Irish Film CHARLIE CASANOVA in Competition at Top US Film Festival
The Irish feature CHARLIE CASANOVA written and directed by Terry McMahon will have its world premiere as part of the Narrative Feature Competition at this year's upcoming South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. It will be the first non-American film to be selected for the competition in six years and the first Irish film ever selected for it.Starring Emmett Scanlan (The Guards, Savage) and Leigh Arnold (The Clinic) the film, which received funding from the Irish Film Board tells the story of Charlie Casanova, a sociopathic member of the ruling class who knocks down a working class girl in a hit-and-run and uses a deck of playing cards to determine his fate.
The film will face competition from other international films listed in SXSW's Narrative Feature category including Aimée Lagos' 96 Minutes; Chris Eyre's A Year in Mooring; Matt D'Elia's American Animal; Janet Grillo's Fly Away; K. Lorrel Manning's Happy New Year; Robbie Pickering's Natural Selection and Small, Beautifully Moving Parts from Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson.
The South By Southwest (SXSW) 2011 music, interactive and film festivals and conferences will be held in Austin, Texas from March 10th-19th 2011 with the film festival running from 11th - 19th. The film festival is one of the world's premiere film festivals with a special focus on new directing talent. For more information on the festival and conferences see http://www.sxsw.com/