Subotica’s highly anticipated dramatic feature ‘Unless’ has finished posting at Windmill Lane Pictures and is set for a special preview IFTA Screening on June 7th at the Light House Cinema followed by a Q&A with director Alan Gilsenan.
‘Unless’ is a Canadian/Irish co-production – produced by Tristan Orpen Lynch and Aoife O’Sullivan of Subotica and Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny of Sienna Films. Financing comes from the Irish Film Board, Telefilm Canada, the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), Mongrel Media, Premiere Fund and Windmill Lane Pictures, with development funding by Super Channel.
‘Unless’ shot in Toronto, Canada in Spring 2015 with five-time IFTA-winning editor Emer Reynolds (‘Timbuktu’, ‘Shameless’, ‘My Brothers’, ‘Here Was Cuba’, ‘One Million Dubliners’) cutting the film.
Speaking to IFTN about the special preview screening, Aoife O’Sullivan of Subotica Films said: “We're delighted to have this exclusive screening of our film ‘Unless’ with IFTA - and in the company of our very talented writer/director Alan Gilsenan and editor Emer Reynolds. We shot the film in Toronto in the depths of winter and brought it back to Windmill Lane Pictures in Dublin for post-production - who did an amazing job on making it look the best it could be. It was a long and arduous journey but the film has emerged as a beautiful and immersive experience.”
Based on the award-winning and final novel from Canadian author Carol Shields, the film stars Oscar nominated actress Catherine Keener (‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘Capote’) in the lead role as a writer and translator whose life is rocked when her eldest daughter drops out of college and is found on a Toronto street corner, pan-handling and refusing to speak. The film also stars Matt Craven, Hannah Gross, Chloe Rose, Abigail Winter, Martha Henry and Hanna Schygulla.
In addition to directing, Alan Gilsenan also adapted the book for the screen. Past credits of Gilsenan’s include ‘Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay’, ‘The Yellow Bittern’ and ‘Timbuktu’ – with the director garnering IFTA nominations for the latter two films.
For more information on the screening and to RSVP, go to http://www.ifta.ie/events/dts/unless2016.php.
