Studiocanal has Samuel Beckett biopic ‘Dance First’.
Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex, Emma Seligman’s Bottoms and Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel are all opening in UK-Ireland cinemas, on a weekend with several well-reviewed films by and about women.
Starting in 150 cinemas through Mubi, How To Have Sex is the debut feature of Screen 2021 Star of Tomorrow Walker. The film follows three British teenage girls on a clubbing holiday in Malia, where one of the group has her first experiences with sex. The cast includes fellow Screen Stars Mia McKenna-Bruce and Samuel Bottomley, with casting director...
Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex, Emma Seligman’s Bottoms and Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel are all opening in UK-Ireland cinemas, on a weekend with several well-reviewed films by and about women.
Starting in 150 cinemas through Mubi, How To Have Sex is the debut feature of Screen 2021 Star of Tomorrow Walker. The film follows three British teenage girls on a clubbing holiday in Malia, where one of the group has her first experiences with sex. The cast includes fellow Screen Stars Mia McKenna-Bruce and Samuel Bottomley, with casting director...
- 11/3/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Margo Harkin’s film about child abuse in church- and state-run institutions is a highly skilled assembly of testimony that is as forensic as it is nauseating
There is a numbing sameness about the many documentaries out there about historical trauma, whether they are telling stories of casualties of war, survivors of abuse, or the descendants of either. Exercises in oral and visual history, these films follow strong narrative conventions, perhaps modelled on criminal trials: opening arguments, methodical presentation of evidence, climaxing with quavering testimony from victims.
To be frank, Margo Harkin’s documentary reviewing the horrors of Ireland’s mother-and-baby institutions – essentially state- and church-run factories churning out children for adoption, shame and misery – doesn’t swerve far from the template outlined above. But to extend the legal metaphor, she assembles the arguments with the skill of a high-court prosecutor. With forensic precision, it starts with the wider view...
There is a numbing sameness about the many documentaries out there about historical trauma, whether they are telling stories of casualties of war, survivors of abuse, or the descendants of either. Exercises in oral and visual history, these films follow strong narrative conventions, perhaps modelled on criminal trials: opening arguments, methodical presentation of evidence, climaxing with quavering testimony from victims.
To be frank, Margo Harkin’s documentary reviewing the horrors of Ireland’s mother-and-baby institutions – essentially state- and church-run factories churning out children for adoption, shame and misery – doesn’t swerve far from the template outlined above. But to extend the legal metaphor, she assembles the arguments with the skill of a high-court prosecutor. With forensic precision, it starts with the wider view...
- 11/1/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The official report into the deaths in Ireland’s mother and baby homes, published in January 2021, found that 9,000 children died in them. To put it another way, that’s 15% of all those who lived there. 200 mothers also lost their lives whilst trapped in the system. The scandal of baby deaths at Tuam unfolded slowly after the discovery of human remains in a playground built on the site of a former home in 1975, and became big news around the world in 2014, but there’s a much bigger story behind it, and that’s what Margo Harkin set out to explore in her new documentary. Screening at Docs Ireland 2023, it’s a difficult watch but compelling nonetheless, and an important contribution to the record.
Navigating a subject on this scale would be difficult enough in itself, even without the added complication of dealing with traumatised subjects and allowing for the...
Navigating a subject on this scale would be difficult enough in itself, even without the added complication of dealing with traumatised subjects and allowing for the...
- 6/20/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dublin International Film Festival will run from February 23 - March 4.
World premieres of Fintan Connolly’s Barber and Claire Dix’s Spotlight are among the line-up for the Dublin International Film Festival.
Connolly’s Barber stars Aidan Gillen as a private investigator investing the disappearance of a wealthy widow’s granddaughter. Gillen previously led Connolly’s 2005 film Trouble With Sex which was nominated for eight Irish Film and Television awards.
Sunlight follows a recovering addict who is caring for his terminally ill sponsor. The cast includes Barry Ward and Liam Carney. Dix was last as Diff in 2013 with audience award-winner Broken Song.
World premieres of Fintan Connolly’s Barber and Claire Dix’s Spotlight are among the line-up for the Dublin International Film Festival.
Connolly’s Barber stars Aidan Gillen as a private investigator investing the disappearance of a wealthy widow’s granddaughter. Gillen previously led Connolly’s 2005 film Trouble With Sex which was nominated for eight Irish Film and Television awards.
Sunlight follows a recovering addict who is caring for his terminally ill sponsor. The cast includes Barry Ward and Liam Carney. Dix was last as Diff in 2013 with audience award-winner Broken Song.
- 2/8/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Northern Ireland Screen has backed seven feature documentaries in the last year.
Northern Ireland’s documentary scene is thriving as the third annual Docs Ireland festival opens in Beflast today, Wednesday, August 25. Features from Northern Irish filmmakers Teresa Lavina and Brendan Byrne are being showcased in a programme that also includes two features in the Irish language.
The festival was created in 2019 as part of the existing Belfast Film Festival. It aims to turn the spotlight on the storytelling output of Irish and international non-fiction filmmakers, as well as leading international documentary filmmakers and also includes industry events and a marketplace.
Northern Ireland’s documentary scene is thriving as the third annual Docs Ireland festival opens in Beflast today, Wednesday, August 25. Features from Northern Irish filmmakers Teresa Lavina and Brendan Byrne are being showcased in a programme that also includes two features in the Irish language.
The festival was created in 2019 as part of the existing Belfast Film Festival. It aims to turn the spotlight on the storytelling output of Irish and international non-fiction filmmakers, as well as leading international documentary filmmakers and also includes industry events and a marketplace.
- 8/25/2021
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
The Palm Springs Short Fest, the Arcipelago Film Festival in Rome and the Feel Good Short Film Competition will screen Irish short films and documentaries this month. Eleven Irish short films have been officially selected for the Palm Springs International Shortfest which takes place in California from the 22nd to the 28th of June. The chosen projects include 'Moore Street Masala', 'Noreen' and 'Bye Bye Now'. The Arcipelago Rome Film Festival which runs between the 18th and 24th June and, this year, sees the inclusion of three Irish projects including 'Paradiso', a documentary produced by Margo Harkin and short films 'Dental Breakdown' from Ian Power and 'Jericho' from Liam Gavin.
- 6/18/2010
- IFTN
Ifta winning productions 'Waveriders', directed by Joel Conroy, and the animation short 'Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty' have both picked up awards at the 10th Newport Beach Film Festival in California. Produced by Margo Harkin of Besom Productions, 'Waveriders' scooped the Outstanding Achievement in Action Sports Filmmaking Award. The doc is currently on release in cinemas throughout Ireland and UK through Element Pictures Distribution.
- 5/7/2009
- IFTN
Ifta nominated feature documentary 'Waveriders', directed by Joel Conroy, will receive its Us Premiere at the 24th Santa Barbara International Film Festival on the 28th Jan '09. The film is set to be released by Element Pictures Distribution across nationwide cinemas in Ireland and the UK on 3rd April 2009. `Waveriders' is a co-production between Inís Films based in Dublin, Ireland and Besom productions based in Derry, Northern Ireland. It was directed by Joel Conroy, produced by Margo Harkin, narrated by Cillian Murphy, written by Lauren Davies and Joel Conroy with Daniel Trapp as Director of Photography. It features Richard Fitzgerald, Gabe Davies, Kelly Slater, Chris, Keith and Dan Malloy, Rabbit Kekai, Kevin Naughton, Craig Peterson, Drew Kampion, Arthur Verge, Andy Hill, Alastair Mennie, Easkey Britton and John McCarthy.
- 1/20/2009
- IFTN
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