Two IFB funded films to screen at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival this weekend
Tony O’Donoghue’s short documentary Irish Folk Furniture continues its festival success with screenings at the renowned Telluride Film Festival this weekend. The animated short film which was produced under Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board’s (IFB) Frameworks scheme has enjoyed enormous success on the international festival circuit picking up numerous awards at festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Utah, Global Visions Documentary Festival, Canada and the Red Rock Film Festival, Utah to name but a few. The film, which will screen twice over the weekend preceding the Finnish experimental documentary Remembrance – A Small Movie About Ouul in the 1950s.
Also included in the line up is the IFB funded Italian/Irish documentary Slow Food Story. Written and directed by Stefano Sardo, Slow Food Story tells the story of a man and the movement which revolutionised gastronomy. It is the tale of a cultural revolution which has been taking place for the past 25 years and still shows no sign of waning. Element Pictures acted as Irish co-producers working with Indigo Films in Italy.
Also screening at the festival is Paul Duane and David Cairn’s Natan, a documentary about the life of forgotten French filmmaker Bernard Natan who died in Auschwitz.
The Telluride Film Festival which runs from 29th August – September 2nd in Colorado has a very exclusive reputation. The festival prides itself on the fact that it doesn’t reveal its schedule of films until “everyone lands in town” which is why its audiences were the first in the world to laugh with Juno, to observe The Lives Of Others, to visit Brokeback Mountain, to learn the secret of The Crying Game, to experience Blue Velvet, and to witness The Civil War.
For more information and to download a copy of the schedule visit www.telluridefilmfestival.org