‘Small World’ a 4 x 30 minute documentary travel series that tells international stories but with an Irish angle, is to air on RTÉ One on Friday 2 December at 8.30pm.
The series also jets off to Brazil, Newfoundland, Dubai and the Ukraine and tells the other side of the emigration story, what happens when you come back.
The first episode in the series follows host Katrina Devereux as she visits a small town in Brazil to meet locals who called Galway town Gort home for years - and who have now returned to South America to transform their small town in the middle of Brazil into a ‘Little Ireland’.
The series, which shot between March and September this year, was directed by Pat Comer (In The Name Of The Fada, A Year Till Sunday), David Doran (Prime Time Investigates), Paul Rouse (The School, Families In The Wild), Bob O Brien (Welcome To My World, Meet The Neighbours).
It was produced was Cormac Hargaden (Coached, Marooned) of Loosehorse and Katrina Devereux (The Des Bishop Work Experience, Mother Knows Best). Director of photography was Emmet Harte (Anonymous, Showhouse) and it was shot on HDV. It posted in both Loosehorse and EMC. Editors on the series were Zaini Darragh (Rip Off Republic, Rural Heat)and Derek Simon (GAA; Like a Prairie Fire,n, Barbado’ed).
’Small World’ was made for RTÉ with the financial support Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s Sound and Vision fund.
