Not to be missed - Four days of documentary kicks off at Guth Gafa.
The 10th Guth Gafa International Film Festival opened last night and runs until Sunday in Kells, Co Meath. The Irish Film Board is a proud supporter of Guth Gafa which has for a decade been delivering the best documentary film from around the world to rural audiences. Over the course of four days, the festival will screen upwards on 60 films, including 32 Irish Premieres and one World Premiere.
Brendan J Byrne's Bobby Sands: 66 Days will screen this evening and will be followed by a Q&A with the director. The film charts the 66 day hunger strike in Belfast's H-Block in 1981.
Seán O Cualáin's Crash and Burn will screen on Sunday and will be followed by a Q&A. This is the follow up to Ó Cualáin's Men at Lunch and focuses on Drogheda's Tommy Byrne, who for a fleeting moment in the 80s was the world's greatest driver.
The award winning Mom and Me will screen on Sunday afternoon and will be followed by a Q&A with the director. Ken Wardrop's follow up to His and Hers is a portrait of what mothers mean to their sons in the manliest state in the US, Oklahoma.
Irish co-production The Land of the Enlightened will screen tomorrow afternoon and will be followed by a Q&A with director Pietar Van de Pue.
Veteran documentary filmmaker, Jerry Rothwell, maker of Sour Grapes, will host a masterclass on turning a news story into a documentary thriller on Saturday morning. The workshop, supported by Screen Training Ireland, will explore the kinds of news stories that attract documentary filmmakers as well as the challenges and the pitfalls to avoid.
Full programme and tickets available here.