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IFI Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Film Festival this September
15 Aug 2014 : Deirdre Molumby
'Showrunners'
Featuring two world premieres and seven Irish premieres, the IFI Stranger than Fiction programme for 2014 includes a new film from Kim Longinotto, a profile of notorious Irish-American crime boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, a profile of the late, great film critic Roger Ebert and the world premiere of ‘Showrunners’ which reveals the writer/producer masterminds behind quality U.S television. There will be a host of Q+As with Irish and international guest directors and a series of industry special events presented in partnership with the Irish Film Board.

Ross Whitaker, Festival Programmer announced the programme today, saying "I'm excited to be presenting what I feel is one of the strongest line-ups we've ever had for IFI Stranger Than Fiction and to welcome prestigious guests like Kim Longinotto and Andre Singer to Dublin, as well as wonderful emerging talent Amir Amirani, whose brilliant We Are Many will open the festival.

“The Irish line-up is incredibly strong too and we're delighted to be premiering the new Christina Noble documentary ‘In a House That Ceased to Be’ and the new film on US TV writer/producers, ‘Showrunners’. Every film is a world, Irish or Dublin premiere and I'm sure audiences are really going to connect with the programme."

This year’s opening film, ‘We Are Many’, examines the massive anti-Iraq-War marches of February 2003, the biggest ever global protest mobilisation. Director Amir Amirani will take part in a live post-screening Q+A .

Activism is a key theme of this year’s festival. The world premiere of ‘In a House that Ceased to Be’ will introduce an intimate, emotional and startlingly frank portrait of Dublin-born children’s rights campaigner Christina Noble. Director Ciarín Scott will take part in a post-screening Q&A. An award winner at the Galway Film Fleadh, Sinead O’Brien’s ‘Blood Fruit’ celebrates the 11 Dunnes Stores workers who refused to handle fruit from Apartheid South Africa in a strike that went on for 2.5 years.

Other Irish documentaries in the festival include ‘It Came from Connemara’ and ‘Showrunners’. ‘It Came from Connemara’, followed by a Q&A with director Brian Reddin, tells the story of B-movie icon Roger Corman’s five years of making films in Connemara in the mid-1990s. The quality television revolution of the past 20 years comes into focus with the Festival’s closing film, the world premiere of ‘Showrunners’. Irish director Des Doyle, who will take part in a live post-show Q+A, brings the role of the television showrunner to the fore, talking to the masterminds behind ‘Lost’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘The Big Bang Theory’, ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘The Good Wife’.

International documentaries that will be screened include ‘Ai Weiwei – The Fake Case’, at which director Andreas Johnsen will take part in a post-screening Q&A, ‘Concerning Violence’, voiced by Lauryn Hill, and ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. The horrors of WWII and the Nazi genocide are laid bare in ‘Night Will Fall’, and renowned documentary director Kim Longinotto with take part in a live Q+A after her new film ‘Love is All’. ‘Life Itself’, an affectionate love letter to the late, great American cinema critic Roger Ebert, will also be screened as will ‘Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger’, based on the notorious Irish-American criminal.

In addition to the feature programme, there’s a wealth of talented actuality filmmakers in the two short film selections. ‘Reality Bites Documentary Shorts’ is the world premiere of this year’s crop from the Reality Bites scheme from the IFB. The Documentary Shorts selection is programmed in association with Eat My Shorts and features both Irish and international short films. A Jury Award will be presented for Best Short and Audience Awards for Best Feature and Short.

The Festival, in partnership with the IFB, will also be presenting a selection of special industry events that foster talent, create international connections and bring filmmakers and audiences closer together. Two stand-alone workshops are available: How to Make a Winning Documentary Short and Getting Places in Feature Documentary, and there’s also a Documentary Industry Day that will include seminars, masterclasses including one with multi award-winning documentarian Kim Longinotto, and panels for documentary producers and directors.

Tickets are on sale now from the IFI Box Office in person, on 01 679 3477 or online at www.ifi.ie/stf.





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