Irish Reels Film Festival 2012
The Irish Reels Film Festival, a forum for features, shorts, and documentaries by independent Irish filmmakers, is proud to present three days of film screenings in Seattle, September 28-30, 2012.
 The festival kicks off on Friday night, September 28th, at 7:00 p.m. at the SIFF Film Center with A Kiss for Jed. Irish rock music icons Barry Devlin (Horseslips) and Maurice Linnane (U2 documentarian) come together to co-write and direct this humorous tale of a Country and Western singer being pursued by an annoying fan and a camera crew. If you miss Friday night's screening you get a second chance to catch this on Sunday at 5:00pm. Saturday at 4:00pm Stephen Rea and Martin Sheen star in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Stella Days. Inspired by Michael Doorley's memoir of the same name Stella Days encapsulates the dilemma of Ireland in the mid-1950s - on the cusp of the modern but still clinging to the traditions of church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
At 6:00pm Hot Press fans can sit back and enjoy John O'Donnell's documentary Hot Press: The Write Stuff which tells the tumultuous story of those early years of the music magazine that became a political and cultural rallying point for alternative ideas. Saturday night's presentation at 7:30pm is a celebration of new works from Northern Ireland. Terry George's Oscar-winning short, The Shore which explores the relationship between childhood best friends opens the evening followed by our feature presentation Behold The Lamb. Writer and theatre director John McIlduff's first feature is a darkly comic road movie that follows Eddie (Nigel O'Neill), and Liz (Aoife Duffin), his junkie son's girlfriend, as they travel across Northern Ireland in a bid to pick up a lamb and thus save the son's neck.  Sunday at 7:30pm award winning and Oscar-nominated Pentecost opens for our feature documentary Ballymun Lullaby by Frank Berry. Described as "the most enthusiastically received picture" at the Dublin International Film Festival the film focus on the Ballymun housing estate in Dublin. Despite its reputation for failure music teacher Ron Cooney never gave up on the area's youth. This heartwarming story unfolds in an inspirational and uplifting documentary. The festival wraps up with an after-party at T.S. McHugh's. Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets and at the door 30mins in advance of show time. |
