New IFB Funded Shorts to Premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh
The Galway Film Fleadh will serve up an afternoon of comedy, drama and animated shorts on Saturday 13th July with the premiere's of the latest short films funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB).
Pat Shortt will star alongside Dylan Moran, Ruth Bradley (Grabbers, Love/Hate) and David Pearse (Grabbers, The Guard) in Ian Fitzgibbon's (Death of a Superhero, Perrier's Bounty) BREAKFAST WINE. "They say it takes just three alcoholics to keep a small bar running in a country town, but what if you've only got two?"is the order of the day in the short penned by Kevin Barry. The comedy was produced by Michael Garland for Grand Pictures through the Signatures scheme.
As Irish animation continues to leave its mark on the international stage, the three animated shorts funded through the Frameworks scheme will showcase some of the best in new Irish animation talent.
In Eoin Duffy's THE MISSING SCARF produced by Jamie Hogan for Belly Creative, Albert the Squirrel is searching for his missing scarf and ends up finding something much more valuable. Alan Holly's CODA follows a lost soul as it stumbles drunkenly through the city and meets death who shows him many things. CODA was produced by Ciarán Deeney for And Maps And Plans. Ciarán previously co-produced Domhnall Gleeson's short Noreen which starred Brendan Gleeson.
THE LEDGE END OF PHIL (FROM ACCOUNTING) written and directed by Paul Ó'Muiris sees Phil being forced to face the world he's been ignoring and having to take a leap of faith or be trapped forever. Pearse Cullinane produced for Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells).
Galway audiences will get to view two new live-action Gearrscannain shorts also. From Stephen Daly, who has worked in the TV and film industry for almost 20 years including proejcts like the multi-award winning LOVE/HATE comes BEIRT LE CHÉILE. It tells the story of Tom, who in the aftermath of the Easter Rising, carries his wounded brother to get help, but through a child's game of mistaken identity things go awry. It was produced by Suzanne McAuley for Spiral Pictures.
In Louise Ní Fhiannachta's RÚBAÍ, a class is preparing for their First Holy Communion but Rúbaí refuses to do it, claiming she is an ‘atheist'. The light-hearted short was written by Antoin Beag Ó Colla and produced by Gemma O' Shaughnessy for Magamedia.
Included in the afternoon line-up are two co-productions. From the writer of Intermission and Perrier's Bounty, Mark O'Rowe, comes the live action short DEBRIS. Also director of the film, O ‘Rowe's short follows David, who several years after the suicide of a long-time girlfriend is in a new relationship. However, a chance encounter with the dead woman's sister raises complex questions about just how complicit he was with her death. The short is an Irish/UK co-production produced by Alan Moloney for Parallel Films and Dixie Linder for Cuba Pictures Limited.
Lee Cronin's GHOST TRAIN is an Irish/Finnish co-production and sees two brothers make an annual trip to a fairground where their childhood friend Sam went missing 30 years ago. This year the reality of what actually happened that day is revealed. It was produced by John Keville for Rank Outsider Productions in Ireland and Ulla Simonen for MADE in Finland.
The IFB-funded shorts will screen on Saturday 13th July in the Town Hall Theatre at 2pm.