SHORTS PROGRAMME 2

KERRY OMNIPLEX, TRALEE
SATURDAY 28th OCTOBER 2006 TIME : 12.00noon €7


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Pilgrim
Ireland - 2006 - 3mins 30secs - 35mm - Colour
A stranger in an unknown land strives to fulfill his function.

Writer/Director Matthew Darragh
Producers Gerard O'Rourke, Jason Tammemägi
Technical Director James Stacey
Music Jonathan Atkinnson

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Spota
Ireland - 2006 - 13mins 50secs - 35mm - Colour
Not every dog is man's best friend as John soon discovers. After being followed home by a strange dog, John finds the
canine is determined to turn his life upside down.
Writer/Director Brian Reddin
Producer Ciaran Gallagher


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Last Night
Ireland - 2005 - 10mins - 35mm - Colour
In the dead of night a married couple, Frank and Lucy arrive back at an old holiday cottage deep in the Irish countryside. There is clearly tension between them.
Writer/Director Conor Morrissey
Producer Jackie Larkin


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Mebollix
Ireland - 2006 - 10mins 30secs - 35mm - Colour
Despite dire warnings about botched surgery and divine retribution,Tony Doyle caves in to the demands of his wife Doreen and gets a vasectomy.
Director Simon Gibney Writer Niall Murphy
Producers Irina Maldea & Brendan Culleton


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White Dress
Ireland - 2006 - 3mins 42secs - 35mm - Colour
A story of a girl on her communion day, but unlike other little girls; she is making her communion all on her own.
Director/Writer Vanessa Gildea
Producers David Lawless & Shirley Weir


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Pretty Face
Northern Ireland - 2005 - 11mins - 35mm - Colour
An opera film which explores the human consequences of incarceration and the effects of institutionalisation on its agents and victims, at a pitch of passion, which is almost hyper-real.
Director/Writer Fintan Brady
Producer Paul Largan

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WINNER OF THE CLAIRE LYNCH MEMORIAL AWARD

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Hitch
Northern Ireland - 2005 - 5mins - 35mm - Colour
A dangerous serial killer prowling the back roads and a female hitchhiker discover that finding true love can be murder.
Writer/Director Mik Duffy
Producer Paul Largan
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Red Wire - Blue Wire
Ireland - 2006 - 1mins - 35mm -Colour
With 60 seconds left the clock relentlessly counting down - 2 bomb disposal experts are rapidly running out of time.
Director/Producer Jason Butler
Writer Brendan Butler & Jason Butler


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Marion & the Princess
Ireland - 2006 - 8mins 35secs - 35mm - Colour
Ireland 1961 - on the eve of the official state visit of Princess of Monaco, Little Marion decides she is going to meet the
princess.
Writer/Director Melaine Clark Pullen
Producer Simon Maxwell


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Mothers Little Helper
Ireland - 2006 - 14mins 3secs - Colour
Based on actual events - explores a violently disintegrating marriage and the extremes one woman feels she must go
to in the face of such harrowing abuse, even at the cost of her family.
Writer/Director Barry Kelly
Producer Karen Edmonds


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Final Journey
Ireland - 2006 - 3mins 15secs - 35mm - Colour
Isn't it a shame that everyone must die When sweet life passes on, Where do our souls then fly?
Writer/Director Brendan Muldowney
Producer Conor Barry