At the Irish Film Institute Awards this week, Minister O'Donoghue announced details of 'Green Screen', the Irish Film Institute's and Irish Film Board's joint contribution to the six-month cultural programme which celebrates Ireland's EU presidency.
The IFI and the IFB will showcase a number of recent Irish Films in a tour of some of the ten new Member States, who will be acceding to the EU on May 1, 2004. The tour will take place from late March to early May when the Irish films will be screened during two-day events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Malta, Latvia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland and Cyprus. The programme will comprise: three features; documentaries and short films and will be showcased in the Europa cinema in the capital of each country.
The touring programme will include Kirsten Sheridan’s 'Disco Pigs', Liz Gill’s 'Goldfish Memory', and Aisling Walsh’s 'Song for a Raggy Boy'. The documentaries 'If I Should Fall From Grace' and 'Oilean Thorai' will also be included as part of the touring programme. There will be award-winning short films playing in front of all the features. Additions to the programme include Pat Murphy’s 'Nora', which will be screening in Prague and Robert Quinn’s 'Dead Bodies' which will be playing in Latvia.
Further details are available from the Irish Film Board and the Irish Film Institute.
