Irish Film New York is screening four Irish Oscar-nominated films across two nights this week.
Oscar-winning shorts ‘The Shore’, ‘Six Shooter’, Oscar-nominated animation ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’ and short film ‘The Door’ will all screen tonight (September 12) and tomorrow at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
‘The Shore’ won an Oscar earlier this year for Best Short Film. Terry George directed the Northern Irish-set film, which sees two childhood friends, Joe and Paddy, meet after a 25-year separation stemming from different attitudes to the Troubles. Joe returns to Northern Ireland to find Paddy has married his former fiancée. ‘Game of Thrones’ actors Ciarán Hinds and Conleth Hill star as Joe and Paddy.
Martin McDonagh’s ‘Six Shooter’ picked up an Oscar for Best Short Film in 2006. Brendan Gleeson stars as Donnelly, a man who takes a train ride following the death of his wife. On the train, a chance meeting with a troubled young man changes Donnelly’s life forever.
‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’, a Brown Bag Films Production, was nominated for a Best Short Animation Oscar in 2010. The animation sees a child left terrified instead of sleepy when her Granny O’Grimm reads her her own version of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ as a bedtime story. Nicky Phelan directed the short.
‘The Door’ received a Best Short Film Oscar nomination in 2009. Based on the ‘Monologue About a Whole Life Down on Doors, the testimony of Nikolai Fomich Kalugin’ by Svetlana Alexievich from the book ‘The Chernobyl Prayer’, the short charts one family’s struggle in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. Juanita Wilson directed.
Irish Film New York is an organisation which aims to promote Irish film and Irish filmmakers in the US. Niall McKay, the festival director, curates the collection.
