descendants
with live music le ceol beo
friday 19thmarch - DE hAOINE 19ú MARTA
the phoenix cinema 8.30pm - admission €10
DIRECTOR - Otto Schlindwein
40mins/2009/Ireland/DVD
This event includes live performance by Éilis Ni Chinneide and Rosie Stewart
A poetic documentary featuring wholly raw solo performances of unaccompanied song recorded throughout Ireland.
The film explores a tradition that continues to have a handle on both
past and present as performances give pause amid a journey through
ambient imagery of the everyday - unexpected and atmospheric.
Part love song, part adventure; the interaction between the tradition
and the contemporary cultural landscape it inhabits is acutely observed
in a hypnotic series of song and image.
+ Dún Chaoin
A short 'Dún Chaoin' will
be screened along with the 'Descendants' in The phoenix on Friday night
at 8.30pm. The short is a B&W film on artist Maria Simonds-Gooding
and is narrated by actor Dominic West(The Wire).
Directed by Lanka Haouche Perren
7mins duration
a prophet
friday 19th march - DE hAOINE 19ú MARTA
cinemobile 8pm- admission €10
DIRECTOR/WRITER - Jacques Audiard
149mins/2009/35mm/Italy-France
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From
the acclaimed director of The Beat That My Heart Skipped Jacques
Audiard brings us the winner of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Grand
Prix and France’s official selection for the 2010 Academy Awards.
Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor
write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more
fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the
leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number
of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang
leader’s confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast
learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans…
‘A Prophet is an astonishingly detailed crime drama that could end up
being this year's Gomorra, although it's arguably more accessible.’
Empire Magazine
FREE family feature
gné-alt clainne saor in aisce
ponyo
friday 19thmarch - DE hAOINE 19ú MARTA
the phoenix cinema -6pm - FREE - Please Note -Booking Essential
DIRECTOR/WRITER/EDITOR - Hayao Miyazaki
101mins/2009/35mm/Japan
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Presented by Dingle Business Chamber
Curtha i láthair ag Cumann Gnó an Daingin
For booking info contact Gráinne: info@dinglebusinesschamber.ie
Limited to 5 persons per booking. Festival Pass holders will also have to book.
From the Academy Award winning director and world-renowned
Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki comes ‘Ponyo,’ a
story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale ‘The Little
Mermaid.’
The son of a sailor, 5 year old Sosuke, lives a quiet life on an
oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a
beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing
her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish. The daughter of
a masterful wizard and a sea goddess, Ponyo
uses her father's magic to transform herself into a young girl and
quickly falls in love with Sosuke, but the use of such powerful
sorcery causes a dangerous imbalance in the world. As the moon
steadily draws nearer to the earth and Ponyo's father sends the
ocean's mighty waves to find his daughter, the two children
embark on an adventure of a lifetime to save the world and
fulfill Ponyo's dreams of becoming human.
Mugabe and the White African
friday 19th march - DE hAOINE 19ú MARTA
cinemobile 4pm - admission €10
Director: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson
Starring: Michael Campbell
Running time 90 min
UK/Colour/2009/Digibeta
“I’m still the Hitler of the times. This Hitler has only one objective;
justice for his people, sovereignty for his people. If that is Hitler,
right... then let me be a Hitler ten fold.” Robert Mugabe
Michael Campbell is one of the few hundred white farmers left in
Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent 'Land Reform'
program in 2000. Since then the country has descended into chaos.
In 2008 Mike took the unprecedented step of challenging President
Robert Mugabe in an International Court; accusing Robert Mugabe and his
government of racial discrimination and violations of basic human
rights. What follows is an intimate, moving and often terrifying
account of one man and his family’s extraordinary courage in the face
of overwhelming injustice and brutality.
Set against the tumultuous 2008 Presidential elections Mugabe and the
White African follows Mike and son-in-law Ben Freeth's harrowing
attempt to save their farm and with it the homes and livelihoods of 500
black workers and their families. Filmed over 12 months, a gripping
courtroom drama unfolds whilst all the time Mike, his family and the
farm workers face the all too real threats of Mugabe's wrath on the
farm. After months of frightening threats and a horrific attack the
Court’s judges finally rule unanimously in Mike’s and Ben’s favour.
They return to the farm. But will Mugabe and his henchmen abide the
Courts decision?
Much of this film was shot covertly. To have been caught filming would have meant imprisonment .
“Splendidly
and often lyrically shot, with a marvelously sympathetic,
dread-inducing score by Jonny Pilcher, this is one of the most powerful
documentaries I have ever seen.”
Excellent *****
Daily Mail
Winner – Best Documentary – BIFFA 2009
+ short dear mathew
In January 1999 Matthew O'Reilly left his parents home in
Barnstaple, Devon and has not been seen since. All that
remains of him are his paintings which his Father, Tim curates.
friday 19th march
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/EDITOR - Keith O'Shea
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - Krishan Hukam
15mins/Ireland/Colour/2009/Digibeta
easy DCP software workshop with heiko sparenberg
friday 19th march - DE hAOINE 19ú MARTA
the phoenix cinema 4pm - admission €10
Heiko Sparenberg, born in 1977, received his Diploma degree (MS)in Computer Science from the University of Hagen, Germany, in 2006. He started his professional career as an engineer at the Fraunhofer Institute IIS in Erlangen. Since 2006 he is project manager for post production software in the field of Digital Cinema especially for Fraunhofer easy DCP software products. His main activities are post production software development, data compression algorithms (JPEG2000) and stereoscopic applications.
houston we have a problem
friday 19th march - DE hAOINE 19ú MARTA
the phoenix cinema 2pm - admission €10
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER - Nicole Torre
PRODUCER - Eric Mofford
85mins/USA/Colour/2009/Digibeta
Film will be presented by its producer Eric Mofford Houston
We Have a Problem steps inside the energy capital of the world to see
the hard truths about oil, from the Texas oilmen themselves. For
decades American presidents have cried the woes of our nation’s
addiction to foreign oil. Hollow campaign promises project a future
that can be independent and sustainable. Yet the truth is, the energy
policy of the USA has only been a strategy of defense, not offense.We
are fighting a cold war on energy, and both Wall Street and Main Street
have no idea what to do. We will see a new form of Wildcatting in
alternatives, and learn how many oilmen believe that being shackled to
cheap oil is only destroying our empire. Many old timers realize that
the oil industry must change, advising that will take everything to
meet America’s future energy needs.
‘A Masterpiece’ David Clifton, President, Rational Broadcasting
Crude
friday 19thmarch - DE hAOINE 19ú MARTA
cinemobile 6pm - admission €10
DIRECTOR - Joe Berlinger
PRODUCERS - Damani Baker, Alex Vlack, Jon Fine
105mins/USA/2009/Digibeta/Colour
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Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed film maker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media,multi-national corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Some of the film’s subjects sparked further controversy as they won a CNN “Hero” Award and the Goldman Award, the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
‘Thorough and impassioned…intelligently and artfully made.’
The New York Times
‘A power house of a documentary! This one means to shake you. And in Berlinger’s hands, it does.’
RollingStones
Final Cut Studio - RED workflow seminar with Chris Gray
Friday 19th - 11.15am
Phoenix Cinema - €10
Apple will be presenting Final Cut Studio - RED workflow seminar. This two-hour seminar will guide you through the basic workflow of using RED footage with Final Cut Studio. Footage will be taken into Final Cut Pro, passed through to Color and back to Final Cut Pro again as advantages of Pro Res and RED raw footage are discussed. The presenter will be on-hand with a Euphonix MC Color Control to show the advantages of working on Color with this control surface.
