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06 Feb 2015 : Seán Brosnan
'The Visit' will screen at the renowned SXSW next month
Irish co-production ‘The Visit’ to play at SXSW and Chicago and Washington Irish festivals release details on upcoming 2015 events.

Documentary ‘The Visit’ to screen at South by Southwest Festival in Texas

US film festival South by Southwest has announced its’ line-up for its’ 2015 festival with Irish co-production ‘The Visit’ selected to screen when the festival kicks off on March 13th.

Terry McMahon’s feature ‘Charlie Casanova’ was the first non-US film to feature at the festival in 2011and since then there have been a slew of Irish projects including ‘Dollhouse’, ‘Dreams of a Life’, ‘Citadel’, ‘Foxes’ and ‘Joy’ in 2012, ‘Kelly + Victor’ and ‘Good Vibrations’ and another Terry McMahon picture ‘Patrick’s Day’ (in Irish cinemas now) in 2014.

Co-produced by Venom Film, with support from the Irish Film Board, ‘The Visit’ (from the team behind the hit documentary ‘His & Hers’) is a creative documentary that poses the question, what would happen if we were to be visited by a being from another world? The film presents this hypothetical scenario to experts from around the world who have already dedicated their lives to preparing for such an event.

‘The Visit’ recently screened in the World Documentary Competition category at the Sundance Film Festival, and is set to be released here later this year.

The 2015 SXSW Festival will run from March 13th-21st in Austin, Texas.

Capital Irish Film Festival runs for ninth year in Washington

The ninth Capital Irish Film Festival has kicked off in Washington DC.

Opening the festival will be Niall Heery’s ‘Gold’ at the E Street Cinema. The film stars James Nesbitt, Maisie Williams, David Wilmot, and Kerry Condon and was released to Irish cinemas and positive reviews in 2014.

In total, eight Irish films and nine short films will screen at the festival.

Other films slated to screen at the four day event include:

  • Mark McCauley’s ‘A City Dreaming’
  • Tom Collins ‘An Bronntanas’
  • Roger Corman focused documentary ‘It Came From Connemara’
  • Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Frank’

Sunday, February 8th, sees three Irish documentaries screen which are ‘The Wind Blows Where it Wants’, ‘Blood Fruit’, and ‘A Terrible Beauty’.

On Saturday and Sunday a collection of Irish shorts will be shown, including ‘An Cat’, ‘The Handsome Shadows’, ‘The Ledge End of Phil (from Accounting)’, ‘No Messages’, ‘Uisce Beatha’, ‘Gaeltacht sa Ghalltacht’, ‘The Gravediggers Tour’, ‘Me Buddy Muhammed’, and ‘The Weather Report’.

The Capital Irish Film Festival shows more Irish language films than any other American Irish film festival and will conclude on Sunday, February 8th.

Chicago Irish Film Festival release details of 2015 Festival

The Chicago Irish Film Festival has announced its line-up for 2015 with the festival slated to run from February 28th until March 7th.

The festival opens with ‘Poison Pen’, which will have its Midwest premiere on Saturday, February 28th at the Music Box Theater. The film is a romantic comedy starring Lochlann O Mearain and Aoibhinn McGinnity. Poison Pen was produced by the participants on the Filmbase/Staffordshire University MSc in Digital Feature Film Production.

Two other films slated to have their Midwest premiere at the festival include ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ and ‘An Bronntanas’.

Three feature documentaries will also screen at the festival. The first is ‘Close to Evil’, a documentary about Holocaust survivor and Irish citizen Tomi Reichental, which won the IFI Stranger Than Fiction 2013 Audience Award.

The second is Mark McCauley’s ‘A City Dreaming’, a portrait of Derry told over 50 years told through the eyes of a young boy (writer-broadcaster Gerry Anderson). And the third is ‘It Came from Connemara!’, the behind the scenes story of Hollywood director Roger Corman’s film studio in Connemara.

35 Irish short films will screen in total – with the line-up including ‘The Weather Report’ by Paul Murray, ‘Inorganic’ by Marie-Elena Doyle, the Oscar-shortlisted ‘SLR’ by Stephen Fingleton and the Oscar and BAFTA-Oscar nominated ‘Boogaloo and Graham’ by Michael Lennox.

The Chicago Irish Film Festival is dedicated to presenting the works of Irish filmmakers to the Chicago film community. Since 1999 the festival has screened over 500 features, documentaries and short films by many of Ireland’s most talented and award-winning filmmakers.

The 2015 edition of the festival will run from February 28th until March 7th.





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