Donegal-based company Lugh Films along with South-Wind Blows and Idée Originale will release their latest documentary co-production in two formats, a cinema version entitled ‘A Turning Tide in the Life of Man’ (110 min) and television version entitled ‘Big Fish Small Fish’ (52 min).
The cinema version will premiere at the Arcs European Films Festivals in France on Sunday 14th December 2014 in the presence of Geraldine Byrne-Bason, Irish Ambassador in France.
The Irish screening will be confirmed at a later date this year or at the beginning of January 2015.
The documentary follows John O'Brien, a fisherman from the small island of Inis Bó Finne, Co. Donegal. As part of an insular group, he launched a European campaign to regain the islanders’ ancestors’ rights to fish in the seas around them.
Filmed over 8 years, the film tells how this man put himself in the heart of the new reform of the Common Fisheries in Brussels to try to understand and change the system that took everything from him.
The documentary was produced with the support of the Irish Film Board, TG4, France 5, France 3, Région Rhône Alpes, CNC. It is written and directed by Loïc Jourdain.
