Watch new Irish Films on Culture Night September 24th
A selection of IFB-funded short films will be showcased at Culture Night during a jam-packed evening of theatre, exhibitions, talks, music, readings, dance and literally events which will take place in 20 towns across the country on Friday 24th September.
Scheduled in the line-up for the Eye Cinema, Galway is an exciting mix of live-action, animation and short documentaries to be introduced by IFB Short Film Executive Fran Keaveney, including the Oscar-nominated Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, directed by Nicky Phelan and written and performed by Kathleen O'Rourke, where a seemingly sweet grandmother tells the fairytale to her terrified grand-daughter. Bye, Bye Now, the short documentary following the proposal to remove phoneboxes from around the country, directed by Aideen O'Sullivan and Ross Whittaker as well as David O'Sullivan's Moore Street Masala, the first indigenous Bollywood film to be produced in Ireland. Also set to screen are John McCloskey's Guns, Bees & Tadpoles, Mike Ahern's Mr. Foley, Liam Gavin's Jericho, Conor Ferguson's Atlantic, David Quin's Twas A Terrible Hard Work and Cecelia McAllister's Féileachán.
The short animation Miss Remarkable & Her Career, produced by local Galway-based company A Man & Ink, is also set for a special screening at the Galway City Museum in association with Galway Film Centre. Written and directed by Joanna Rubin Dranger, this darkly humorous story depicts Miss Remarkable as she struggles with her inner demons, crushing parental expectations and rising above a career meltdown and was co-produced between Ireland, Sweden and Denmark.
Meanwhile on the opposite coast, a colourful selection of award-winning shorts will also be showing in Filmbase in Dublin, with the programme encompassing Rory Bresnihan's A Man Inside, Louise Bagnall's Donkey and Colour Contamination, Padraig Fagan's The Rooster, the Crocodile and the Night Sky and David O'Sullivan's Moore Street Masala.
Culture Night provides the platform to celebrate our distinct cultural and creative resources which are a source of great national pride and an essential element of our national competitiveness in globalised world. Streets, venues and open-spaces will come alive with a rich cultural offering of electric atmosphere, colour, music, performance and workshops providing people with an opportunity to reacquaint or introduce themselves to a vast and rich cultural offering.
See where you can catch our Short Films on Friday 24th September:
- Eye Cinema, Galway from 7pm - 8pm http://www.galwayculturenight.com/
- Filmbase, Dublin from 5pm -11pm http://www.culturenight.ie/
- Miss Remarkable & Her Career in Galway City Museum at 9pm