SPECIAL FEATURES
FLEETWOOD MAC: RUMOURSPOLYTUNNEL, GORTBRACK FARM - FRIDAY 27th OCTOBER 2006 TIME 8.00pm
75mins - 1997 - Colour
Fleetwood Mac's multi-million selling Rumours was recorded in 1977. It sold 15 million copies worldwide, spending a staggering total of 433 weeks in the UK charts and 130 weeks in the US Billboard album chart. It was also voted Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 1978. When rumours was recorded, John and Christine McVie were separating, and Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's relationship was also breaking up. This was the album that almost never made it!
Director David Heffeman
Executive Producers Nick de Grunwald and Bous de Jong
Series Producer Chips Chipperfield
Plus Monkey Boy presents...
8min 30secs
Elvis and Tricky Dick strategise around
the war on drugs.
Director Scott Calonico
Producer Johny Hardwick, David & Kathy Calonico
Italy - 1965 - 6min 56 secs - B/W
Did Gerald Ford assassinate JFK? That’s precisely what this Italian documentary from 1965 purports to show.
Writer/Director Scott Calonico (Ricardo Fratelli)
Producer Francesca Nubliatoni
LSD A Go Go
10min 6secs
In the early hours of November 19, 1953 a man plunged to his death from 10 floors above the streets of Manhattan. Unfortunately things like this happen in a city as large as New York City. This case was just a bit different, however.
Director Scott Calonico
Producer Jeffrey J. Radice
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IFB & TG4 PRESENTATION: ÚAIR
THE IMPERIAL HOTEL, TRALEE RECEPTION
SATURDAY 28th OCTOBER 2006 TIME 6.00pm
An Gaelgoir Nocht
Ireland - 2006 - 50mins - Digibeta - Colour
Is gaelgóir meán aosta ó Bhaile Átha Cliath é Éanna atá ina chónaí san aisling ghaeltachta i gContae Chiarraí. Tosaíonn an tóin ag titim as an saol idéalach seo nuair a fheicinn sé go bhfuil an domhain foirfe ghaeilge faoi scáth an Bhéarla, sna scoileanna, sna caiféanna agus fiú ina thigh féin. In ísle brí, tosaíonn sé ar an ól agus buaileann sé le spéirbhean, gaelgóir eile, Síoda. Oibríonn sí mar léirtheoir do TG4. I rith na hoíche, is coirloisceoir í a loiteann tithe sa Ghaeltacht le béarlóirí iontu.
Mealaíonn Síoda Éanna. Liostaíonn sí é ina grúpa aontoisctheach. Tréiginn Éanna a mhuintir ar thóir saol fiúntach, beathaíoch le Gaeilge á thimpeallú. Bíonn saol nua óg aige, áit ina bhíonn sé mar laoch reabhlóideach Gaelach, de thaisme, ar son na cúise. Is í an fhírinne lom a loiteann an saol atá aige ag an deireadh. An bhfuil aon éalú ó smacht an Bhéarla ina shaol?
An Gaelgoir Nocht
Ireland - 2006 - 50mins - Digibeta - Colour
Eanna, is a middle aged Dublin Gaelgóir living the dream in the Kerry Gaeltacht. His world starts to crumble when he discovers that his cherished Gaelic world is succumbing to an irresistible tide of English; in the schools, in the cafés and worst of all in his own home - even his wife and beloved daughter speak English behind his back. Unable to accept his discovery, he hits the bottle and meets a strikingly beautiful Gaelgóir zealot, SIODA. By day Síoda is a presenter for TG4, by night she is an arsonist burning down the homes of English speakers in the Gaeltacht. Síoda seduces Eanna and enlists him to her group of Gaelic extremists. Eanna leaves his family and takes to the road on a wild adventure, inadvertently becoming a cult hero for the Gaelic cause. But real life isn’t long catching up with Eanna as he finds life on the edge a step too far.
Director Neasa Hardiman
Producer Brendan McCarthy
Writer Marina Ní Dubháin
Production Company Telegael
