Identities wins Best Documentary at the Gaze Film Festival

Identities a feature length docudrama i worked on last Spring has won Best Documentary at the Gaze Film Festival.

"One of the very few Irish films to engage with trans life and culture, Identities is a visually superb and immensely creative film. Exploring the culturally diverse background of the Irish trans community, revealing insightful and intimate stories relating to transvestism, transsexualism, drag, sexual identity and gender dysphoria in many innovative cinematic ways.
Using interviews and observational film techniques, the film breaks out into some wonderfully abstract performances by its characters in fantastical scenarios, giving rich visual expression to their stories. It is a film that heartily celebrates the overthrowing of traditional misconceptions and common stereotypes" Gaze Website

Following a successful screening in L.A, Identities will be screening at this years Festival Internacional de cine lesbico gay y transsexual de Madrid (Les Gai Cine Madrid) on November 6th at 6pm.

Screenings in Ireland are as follows:

Fri 09 Oct 20:00 Identities Midnight Court Film Society
Mon 16 Nov 20:00 Identities Clondalkin InterCulture Film Club
Tue 24 Nov 20:00 Identities The Picture House
Wed 25 Nov 20:00 Identities Cloughjordan Cine Club
Thu 03 Dec 20:00 Identities Man of Aran Cinema

See you there.

Anton gets its Irish release 10th October

Filmed December 2006-July 2007, Anton was the first feature film i designed. I had previously designed a short for Graham Cantwell the previous summer(The Coalboat Kids &the Pickaronnie). Graham asked me to come on board along with Anita Delaney for his ambitious project. Funded privately and produced by Foxgloove Films and i4i Productions, Anton stars Gerald McSorley, Antony Fox and Laura Way. Following screenings at the Marche du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, the Galway Film Fleadh, the Boston Irish Film Festival, the Foyle Film Festival and the American Film Market, the film was picked up by Eastwest Distribution.

It is due for a three week release from October 10th in the Screen Cinema Dublin, Movies @ Dundrum, Movies @ Swords, IMC Dundalk, Storm Cinemas Cavan, Storm Cinema Belfast, Bundoran Multiplex Donegal, Lifford Eclipse Cinema Donegal, The Gaiety Cinema Sligo, The Gaiety Cinema Arklow, The Gate Cinema Cork and Carrick Multiplex Carrick on Shannon.