GAZE Film Festival Comes of Age | The Irish Film & Television Network

The Festival has sought to look both outwards to the international screens and closer to home at LGBTQ work from the indigenous Irish film industry for this year’s event. Furthermore, the founder of the Festival, Yvonne O’Reilly, has returned as programme director for the 18th Festival. “Gaze has come of age,” Yvonne commented, “the Festival is 18, emerging from its teenage years with a level of sophistication and confidence that is evident in the range of excellent films on offer this year. As the founder of the Festival, I’m proud to see how it’s grown over its eighteen years and am delighted to return to programming the festival once more this year.”

The 2010 line up includes a retrospective of Irish Gay shorts from the 18 years of the Festival, presented in collaboration with Culture Ireland. The 2009 shortlist for best international gay short will also be showcased over the weekend. Documentaries also feature strongly including the Toronto Film Festival award-winning documentary ‘The Topp Twins’ alongside ‘Untouchable Girls’. The latter’s’ themes of life’s humour and pathos are echoed in ‘Regretters’, ‘Two Spirits’, and ‘All Boys’. Finally, ‘Prima Donna: The Story of Rufus Wainwright’s Debut Opera’ is both a record of an artistic process and an insight into his gifted family including interviews with his sister Martha, his father Loudon Wainwright III and his mother Kate McGarrigle.

The feature films screening over the weekend include Jordan Scott’s IFTA nominated work ‘Cracks’, starring actress Eva Green who is currently filming ‘Camelot’ in Dublin. Other features showing include ‘Stonewall Uprising’; ‘To Die Like a Man’; ‘Paulista’; ‘The Last Summer of La Boyita’ and ‘Prayers for Bobby’ (pictured) which will screen for free on Sunday, August 1st. Documentaries such as ‘Assume Nothing’; ‘Regretters’; ‘The Man who Loved Yngve, ‘Loose Cannons’, and the closing night work, ‘Ander’ will also show throughout the festival. Finally, there are a number of debut films screening, including ‘Soundless Windchime’, ‘Leo’s Room’ and ‘I Killed my Mother’.

Tickets are currently on sale at the Light House Box Office and full programme details are available online at www.gaze.ie As mentioned above the festival will run from Thursday, July 29th to Monday, August 2nd.

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