New Generation of Irish film-makers to be celebrated at inaugural Irish film series presented by American Cinematheque and Irish Film Board March 13-20 at the Egyptian Theatre....
Bord Scannan na hEireann/the Irish Film Board is pleased to announce plans for a short series of screenings in Los Angeles in March 2002.
The reknowned Egyptian Theatre run by the American Cinematheque, has selected a season of new Irish cinema which will run in the days around St. Patrick's Day in March. The organisers have planned an exciting array of Irish shorts, documentaries and feature films for inclusion in this inaugural programme.
The aim of this Irish season of cinema and the meetings taking place over the same period with major film studios, is to promote both the indigenous sector and Ireland as a location to the US marketplace.
The series, presented in association with the reknowned American Cinematheque and open to the public, includes two Oscar-nominated animated shorts as well as the Kirsten Sheridan's directorial debut, Disco Pigs. The inaugural series also includes Nora, a drama starring Ewan McGregor as James Joyce in a story about the famed Irish writer's stormy marriage.
The films chosen for this series represent the scope and depth of Irish film-making and offer the American film community an opportunity to become more familiar with some of the most exciting new cinematic voices in Ireland, who have built upon and been inspired by the homegrown talents of such directors as Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan.
2002 is proving a successful year for Irish filmmaking. In addition to the recently announced Academy Award® nominated animated shorts Give Up Yer Aul Sins and Fifty Percent Grey (which, significantly, account for 40% of the nominees in the category), the gritty docudrama Bloody Sunday has proved a huge success and was recently awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.