Director: Alan Gilsenan,
Producers: Martin Mahon, John McDonnell,
Emma Scott, Script: Paul Freaney,
Production Companies: Yellow Asylum
Films, Fantastic Films, MR Films.
Tonight is Cancelled 2007 / Director/Script:
Brendan Grant, Producer: Macdara Kelleher,
Production Company: Fastnet Films.
Trojan Eddie 1996 / Director: Gillies
MacKinnon, Producers: Seamus Byrne,
Emma Burge, Script: Billy Roche,
Production Company: Irish Screen.
Trouble With Sex 2005 / Director: Fintan
Connolly, Producer: Fiona Bergin, Script:
Fintan Connolly, Catriona McGowan,
Production Company: FUBAR.
U
Ugly Duckling & Me! 2007 / Directors:
Michael Hegner, Karsten Kiilerich,
Producers: Ralph Christians, Anders
Maastrup, Moe Honan, Daina Sacco, Script:
Mark Hodkinson, Production Companies:
Magma Films, A Film Futurikon, Ulysses.
W
When Brendan Met Trudy 2000 / Director:
Kieron J. Walsh, Producer: Lynda Myles,
Script: Roddy Doyle, Production Company:
Deadly Films 2.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley 2006 /
Director: Ken Loach, Script: Paul Laverty,
Producers: Rebecca O’Brien, Andrew Lowe,
Production Companies: Sixteen Films,
Element Films.
Words Upon the Window Pane 1993 /
Director: Mary McGuckian, Producers:
Mary McGuckian, Anna J. Devlin, Script:
Mary McGuckian, Production Company:
Pembridge Productions.
Y
You Looking at Me? 2003 / Director/
Producer: Margo Harkin, Script:
Teresa Godfrey, Production Company:
Besom Productions
Z
Zonad 2008 / Director: John Carney,
Producers: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, John
McDonnell, Script: John Carney, Kieran
Carney, Production Company: Element
Pictures
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