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MUSIC ON THE BIG SCREEN
by Nerve Centre
MUSIC ON SCREEN
SUNDAY 21 NOV | 8.30PM
VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL
IRELAND 2020 | DIRECTOR: EMER REYNOLDS CAST: ERIC BELL, GALE CLAYDON, ADAM CLAYTON, BRIAN DOWNEY, JIM FITZPATRICK, HUEY LEWIS, SUZI QUATRO, CARL SHAABAN (AS PHIL LYNOTT) DURATION: 1HR.52MINS | DISTRIBUTOR: MERCURY STUDIOS USA.1999. DIRECTOR: DARIUS MARDER. WRITERS: DARIUS MARDER, ABRAHAM MARDER. CAST: RIZ AHMED, OLIVIA COOKE, PAUL RACI, MATHIEU AMALRIC. DURATION: 2HRS. CERT: 15
Phil Lynott: Songs For While I’m Away is a feature documentary on the life and music of Phil Lynott, telling the story of how a young black boy from working class 1950’s Dublin, became Ireland’s greatest Rock Star. As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, a wildman. Told extensively through the words of Phil himself and focusing on some of his iconic songs, the film gets to the heart of Philip, the father, the husband, the friend, the son, the rock icon, the poet and the dreamer Nominated for an IFTA When former addict Ruben unexpectedly loses his hearing while touring with his girlfriend Lou, he becomes overwhelmed by anxiety and his life is thrown into turmoil. In a group home for Deaf addicts, Ruben must choose between his new Deaf community and the life of sound he left behind. Utilising startling, innovative sound design techniques, director Darius Marder takes audiences inside Ruben’s experience to vividly recreate his journey into a rarely examined world.
““A film that is warm, generous and hopefully healing in its effect… The new Philip Lynott: Songs For While I’m Away documentary strongly resonates with Black Lives Matter, and is set to win him a whole new generation of fans.” Niall Stokes, Hot Press
MONDAY 22 NOV | 8PM
VENUE: NERVE CENTRE 1
Won 2 Oscars® and 2 BAFTAs.
“A film that deserves to be seen by the widest possible audience, reminding us of cinema’s unique ability to challenge, entertain, uplift and unite.” Marc Kermode, Observer
Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle
THE UNTOLD STORY OF CHUMBAWAMBA
VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL
TUESDAY 23 NOV | 8.15PM
THE PEBBLE AND THE BOY I GET KNOCKED DOWN:
VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL
UK 2021 | WRITER/DIRECTOR: CHRIS GREEN CAST: PATRICK MCNAMEE, SACHA PARKINSON, MAX BOAST, PATSY KENSIT, JAMIE LOMAS. DURATION: 1HR.41MINS. DISTRIBUTOR: MUNRO FILMS UK.2021. DIRECTORS: SOPHIE ROBINSON, DUNSTAN BRUCE DURATION: 1HR.27MINS DISTRIBUTOR: MUSIC FILM NETWORK
The Pebble And The Boy is a British comedy that follows 19 year old John Parker who embarks on a journey from Manchester to Brighton, the spiritual home of the Mods, to scatter the ashes of his father. The film is a celebration of Mod culture and fashion and features music by The Jam, Paul Weller, The Style Council. I Get Knocked Down is the untold story of Leeds-based anarcho-pop band Chumbawamba. Founding bandmember Dunstan Bruce is 59, and twenty years after his fall from grace, Bruce is angry and frustrated, but how does a retired middle-aged radical get back up again?
MUSIC ON SCREEN
The star, subject and co-director of the film Dunstan Bruce, and co-director Sophie Robinson will take part in a post-screening discussion.
“An emotional road trip movie loaded with classic jams and stylish fashion, we’re going mod in the modern age with filmmaker Chris Green’s The Pebble & The Boy.“ **** Chris Olson, UK Film Review
SUMMER OF SOUL
MUSIC ON SCREEN
(…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL
USA 2021 | DIRECTOR: AHMIR-KHALIB THOMPSON CAST: ROY AYERS, ETHEL BEATTY, BARBARA BLAND-ACOSTA, SHEILA E JESSE JACKSON, GLADYS KNIGHT, NINA SIMONE, CHRIS ROCK, STEVIE WONDER DURATION: 1HR.58MINS DISTRIBUTOR: DISNEY
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and solidarity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America’s history lost - until now. Fergus O’Farrell was the charismatic voice of Interference, one of the most compelling and influential bands to emerge from the Irish music scene in the 1990’s. He was best known for his timeless song “GOLD” which featured in the soundtrack to Once, the Oscar® winning film and multi-Tony-award-winning musical. Despite being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at a young age, through it all, Fergus had to keep singing. His unique talent and love for life inspired a generation of songwriters, even as his own was slipping away. Oscar® winner Glen Hansard was one of those songwriters and never forgot that voice, and in one of the many incredible moments in Breaking Out, he performs the ultimate duet as Fergus’ greatest gift was failing. This is the emotional and inspirational story of that voice, and Fergus’ fierce passion and dedication to his art.
“Brilliantly encapsulates the spirit and mood of a unique era… As a documentary it’s beautifully constructed and allows the event to tell its own story. Super sharp editing quickly puts the festival in historical context; the Kennedys, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King had all been assassinated in the last six years; and the Vietnam War was at its brutal height.” ***** UK Film Review, Brian Penn
SUNDAY 28 NOV | 4.30PM
BREAKING OUT
VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL
IRELAND 2020 | DIRECTOR: MICHAEL MCCORMACK CAST: FERGUS O’FARRELL, GLEN HANSARD DURATION: 1HR.24MINS DISTRIBUTOR: ELEMENT PICTURES
Director Michael McCormack will introduce and take part in post-screening discussion
Winner of Best Feature Documentary Award at the 2021 IFTAs.
“Occasionally you encounter a work that can reignite your appreciation of film and sometimes of life itself. Breaking Out is such a
film.” Seán Crosson, Film Ireland
Foyle Film Festival in association with Cinematic Arts, Ulster University, Ulster Screen Academy and BFI Film Academy present
FRIDAY 19 NOV
NERVE CENTRE VENUE
AN AUDIENCE with directors Cathy Brady and Juliet Riddell
10AM-1PM
WILDFIRE
Screening of Wildfire and Q&A with writer-director Cathy Brady
Screening of STAY ALIVE and workshop with Juliet Ridell on Directing the Short Film
2PM-3.30PM
STAY ALIVE
Newry born writer-director Cathy Brady made four highly acclaimed short films before her feature film debut with Wildfire. Her second production, Morning, won the best short film at the Cork Film Festival and the IFTAs. It was nominated for best short film at the European Film Awards in 2013.
Cathy worked with Nora-Jane Noone on two of her short films, Small Change and Wasted, before casting her, along with the late Nika McGuigan, as two estranged sisters in Wildfire. McGuigan collaborated with the director on six episodes of the TV series, Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope. Set along the Northern Irish border and inspired by real life events, Wildfire is a powerful drama about the legacy of violence. This year Wildfire received 5 nominations at the IFTAs picking up the award for Best Director and Best Actress in a lead role for Nika McGuigan.
“I remember watching [the documentary] A Mother Brings her Son to be Shot,” Cathy Brady told the Irish Times. “And that for me spoke to that aimless generation in Northern Ireland. Because their sense of identity has been altered. So what do they hang on to? How do they identify? And with Wildfire, we’re looking at female characters and that sort of shifts everything. Female characters are not directly related to the violence. I think what I was interested in in Wildfire was the unspoken internal violence. This isn’t a film about men and their guns. This is about damage and trauma within a family - within a community.” Juliet Riddell is an activist filmmaker who has directed three compelling and uncompromising short films offering fresh perspectives on some of the most urgent social and political challenges of our time, including Climate Change, the impact of Brexit on Ireland and suicide.
Juliet’s poetic filmmaking style blends the imaginative with the factual, drawing upon a range of genres from documentary and reportage to theatrical performance and soliloquy. In 2018 Juliet teamed up with Northern Irish writer Clare Dwyer-Hogg and actor Stephen Rea to make the emotionallycharged polemic Hard Border. Released on social media at a time of great uncertainty, Hard Border was described by Professor Kieran Walsh as a “wonderfully poetic, evocative and excoriating short film about the Irish border and why it matters so much.”
This fruitful writer-director-actor collaboration has continued with the Field Day commissioned short film, STAY ALIVE which was filmed in Derry in June. STAY ALIVE was conceived as a visual pamphlet - a reference to the pamphlets Field Day historically published in order to disseminate ideas - and is imagined as a direct message to someone who is considering taking their own life. After it’s Derry premiere, Juliet will discuss her artistic approach to translating Clare Dwyer-Hogg’s heartfelt poetry into striking visual images and performances.
