Irish Feature Film EAMON selected for Prestigious Karlovy Vary Film Festival
The Irish feature film EAMON directed by Margaret Corkery and produced as part of the CATALYST PROJECT screened in Official Competition at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic which took place this week.
EAMON is Margaret's debut feature film which she both wrote and directed under the CATALYST PROJECT low budget training iniative which provided a unique opportunity for three film directors with passion and vision to produce a low budget feature film. Starring Darren Healy and Amy Kirwan, the film tells the story of Eamon, a little boy with behavioural problems and the destructive relationship of his selfish mother and his sexually frustrated father.
The film premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival earlier this year where Margaret was honoured as a breakthrough talent by the IFB Talent Spotlight.
Karlovy Vary IFF is one of the oldest and most important international film festivals in Central and Eastern Europe and will screen over 200 films from all corners of the globe. It is open to the public and will be visited by thousands of cinemagoers.
CATALYST PROJECT was devised by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, Screen Training Ireland, Filmbase, The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, TV3 and the Arts Council tol train filmmakers in the art of very low-budget filmmaking and fund successful participants to produce a feature film.
The initiative takes as its inspiration recent Irish low budget films which have achieved major international success: John Carney's Once, which won the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance film Festival last month; Lenny Abrahamson's Adam and Paul which was selected for Panorama at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival; and Perry Ogden's Pavee Lackeen, which premiered in Critics Week at the Venice Film Festival, also in 2005.