Irish director Jim Sheridan’s work will be celebrated in Portugal this month with nine of his films to be screened in a major retrospective of his work at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon, from October 11th-31st.
The first of its kind outside Ireland, The Jim Sheridan Retrospective has been organised by the Irish Portuguese Friendship Society in Lisbon with the help of Reel Ireland. Jim Sheridan helped to select many of the titles which are a selection of his directing, writing and producing.
The first film to be screened will be the Oscar winning movie ‘My Left Foot’ on Thursday October 11th. This will be followed by screenings of ‘In America’, ‘The Field’, ‘In the Name of the Father’, ‘The Boxer’, ‘Into the West’, ‘The General’, ‘Bloody Sunday’, ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’, between the 11th October – 31st October 2007.
Jim Sheridan will travel to Portugal to attend some of the screenings.
“I would like to acknowledge and commend the work of the Irish Film Archive of the Irish Film Institute who has been to the forefront in the preservation of my work since "My Left Foot" in 1989 to the present day,” said Sheridan. “It is very important to applaud the work of Reel Ireland as an exciting and worthwhile endeavour in helping to distribute Irish films globally in a cultural context.”
For over a decade the Irish Film Archive of The Irish Film Institute (IFI) has been making its film collection available to cultural exhibitors abroad, with 2005 seeing the creation of Reel Ireland. This touring package of Irish films, designed to promote our film culture internationally, is curated by the Archive and supported by Culture Ireland. The package, updated annually, offers audiences everywhere an opportunity to experience some of the diversity of Irish cinema.
More info on the Jim Sheridan Retrospective can be found at www.cinemateca.pt.
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