IRISH NARRATIVE SHORTS 1
THE OLD PRESBYTERY, TRALEE
SUNDAY 28TH OCTOBER TIME 4:00 PM
Ireland - 2007 - 12mins - DVD, 35 mm - Colour
Frankie is 15 and preparing for fatherhood he is determined to be the best dad ever, but as his day goes on, he starts to realize how impossible this will be for him.
Writer/Director/Producer Darren Thornton
A STRANGE REQUEST
Ireland - 2007 - 4mins 25secs - DigiBeta - Colour
A patient lies helpless in an errie hospital. He asks the cleaning lady for some help. This strange request has unforeseen consequences.
Director Maurice O’Carroll
BLIND EYE
Ireland - 2007 - 12 mins 16 sec - DVD - Colour
Sabina Wisniak, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany packs her case while downstairs in the hallway, an Irish immigration official is waiting to deport her. She makes a moving, last minute appeal to the immigration official, but he remains heartless and escorts her away to the mail boat while Sabina hopes for some trace of compassion.
Director Damien de Burca
BRIGHT IDEA
Ireland - 2007 - 5mins 37sec - DVD - Colour
A group of bored medical students occupy their time with silly games and dares, however they are about to realise that some ideas are not so bright...
Director Vincent Gallagher
Ireland - 2007 - 12mins - 10mins 52sec - Colour
Based on a short story by Roddy Doyle this poignant and comedic short film deftly captures the experience of being the new boy in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine-year-old African boy.
Director Steph Green
DEATH IN THE WEST
Ireland - 2007 - 27mins - DVD - Colour
Death in the West is an exploration of the peculiarly social nature of the funeral in Irish culture. Tomais MacEllistrom is a Kerry bachelor who attends an old acquaintance, Tom Collins´ wake, where music and spirits override the mourning and grief. Are we studying the death of Tom Collins, the inevitable death of a lonely Tomais or the death of tradition, music, culture and the Irish phenomenon that is the wake?
Director Keith Mannix
THE END IS NIGHT
Ireland - 2007 - 4mins - 35mm - Colour
When a farmer discovers an ancient amulet with the power to destroy the world, he does what any of us would do…
Director/Writer James Cotter
Ireland - 2007 - 4mins 20sec - DVD, Mini DV - Colour
Wong, Lucy and Femi, three foreign workers in a shop are frequently subjected to underhanded racism by some of the customers. Jacinta is one of the main culprits. She had little patience for them when they first started working in the shop and has even less now as they repeatedly get her lunch order wrong. She is about to confront them after it happened again; the question is, are the workers going to sit back and take it?
Director Sean Murray
Ireland - 2007 - 3min 40sec - DVD, 16mm - Colour
An unusual interview becomes an extraordinary race.
Director Frank Reid
THE GARDEN OF IRELAND
Ireland - 2007 - 3 mins - DVD - Colour
The Garden of Ireland is a slice of life story about one of Ireland’s elite gardeners as he picks, plants and tends for his dead buried deep in the Wicklow Mountains.
Director Ciarán Deeney
UNDER THE STAIRS
Ireland - 2007 - 1min 49sec - Beta, DVD - Colour
A power-cut causes a man to wake up late for work and discover that he's not alone in his panic.
Director/Writer Michael Kelly
SUNDAY NIGHT FEATURE
THE GREEN AND THE GOLD
SIAMSA TIRE, TRALEE 7:30 PM
Director - Maurice Healy
Documentary Ireland 60mins
A wonderful documentary reflecting on the highs and lows of Kerry football from the arrival of the new game in the county in the 1880's, to the Kingdom's 34th All-Ireland title in 2006 via the triumph of football over bitter Civil War divisions bringing all sides together for the common cause of Kerry football. Other periods highlighted include the Down/Kerry encounters of the early 1960s; the famed Kerry/Dublin sagas of the Seventies; the county's four-in-a-row between 1978 and 1981; and the 1982 'gift-taken-away', when Offaly deprived Kerry of that elusive five-in-a-row.
Contributors include: Eugene McGee, Tony Hanahoe, Eoghan Corry, Dara Ó Cinnéide, Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Mick O'Dwyer, Páidí Ó Sé, Pat Spillane