Discover New Irish Talent at Special Screening of IFB Shorts in the IFI
Don't miss your opportunity to discover the latest new Irish film talent and check out a selection of new IFB funded short films this Monday 29th November. This special screening will be introduced by Mary Hanafin TD Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport at the Irish Film Institute.The evening will showcase a host of emerging Irish filmmaking talent and will mark the third year of the IFI screening IFB short films in front of feature films every month.
Hot from its Best Irish Short Film win at the Corona Cork Film Festival the Signatures short PENTECOST directed by Peter McDonald starring Don Wycherley (My Brothers, Bachelors Walk) and Michael McElhatton (Perrier's Bounty, Happy Ever Afters). will have its Dublin debut.
Audiences will get a chance to see the award-winning Reality Bites documentary BYE BYE NOW which scooped the Audience Award at the prestigious AFI Silverdocs Festival in the US in June. The touching documentary, which was co-directed and co-produced by Ross Whittaker (Saviours) and Aideen O'Sullivan, follows the planned removal of a number of phoneboxes from around the country, evoking fond memories in the lives of the rural Irish communities.
The Short Shorts and Frameworks films which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh will also screen on Monday.
Irish animation has been winning all types of awards this year and the latest Frameworks animated shorts include Ruairi Robinson's Blinky TM, Paperman, directed by Richard Kelly and co-written by Richard and Sean Ryan and Bruce Ryder's The Meaning of Eggsistence.
This year's Short Shorts embraced the theme of ‘Films With No Dialogue' to come up with some interesting and innovative films.
The humorous Loft, written and directed by Gareth Chambers and starring Gerard McSorley tells of a man and his pigeons that live in fear of a boy and his football while Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, directed by Gemma Faith and co-written by Gemma and Victoria McCollum explores female sexuality in the later stages of life.
The Parting is a haunting tale written by Molly O'Driscoll and directed by Ivan McMahon, which depicts a woman struggling to come to terms with her son's death while Shirley Weir's As The Light Leaks In and Patrick Semple's Headspace are touching shorts about a young girl and boy coping in their own ways with abuse.
Terence White's The Night-Nurse is a thrilling short where a nurse on a psychiatric ward searches for a missing patient, Flatbed, written and directed by Tom Merilion, is an unconventional love story and Brian Williams' Dummy follows a shop window mannequin's bizarre journey from destruction to second life.
The assortment of comedies, thrillers, dramas and documentary should make for an entertaining evening with something for everybody.
Irish Film Board short films will screen in the IFI, Temple Bar on Monday 29th November at 6.10pm