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Thursday 25th November at the IRISHFILMFESTA : presentation of John Mc Court’s book “James Joyce and the Cinema”

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John Mc Court’s “James Joyce and the Cinema. Roll Away the Reel World” deals with the twofold bond between Joyce’s writings and modern cinema. Mc Court lectures in English Literature at the University of Rome (Roma Tre); he is also the director of the Joyce School in Trieste.

His book will be presented on Thursday 25th November at 6 pm. The author will be talking about his new publication to Barry McCrea, the writer, Joycean scholar and lecturer in Comparative Literature at Yale University.

Entrance free.

IRISHFILMFESTA award for best short

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For the first time this year, IrishFilmFesta will include a competitive section dedicated to short films.
Among the shorts selected, different in length and genre, there will be The Door, Academy Award nominee for the year 2010.
The short films will be judged by a jury chaired by Gianluca Arcopinto, producer, alongside the photographer Franco Biciocchi, film critic Stefano Coccia, Second Secretary of the Irish Embassy in Italy Amal Kaoua and short films director Alessandro Maresca.
The winner will be awarded during the final evening of the Festival, on Sunday the 28th of November.

Neil Jordan’s Ondine will have its Italian premiere at the IrishFilmFesta

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Neil Jordan’s last film was presented for the worldwide premiere last year at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In Italy it has been released only on dvd, therefore the screening at the Irish Film Festa will be the first time and a unique occasion to see this movie on the big screen.
The story evolves around Syracuse, a fisherman living in the south-west of Ireland. He is a solitary man, separated from his wife and his young daughter Annie, who is confined to a wheelchair. However his life will change radically after meeting Ondine, a beautiful girl with mysterious origins, who has been caught in his fish net.
Starring Colin Farrell alongside the Polish singer (with Mexican descent) Alicja Bachleda – who embodies Ondine – and Stephen Rea.

The film’s official website:
http://www.ondinefilm.com/

Click here to see the Trailer

IrishFilmFesta comes back in Tuscia

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From Friday 16th to Sunday 18th April, in Montefiascone (Viterbo) IrishFilmFesta presents four Irish films (original language with Italian subtitles).

Programme:

Fri 16th Apr – 8.45 PM: The Wind That Shakes the Barley (K. Loach, 2006)
Sat 17th Apr – 4.30 PM: Mickybo and Me (T. Loane, 2005); 8.45 PM: Garage (L.Abrahamson, 2007)
Sun 18th Apr – 8.45 PM: Isolation (B. O’Brien, 2005)

Introduction by Kay McCarthy and Susanna Pellis. Venue: Rianta – Argilla Theatre (via del Barone 13 / a – Montefiascone). Free entrance.

(Info: 340 5522152)

 

Irish singer-songwriter Kay Kay McCarthy will perform at Irish Film Festa

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Saturday 29th November, on the occasion of the screening of the Gaelic language film Kings (Tom Collins, 2007) Kay McCarthy will attend at Irish Film Festa. Irish born, Italian by adoption, for over twenty years now, Kay McCarthy has been bringing Irish traditional music and culture to Italy. Her repertoire ranges from traditional melodies to songs and instrumental tunes written by herself. She began performing in Rome in the seventies when the city’s mythical Folkstudio hosted her on a regular basis. In August 2000, Kay and the group were hosted by Lorient Interceltic Festival. Furthermore, Kay McCarthy is a teacher of both English and Gaelic language

 

Silvia Calamati at Irish Film Festa to talk about his upcoming book about Bobby Sands

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Friday 27th November, on the occasion of the screening of Hunger (S. McQueen, 2008) Silvia Calamati, journalist and writer, will take part in Irish Film Festa to present her new book about IRA activist Bobby Sands, publishing next May by Castelvecchi. Silvia Calamati has concerned herself with the Irish question since 1982, she has been working as a free-lance journalist for Rai News 24 and for the Italian weekly magazine Avvenimenti, focusing on Ulster matters. She won the Tom Cox Award, she has translated One day in my life (Feltrinelli, 1996), the book written by Bobby Sands, and she published, one among so many, Qui Belfast. 20 anni di cronache dall’Irlanda di Bobby Sands e Pat Finucane (Edizioni Associate, 2008)

Dr. Barry Monahan, lecturer in the history and aesthetics of Irish cinema at University College Cork, will be guest of Irish Film Festa

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Dr. Barry Monahan, lecturer in history and aesthetics of Irish cinema at Cork’s University College, will be guest of Irish Film Festa. He has published on contemporary Irish cinema from different theoretical and aesthetic perspectives. He just published the book Ireland’s Theater on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen and he’s involved in the project Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies 1930-1970. Dr. Barry Monahan will take part in Irish Film Festa with the talk Television in Ireland, focusing on the Lenny Abrahamson’s tv drama Prosperity (2007)

Actress Eileen Walsh guest at Irish Film Festa

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Actress Eileen Walsh will be a guest at the IrishFilmFesta to present Declan Recks’ film, Eden (2008). For this film, she won the Best Actress award at Tribeca Film Festival. Born in Cork, Eileen Walsh made her dèbut with the comedy Disco Pigs, together with Cillian Murphy. Besides taking part in many films and theater shows – among the most recents, Triage (Danis Tanovic, 2009) together with Colin Farrell – she is well known to international audience thanks to her moving performance as Crispina, in Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters (2002)