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Friday 8th June
Shorts Collection - Dance Films
Venue: Basement Space, Filmbase
Time: 1pm
- Match Dir. Dearbhla Walsh, 6'
Choreographed by Fearghus O Conchuir
- Why the Irish Dance that Way Dir. Nick Kelly, 6'
Choreographed by Ronan O Riagain
- Capoeira Dir. Fabio Guglielmelli 5'
- Joyride Dir. Margaret Corkery, 6'
Choreographed by James Hosty
- Love Your Belly Dir. Sonia Ajlani & Kathy Scott 5'
- Buail Dir. Steve Woods, 6'
Choreographed by John Scott
Dance is one of the most ephemeral art forms in existence and this means that capturing dance performance on film is both an incredibly delicate and important undertaking. Capoeira and Love Your Belly are both documentaries made as part of the Filmbase Documentary Foundation Course. The remaining shorts were made as part of the RTÉ Dance on the Box Scheme, this scheme, developed by the Arts Council and RTÉ was created to allow the creation of innovative short dance films.
Shorts Collection - Fantasy
Venue: The Temple Bar Pub
Time: 2pm
- Tilly & the Teeth Dir. Brian Durnin 11'
- He Shoots He Scores Dir. John Moore 10'
- Eireville Dir. James Finlan 24' 07''
Bizzare, odd, outlandish... If you like your films with a hint of strange, these extraordinary shorts are for you. Each one will draw you into its unique world, whether it be a fairytale nightmare, bus stops in barren lands or Eireville, where Ireland's future is its past.
Shorts Collection - Award Winning Shorts
Venue: The Vat House Bar (Blooms Hotel)
Time: 4pm
- The White Dress Dir. Vanessa Gildea 3'
- Mac an Athar Dir. Colm Bairead 21' 12''
- Useless Dog Dir. Ken Wardrop 5'
- The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish Dir. Andrew Legge 15'
Don't miss this chance to see these four award-winning shorts in the comfort of The Vat House Bar. Ranging from the silent black and white of The Unusual Inventions... to the naturalistic individual portrait of The White Dress, each short is a showcase for Irish filmmaking.
Panel Discussion: Irish film distribution in the local and international markets
Panel: Edwina Forkin (Zanzibar Films), Michael McMahon (Molotov Digital) and Derry O'Brien (Network Ireland).
Venue: Basement Space, Filmbase
Time: 6.30pm
Edwina Forkin
Edwina's debut feature film Headrush, shot in 2003, has four international awards to its credit and got National and limited International Release.
The executive producer on Shimmy Marcus's feature length documentary Aidan Walsh Master of the Universe (2002) which won two International awards, her latest feature Sugar was premiered in Sundance 2005 and screened in Edinburgh & Thessaloniki film festivals. She is also involved as co-producer on international productions About Europe (2004), Johnny Was (2005), Dot.com (2006) and she is working on three other theatrical feature films Lingling, Souled Out and The Straits due for production in 2007.
Recently ranked in the top 50 most influential Film Makers in Ireland, Edwina is a prominent speaker on the lecture circuit in Ireland and has represented Ireland as a speaker at international film festivals such as Berlin, Utrecht, Paris, San Sebastian and Helsinki, and was also on the Jury at Nantes.
Michael McMahon
Michael McMahon is an interactive media developer and manager with more than 10 years experience in the media industry. Michael was technical manager at Endemol UK and the UKTV network. At Endemol, he was the interactive technical manager with responsibility for interactive TV, Video on Demand, websites and mobile services on highly successful programmes such as Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, Fame Academy, Celebrity Fame Academy, Restoration and the Salon. At UKTV he was technical manager for similar services across the 11 UKTV satellite and cable channels. Michael returned to Ireland in March 2005 to set up Molotov Digital, which runs a legal, OnLine, Film & Television distribution service and develops broadband media solutions for companies.
Derry O'Brien
In 1995, Derry O'Brien was founding director of Ireland's first independent T.V. programme distribution company Network Ireland Television (NITV). NITV's focus has always been previously unrepresented short films and its catalogue of over 400 short film titles now means NITV has emerged as one of the largest short film distributors in the U.K. and Ireland. NITV represents the broadcast output of TG4; selected productions from TV3, BBC N.I. and programming from over 80 Irish, U.K. and New Zealand production companies, selling over 1,000 hours of programming to 100 plus broadcasters worldwide.
Previously a board member of both the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission and the European Commission's Brussels-based media scheme, Derry also inaugurated the Ireland On Screen Group Stand which remains the major All-Ireland group market promotion for the Irish TV & Film production sector.
Feature Screening: Pavee Lackeen
Dir. Perry Ogden
85m, An Lár Films (2005)
Venue: Basement Space, Filmbase
Time: 7.30pm
Classification: PG
Pavee Lackeen tells the story of Winnie, a ten year old Irish Traveller girl, who lives with her mother and siblings in a ramshackle trailer on the side of the road in a desolate industrialised area of Dublin. The film follows Winnie through several weeks of her life as she struggles for her identity as a young Traveller girl in contemporary Ireland. Winnie fills her time wandering through the run-down shops and stalls of Dublin's inner city, while her mother Rosie struggles to get her family housed by the local council.
Pavee Lackeen presents an unflinching portrait of a marginalised community often living in Third World poverty in a modern, prosperous Ireland. Filmed with a cast of mostly non-professionals, the film uses Travelling people playing characters near to their own and finding the core of the story in their own life experiences.
The Travelling people of Ireland maintain a culture and language which sets them apart from the rest of the population, and have been the victims of much misunderstanding and prejudice that continues to this day. Shattering existing stereotypes, Pavee Lackeen presents an intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud, dignified family struggling day by day against faceless bureaucracy, poverty and prejudice.
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