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IRISH FILM 2012 / PRODUCTION CATALOGUE

WWW.THISISIRISHFILM.IE / WWW.IRISHFILMBOARD.IE "In 1968 John Huston chaired the very first Irish Government Committee on the establishment of an Irish Film Industry. His committee’s report concluded that... ‘Policy will have achieved success when Irish creative endeavour, technical ability and artistic talent are combined in making, on 1 a continuing basis, films of a quality and a 2 standard acceptable to audiences in Ireland and throughout the world.’ With the particular emphasis on the role of indigenous talent as the foundation for lasting success, these words still express the core purpose of the Irish Film Board"

JAMES MORRIS

Chairman Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ the Irish Film Board WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE ABOUT BORD SCANNÁN NA hÉIREANN/ THE IRISH FILM BOARD CONTENTS

Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film CHIEF EXECUTIVE INTRODUCTION...... 4 The Reluctant Revolutionary.... 71 Board (IFB) is Ireland’s national film agency. The Life of Anton Corbijn...... 71 The agency supports and promotes the Irish film INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS 2011...... 6 Nuala O'Faolain: A Life...... 72 industry and the use of Ireland as a location for The Perverts international production. FEATURES COMING SOON...... 12 Guide to Ideology...... 72 Byzantium...... 14 Stuffing the Tiger...... 73 Good Vibrations...... 16 We Were At War...... 73 Chief Executive...... JAMES HICKEY Jump...... 18 A Stranger in King of the Travellers...... 20 a Strange Land...... 74 BUSINESS AFFAIRS Life's A Breeze...... 22 Get the Picture...... 74 Deputy Chief Executive...... TERESA MCGRANE Love Eternal...... 24 Hammer to Bell...... 75 3 Financial Controller...... CELINE FORDE Sanctuary...... 26 Hold on Tight...... 75 4 Head Of Legal Affairs...... MARK BYRNE Shadow Dancer...... 28 Industry Affairs Executive...... PATRICK O'NEILL Silence...... 30 ANIMATION...... 76 Business & Legal Stitches Grindle...... 32 I’m a Creepy Crawly...... 78 Affairs Co-Ordinator...... AILEEN MCCAULEY What Richard Did...... 34 Abadas...... 79 Accounts Finding Joy...... 36 Moon Man...... 79 Co-Ordinator...... SUZANNE KEANE (PART-TIME) Charlie Casanova...... 37 Niko II: A Family Affair...... 80 The Adventures of PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT FEATURES CREATIVE the Young Marco Polo...... 81 Production Executives...... ALAN MAHER CO-PRODUCTIONS...... 38 ...... EMMA SCOTT Haywire...... 40 LIVE ACTION TV...... 82 Development Executive...... ANDREW MEEHAN Call Girl...... 42 Eliot & Me...... 84 Production & The Miracle...... 43 Titanic: Blood and Steel...... 85 Development Co-Ordinator...... SARAH DILLON Kelly and Victor...... 44 Applications & Milo...... 45 SHORT FILM SCHEMES...... 86 Schemes Co-Ordinator...... JILL MCGREGOR 23 Degrees 5 Minutes...... 88 FEATURES RELEASED 2011...... 46 An Rinceoir...... 88 MARKETING A Shine of Rainbows...... 48 Asal...... 89 Marketing & As If I Am Not There...... 49 Buddy...... 89 Communications Executive...... LOUISE RYAN Ballymun Lullaby...... 50 Cluck...... 90 Between the Canals...... 51 Downpour...... 90 IRISH FILM COMMISSON Congo – An Irish Affair...... 52 Foxes...... 91 Film Commissioner...... NAOISE BARRY Essential Killing...... 53 Home Turf...... 91 Deputy Film Commissioner.... MAGS O'SULLIVAN Knuckle...... 54 Jonny Boy...... 92 SVP Irish Film One Hundred Mornings...... 55 Noreen...... 92 Commission US...... JONATHAN LOUGHRAN Parked...... 56 Origin...... 93 Perfect Sense...... 57 Quarantine...... 93 ADMINSTRATION Rewind...... 58 Remember Me, My Ghost...... 94 Executive Assistant Sensation...... 59 Riders to the Sea...... 94

To Chief Executive...... NIAMH O'REILLY The Guard...... 60 Small Change...... 95 WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Snap...... 61 Switch...... 95 Board Members...... JAMES MORRIS (CHAIR) Wake Wood...... 62 The Boy in the Bubble...... 96 ...... LESLEY MCKIMM The Runway...... 63 The Crush...... 96 ...... TRISTAN ORPEN LYNCH The Fisherman...... 97 ...... KEVIN MORIARTY DOCUMENTARIES...... 64 The Hatch...... 97 ...... KIRSTEN SHERIDAN Dreams of a Life...... 66 The Pool...... 98 ...... JOHNNY GOGAN Nightdancers...... 67 Two Hearts...... 98 ...... BARRY GRACE Men at Lunch...... 68 Washed Up Love...... 99 Very Extremely Dangerous...... 69 We, The Masses...... 99 Catalogue Co-Ordinated By...... SUZANNE MURRAY Saving the Titanic...... 70 Snake Dance...... 70 FILM DIRECTORY...... 100

CHIEF EXECUTIVE INTRODUCTION

5 or Irish film in 2011, the year started with The Guard garnering a major US distribution deal 6 with Sony Picture Classics at the Sundance Film Festival and ended with Brendan Gleeson F being nominated for a Golden Globe award for his performance in that film. In between, The Guard was the most successful independent Irish film ever at the Irish box office and the number 1 DVD on sale over the Christmas period of 2011. It also achieved over €5m in the box office in the USA.

The project received major funding from BSÉ/IFB BSÉ/IFB funding was reduced by 3% for 2011 and of Gumball The Quest getting the best TV production There is much that needs to be achieved in Ireland and proved that Irish creative talent in a feature film more substantially by 18% for 2012 bringing us back award at Annecy. Brown Bags Happy Huggle Monster in the period up to 2016 but what I want to see is driven by Irish talent with strong Irish cultural roots and to 2005/2006 levels. Even with the reduction for was picked up for production by Disney and the short that the making of films and television programmes shot on location in Galway, can achieve critical and 2011 Irish creative talent continued to be supported film Pentecost has been shortlisted for an Academy as well as other audiovisual works, will make a major commercial success both in Ireland and internationally. with feature films such as Love Eternal directed by Award nomination in that category. culturally driven, imagination expanding and job It fully justifies the support provided by BSÉ/IFB to a Brendan Muldowney, Life’s a Breeze directed by creating contribution to Ireland during that period. This On a policy level BSÉ/IFB welcomed the launch first time writer/director to realise a cinematic vision Lance Daly, What Richard Did directed by Lenny should in turn provide a major addition to the cultural of the ‘Creative Capital’ Report by the Minister for with a hugely talented Irish cast and crew expressing Abrahamson and Byzantium directed by Neil Jordan, life of Ireland as a nation as well as creating jobs Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in July 2011. The Irish culture in a strong and forthright manner. going into production as well as major international co- for Irish people, exports for Ireland’s economy and Report’s full title is ‘Creative Capital: Building Ireland’s productions such as Shadow Dancer, Titanic: Blood tourists wanting to come and see the Ireland of their For Ireland overall, 2011 was a hard year in economic Audiovisual Economy’ and it sets out a bold vision and Steel and Ek Tha Tiger providing major levels of imagination fuelled by what they have seen in Irish film terms with the first full year of the implementation for the future of audiovisual production in Ireland with employment for Irish cast and crew working in Ireland. on screen. of the EU/IMF/ECB deal under a new government turnover to be doubled to 1 billion and 5000 new € with a strong mandate to implement reductions in For 2012 BSÉ/IFB is looking forward to major jobs created over a five year period. As stated in the JAMES HICKEY all areas of government expenditure. Even in this feature film projects such as At Swim Two Birds report ‘The audiovisual industry is a dynamic mix of climate, the audiovisual sector, as an integral part of to be directed by Brendan Gleeson, Song of the talent (human capital), creativity (ideas and innovation) Chief Executive / Ireland’s creative industries, has delivered positive Sea to be directed by Tomm Moore and Run and and enterprise (adding and extracting value).’ Phríomhfheidhmeannach economic results in the Irish economy including job Jump to be directed by Steph Green. In addition the Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ The vision of ‘Creative Capital’ is both cultural and creation and increased exports, and with continued implementation by BSÉ/IFB of its International Fund in the Irish Film Board

industrial and the bringing together of these two WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE government investment, has the potential to deliver the latter part of 2011 and the visit by UK producers elements into one vision will be the work of the years real growth in the future. The continued strength of and broadcasters organised by the Film Commission to come. In order to implement that vision the Report the Euro during the year (at least until the later part of of BSÉ/IFB in September 2011 has resulted in two recommends that the organisational structure and the year) impacted on Ireland’s capacity to compete television series and a television film from the UK funding responsibilities of BSÉ/IFB are adapted internationally. The audiovisual production sector locating production in Ireland in the first quarter to enable the organisation to act as a specialist however needs to exercise continued vigilance in its of 2012. development agency for the entire audiovisual industry. efforts to achieve flexibility and competitiveness while Other successes include the feature film Albert Nobbs BSÉ/IFB will I hope and believe rise to that challenge maintaining fair and transparent conditions for those shot in Ireland at the end of 2010 with three Golden in 2012 and the following years so that the vision of working in the sector. Globe nominations including Brian Byrne for the song Creative Capital can become a vibrant, talent driven, Lay Your Head Down as well as The Amazing World entrepreneurially successful reality by 2016. HIGHLIGHTS INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS 2011

The tax incentive for film and television Section 481 is extended until the end Irish delegation head to SXSW where Charlie Casanova is the first non- of 2015 American film selected for the Narrative Feature competition in 6 years The Guard, Knuckle, Perfect Sense and Small Change all screen at the JANUARY Sundance Film Festival. The Guard and Knuckle receive major critical acclaim. MARCH Irish animators Nicky Phelan (Brown Bag Films) and Tomm A bidding war for The Guard results in Sony Pictures Classics closing a major Moore (Cartoon Saloon) represent Ireland at the White House deal for the US and Latin America. HBO close a deal to remake Knuckle into a on St Patricks Day 7 drama series 8 Irish filmmaking talent is highlighted across the US with a host of Irish films Albert Nobbs and This Must Be The Place are named as two of the ‘Hot 50 Films’ screening at the Chicago Irish Film Festival, the Irish Film Festival Boston and for 2011 by Screen Daily Irish Reels Film Festival in Seattle

As If I Am Not There, The Runway and The Pipe screen at the Palm Springs Four Irish films hit cinemas across Ireland – Between The Canals, Rewind, International Film Festival As If I Am Not There and Wake Wood

Sensation, Parked, Off The Beaten Track, Silent Sonata and Essential Killing Feature film Jump goes into production in Co. Down and Derry and feature screen at the Rotterdam Film Festival with Parked and Silent Sonata listed in documentary Silence goes into production along the west coast in Cork, Clare, the Top 20 for the UPC Audience Award Galway, Mayo and Donegal.

Feature films Albert Nobbs and Grabbers in production in Dublin and Donegal respectively Lotus Eaters, The Hideaways, The Guard, Switch, Noreen and Pentecost all screen at the Tribeca Film Festival

Irish short The Crush becomes Ireland’s 7th Academy Award nominated short IFB and Enterprise Ireland support ‘Ireland on Screen’ at MIPTV film since 2002 APRIL Newport Beach Film Festival highlights Irish film with The Runway, Sensation, The Guard is officially selected as a Panorama Special at the Berlin A Kiss For Jed Wood, As If I Am Not There and Parked all screening FEBRUARY International Film Festival. The short Crossing Salween competes in the Gen 14Plus section while The Pipe screens as part of the culinary programme. The Off Plus Camera Festival in Krakow has a special focus on New Irish Cinema Domhnall Gleeson is Ireland’s Shooting Star screening One Hundred Mornings, Wake Wood, My Brothers, Savage, Snap and Charlie Casanova As If I Am Not There picks up Best Film, Best Director and Best Script accolades at the IFTA Awards. Domhnall Gleeson is named 2011 IFTA Rising Star Paperman wins Best Animation at Canadian International Film Festival Irish Talent Spotlight shines on Juanita Wilson, David O’Reilly and Aidan Gillen at JDIFF where the inaugural JDIFF/IFB Untitled screenwriting Snap wins Audience Award at the Uruguayan International Film Festival competition is launched and goes on release in Irish cinemas WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Snap, As If I Am Not There, Men of Arlington and Small Change all pick up awards at the Dublin Film Critics Circle HIGHLIGHTS

This Must Be The Place is officially selected for competition at the Cannes The Guard is No.1 at the Irish box office and scoops Best Irish Feature Award International Film Festival. Also The Other Side Of Sleep is selected for the at the Galway Film Fleadh prestigious Directors Fortnight IFB welcomes new strategic report Creative Capital: Building Ireland’s MAY Rebecca O’Flanagan is selected as Ireland’s Producer on the Move JULY Audiovisual Creative Economy. The report seeks to unlock the potential of the in Cannes Irish Audiovisual Economy to create 5000 new jobs and double turnover to €1bn

9 US distributor Olive Films picks up US rights for The Runway Summer of Irish film begins on Setanta as the station screens an Irish film 10 every night Dreaming The Quiet Man has international premiere at MoMa in New York as part of the ‘Revisiting the Quiet Man: Ireland on Film’ event curated by Antonia Campbell Hughes is selected as one of Screen International’s Stars of Gabriel Byrne. Tomorrow 2011

One Hundred Mornings is released in Irish cinemas Albert Nobbs picks up a major US sale

Shoe wins Best Irish Short Film at the Corona Short Film Festival, Valuable Irish Luxembourg Co-Production deal is signed at the Schull, Co. Cork Galway Film Fleadh

Camelot, Game Of Thrones, The Borgias and Irish actor Brian F. O’Byrne IFB launches ‘Animated in Ireland’ promo showcasing Irish animation talent all receive nominations for the Primetime Emmys at Annecy Film Festival. Santa’s Apprentice wins UNICEF Award while The Amazing World of Gumball – The Quest wins Best TV Production Irish documentary A Boatload Of Wild Irishmen premieres at the Auckland International Film Festival and secures a US distribution deal with New York JUNE IFB leads Irish film industry delegation to the Produced By Conference in LA based Icarus Films

Knuckle, Build Something Modern and Needle Exchange screen at Sheffield Three new features films The Miracle, Saving the Titanic and Call Girl along Doc/Fest with new animated TV series Abadas all begin production

The Guard, My Brothers, Charlie Casanova and Off the Beaten Track screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival Wake Wood screens at the Chamber of Horrors Big Screen in London

Milo and Shadow Dancer go into production The Guard wins the Audience Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival

Headspace and Hearing Silence shortlisted for ICCL Human Rights AUGUST Knuckle goes on cinema release in Ireland Film Awards Irish audiences get a preview of upcoming Irish titles Parked, Sensation, Lotus Collaboration Horizontale picks up a prize at the Palm Springs Eaters and the Irish filmed Haywire at Dublin’s inaugural Movie Fest International Shortfest WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Off The Beaten Track wins a prize at the Film Festival della Lessinia in Italy The Pier has world premiere at Karlovy Vary Local production sector booming with six new features Sanctuary, Love Charlie Casanova wins Best Film and Festival Pick at DMV International Film Eternal, Good Vibrations, The Shadows and Kelly & Victor in production. Festival in Washington DC Animated feature Niko: A Family Affair also goes into production

The Runway is released in Irish cinemas HIGHLIGHTS

The Guard grosses over €4.13m and becomes the most successful independent Dreaming The Quiet Man is selected to screen in the EU Film Showcase at AFI Irish film in Irish box office history Signatures and Reality Bites shorts premiere at the Corona Cork Film Festival IBEC reports that 2010 was a record year for film and television production. SEPTEMBER Overall expenditure on Irish goods and services amounted to €204.7m NOVEMBER A special programme of Irish shorts screen as part of a spotlight on Irish animation at the Bristol Encounters Film Festival Albert Nobbs has a Gala Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival where Death of a Superhero, The Other Side of Sleep and The Moth Sensation is released in Irish cinemas Diaries to also have their US premieres Galway Film Fleadh becomes a qualifying festival in the Academy Awards Albert Nobbs and the Reality Bites short Collaboration Horizontale screen Short Film category which means shorts winners will be eligible for Oscar at the Telluride Film Festival consideration

Monster Animation named European Producer of the Year at Cartoon Tributes Irish horror film Stitches Grindle begins production along with Life’s a Breeze starring Pat Shortt and Fionnuala O’Flanagan Lotus Eaters, This Must Be the Place, Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey and Dreams of a Life screen at the BFI London Film Festival Exciting new creative partnership announced between IFB and BBC Storyville for the production of documentaries co-produced between Ireland and the UK 11 Congo – An Irish Affair is released in selected cinemas in Ireland 12 Downpour wins Best Irish Short at Foyle Film Festival Parked, Stella Days and El Gusto screen at Asia’s premiere festival in Busan Albert Nobbs receives an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Janet Over 25 Irish companies attend MIPCOM McTeer is nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category

Love Eternal, Good Vibrations and What Richard Did begin production in various locations around Ireland Neil Jordan’s Byzantium starring Saoirse Ronan begins production in Dublin

As If I Am Not There is announced as Ireland’s submission for Academy Grabbers and Shadow Dancer are officially selected for the Sundance Award’s Best Foreign Language Film Film Festival DECEMBER The Guard opens the LA Irish Film Festival. Irish talent comes into focus Ballymun Lullaby goes on release in Irish cinemas at other Irish film festivals across the US in San Francisco and New York Dollhouse is officially selected for Panorama section of Berlin International Film Festival Titanic: Blood & Steel films in Dublin creating 200 local jobs and spending €12m in Ireland. King of the Travellers also in production The Guard is the No.1 DVD in Ireland

Ek Tha Tiger, the first major Bollywood blockbuster to film in Ireland shoots Signature short Pentecost is shortlisted for an Academy OCTOBER in various locations around Dublin with an Irish spend of €2m Award® nomination

Death of a Superhero picks up a major US sale on the back of critical acclaim Brendan Gleeson receives a Golden Globe nomination for his role in The Guard at Toronto International Film Festival while Albert Nobbs receives three nominations for Best Actress (Glenn Close), Best Supporting Actress (Janet McTeer) and Best Original Song (co-written by Irish documentary Broken Tail picks up three awards at the world’s leading Glenn Close and Brian Byrne and performed by Sinead O’Connor) Wildlife Film Festival Knuckle is released in the US The Monk and the Fly, Flatbed and Paperman all pick up prizes at the Novora

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Parked is released in Irish cinemas

Two Irish projects Life’s a Breeze and Dark Touch are awarded competitive Eurimages funding at the Eurimages conference which takes place in Dublin

El Gusto wins the International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) for Best Documentary at the Abu Dhabhi Film Festival. WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE SOON COMING

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15 BYZANTIUM 16 n the run for a grizzly crime, two young women arrive penniless at an English O seaside town. Clara is a fiercely modern woman who has her eyes on the future and no time for the past. Eleanor is a shy and innocent but rebellious teenager. They say they are sisters, but are they? They both hide secrets that stretch back over two centuries and they face challenges that will change their lives forever.

Director Neil Jordan Script Moira Buffini Producers Alan Moloney, Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen, William D. Johnson, Sam Englebardt Photography Sean Bobbitt Editor Tony Lawson Production Design Simon Elliott Main Cast Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Mays, Caleb Landry Jones Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow

Production Companies Parallel Film Productions Tel +353 1 236 0757 [email protected], Number 9 Films WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Financiers IFB, Demarest Films, StudioCanal, Lipsync Distributor StudioCanal Sales Agent WestEnd Films Tel +44 207 494 8300 [email protected] FEATURES COMING SOON GOOD VIBRATIONS erri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970’s T Belfast, when the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his city. As all his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record 17 18 shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe and calls it ‘Good Vibrations’. Through it, he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city’s nascent underground punk scene and becomes the unlikely leader of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an alternative Ulster, to bring his city back to life.

Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn Script Colin Carberry, Glenn Patterson Producers Chris Martin, Andrew Eaton, David Holmes, Rebecca O’Flanagan, Rob Walpole Photography Ivan McCullough Editor Nick Emerson Production Design Derek Wallace Music David Holmes Main Cast Richard Dormer, Jodie Whitaker, Dylan Moran, Liam Cunningham Irish Locations Down, Louth Running Time 110 minutes

Production Companies Treasure

Entertainment Tel +353 1 475 8820 WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE [email protected], Canderblinks Tel +44 289 028 1988 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC Films, Immaculate Conception Films Sales Agent The Works Tel +44 207 612 1080 [email protected] Status Delivery mid 2012 FEATURES COMING SOON JUMP ump follows the lives of four twenty-

19 something's whose lives collide one 20 J fateful New Year's Eve amidst the ancient walls of Derry, Northern Ireland in a night of fast talk, accidents and intrigue. Johnny, a small time crook and Marie, a dissatisfied shop assistant are both looking for a fresh start. Greta is on the verge of taking her own life and Pearse has a bounty on his head for asking difficult questions about his missing brother Eddie Kelly. As the clock ticks down to midnight and the night’s events expertly fall into place, Jump weaves an existential portrait of our character's lives as their hopes, fears and secrets are revealed.

Director Kieron J. Walsh Script Kieron J. Walsh, Steve Brookes (Based on the stage play of the same name by Lisa McGee) Producer Brendan J. Byrne Photography David Rom Editors Emer Reynolds, Jake Roberts Production Design David Craig Music Edith Progue Main Cast Nichola Burley, Martin McCann, Richard Dormer, Ciaran McMenamin, Charlene McKenna Irish Locations Down, Derry Running Time 83 minutes WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Production Companies Blinder Films Tel +353 1 677 8066 [email protected], Hotshot Films Tel +44 289 065 6023 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC, Limelight Sales Agent AV Pictures Tel +44 207 317 0140 [email protected] Status Delivery early 2012 FEATURES COMING SOON COMING SOON FEATURES KING

21 OF THE 22 TRAVELLERS ing of the Travellers is a Director/Script Mark contemporary drama grounded O’Connor Producers Cormac Fox, John Wallace in the traditions of the Irish K Photography Dave traveller community and driven Grennan Editor John by emotive Shakespearean Murphy Production Design Padraig O’Neill Main Cast themes of love, betrayal, John Connors, Michael friendship and revenge. Collins, Peter Coonan, Carla McGlynn, David Murray Irish The story follows John Paul Location Dublin Running Moorehouse on his destructive Time 93 minutes quest to uncover the truth about

Production Company WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE the killer of his father 12 years Vico Picture and Sound ago. John Paul’s desire for Tel +353 87 646 0406 [email protected] revenge is swayed as he falls for Financiers IFB, BAI, TV3 Winnie Power, the daughter of Status Delivery mid 2012 the man he suspects killed his father. John Paul must now battle between his consuming passion for justice versus his desire to be with the woman he now loves. FEATURES COMING SOON LIFE’S 23 A BREEZE 24 ife’s A Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for L a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.

Director/Script Lance Daly Producer Macdara Kelleher Production Design Waldemar Kalinowski Main Cast Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt, Kelly Thornton Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Fastnet Films Tel + 353 1 478 9566 [email protected], Anagram Financiers IFB, BAI, Setanta, Eurimages Swedish Film Institute, Film I Vast Sales Agent Magnolia Tel +1 212 924 6701 [email protected] Status Delivery mid 2012 WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE FEATURES COMING SOON

ased on the Japanese novel ‘Loving the Dead’ from B acclaimed author Kei Oishi, the film centres on a damaged young man who after shutting himself away for ten years is forced to venture out into a world that he no longer understands.

Director/Script Brendan Muldowney (Adapted from the Japanese novel Loving the Dead from author Kei Oishi) LOVE Producers Conor Barry, Morgan Bushe, 25 Macdara Kelleher Photography Tom 26 Comerford Editor Mairead McIvor Production Design Owen Power Music Bart Westerlaken Main Cast Robert de Hoog, Pollyanna McIntosh, Amanda Ryan, Xenia Katina, Declan Conlon Irish Location Cork Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9566 conor@fastnetfilms. com, Red Lion S.a.r.l, Rinkel Film BV, T.O. Entertainment Financiers IFB, Film Fund ETERNAL Luxembourg, Netherlands Film Fund Status Delivery mid 2012 WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE FEATURES COMING SOON

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anctuary tells of one man’s Director Norah McGettigan Production Companies struggle to come to terms with Script Norah McGettigan, Venom Tel +353 1 497 Gabriel Enrigue Vargus 5980 [email protected], WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE the loss of his wife, the inability S Vasqyez Producers Andrew Wajda Studios Financiers to connect with his daughter, and Freedman, Katarzyna IFB, Polish Film Institute, the rediscovery of a life which Slesicka Photography Screen Scene Status Marius Gulbrandsen Editor Delivery mid 2012 had almost passed him by. Mariusz Kus Production Design Eleanor Wood Main Cast Anne-Marie Duff, Jan Frycz, Agnieszka Zulewska Irish Locations Cavan, Donegal Running Time SANCTUARY 90 minutes SHADOW FEATURES COMING SOON

29 DANCER 30 hen she is caught red handed in London by MI5 single mother Colette McVeigh is W given a simple choice: either spend 25 years in jail without seeing her six year old son grow up or just return home to spy on her brother, leader of the Belfast IRA and the last obstacle to a viable peace process. Shadow Dancer tells the story of one woman’s incredible fight to protect her son whilst being forced to betray those she loves.

Director James Marsh Script Tom Bradby Producers Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney, Chris Coen Photography Rob Hardy Editor Jinx Godfrey Production Design Jon Henson Music Dickon Hinchliff Main Cast Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen, Gillian Anderson, Domhnall Gleeson Irish Location Dublin Running Time 105 minutes

Production Companies Element Pictures Tel +353 1 618 5032 [email protected], Unanimous Entertainment Financiers IFB, BFI, Wild Bunch, Lip Sync, BBC, Paramount Distributor Paramount (UK) Sales Agent

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h have mislaid the key. Yet Director Pat Collins seem, too, to be listening, lying Script Pat Collins, Eoghan MacGiolla Bhríde, Sharon in wait. For what I should, yet ‘ I Whooley Producer Tina never can, remember.’ Old Man Moran Photography by Edward Thomas. Richard Kendrick Editor Tadhg O’ Sullivan Sound Eoghan is a sound recordist who John Brennan, Éamon Little, Chris Watson Main Cast is returning to Ireland for the first Eoghan MacGiolla Bhríde, time in 15 years. He has been Michael Harding, Marie WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE given an unusual task, to find and Coyne, Jordan Shiels Irish Locations Cork, Clare, record places without man-made Galway, Mayo, Donegal sound. His journey takes him Running Time 84 minutes away from towns and villages, Production Company into remote terrain, to places free South Wind Blows from the thumb-print of man. Tel +353 1 286 8273 [email protected] Financiers IFB, RTÉ, BAI Status Delivered FEATURES COMING SOON

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ome clowns will have you in Production Companies stitches; this clown will have Fantastic Films Tel +353 1 853 2300 [email protected], Tailored Films WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE you in pieces. S Financier IFB Distributor MPI/Dark Sky (US) Sales Agent MPI Tel +1 1800 777 Director Conor McMahon Script Conor 2223 [email protected] Status Delivery McMahon, David O’Brien Producers John early 2012 McDonnell, Brendan McCarthy, Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde Photography Paddy Jordan Main Cast Ross Noble, Tommy Knight Irish Locations Wicklow, Dublin STITCHES GRINDLE WHAT FEATURES COMING SOON

35 RICHARD 36 DID hat Richard Did tells the fateful story of a gifted and W gilded Dublin teenager whose bright future is compromised after a senseless act of violence.

Director Lenny Abrahamson Script Malcolm Campbell Producers Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe Photography David Grennan Editor Nathan Nugent Production Design Stephanie Clerkin Music Stephen Rennicks

Main Cast Jack Reynor, Roisin Murphy, Lars WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Mikkelsen, Pádraic Delaney, Sam Keeley Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow

Production Company Element Pictures Tel +353 1 618 5032 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Screen Scene Distributor Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland) Status Delivery mid 2012 FEATURES COMING SOON

‘Neil Dowling’s fine, quirky finding joy set in Germany and South Korea has a funky, offbeat charm that’s all its own.’ Irish Times CHARLIE

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CASANOVA‘Provocative, intense and shocking, this movie is destined to become a true classic’ Revelation

German writer, disillusioned with his life provocative examination of a ruling class BEST FIRST FEATURE ‘Could hardly believe what and work, travels to Seoul in search of a sociopath who kills a working class girl in Galway Film Fleadh 2011 I was seeing… Electric’ Film Korean girl he spent a wonderful night with a hit and run and uses a deck of playing A A BEST ACTOR in a Berlin bar. Befriending the owner of the cards to determine his fate. (EMMETT SCANLAN) ‘A pretty jaw-dropping piece cheap motel he’s staying in, they embark on a ECU European International of work… Somewhere Film Festival 2011 between Chuck Palanuikís journey across the city to find her. Meanwhile Director/Script/Producer Terry McMahon Photography Eoin Macken Editor Tony Kearns Music Marc Ivan O’Gorman Fight Club and Albert the Korean girl struggles to readapt to life at Main Cast Emmett Scanlan, Leigh Arnold, Damien Hannaway BEST FILM Camusís L’estranger’ home with her family after the independence Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90 minutes Festival Pick Irish Times DMV International Film she enjoyed in Europe. FINDING Production Company Source Productions Festival 2011 ‘Disturbing and brilliant…

Tel +353 85 886 0300, [email protected] Financiers A must see film’ WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Director/Producer Neil Dowling Producers Neil Dowling, Source Productions, IFB* BEST FILM DMVIFF Ross Whitaker Photography Nils Clauss Editor Andrew Underground Cinema Hearne Music Daniel Sillem, Sean Warkentine Main Cast Awards 2011 ‘Chilling ferocity… Crisjan Zöllner, Ji-Young Moon, Cosima Shaw, Insoo Kim *This film was in receipt of IFB completion funding. Claustrophobia-inducing’ Running Time 74 minutes OFFICIAL SELECTIONS Austin Chronicle SXSW Film Festival 2011 Production Company True Films Tel +353 86 081 6004 Edinburgh International Film ‘Unapologetic… Reckless… [email protected], Contented Films Financier IFB* Festival 2011 Clown-like psychotic… Status Delivered Off Camera Plus 2011 Sophisticated and JOY Revelation Perth International verbose… Frightening in *This film was in receipt of IFB completion funding. Film Festival 2011 a primal way’ Sound on Sight

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41 HAYWIRE 42 allory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security M contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive. Using her black-ops military training, she devises an ingenious – and dangerous trap. But when things go haywire, Mallory realises she'll be killed in the blink of an eye unless she finds a way to turn the tables on her ruthless adversary.

Director Steven Soderbergh Script Lem Dobbs Producers

Gregory Jacobs, Alan Moloney Production Design Howard WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Cummings Main Cast Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow Running Time 93 minutes

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all Girl is a dense political thriller about society’s loss C of innocence, set in Sweden in the late seventies.

Director Mikael Marcimain Script Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten Producers Mimmi Spång, Lesley McKimm Photography Hoyte van Hoytema Editor Kristofer Nordin CALL GIRL Production Design Lina Nordqvist, Michael THE MIRACLE Higgins Music Mattias Barjed Main Cast former dancer returns for the Director Simon Staho Production Companies Pernilla August, Simon J Berger first time in many years to his Script Simon Staho, Peter Subotica Entertainment Birro Producers Jonas Tel +353 1 662 2226 Production Companies Newgrange childhood country village to Frederiksen, Peter Garde, [email protected], Zentropa Pictures Tel +353 1 515 7567 A attend his mother’s funeral. Tristan Orpen Lynch Entertainment, XX Film [email protected], Garage Film, The man discovers that the Photography Sebastian Financiers IFB, Danish Friland Porduksjon, Yellow Film Financiers Wintero Editor Kasper Leick Film Institute, Dansk Radio, IFB, Swedish Film Institute, Film i Väst, love of his youth still lives there,

Production Design Fiona SF Distribution, Nordisk WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Sveriges Television AB, The Chimney Pot trapped in an unhappy marriage Daly Music Jonas Struck Film and TV Fund, Sveriges Sverige AB, Nouvago Capital AB, Nordisk with the town’s priest, who is Main Cast Ulrich Thomsen, Television, Film I Vast Film & TV, Norwegian Film Institute, Finnish Sonja Richter, Peter Sales Agent Trust Nordisk Film Foundation, Windmill Lane Pictures looking after his mother’s funeral. Plaugborg Irish Location Tel +45 3686 8788 Distributor Nordisk (Scandinavia) Sales The dancer and his former lover Wicklow Running Time [email protected] Agent Trust Nordisk Tel +45 3586 8788 100 minutes Status Delivery mid 2012 [email protected] Status Delivery secretly resume their liaison and mid 2012 slowly rekindle their old, and now forbidden love. FEATURES CREATIVE CO -P RODUCTIONS

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Directors/Script Berend Boorsma, Roel Boorsma Producers Martina Niland, San Fu Maltha Photography Frank van den Eenden Editor Marc Bechteld Production Design Floris Vos Art Director Tamara Conboy Music Guy van Nueten Main Cast Lorcan Bonner, Stuart Graham, KELLY AND VICTOR MILO Jer O’ Leary, Laura Vasiliu, oving between the sacred and meaning they feel their life Director/Script Kieran ilo is unaware that he Charlotte Bradley, Dolf de and the profane, Kelly and lacks and which they’ve been Evans Producers Janine suffers from a rare genetic Vries Irish Locations Dublin, Marmot, Andrew Freedman Wicklow Running Time Victor is a compelling and searching for their entire lives. disease. He is kept under M Photography Piers McGrail M 90 minutes devastating love story. As they spy the possibility of Editor Tony Kearns Main strict control by his parents who fulfilment so their yearning for it Cast Antonia Campbell strive for wealth and success Production Companies In a heaving club in Liverpool, Hughes, Julian Morris Samson Films intensifies and their relationship and are set on keeping Milo’s celebrations are in full swing. Running Time 90 minutes Tel +353 1 667 0533 WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE rapidly runs out of control and shameful condition a secret. [email protected], Across a crowded dance floor, becomes a rampage on each Production Companies However, a failed kidnapping, Fu Works Financiers IFB, Kelly and Victor spot each other. Venom Tel +353 1 497 5980, Netherlands Film Fund, other. Apart, they cannot find an unusual friendship and a They go home together and have [email protected], Hot Video Film Express such a heightened pitch Property Financiers IFB, violent confrontation forces Milo Status Delivered sex, which they both think is the of existence anywhere else Film Agency Wales, Film4, and his parents to embrace the best they’ve ever had. In a drab Domino Publishing, Arts and so their lives are slowly imperfections in their lives. stultifying world, this appears Council of Wales Status drawn towards a final and Delivery mid 2012 to promise them the passion devastating conclusion. WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE 2011 FEATURES RELEASED amira, a young teacher from Sarajevo IRISH NOMINATION Best Film, Best assigned to a Bosnian village school in BEST FOREIGN Director, Best FEATURES RELEASED 2011 LANGUAGE FILM Screenplay the early ‘90s, finds her life turned on its ® S Academy Awards 2012 Irish Film and Television head the day a young soldier walks uninvited Awards 2011 into her kitchen and tells her to pack a bag. Grand Prix, Best Director, World Cinema Best As the sky turns black with smoke from the Best Performance Picture End of the Pier Festival 2011 Phoenix International burning village behind her Samira enters Film Festival 2011 a new world, where peace is a fairytale and Best Feature there are no homes, only camps – transit Moondance Film Film Council of Festival 2011 Europe Award camp, reception camp, labour camp and Istanbul International death camp. Best Feature Film Festival 2011 Long Island International Samira’s journey through the tragedy, Film Expo 2011 Silver Pyramid nightmare and depravity of the Balkan Cairo International Film Best Feature Festival 2010 conflict will lead her eventually back to Rhode Island International the light, to freedom in Sweden and with a Film Festival 2011 Official Selections totally unanticipated reason to hope again. Toronto International Film Audience Award Festival 2010 for Best Dramatic Sarajevo Film Festival 2010 ‘Irresistibly Director/Script Juanita Wilson Producers Nathalie 49 Feature Film Haifa International Film 50 good-natured’ Lichtenthaler, James Flynn Main Cast Natasa Petrovic, Woods Hole Film Festival 2010 Variety Fedja Stukan, Stellan Skarsgard Festival 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival 2011 Production Companies Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276 9468 [email protected], Wide Eye Films Financiers IFB, Swedish Film Institute, Film I Vast, Macedonian Film Fund, Eurimages, ContinuPrint Distributor Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland)

n the far west of Ireland, a lonely orphan’s life is transformed by an extraordinary I woman who defies her dour husband’s disapproval and suppresses the tragic truth about her own culture, to teach the boy to conquer grief and discover the magic in nature and in himself. ‘Astounding’ The Sunday Times Director Vic Sarin 1ST PRIZE A Producers Tina Pehme, Kim Chicago International ‘Extraordinary’ Roberts, James Flynn Script Children’s Film Festival 2009 Arena, RTÉ Radio Dennis Foon, Catherine Spear, Vic Sarin Main Winner Best ‘Original, Cast Aidan Quinn, Connie Canadian Feature beautifully Nielsen, John Bell Victoria Film Festival 2010 made’

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ike many others of his age in Dublin’s north inner city, Liam is a small-time L criminal whose life consists of dealing drugs, getting into fights and sticking by his friends. But now his girlfriend is pregnant and he wants to change all that to become an electrician and a provider for his new family.He has one day in which to make his BALLYMUN LULLABY BETWEEN move.The problem is his crazy friends and allymun Lullaby is an emotional and Director Frank Berry Official Selection it’s St Patrick’s Day, and in Dublin that compelling documentary that explores the Producers Joanne O’Hagan, DOC NYC Festival 2011 means trouble. Frank Berry Main Cast heart of a local community through music. B Ron Cooney, Darren Scully, ‘Heart-warming’ The Ballymun housing estate in Dublin has Tara O’Brien, Wayne Beatty, Film Ireland ‘The best Irish film I have ‘An entirely fresh a reputation for failure. Six of its seven high- Glen Hansard seen in a long, long time’ and original take on ‘It’s really beautiful, Film Ireland Dublin gangsters’ rise towers have been demolished. Yet music

Production Company full of optimism and so Irish Independent WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE teacher Ron Cooney never gave up on the Pulp Productions charming to watch’ ‘A rough-hewn, energetic area’s youth. Tel +353 86 266 7511 Newstalk 106-108 FM urban thriller’ ‘Gripping, realistic [email protected] Director/ScriptTHE Mark CANALS O’Connor Producer Deirdre Barry Irish Times performances’ He enlists a composer to create a world- Financier IFB ‘Stirring, inspiring, Main Cast Peter Coonan, Dan Hyland, Stephen Jones RTÉ insightful, it just blew ‘A cross between Mean class collection of music for students to Directors Finders me away’ Production Company Avalon Films Tel +353 86 382 2202 Streets and La Haine’ perform and to overturn negative views of Award Classic Hits 4FM [email protected] Financier IFB entertainment.ie the area. Cooney leads the music program Directors Guild of America & Screen Directors Guild to unexpected heights that will send of Ireland’s Directors Finders viewers soaring. Series 2011 FEATURES RELEASED 2011

‘Stirring, weird, highly original thriller’ Irish Times

‘Skolimowski CONGO – has pulled off an extremely difficult magic trick and has given us something truly rare in cinema – a poetic and beautiful 53 action film... 54 essential viewing’ AN IRISH Evening Herald AFFAIR ESSENTIAL KILLING

epublic of Congo, July 1960. The Directors/Producers Irina ‘The honesty and aptured by the US military Director Jerzy Skolimowski Special Jury Prize United Nations embarks on the biggest Maldea, Brendan Culleton integrity of the soldiers’ in Afghanistan, Mohammed Producers/Script CinemAvvenire Script Brendan Culleton, testimonials make for Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Award – Best Film peacekeeping mission in its history with is transported to a secret R Rose Doyle compulsive viewing’ C Skolimowski Main Cast Volpi Cup – Best Actor 20,000 soldiers from 30 countries. One year Irish Times detention centre in Europe. Vincent Gallo, Venice Film Festival 2010 later, the UN Secretary General has been Production Company When the vehicle he is riding Emmanuelle Seigner Akajava Films ‘This fine and carefully Best Film Eagle killed and its forces under attack. The future Tel +353 87 679 1447, measured documentary in crashes, he finds himself Production Companies Best Director Eagle of the organisation is at stake. [email protected] recreates the extraordinary suddenly free and on the run in Element Pictures Best Editing Eagle Financiers IFB, TG4, incident that gripped the a snow-blanketed forest, a world Tel +353 1 618 5032 Best Film Score Eagle At the centre of the storm are the 155 BAI, MEDIA world, using a mix of [email protected], Polish Film Awards 2011 away from the desert home he WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE soldiers of A Company, 35th Battalion archives and the bluntly Skopia Film, Cylinder honest recollections of knew. Relentlessly pursued by an Productions, Mythberg Films Best Film of the Irish Army and their commander, Irish soldiers’ army that does not officially exist, Financiers IFB, Polish Film Best Actor Commandant Pat Quinlan. Under siege from Irish Independent Institute, Norwegian Film Mar del Plata Film Mohammed must confront the forces determined to rip the Congo and the Institute, MMKA, Eurimages, Festival 2010 necessity to kill in order Task Films, Akson Studio UN apart, the fate of the UN is in their hands. to survive. Distributor Element Pictures Official Selections This film tells the story of how the Cold War Distribution (Ireland) Toronto International Film spread its tentacles to Africa. Sales Agent Hanway Films Festival 2010 Tel + 44 207 290 0750 BFI London Film Festival 2010 ‘Playing like balm to the soul of

anyone quivering from too many FEATURES RELEASED 2011 overworked, over-agitated multiplex experiences, Conor Horgan’s One Hundred Mornings uses an apocalyptic event as a springboard into the human psyche’ New York Times

‘An insidiously intelligent post- apocalyptic drama... achingly humane and stringently observed in its own quiet way’ Filmmaker Magazine

‘Cleverly constructed and surprisingly gripping drama, and the best Irish film so far this year’ Day & Night Magazine

‘One Hundred Mornings is one of the very best Irish films of the 55 last decade’ 56 Irish Times

‘Contemplative, and compelling drama’ New York Magazine

‘Chock full of larger- ‘A winner… makes for a et in a world upended by a complete than-life characters, it's fascinating peek into an an enthralling insight into illegal world where the breakdown of society, two couples hide a raw, bloodied world’ fists really are furious’ out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive Empire The Sun S the crisis. As resources run low and external

‘Forget Guy Ritchie – this ‘The most hotly anticipated threats increase, they forge an uneasy alliance is bloody, brutal and, Irish title this year’ with their self-sufficient hippie neighbour. above all, real’ Irish Times Time Out Poorly equipped to cope in a world without KNUCKLE ONE technology and saddled with completely conflicting worldviews, everything begins n epic 12-year journey the world of Irish Travellers and Best Film to disintegrate. Finally, each of them faces into in the world of an Irish the lengths they will go to protect Irish Film NYC 2011 a critical decision they never thought they’d Traveller community, Knuckle their family name. A Non-Fiction Motion have to make. takes us inside their brutal Picture Diploma Director Ian Palmer Producer Teddy Leifer Sitges Film Festival 2011 secretive and exhilarating Director/Script Conor Horgan Producer Katie Holly bare-knuckle fighting lives. Production Companies Rise Films Official Selections Main Cast Ciaran McMenamin, Alex Reid, Rory Keenan, Tel + 44 203 214 6072 [email protected], Sundance Film Festival 2011 Kelly Campbell WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Chronicling a history of violent Seafield Films Financiers IFB, Hot Docs 2011 feuding between rival families, BBC Storyville Distributors Revolver Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 Production Company Blinder Films Tel +353 1 667 8066 HUNDRED [email protected] Financiers IFB, Filmbase, BAI the story focuses on two brothers Entertainment (UK/Ireland) Sales Agent Fantastic Fest 2011 Content Media Corporation as they fight for their reputations Special Jury Official Selections Tel +44 207 581 6500 Honourable Mention Thessaloniki International Film and the honour of their family [email protected] for Narrative Feature Festival 2010 name. Brutal, yet captivating Slamdance 2010 Revelations Perth International and ultimately moving, this Film Festival 2010 Best Cinematography Reykjavik International Film unforgettable documentary Irish Film and Television Festival 2010 offers an exclusive insight into MORNINGS Award 2010 Off Plus Camera, Krakow 2011 FEATURES RELEASED 2011

‘The gentlest sweetest movie... 'Very haunting brimming with charm’ and moving' Total Film Dazed & Confused 57 PARKED PERFECT SENSE 58

red Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere Festival Prize ‘Funny, warm, uplifting‘ usan is a scientist Is this because they are falling Official Selections to live but his car. Then dope-smoking Mannheim-Heidelberg The View searching for answers to in love or is it because the world Sundance Film Festival 2011 International Film Edinburgh International Film 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, important questions. So is falling apart? F Festival 2011 ‘Heart-warming… S Festival 2011 and brightens up his lonely world. genuinely magical’ important that she has given San Sebastian Film A life affirming look at what it Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets Honourable Mention Red FM up on other things, including Festival 2011 Dallas International Film means to love and be loved attractive music teacher Jules. Growing love – until she meets Michael, Festival 2011 ‘Heart-warming and in these turbulent times. ‘Thought-provoking and closer, these three outsiders are set on a surprisingly uplifting’ a talented chef. Suddenly beautifully made’

course that will change their lives forever. Best First Feature Sunday Business Post everything starts to change. ‘A heart-breaking look at Award Director David Mackenzie Script Kim Fupz what it means to be human’ Parked is triumphant story of friendship, Aakeson Producers Gillian Berrie, Tristan Galway Film Festival 2011 ‘…Darragh Byrne’s Parked, While Susan and Michael are ‘Kitchen-sink sci-fi with an hope, and perseverance. was an admirable piece Orpen Lynch, Malte Grunert, Sisse Graum aching soul’ experiencing new and unforeseen Jørgensen Main Cast Ewan McGregor, Eva Audience Award of work...It’s very gently Total Film Brussels Film Festival 2011 handled and very well depths of feeling, all around the Green, Ewan Bremner, Stephen Dillane, Director Darragh Byrne Script Ciaran Creagh Producers Denis Lawson, Anamaria Marinca, Alastair Jacqueline Kerrin, Dominic Wright, Aleksi Bardy Main Cast acted…The film-makers’ world people are also beginning 'Imaginative and Official Selections risky decision to tell us so Mackenzie, Connie Nielsen ultimately affecting' Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth, Stuart Graham, to feel strange – something is Michael McElhatton, David Wilmot Busan International Film little about the protagonist’s Time Out Festival 2011 background – how on earth affecting the emotions. Susan Production Companies Subotica Entertainment Tel +353 1 662 226

Newport Beach Film did he get here? – adds WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Production Companies Ripple World Pictures and Michael find themselves [email protected], Sigma Films Financiers Tel +353 1 635 1010, [email protected], Helsinki Filmi Festival 2011 impressive layers of mystery International Film Festival and nuance to the piece’ embarking on a sensual IFB, BBC Films, Zentropa, Creative, Danish Financiers IFB, Finnish Film Foundation, Egg Post Production Film Institute, Fim I Väst Distributor Arrow Distributor Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland/UK) Rotterdam 2011 Irish Times adventure, experiencing head- Göteborg International Film Films (Ireland/UK) Sales Agent Trust Nordisk Sales Agent The Yellow Affair Tel +46 8 645 1212 spinning stomach-tightening Tel +45 3686 8788 [email protected] [email protected] Festival 2011 Torino Film Festival 2010 moments of pure connection. FEATURES RELEASED 2011

‘One of the best ‘A hot, droll delight’ mainstream Irish films in Variety a long time’ Sunday Independent 59 SENSATION 60

aren lives an apparently hen an Irish farmer dies, his sole heir Official Selections ‘Showcasing Domhnall Toronto International Film Gleeson as a leading man straightforward and happy Donal is left some land; but Donal hasn’t Festival 2010 for the first time, this overtly life in a small town with her inherited much in terms of social skills. BFI London Film quirky tale has some very K W Festival 2010 funny moments and is husband and young daughter. One Despite the encouragement of his gobby best Rotterdam Film overall an engaging and day Karl, an old acquaintance, turns mate Karl, he finds it hard to talk to women, Festival 2011 fun watch’ up unexpectedly. For Karen, the and in frustration turns, almost inevitably, to Athens Film Festival 2011 Entertainment.ie past invades and shatters her idyllic the Internet. He hooks up with Kiwi call-girl Vilnius Film Festival 2011 Mannheim-Heidelberg Film ‘Sensation is a great present, and she must confront Kim, who harbours a business plan that would Festival 2011 Irish film, a well-acted, REWINDBest Foreign Film ‘Real style... a hugely well-written and for all the person she once was but see her off her back and behind a desk, thought she had buried forever. Fright Night Film promising feature debut’ greeting punters at her own brothel. Donal’s ‘Gleeson is as we’ve it’s darkness, at times Festival 2011 Irish Independent never seen him before; surprisingly sweet Ghosts must be laid to rest, and newfound means might provide her with the explicit and intriguing, comedy drama’ horrors acknowledged, before the ‘A superior Irish thriller ‘Rewind is a seriously money she needs, but what might Donal be as he grows on screen Culch.ie perfect surface of Karen’s life offering an outstanding, impressive collaboration’ getting out of the deal? And what demand from meek, introverted carry-the-film performance Irish Times sexually repressed loner to ‘In what has been a very will be restored. is there for the services of prostitutes in rural

from Huberman that draws a confident, promiscuous fine year for Irish film WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE you in and never slackens ‘A tight and efficient Ireland, anyway? pimp. His deadpan Sensation is one of the Director PJ Dillon Script PJ Dillon, Ronan Carr, its grasp in the sort of thriller with a wonderful performance, alongside bravest and hardest hitting Roger Karshan Producers Alex Jones, John film Hollywood would be lead performance from Director/Script Tom Hall Producers Katie Holly, Kieron J. Gordon’s stellar Kim, lends offerings of the year’ Wallace Main Cast Allen Leech, Amy Huberman, happy to make’ Amy Huberman. Credit to Walsh Main Cast Domhnall Gleeson, Luanne Gordon, perfectly to the comedy in Irish Examiner Owen McDonnell Irish Examiner cinematographer-turned- Patrick Ryan writer/director Hall’s great helmer PJ Dillon for having script. As his IFTA win Production Company Carbon Films ‘A cracking little the self-assurance to build Production Company Blinder Films Tel +353 1 667 8066 earlier this year indicated, Tel + 353 86 848 3047, +353 1 437 0909 thriller with strong the atmosphere to boiling [email protected] Financiers IFB, Rotterdam Film Gleeson is one to watch’ [email protected] performances from all point before revealing Fund, Screen Scene Distributor Element Picture Distribution RTE.ie [email protected] concerned... Rewind has hidden agendas’ (Ireland/UK) Sales Agent Shoreline Entertainment Financiers IFB, BAI, TV3, Filmbase set the bar ‘high’‘ Entertainment.ie Tel +1 310 551 2060 [email protected] RTÉ ‘Aisling (O’Sullivan) should Snap an Oscar’ The Mail on Sunday

‘Nervy, audacious, filmmaking’ Variety

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Director/Script John Michael McDonagh Producers Ed his carefully constructed film depicts Best Film Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez Marengo three generations of a family, all in Best Director Main Cast Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle Dublin Critic's Circle denial about events in which they were Production Companies Element Pictures T undeniably implicated. Their journeys towards Audience Award Tel +353 1 618 5032, [email protected], Reprisal Films confrontation with the truth and with their own Uruguayan International Financiers IFB, UK Film Council, Prescience, Aegis, MEDIA Film Festival 2011 Distributor Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland) Sales Agent motives reveal the humanity behind seemingly Ealing Metro Tel +44 208 584 6708 [email protected] inhuman actions. Variety Critic's Choice Karlovy Vary Film Best Debut Film – Audience Award Sandra struggles to piece together and Festival 2010 THE GUARD Honourable Mention Sarajevo Film Festival 2011 defend what happened three years earlier, n this comedy-thriller set on the West Coast Berlin International Film Official Selections of Ireland Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small- Festival 2011 ‘Brutally funny’ when her 15-year-old son snatched a toddler Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Empire from the park and held him captive for five Vancouver Film town cop with a confrontational personality, Audience Award I days in his grandfather’s house.She has agreed Festival 2010 a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, Coup de Coeur Kodak ‘Brendan Gleeson Warsaw Film Festival 2010 a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely Award for Best is quite brilliant’ to do this on camera – filmed, as we later Dinard British Film Cinematography Sunday Mirror discover, by the young man in question. But Festival 2010 no interest whatsoever in the international Silver Hitchcock her son will use their shared ordeal to extract Goteborg Film Festival 2011 WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI Dinard British Film ‘Priceless… don’t miss’ Off Plus Camera, agent Wendell Everett to his door. Festival 2011 RTÉ.ie another story from his mother, one that goes Krakow 2011 a long way towards explaining what he did. But although Boyle seems more interested Official Selections ‘Dark Smart, hilarious’ ‘Creepily brilliant’ Sundance Film Festival 2011 Sunday World in mocking and undermining Everett than in Director/Script Carmel Winters Producer Martina Niland Irish Times Helsinki International Film Main Cast Aisling O’Sullivan, Eileen Walsh, Stephen Moran actively working to solve the case, he finds Festival 2011 ‘Utterly ‘Among our official that circumstances keep pulling him back into Rio de Janeiro International unmissable… hilarious’ Production Company Samson Films Tel +353 86 288 5874 greatest films ever’ Film Festival 2011 Sunday Independent the thick of it and soon realises he needs to [email protected] Financiers IFB, Screen Scene Hot Press Stockholm International Film Distributors Eclipse Pictures (Ireland), Studio Film Group take matters into his own hands. Festival 2011 (North America) ‘Snap is the best of Irish’ Evening Echo THE FEATURES RELEASED 2011 RUNWAY 63 64 ‘A horror that ticks every box.... an intelligent, atmospheric film‘ Daily Mirror

he villagers of Wake Wood perform an ounty Cork, Ireland 1983. ‘Nothin’ ever Directors Choice happens around here’ complains Paco, Award ancient ritual to bring the dead back to Boston Irish Film a nine year old boy raised by his well- life for three days, in order to say farewell C Festival 2011 T meaning single mother. All that changes when before the journey to the spirit world. late one evening he witnesses a small plane Best of Fest A young couple beg the villagers to bring Palm Springs International their daughter back but find themselves crash, encountering a dashing if somewhat Film Festival 2011 unable to lose her for a second time. Their dodgy Columbian aviator who speaks no English. The endearing villagers unite to help Best Irish Feature attempts to keep her alive mean they must Galway Film Fleadh 2010 pay a terrible price. WAKE WOOD the pilot fix his plane and build a runway for Prix de la Jeuness ‘For sheer nerve-racking his flight home, and in the process, Paco's Directors Finders Neuchatal International intensity, Wake Wood is Series Director David Keating Script Brendan McCarthy, David Fantasy Festival 2011 right up there with cult life is changed forever. Keating Producers John McDonnell, Brendan McCarthy Directors Guild of classic The Wicker Man’ America 2010 Main Cast Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall, Official Selection Bizarre magazine Director/Script Ian Power Producers Macdara Kelleher, Ella Connelly Brussels International Ian Power, Brendan McDonald, Bernard Michaux Main Cast Best European Film Fantasy Film Festival 2011 ‘Terrific and terrifying Demian Bichir, Kerry Condon, James Cosmo, Jamie Kierans, Production Companies Fantastic Films for Children supernatural thriller’ John Carpenter, Bruno Bichir, Pat Laffan, Donnacha Crowley ECFA Awards 2011 Tel +353 1 853 2300 [email protected], ‘An honest-to-goodness slab Third Way WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Solid Entertainment Financiers IFB, Hammer of creaky folk horror’ Production Companies Fastnet Films Best Director Of Films Distributor Vertigo Films (UK, Ireland) Time Out ‘Aidan Gillen was his usual Tel +353 1 478 9566 [email protected], Lucil Films Tel +44 207 428 7555 [email protected] Photography brilliant self...I think there will Financiers IFB, Luxembourg Film Fund, Film I Vast, CIAV, Best Production Sales Agent Exclusive Films Distribution ‘A creepy and compelling be a good teen/young 20s Quickfire Films Distributor Element Pictures Distribution [email protected] Designer shocker that chills to female audience for this film. (Ireland) Sales Agent Six Sales Tel +34 91 636 1054 Irish Film and Television the bone’ Those who liked the Twilight Awards 2011 Daily Star saga will surely enjoy this’ Reveal Best Feature Celtic Film & TV Festival 2011 WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARIES

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As construction of the GE Building, centrepiece of New Director Paul Duane Producers Robert Gordon, Paul Duane York’s Rockerfeller Centre, neared completion in the Photography Paul Duane, John T. Davis, David Leonard, MEN VERY Robert Gordon Editors Colm O'Brien, Fiona Starogardski autumn of 1932, a black and white photograph was taken Music Jerry McGill, Jim Lancaster Running Time 82 minutes on the 69th floor. Men At Lunch reveals the human story behind one of the most iconic images of the 20th century Production Company Screenworks Tel +353 86 378 1033 – Lunch Atop A Skyscaper. [email protected] Financier IFB Status Delivered

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Script Niall Murphy Léiritheoir/Producer Éamonn Ó WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Cualáin Scannánaíocht/Photography Réamonn Mac Donnacha Eagarthóir/Editor Daithi Connaughton Dearadh AT Léiriúcháin/Production Design Sónta Fad/Running Time EXTREMELY 65 nóiméad / 65 minutes

Comhlacht Léiriúcháin/Production Company Sónta Tel +353 95 33 933, +353 87 933 5382 Airgeadaithe/Financiers IFB/BSÉ, BAI, TG4 Stádas/Status Le seachadadh go luath i 2012/Delivery LUNCH early 2012 DANGEROUS DOCUMENTARIES

71 72 SAVING SNAKE THE RELUCTANT THE LIFE OF THE TITANIC DANCE REVOLUTIONARY ANTON CORBIJN oinciding with the 100th anniversary wo experienced storytellers, filmmaker n intimate portrait of Yemen as the n intimate portrait of Anton Corbijn, of the sinking of the Titanic, Saving the Manu Riche and writer Patrick Marnham, revolution unfolds, told through the eyes perhaps best known for his iconic C Titanic seeks to answer the question T join forces to tell the story of the invention A of tour guide leader Kais, an intelligent A images of U2, as he travels the world as of what happened in the engine and boiler of the atomic bomb and its unintended commentator on the changing times of a photographer, filmmaker and video artist. rooms after the collision that fateful night. consequences in today’s world. From Yemen, offering poignant moments of A unique and revelatory look at the drama Based on eye-witness accounts, this is the booming New Mexico to war-stricken Congo reflection, loss, anger and hope on the and conflict inherent in the man himself. remarkable story of self-sacrifice in the face and earthquake-devastated Japan, Snake unknown road to revolution. Filmed over the of impending death. Dance offers a compelling reflection on the course of the year with exceptional access Director Klaartje Quirijns Script Klaartje Quirijns, Thomas den Drijver Producers Morgan Bushe, Sander Verdonk, Gertjan Promethean dimension of nuclear power to a country where no other camera crews Langeland Photography Martijn van Broekhuizen, Diederik Director Maurice Sweeney Script Colin Berber-Percy, Lyall and the A bomb. or journalists were allowed to remain. Evers Editor Boris Gerrets Music Gavin Friday Running Watson Producers Stephen Rooke, Reinhardt Beetz, Keith Time 80 minutes / 50 minutes Farrell Photography Richard Kendrick Editor Mick Mahon

WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Production Design Ray Ball Music Steve Lynch Main Cast Directors/Script Patrick Marnham, Manu Riche Producers Director/Photography Sean McAllister Producers Rachel Manu Riche, Geneviève de Bauw, James Mitchell Lysaght, Elhum Shakerifar Editor Johnny Burke Music Denis Production Companies Fastnet Films David Wilmot, Ciaran McMenamin, Hugh O’Conor, Stephen Tel +353 1 478 9566 [email protected], Hogan Running Time 90 minutes Photography Ross McDonnell, Renaat Lambeets Editor Clohessy Running Time 80 minutes Michele Hubinon Main Cast Patrick Marnham Running Time LEV Pictures, CTM Films, Savage Film Financiers IFB, Dutch Filmfund, VPRO, CoBo Fund, VAF Distributor Production Companies Tile Films Tel +353 1 611 4646 85 minutes Production Companies Underground Films Tel +353 86 358 7979 [email protected], Ten Foot Films Financiers A-Film Distribution (Benelux) Sales Agent Hanway Films [email protected], Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Tel + 44 207 290 0750 Status Delivery early 2012 Financiers IFB, BAI, RTÉ, Windmill Lane Pictures, AETN / Production Companies Soho Moon Pictures IFB, BBC Storyville Status Delivered Tel +353 1 662 4826 [email protected], History UK, ZDF Distributor ZDF Enterprises Status Delivery OFFICIAL SELECTION early 2012 Thank You & Good Night Productions Financiers IFB, OFFICIAL SELECTION Flanders Audiovisula Fund, Dutch Film Fund, Centre du Berlin International Film Festival 2012 Berlin International Film Festival 2012 Cinema et Del Audiovisuel de la Federation Wallonie- Bruxelles, VOO Status Delivered DOCUMENTARIES

73 74 NUALA O’FAOLAIN THE PERVERTS STUFFING WE WENT – A LIFE GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY THE TIGER TO WAR

fter reinventing her life and taming he Pervert's Guide To Ideology creative feature documentary, with n 1970, British director Michael Grigsby many of her demons, Irish journalist, TV continues the collaboration between texts written by Roddy Doyle, looking at made one of the first films about soldiers A producer and author Nuala O’Faolain was T Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek and A Irish artists reacting in their work to the I coming home from the Vietnam War. The diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of director Sophie Fiennes, the makers of the crash and the political crisis all around us: critically acclaimed and award winning ‘I Was 68. Before she died she gave a passionate highly acclaimed The Pervert's Guide To in photographs, songs, animation, poetry, a Soldier’, focused on David, Dennis and interview to her old friend and broadcaster Cinema (2006). Now Zizek and Fiennes show paintings, and comedy amongst Lamar, three veterans recently returned from Marian Finucane that riveted the country. us what psychoanalysis can tell us about other things. combat, as they tried to readjust to life back Marian now makes the personal journey into ideology, by using their inventive interpretation home in the heartlands of Texas. Now, over Nuala’s life to unravel the contradictions of of cinema to examine the mechanisms that Director/Producer Donald Taylor Black Script Donald 40 years later, their story continues. Taylor Black with texts by Roddy Doyle Photography Kate this extraordinary woman. shape our beliefs and practices. McCullough, Sean Corcoran Editor J. Patrick Duffner Music Christy Moore Running Time 65 minutes Director Michael Grigsby Script Michael Grigsby, Rebekah

Directors/Producers Patrick Farrelly, Kate O'Callaghan Director Sophie Fiennes Script Slavoj Zizek Producers Tolley Producers Rebekah Tolley, James Mitchell, Andrea WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Photography Kate McCullough Editor Jordan Montminy Katie Holly, Martin Rosenbaum, Jim Wilson, Sophie Fiennes Production Company Poolbeg Productions Singer Photography Jonas Mortensen Editor Emer Reynolds Music Michael Fleming Running Time 85 minutes Photography Remko Schnorr Editor Ethel Shepherd Tel +353 404 45909 [email protected] Music Gallagher & Lyle Running Time 78 minutes Production Design Lucy van Lonkhuyzen Main Cast Financier IFB Status Delivery late 2012 Production Company Accidental Pictures Slavoj Zizek Production Companies Soho Moon Pictures Tel +353 1 662 Tel +353 1 515 5277, +353 86 126 9455 4826 [email protected], Tarian Films Financiers Financiers IFB, RTÉ, BAI Production Companies Blinder Films Tel +353 1 677 8066 IFB, Film Agency for Wales Shoot for the Moon, Channel 4, [email protected], P Guide Productions Financiers NRK Sales Agent Electric Sky Tel +44 1273 22 42 40 IFB, BFI, Film4, Rooks Nest Entertainment Status Delivery [email protected] Status Delivered mid 2012 75 76 A STRANGER IN GET HAMMER HOLD A STRANGE LAND THE PICTURE TO BELL ON TIGHT

n 1999, two men viciously attacked gay he great photo journalists of our time seek et in Limerick, a place best-known in the olding hands or kissing in public isn’t American writer, Robert Drake, after a night the truth, they bring the events of the world media for its array of social problems, for everyone. When it comes to same- I out in Sligo town. That cold night in January T to us in pictures. Only a handful of men S Hammer to Bell is a patiently-observed H sex relationships showing your love changed all of their lives forever; Robert was chose some of the most iconic images of documentary which travels into the core of outside of the home is sometimes a left for dead by two local men and airlifted the 20th century, one such man is legendary the city to present a wryly revealing portrait complicated personal choice. This short back home in a coma to the USA. A Stranger picture editor John G. Morris. of its inhabitants. documentary moves between the public in a Strange Land is the courageous story of and private spaces in which lesbian and Robert’s struggle to recover, rehabilitate and Director/Script Cathy Pearson Producers Noel Pearson, Director/Producer Christina Gangos Editor Keith Walsh gay couples live, and explores small gestures Cathy Pearson Photography Mikko Timomen, Nicolas Music Glenstal Abbey Running Time 40 minutes return to Ireland. Duchene Editor Gretta Ohle Music Leo Pearson of human connectedness. Production Company Three Legged Dog Director/Script/Producer Pamela Drynan Photography Production Company Ferndale Films Tel +353 86 314 7748 [email protected] Director/Script Anna Rodgers Producer Zlata Filipovic

Richard Kendrick Editor Janice Toomey Main Cast Robert Tel +353 86 266 3377 Financier IFB Financiers IFB, Arts Council, Limerick City Council, FÁS Photography Kate McCullough Editor Martha Meyler WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Drake Irish Locations Dublin, Sligo Status Delivered Music Hugh Rodgers

Production Company Subotica Entertainment Production Company Crossing The Line Productions Tel +353 1 662 2226, [email protected] Financier IFB Tel +353 1 287 5394 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Status Delivery early 2012 Absolut Gaze Filmmakers Award Status Delivered

HIGHLY COMMENDED IRIS Prize Festival 2011

ABSOLUT GAZE FILMMAKERS AWARD Gaze Film Festival 2011 ANIMATION ANIMATION

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reepy crawlies are slimy squashy stingy little pests. Or so we all think, but they’ve C got a thing or two to say about that. Each episode features a different insect from ABADAS MOON MAN around the natural world and introduces us to its life, habits and activities, while going about multi-layered and educational, interactive nnocent eyes can see the Man in the Moon its daily business. word and sound association series created high in the nightly sky. One night a comet

for pre-school viewers set in the magical flashes by. The Man in the Moon catches I’M A Director Andrew Crotty Script Richard Keane, Maria A I O’Loughlin, Gerald Murphy, Richard Morss Producer Deirdre world of Pop-Up Island. With visual comedy its fiery tail just in time and is now racing Barry Editor/Production Design Paul Madden Music and simple songs, viewers can search for towards the planet earth… Gregory Magee Main Cast Miriam Kelly, Richard Morss Running Time 52 x 2 minutes words in a pop-up book while experiencing new adventures with Hari the Hippo, Seren Director/Script Stephan Schesch (based on the illustrated book by Tomi Ungerer) Producers Ross Murray, Paul Young, Production Company Monster Entertainment the Bat and Ela the Fox. Tel +353 1 611 4934 [email protected] Jean Labadie, Stephan Schesch Editor Sarah Clara Weber Financiers IFB, RTÉ, DR Denmark, YLE Finland, Knowledge Music Eike Hosenfeld, Moritz Denis Main Cast Katarina

Network Canada, ABC Australia Distributor Monster Director Owen Stickler Script Andrew Kavanagh, Peter Thalbach, Ulrich Turtur, Bruno Ganz Running Time WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Entertainment Status Delivery late 2012 Hynes, Anna-Lisa Jenaer Producers Gary Timpson, Siwan 90 minutes Jobbins Editor Paul Hibbs Art Director David Young Music CREEPY Dyfan Jones Running Time 52 x 11 minutes Production Companies Cartoon Saloon Tel +353 56 776 4481 [email protected], Schesch Production Companies Kavaleer Productions Tel +353 Filmkreation, Le Pacte Financiers TO FOLLOW Distributors 1 488 5873 [email protected], Dinamo Productions Falcom (Germany), Le Pacte SAS (France) Sales Agent Financiers IFB, S4C SDML, CBeeBies, RTÉ, BBC Alba, Al Le Pacte Tel +33 1 44 69 59 59 [email protected] Status Jazeera Distributor Target Tel +44 207 535 7200 Delivery mid 2012 CRAWLY [email protected] Status Delivered 81 82

young reindeer boy, Niko, wishes his Mum and his ith a burning curiosity, a thirst for hero Dad from the world-famous Santa´s Flying Forces knowledge and a knack for stumbling A would get back together and then they could be a real W into trouble, young Marco Polo sets off family. But Niko’s Mum has a surprise for Niko. She has THE on a wild adventure through distant lands met a lovely but ordinary reindeer Lenni and he and his and mystical times to find his missing father, little son Jonni are going to move in with them! who vanished while exploring the Road to the East. Accompanied by his strong, good- Niko´s world is turned upside-down. He was quite happy natured friend Luigi and the mysterious young NIKO II: being the only child and the centre of attention. Now ADVENTURES princess Shi La Won, the brash Marco is he has to look after this pesky, cuter-than-cute little ready to take on the world, once he finds his step-brother. However, Jonni will be the least of Niko’s missing boots. An animated roller-coaster of problems when he discovers that White Wolf and her comedy and action, young Marco Polo follows horde of evil Eagles are tracking Niko and the rest of the rollicking misadventures of the three the reindeer herd down. OF THE YOUNG friends on their epic journey.

Directors Kari Juusonen, Joergen Lerdam Script Marteinn Thorisson based WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE on an original story by Hannu Tuomainen Producers Moe Honan, Maite Director Tony Loeser Script Stefan Weigl, John Chambers, Woköck, Lise Ann Mangino, Hannu Tuomainen Editor Antti Haikala Lead Anke Klemm, Andreas Strozyk, Hurbertus Rufledt, Ulla A FAMILY Animator Peter Bohl Main Cast Matthew Boyle, Callum Maloney, Paul Tylak, Ziemann, Bettine von Borries Producers Clifford Parrott, Don Wycherly, Michael Sheehan, Niamh Shaw, Roger Gregg Running Time Romy Roolf Running Time 26 x 25 minute episodes 75 minutes MARCO POLO Production Companies Magpie 6 Media Production Companies Tidal Films Tel +353 91 569 142 Tel +353 1 443 3532 [email protected], [email protected], Animaker, Ulysses, AFilm Financiers IFB, Telepool, Motionworks, Yowza!, Melusine Financiers IFB, Shaw Rocket Eurimages, Finish Film Foundation, FilmFund Hamburg, Danish Film Institute Fund, MDM Funding, CIAV+ Luxembourg Distributor Beta Sales Agent Telepool Tel +49 89 55 87 61 88 [email protected] Status Wunderbox Tel +49 89 6734 6980 [email protected] AFFAIR Delivery late 2012 Status Delivery late 2012

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ublin. The present. 10 year old Lucy portrait of the epic process of building struggles to come to terms with her the great ship from the ground up and D parents’ separation. She rescues a dog, A the people who gave life to its creation. Eliot, from the local dog shelter. It is love It strips away the pop culture romance that at first sight and her life starts to get better. surrounds the ‘ship of dreams’ and presents But tragedy strikes when Eliot goes missing the reality of its making and the harsh world and Lucy must undertake a dangerous that spawned Titanic. The series ends when ELIOT & ME journey to find him. TITANIC: the ship begins its journey, taking with it the souls of the story. Director Fintan Connolly Des FitzGerald, Joshua Script Fintan Connolly, Brown, Lauren Stone Irish Directors Ciaran Donnelly, Robert Quinn Script Matthew Fiona Bergin Producer Location Dublin Running Faulk, Mark Skeet, Stefano Voltaggio, Alan Whiting, Francesca Fiona Bergin Photography Time 52 minutes Brill Producers Paul Myler, Roberto Manni Photography Owen McPolin Editors Guy James Welland, Tim Fleming Editors Stephen O’Connell, Montgomery, Mairead McIvor Production Company Fubar Philip Cullen Production Design Tom Conroy Art Directors Music Stephen Rennicks Films Tel +353 87 267 9218 Colman Corish, Carmel Nugent Music Maurizo DeAngelis

Main Cast Ella Connolly, [email protected] Main Cast Kevin Zegers, Alessandra Mastronardi, Sir Derek WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Renée Weldon, David Financiers IFB, RTÉ Jacobi, Ophelia Lovibond, Neve Campbell, Liam Cunningham, Wilmot, Gerard Mannix Status Delivered Chris Noth Irish Locations Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow Running Flynn, Vincent McCabe, BLOOD Time 12 x 50 minutes

Production Companies Epos Films Tel + 353 87 256 9878 [email protected], DeAngelis Group Financiers IFB, DeAngelis Group Distributors Artist Studio TV (Ireland/UK), RAI (Italy), A3 (Spain) Sales Agent Tandem Tel +49 899 622 8325 [email protected] AND STEEL Status Delivery early 2012 Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB) aims to invest in new talent by providing opportunities for filmmakers to develop skills in live action filmmaking, documentary, animation and digital technology. To this end we provide funding for short films through a series of schemes all of which welcome and actively encourage Irish language entries.

SIGNATURES SHORT SHORTS Signatures is the IFB flagship short film Short Shorts aims to produce ultra short scheme. It showcases live action short pieces, which can be used to promote Irish filmmaking, encouraging strong, original filmmaking with the high impact power of storytelling, visual flair and production values advertisements, but without a product to appropriate to the big screen. These short sell. The short films each year in this scheme 87 films act as a proving-ground for Irish creative conform to a genre chosen for that year by talents aspiring to write, direct and produce the IFB. feature-length films for the cinema. The Short Shorts which premiered at the The Signatures films premiered at the Cork Galway Film Fleadh conformed to the theme Film Festival and were selected by Andrew ‘Ireland, I Love You’ and were selected by Meehan (IFB), Fran Keaveney (IFB) and Simon Perry (IFB), Fran Keaveney (IFB) and director Lenny Abrahamson. actor/writer Mark O’Halloran.

REALITY BITES GEARRSCANNÁIN Reality Bites is a short documentary scheme Tá sé mar aidhm ag Gearrscannáin which encourages the experimentation and gearrscannáin Gaeilge a sholáthar, a realisation of fresh approaches to non-fiction spreagfaidh stiúrthóirí nua atá sásta chun filmmaking, whether the documentary is dul sa seans, a thabharfaidh téamaí suimiúla journalistic or creative, observational or nua chun cinn, chomh maith le bheith aesthetic, objective or personal. tarraingteach don lucht féachana ginearálta.

The Reality Bites documentaries premiered at Roghnaíodh na Gearrscannáin a taispeánadh the Cork Film Festival and were selected by don gcéad uair i 2011 ag Fran Keaveney Alan Maher (IFB), Fran Keaveney (IFB) and (BSÉ), Alicia McGivern, agus an scríbhneoir Nicole Stott (Passion Pictures). Trish Forde.

FRAMEWORKS Gearrscannáin aims to produce Irish Frameworks is a short animation scheme language short films that encourage which aims to encourage filmmakers with new directorial voices willing to take imagination, visual flair and commitment risks, challenge audiences and introduce to innovative animation. It is also open to interesting themes while at the same time established animators who may wish to appeal to a general audience. SHORT FILM realize more personal and creative projects. The Gearrscannáin shorts which premiered in The Frameworks animations premiered at 2011 were selected by Fran Keaveney (IFB), WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE the Galway Film Fleadh and were selected Alicia McGivern and writer Trish Forde. by Emma Scott (IFB), Eilish Kent (RTÉ), Fionnuala Sweeney (Arts Council) and SALES ENQUIRIES Michael Rose (Magic Light Pictures). Network Ireland Television, Tel +353 1 679 7309 [email protected] SCHEMES 89 90

23 DEGREES AN RINCEOIR ASAL BUDDY

g comórtas, tá rinceoir óg, neirbhíseach uireann Fionn, iascaire óg as iarthar abhraíonn fear maith le bean atá cráite, ag fanacht ar an imeall. Ach nuair a na hÉireann, a shaol féin i mbaol ach tá an bua ag fear olc, agus is é an 5 MINUTES A théann sí amach ar an stáitse, seasann C chun cara a shábháil. C t-aon íobartach amháin ná buachaill óg. sí amach agus taispéanann sí do gach duine Fionn, a young fisherman from the West A good man helps a woman in distress, an paisean atá aici do rince Gaelach. n old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic of Ireland risks his life to save a friend. but a bad man wins the day and an innocent At a competition, a young dancer waits boy is the only true victim. re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student nervously in the wings. Once on stage, Stiúrthóir/Director, Scíbhneoir/Script Tom Sullivan A however, she shines, demonstrating her Léiritheoir/Producer Aislinn Ní Chuinneagáin Stiúrthóir/Director, Scríbhneoir/Script Pat Comer days at Trinity College in Dublin when he Léiritheoir/Producer Keith Bogue Scannánaíocht/ great passion for Irish dancing. Scannánaíocht/Photography PJ Dillon Eagarthóir/Editor studied under the enigmatic Professor Orit, the Enda O’Dowd Dearadh Léiriúcháin/Production Design Photography Cian De Butléir Eagarthóirí/Editors Aengus WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE professor who was driven to madness by his Mags Linnane Ceol/Music Peter Morrow Príomh-fhoireann Geoghegan, Zaini Daragh Ceol/Music Tom Newman Stiúrthóir/Director, Scíbhneoir/Script Elaine Gallagher Príomh-fhoireann Aisteoireachta/Main Cast Pat Comer, obsessive pursuit of the unified theory. Aisteoireachta/Main Cast Micheal Ó Flatherta Fad/Running Léiritheoir/Producer Susan Thomson Scannánaíocht/ Time 13 nóiméad / 13 minutes Aidan O’Connor, Máirín Ní Ghaora, Aidan Crowe, Maeve Photography Cathal Watters Eagarthóir/Editor Fernando McGrath Fad/Running Time 8 nóiméad / 8 minutes Director/Script Darragh O’Connell (based on a short story de Juan Dearadh Léiriúcháin/Production Design Elaine Comhlacht Léiriúcháin/Production Company Newgrange by Austin Kenny) Producer Colm Tyrrell Editors Alan Moran Gallagher, Stephen Fagan Ceol/Music Sinead Madden Pictures Tel +353 87 271 3601 [email protected] Comhlacht Léiriúcháin/Production Company Comer Films Seamas O’Toole, Damien O’Connor Art Director Stehphen Príomh-fhoireann Aisteoireachta/Main Cast Vita Bond, Tel +353 87 286 0136 [email protected] Robinson Music Darren Hendley Main Cast John Hurt Stuart Brendan Conroy Fad/Running Time 4 nóiméad/4 minutes Tiernan McBride, Best Short Townsend Running Time 11 minutes Galway Film Fleadh 2011 Comhlacht Léiriúcháin/Production Company Underground Production Company Brown Bag Films Films Tel +353 87 759 2707 [email protected] Tel +353 1 872 1608 [email protected] 91 92

CLUCK DOWNPOUR FOXES HOME TURF

eathers are ruffled at the orphanage his short film is a celebration of Irish rain. young couple trapped in a remote estate rom the makers of the award-winning Bye when a new arrival threatens to upset A bride-to-be recalls pivotal moments in of empty houses and shrieking foxes are Bye Now, Home Turf is a visual celebration F the pecking order. T her relationship which all took place in A beckoned from their isolation into a twilight F of the dying craft of turf-cutting. While a shower, a drizzle or a downpour. world… a world of the paranormal, or the old men carry out their simple tradition Director/Script Michael Lavelle Producer Rory Dungan perhaps insanity. with good humour and determination, the Photography Kate McCullough Editor Nathan Nugent Director/Script Claire Dix Producer Nodlag Houlihan film explores the battle between man and Production Design Maree Kearns Music Ray Harman Main Photography Piers McGrail Editor Anna Maria O'Flanagan Cast Scott Graham, Adam Carolan, Donncha Crowley, Gina Director Lorcan Finnegan Script Garret Shanley Producer machine, the inevitability of progress and the Production Design Stephanie Clerkin Music Michael Fleming Brunella Cocchiglia Photography Miguel de Olaso, Moxley, Conor Mullen, Lisa Walsh, Karl Rice Running Time Main Cast Muireann Bird, Cian Barry Running Time rich benefits of old-fashioned community life. 20 minutes MacGregor Editor Frank Reid Production Design Ferdia 4 minutes Murphy Main Cast Marie Ruane, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Karen

Griffin Running Time 15 minutes Director Ross Whitaker Producer Aideen O'Sullivan WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Production Company Tilted Pictures Tel +353 86 898 2555 Production Company Zucca Films Tel + 353 86 175 5678 [email protected] Photography Alex Sapienza Editor Andrew Hearne [email protected] Production Company Lovely Productions Running Time 14 minutes Tel +353 86 861 4719 [email protected] Production Company True Films Tel +353 86 171 2706 [email protected] SHORT FILM SCHEMES

93 94 JONNY BOY NOREEN ORIGIN QUARANTINE

s she gradually slips away, Jonny lovingly wo policemen learn life lessons on young man is on the brink of emigration, ach Tuesday in St. Luke's hospital the reassures his wife on her deathbed. a house-call in rural Ireland. Frank is young but as he races through the streets of door to Radioactive Iodine Suite B is A Determined to reveal the burden that T and heartbroken. Con is middle-aged and A Dublin he comes to realise the spirit E shut behind a patient who remains there, she has been carrying for their 35 year weary. They’re both alone. They’re both idiots. he's leaving behind. alone, until the end of the week. Through the marriage, Nell confesses a secret which lead-lined glass an intimate portrait of one opens a door to Jonny’s past, bringing her Director/Script Domhnall Gleeson Producers Juliette Director James Stacey Script Matthew Darragh, James woman's solitary time with illness, fate and Bonass, David Clarke, Ciarán Deeney Photography Ruairí Stacey Producer Sean Smith Animation Supervisor life, and his, round full circle. O’Brien Editor Niall Campion Production Design Nicola Matthew Darragh Editor Brian O’Brien Art Director faith is captured. Moroney Music Fidil Main Cast Brendan Gleeson, Brian Stephen O’Connor Music Rónán Ó Snodaigh Running Director Laura Way Script Laura Way, Shirley Weir Gleeson, Gerard Byrne Running Time 18 minutes Time 5 minutes Directors Tadhg O'Sullivan, Feargal Ward Producers Pat Producer Shirley Weir Photography Noah Eli Davis Collins, Tadhg O'Sullivan Photography Feargal Ward Editor Editor Frank Reid Music Rori Coleman Main Cast Jon Polito, Production Company EL Zorrero Films Production Company Souljacker Tel +353 87 912 5153 Sound Tadhg O'Sullivan Main Cast Rosanna Byrne Running Irene Wright Running Time 8 minutes Tel +353 85 720 6653 [email protected] [email protected] Time 15 minutes

Production Company Stitch Films Tel +353 86 395 3460 Best Short Best Short Production Company Harvest Films Tel +353 86 300 5161 [email protected] Galway Film Fleadh 2010 Gold Coast International Film [email protected] Festival 2011 Best Short Capital Irish Film Official Selections

Festival 2011 Tribeca Film Festival 2011 WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Newport Beach Film Best Short Festival 2011 Boston Irish Film Sao Paolo International Film Festival 2011 Festival 2011

This film was produced with funding from Film Offaly and Filmbase with Print Provision funding from the IFB. SHORT FILM SCHEMES

95 96 REMEMBER RIDERS TO SMALL SWITCH

wo years after a traumatic car-accident which has left a young girl in a catatonic ME, MY GHOST THE SEA CHANGE T vegetative state, the man who put her there seeks out her mother to atone for his crimes. However, he soon discovers that s the social housing scheme in Ballymun is surfing duel breaks out between a male aren, a young single mother is bored by righting his wrongs may take more than demolished, one former resident recounts and female surfer off the West Coast of routine. Slot machines have become her what he’s prepared to give. A her life lived in the flats. A Ireland. Breaking waves, racing hearts K secret thrill and addiction. With Christmas and the treachery of Lycra. looming, a desperate hope for a big win sees Director Thomas Hefferon Script T.J. Hundtofte, Thomas Director/Photography Ross McDonnell Producer Morgan her life spiral out of control. Hefferon Producer Dave Leahy Photography J.J. Rolfe Bushe Editor Carter Gunn Music Aaron Martin Running Time Editor Eamonn Cleary Production Designer John McHale Director/Script Orla Walsh Producer Ian W. Davis 16 minutes Photography Mickey Smith, Allan Wilson Editor Laura Music Steve Lynch Main Cast Jane McGrath, Lesley Conroy, Director/Script Cathy Brady Producer Tommy Fitzpatrick Barry Barnes Running Time 8 minutes McDowell Music Pat Clafferty Main Cast Rachael Doyle, Photography Luca Rocchini Editor Conor Fitzpatrick Production Company Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9567 Dylan Stott, Easkey Britton Running Time 5 minutes [email protected] Production Design Stephanie Clerkin Main Cast Nora-Jane Production Company Warrior Films [email protected] Noone, Tom Collins, Olivia Nash Running Time 18 minutes Production Company Dig Productions This film was produced with funding from the Galway Film Centre Tel +353 87 295 4844 [email protected] Production Company Cherryred Pictures with Print Provision funding from the IFB. Tel +353 85 733 1192 [email protected] WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE

Best Irish Short Film Official Selection Irish Film and Television Sundance Film Festival 2011 Awards 2011 ‘The film boldly, loudly Clare Lynch Award, announces the arrival of a Best Debut Irish striking new talent’ Director Irish Times Cork Film Festival 2010

This film was in receipt of IFB Print Provision funding. 97 98 THE BOY IN THE THE THE THE BUBBLE CRUSH FISHERMAN HATCH

upert, a 10 year old boy, falls hopelessly ove is never child’s play. Ardal Travis is in ollowing the death of Pake Walker, his n the midst of a stormy night, on-board a in love for the first time. When it all love. There’s just one problem. He’s an 8 son Pat climbs the high hill of Bull na Mór, rural Irish fishing trawler, a fisherman and his R goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to L year old schoolboy and the object of his F in County Mayo, overlooking the Atlantic I son witness a glowing object fall to sea. As experience heartache again. Turning to a book affection is his teacher, the gorgeous Miss Ocean, to honour his father’s memory and they battle the elements to get it on deck, the of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from Purdy. When she becomes engaged to her to contemplate a life spent at sea. father loses something very dear to him, and emotion forever. unworthy, crass boyfriend, Ardal is forced gains something utterly unexpected. into taking drastic action. Director/Editor Tom Burke Script Patrick Bolger Producer Director Kealan O’ Rourke Script Kealan O’ Rourke, Ray Shane Hogan Photography Tom Burke, Patrick Bolger Music Directors/Script Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman Producer Gerry Horan Main Cast Pat Walker Running Time 13 minutes Kane Producer Brian Willis Editor Derek Pelly Art Director Director/Script Michael Creagh Producer Damon Quinn Gary Moore Photography James Mather Editor Stephen Eddie Sheanon Music Niall Byrne Main Cast Alan Rickman Photography Jim Creagh Editor Ciara Brophy Music David O'Connell Production Design Joe Fallover Music George Running Time 8 minutes Production Company Areaman Productions Brennan Main Cast Denis Conway, Timmy Creed Geraghty Main Cast Oran Creagh, Olga Wehrly, Rory Keenan, Tel + 353 1 478 9000 [email protected] Charlie Bonner, Neili Conroy Running Time 15 minutes Running Time 14 minutes

Production Companies Igloo Films WWW.IRISIHFILMBOARD.IE Tel +353 1 662 4624 [email protected] Production Company Purdy Pictures Tel +353 87 232 5401 Production Company Red Rage Films [email protected] Tel +353 86 265 6017 [email protected] Best Irish Animation Best Short Film Best Live Action Galway Film Fleadh 2011 Short Nomination Academy Awards® 2011 Official Selections

World Animation Competition 2011 This film was in receipt of Print Provision funding from the IFB. Leeds International Film Festival 2011 SHORT FILM SCHEMES

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hree teenage boys break into their school orna has worked hard to stay on the right á grá Frank agus Moira imithe ar strae, n a barren snowy landscape a man falls to swimming pool late one night in order to track. But when a man from her past ach tá athrú ag teacht ar an taoide. the ground. Searching to continue his fall, T stage a macho breath holding contest. But L is released from prison, her emotions T I he discovers other men. He joins them, as the night goes on, the loud, brash Charlie spiral out of control, and she finds herself Frank and Moira's love has gone missing, hoping they will lead him to his destination. begins to tease the overweight, child-like Sam. inextricably drawn back to a life, and a love, but the tide is about to turn. What he is led to is incomprehensible. After a girl arrives whom they all fancy, tensions that’s forbidden. start to escalate and by the end of the night Stiúrthóir/Director, Scíbhneoir/Script Dylan Cotter Director/Editor Eoghan Kidney Script Robyn O'Neil, Eoghan Léiritheoir/Producer Fiona Kinsella Scannánaíocht/ Kidney Producer Nicky Gogan Lead Animator Mark Flood none of their lives will ever be the same again. Director Darren Thornton Script Colin Thornton Producer Collette Farrell Photography Ruairi O’Brien Editor Anna Photography PJ Dillon Eagarthóir/Editor Breege Rowley Art Director Robyn O'Neil Music Adem Ilhan Running Time Maria O'Flanagan Production Design Kieran McNulty Music Dearadh Léiriúcháin/Production Design Emma Lowney 5 minutes Director Thomas Hefferon Script T.J. Hundtofte, Thomas Stephen Rennicks Main Cast Roxanna Nic Liam, Johnny Ceol/Music The Sound Butlers Príomh-fhoireann Hefferon Producers Dave Leahy, Fiona Kinsella Photography Ward, Sophie Fay, Ciaran McCabe, Andrea Irvine, Sam Aisteoireachta/Main Cast Paraic Breathnach, Brid Ni Production Company Still Films Tel + 353 86 025 1117 Ruairi O' Brien Editor Derek Holland Music Kim Carroll Main Chumhaill, Jamie Duffy, Bairbre Ni Chaoimh and Mark Schrier [email protected]

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