Actress Vicky Krieps and filmmakers Jim Sheridan and Mike Newell set to attend.
Declan Recks’ Irish-language drama Tarrac! and Michael Kinirons’ The Sparrow are among a raft of new Irish features set to receive their world premiere at Galway Film Fleadh (July 5-10).
The 34th edition of the festival will include 80 international features of which 20 are world premieres. The majority of these premieres will showcase new Irish cinema, with 18 out of the 32 Irish films in the line-up set to debut at the Fleadh.
They include Tarrac! in which a woman returns to her home on Ireland’s Kerry coast and...
Declan Recks’ Irish-language drama Tarrac! and Michael Kinirons’ The Sparrow are among a raft of new Irish features set to receive their world premiere at Galway Film Fleadh (July 5-10).
The 34th edition of the festival will include 80 international features of which 20 are world premieres. The majority of these premieres will showcase new Irish cinema, with 18 out of the 32 Irish films in the line-up set to debut at the Fleadh.
They include Tarrac! in which a woman returns to her home on Ireland’s Kerry coast and...
- 6/22/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Warner Bros,’ “The Batman” ruled the U.K. and Ireland box office, debuting at pole position with £13.5 million ($17.8 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
In its fourth weekend, Sony’s “Uncharted” dropped a place down to second with £1.3 million and now has a total of £20.2 million.
In third position was Universal’s “Sing 2” with £1 million and the animated sequel has a robust £30.3 million total after six weekends.
In its second weekend, Warner Bros’ “The Duke,” the late “Notting Hill” director Roger Michell’s last fiction feature, starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, collected £682,096 in fourth place and has a total of £2.7 million.
Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “Death on the Nile,” directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, with £283,550. The film has a total of £7.1 million after four weekends.
Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” continued its mighty performance at...
In its fourth weekend, Sony’s “Uncharted” dropped a place down to second with £1.3 million and now has a total of £20.2 million.
In third position was Universal’s “Sing 2” with £1 million and the animated sequel has a robust £30.3 million total after six weekends.
In its second weekend, Warner Bros’ “The Duke,” the late “Notting Hill” director Roger Michell’s last fiction feature, starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, collected £682,096 in fourth place and has a total of £2.7 million.
Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “Death on the Nile,” directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, with £283,550. The film has a total of £7.1 million after four weekends.
Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” continued its mighty performance at...
- 3/9/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Loneliness and longing are examined with a forensic and unflinching eye in “Shelter,” a bleak Irish-language drama about a reclusive 20-something man-child who must face the world he has been protected from all his life. but its intensity and refusal to indulge in sentimentality makes it sometimes tough to watch. Adapted from the 2013 novel “The Thing About December” by Donal Ryan, “Shelter” marks a promising debut by writer-director Sean Breathnach and has been selected as Ireland’s official submission for the 2022 international feature Oscar.
The basic outline of “Shelter” echoes films such as Werner Herzog’s “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser” and Rolf de Heer’s “Bad Boy Bubby,” in which young adult males are suddenly thrust into the world after being cruelly locked away from it all their lives. In “Shelter” it is not imprisonment but willing acceptance of overwhelming parental love that has kept John Cunliffe (Donal O...
The basic outline of “Shelter” echoes films such as Werner Herzog’s “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser” and Rolf de Heer’s “Bad Boy Bubby,” in which young adult males are suddenly thrust into the world after being cruelly locked away from it all their lives. In “Shelter” it is not imprisonment but willing acceptance of overwhelming parental love that has kept John Cunliffe (Donal O...
- 11/8/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has picked Irish-Language feature Foscadh (Shelter) as this year’s entry for the International Oscar race.
Written and directed by Seán Breathnach, the pic stars Dónall Ó Héalai (Arracht), Fionnuala Flaherty (An Klondike), and Cillian O’Gairbhí (Blood) in a story based on characters in Donal Ryan’s novel The Thing About December. The plot follows naïve recluse John Cunliffe who is suddenly propelled into manhood at the age of 28. When his overprotective parents pass away, friendless John inherits mountain land that is in the way of a lucrative wind-farm development, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of romance, trust and vengeance for the first time.
Producer is Paddy Hayes (Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody), whose father Tom Hayes was nominated for an Oscar 50 years ago for the documentary Cradle Of Genius. The film is produced by Hayes’ Magamedia and premiered at...
Written and directed by Seán Breathnach, the pic stars Dónall Ó Héalai (Arracht), Fionnuala Flaherty (An Klondike), and Cillian O’Gairbhí (Blood) in a story based on characters in Donal Ryan’s novel The Thing About December. The plot follows naïve recluse John Cunliffe who is suddenly propelled into manhood at the age of 28. When his overprotective parents pass away, friendless John inherits mountain land that is in the way of a lucrative wind-farm development, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of romance, trust and vengeance for the first time.
Producer is Paddy Hayes (Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody), whose father Tom Hayes was nominated for an Oscar 50 years ago for the documentary Cradle Of Genius. The film is produced by Hayes’ Magamedia and premiered at...
- 9/22/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
With Beyond the Woods on DVD and VOD in both the UK and America, I got a chance to ask actor John Ryan Howard a few questions about how he got into acting, working with director Sean Breathnach and what we can expect from the film.
How did you first get into acting?
Well the first acting I ever did was acting in homemade horror movies with a friend whose father owned a camera shop – O’ Learys Camera World! I watched my first ever horror film – House 2: The Second Story (1987) – with that friend (Shane) and we used to regularly rent horror movies from the video store with notes from my mother. Then making our own films was the logical progression I guess! I got my own video camera at about 14 and continued making homemade horror films. They were terrible of course. Lol I actually watched one of them a...
How did you first get into acting?
Well the first acting I ever did was acting in homemade horror movies with a friend whose father owned a camera shop – O’ Learys Camera World! I watched my first ever horror film – House 2: The Second Story (1987) – with that friend (Shane) and we used to regularly rent horror movies from the video store with notes from my mother. Then making our own films was the logical progression I guess! I got my own video camera at about 14 and continued making homemade horror films. They were terrible of course. Lol I actually watched one of them a...
- 3/19/2018
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
With the release of Beyond the Woods on DVD and VOD in both the UK and America on 19th February, I got a chance to ask writer and director Sean Breathnach a few questions about why he chose this as his first feature film, what were his influences and what makes Beyond the Woods stand out in the horror genre.
How did you first get into filmmaking?
At the start it was through writing scripts. I’d been writing stories since I was a child. I started writing scripts after that – very badly formatted scripts! But one of the scripts got some attention from a production company in London. They took an option on it. It never got made, but it gave me the confidence to keep writing. Eventually I started shooting short scripts myself after I ran out of patience waiting for funding. I got bitten by the bug...
How did you first get into filmmaking?
At the start it was through writing scripts. I’d been writing stories since I was a child. I started writing scripts after that – very badly formatted scripts! But one of the scripts got some attention from a production company in London. They took an option on it. It never got made, but it gave me the confidence to keep writing. Eventually I started shooting short scripts myself after I ran out of patience waiting for funding. I got bitten by the bug...
- 2/19/2018
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
Stars: John Ryan Howard, Mark Lawrence, Ross Mac Mahon, Claire J. Loy, Irene Kelleher, Alan Riordan, Ruth Hayes, Sean McGillicuddy | Written and Directed by Sean Breathnach
Beyond the Woods has a familiar set up, with seven friends deciding to spend a weekend away in a secluded part of the Irish countryside; although this time they have the luxury of a cottage rather than your more traditional cabin in the woods. Unfortunately for them, when they arrive the soon realise that the comforts of their cottage getaway are offset by a fiery sinkhole which has opened up in the mountains nearby. Even though the house has been deemed to be a safe distance away, the sinkhole – which is burning Sulphur at over 800 degrees – is still having an effect, thanks to the powerful odour which is almost unbearable. With a planned weekend of alcohol and smoking weed to get them through, the...
Beyond the Woods has a familiar set up, with seven friends deciding to spend a weekend away in a secluded part of the Irish countryside; although this time they have the luxury of a cottage rather than your more traditional cabin in the woods. Unfortunately for them, when they arrive the soon realise that the comforts of their cottage getaway are offset by a fiery sinkhole which has opened up in the mountains nearby. Even though the house has been deemed to be a safe distance away, the sinkhole – which is burning Sulphur at over 800 degrees – is still having an effect, thanks to the powerful odour which is almost unbearable. With a planned weekend of alcohol and smoking weed to get them through, the...
- 2/16/2018
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
Seán Breathnach's debut horror film is set to screen at the largest genre film festival in the USA, Fright Night Film Festival in Kentucky from November 25th to 27th. Written and directed by Breathnach, Beyond the Woods tells the story of a gang of friends who meet up for a weekend away in an isolated holiday home in the middle of a forest. Unfortunately for them, a fiery sink-hole has opened nearby, roads have been closed and there's a real stench of sulphur. The friends won't let a small thing like that spoil their plans to party, but as the weekend progresses some of them start acting out of character, one goes missing and little by little they realise that it's not just a sinkhole that opened up nearby but something altogether more horrific. The film stars Irene Kelleher (Game of Thrones), Ross Mac Mahon (Penny Dreadful) and Claire Loy...
- 8/29/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
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