To The Moon in Official Selection at Telluride Film Festival and Venice Days 2020
Posted: 5th August 2020
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate the creative team behind To The Moon, the Screen Ireland-supported documentary directed by Tadhg O’Sullivan, which is in Official Selection at Telluride Film Festival 2020. The festival announced its line-up of 29 films to celebrate what would have been the programme for 2020.
This follows news last week that the documentary was also selected for Venice Days, the concurrent independent film festival section at the Venice Film Festival. To The Moon was selected as part of the festival’s 28 title line-up from over a thousand submissions.
Like so many other film festivals throughout 2020, both Telluride and Venice have been reimagined and repurposed in response to the pandemic – there will be no Telluride Film Festival this year, but the programmers have unveiled what this year’s selections would have been. In presenting the Telluride selections, the festival's aim is to recommend the best in film this year in hopes that audiences will be able to seek out the films at a later date.
Venice Days will take place from 2 – 12 September. The Venice Film Festival overall will operate with a reduced line-up, outdoor screenings and social distancing measures in place.
Produced by Clare Stronge and directed and produced by Tadhg O’Sullivan, To The Moon is a cinematic ode to the moon, made in large part from archival sources combined with literary fragments and bound together by a haunting original score. The film steps lightly through the ideas that people through the ages have drawn from the moon — dreams of escape, myths of heaven, songs of longing and loss, odes of yearning, stories of lost futures — taking the viewer on a constantly surprising night-walk through the night sky.
To The Moon was supported by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, The Arts Council, Arte and YLE.