Irish Films are Set for Sundance as Screening Times are Revealed
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival begins in Park City, Utah tomorrow, with a record seven titles funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board set to screen at this year's event: Mammal directed by Rebecca Daly, Love & Friendship from Whit Stillman, John Carney's Sing Street, Viva directed by Paddy Breathnach, The Lobster from Yorgos Lanthimos, documentary The Land of the Enlightened by Pieter-Jan De Pue and the short animation A Coat Made Dark directed by Jack O'Shea.
Representatives from Fastnet Films (Mammal, The Land of the Enlightened), Cosmo Films (Sing Street), Blinder Films (Love & Friendship) and Still Films (A Coat Made Dark) will be attending the festival, in addition to IFB Project Managers Mary Callery and Keith Potter.
See below the screening times for the Irish films at Sundance 2016.
A COAT MADE DARK (Short, screening as part of Shorts Program 3)
9:30 PM Friday January 22
REDSTONE CINEMA 1
6:00 PM Saturday January 23
TOWER THEATRE
3:00 PM Monday January 25
YARROW HOTEL THEATRE
5:30 PM Saturday January 30
PROSPECTOR SQUARE THEATRE
VIVA (Spotlight)
9:00 PM Friday January 22
BROADWAY CENTRE CINEMA 6
12:00 PM Saturday January 23
SUNDANCE MOUNTAIN RESORT SCREENING ROOM
12:00 PM Monday January 25
LIBRARY CENTER THEATRE
THE LOBSTER (Spotlight)
9:30 PM Saturday January 23
PEERY'S EGYPTIAN THEATER
5:15 PM Tuesday January 26
THE MARC
6:30 PM Wednesday January 27
ROSE WAGNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
6:00 PM Saturday January 30
SUNDANCE MOUNTAIN RESORT SCREENING ROOM
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Premiere)
9:45 PM Saturday January 23
ECCLES THEATRE
9:00 AM Sunday January 24
ECCLES THEATRE
6:15 PM Sunday January 24
THE GRAND THEATRE
6:30 PM Saturday January 30
ECCLES THEATRE
10:00 AM Sunday January 31
SUNDANCE MOUNTAIN RESORT SCREENING ROOM
MAMMAL (World Drama)
12:15 PM Sunday January 24
LIBRARY CENTER THEATRE
1:00 PM Monday January 25
REDSTONE CINEMA 2
6:00 PM Tuesday January 26
TOWER THEATRE
12:00 PM Wednesday January 27
SUNDANCE MOUNTAIN RESORT SCREENING ROOM
9:00 PM Thursday January 28
TEMPLE THEATRE
8:45 PM Friday January 29
PROSPECTOR SQUARE THEATRE
THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED (World Documentaries)
6:00 PM Sunday January 24
YARROW HOTEL THEATRE
6:45 PM Monday January 25
BROADWAY CENTRE CINEMA 3
4:00 PM Tuesday January 26
REDSTONE CINEMA 2
9:00 AM Friday January 29
YARROW HOTEL THEATRE
3:15 PM Saturday January 30
HOLIDAY VILLAGE CINEMA 2
SING STREET (Premieres)
9:30 PM Sunday January 24
ECCLES THEATRE
9:00 AM Monday January 25
ECCLES THEATRE
9:45 PM Wednesday January 27
ROSE WAGNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
9:00 PM Thursday January 28
SUNDANCE MOUNTAIN RESORT SCREENING ROOM
8:30 PM Saturday January 30
THE MARC
About 'A Coat Made Dark'
A man follows the orders of a dog to wear a coat with impossible pockets. Written and directed by Jack O’Shea and produced by Damien Byrne for Still Films, the music was composed by Neil O’Connor. The short features the voices of Hugh O’Conor, Declan Conlon and Antonia Campbell-Hughes. It was funded by the IFB under the Frameworks short film initiative.
About 'Viva'
Set in contemporary Cuba, Viva is a tender love story of a father and a son struggling to escape from opposing expectations, duty and the burden of past sins.
Viva was directed by Paddy Breathnach and written by Mark O’Halloran. It was produced by Robert Walpole, Rebecca O’Flanagan and Cathleen Dore for Treasure Entertainment and stars Hector Medina, Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto García, Mark O’Halloran and Laura Alemán. It was funded by the IFB, RTÉ and Windmill Lane.
About 'The Lobster'
The Lobster is a love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.
The Lobster is written by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou and produced by Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey and Yorgos Lanthimos. Executive Producers are Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross and Sam Lavender. The Lobster is an Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, Faliro House, Haut et Court, Lemming Film co-production in association with Limp and with Irish finance for the film from the IFB.
About 'Love & Friendship'
Set in the 1790s, Love & Friendship follows the machinations of the beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon, who seeks refuge from rumour and gossip about her dalliances and plots new conquests at the estate of her in-laws.
Love & Friendship was directed by Whit Stillman and adapted by Whit Stillman from the novel Lady Susan by Jane Austen. Produced by Katie Holly, Whit Stillman and Lauranne Bourrachot, it stars Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel and Stephen Fry. Production companies were Blinder Films, Westerly Films, Chic Films and Revolver Amsterdam and the financiers were IFB, Arte France Cinema, Protagonist Pictures, Netherlands Film Fund, Soficinema 11 and Cineimage 10.
About 'Mammal'
Mammal is the compelling and unorthodox story of a woman who has lost her son in tragic circumstances and the relationship she develops with a homeless youth.
Directed by Rebecca Daly and written by Rebecca Daly and Glenn Montgomery, Mammal was produced by Macdara Kelleher, Conor Barry, John Kelleher, Reiner Selen and Gilles Chanial and stars Rachel Griffiths, Barry Keoghan and Michael McElhatton. Production companies were Fastnet Films, Calach Films, Rinkel Films and it was financed by the IFB, TV3, BAI, Wildcard Distribution, Netherlands Film Fund, VPRO, Luxembourg Film Fund and Calach Films.
About 'The Land of the Enlightened'
In the shadow of Bagram Airfield — the bastion of U.S. military might in Afghanistan — exists a wartime economy that is run and controlled entirely by children. Nomadic Kuchi youngsters dig out anti-personnel mines and sell them to the child workers of the lapis lazuli mines. They in turn blast the precious blue stones free from their ancient resting place, to be smuggled by child soldiers, who control their passage to China and Tajikistan. There, the stones are bartered for arms and opium, the very lifeblood of the Taliban in their war against the U.S. occupation.
Directed by Pieter-Jan De Pue, The Land of the Enlightened was produced by Morgan Bushe, Bart Van Langendonck, Christian Beetz and Femke Wolting. Production companies are Fastnet Films, Savage Film, Gebrüder Beetz and Submarine and Irish finance came from the IFB.
About 'Sing Street'
Sing Street takes us back to 1980s Dublin where an economic recession forces Conor out of his comfortable private school and into survival mode at the inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious and über-cool Raphina, and with the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band’s music videos. She agrees, and now Conor must deliver what he’s promised - calling himself “Cosmo” and immersing himself in the vibrant rock music trends of the ‘80s, he forms a band with a few lads, and the group pours their hearts into writing lyrics and shooting videos.
Written and directed by John Carney, Sing Street stars Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Aidan Gillen. Producers on Sing Street were Martina Niland, Anthony Bregman, Paul Trijbits, Christian Grass and John Carney and the production companies were Cosmo Films, Likely Story and Filmwave. Finance came from the IFB and Merced Media Partners.