ALIBI - World Premiere at Cork Film Festival

In a small Irish town a girl is brutally murdered. When questioned by police, Paddy gives his workmate John a cover story. Twenty years later John is charged with murder and Paddy's lie is now an alibi.

Cork Film Festival Premiere Screening of 'Alibi', a new short documentary.

Directed & Produced by Darren Bolger/Caroline Campbell.

Produced by Still Films as part of the Irish Film Board's 'Reality Bites' series.

Date: Saturday, 07 November 2009

Time: 17:00

Location: Cork Opera House, Cork City

More info and tickets here:

http://www.corkfilmfest.org/2009/films/218/alibi

SEAVIEW DVD RELEASE

SEAVIEW is now available on DVD through our distributor Indiepix. The film which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year, and was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award, tells the story of asylum seekers living in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, an hour north of Dublin.

You can order copies on DVD or to download through the Indiepix site here.

RTE Young People's series re-commissioned

Still Films has been commissioned by Irish state broadcaster RTE to produce a second series of Young People's series Sweded TV, for broadcast in September 09.  The series of 10 short comic films is made with groups of teenagers following a nationwide call for entries.  Last year's series was selected to represent Ireland at INPUT, the prestigious conference for innovative public television from around the world.  Watch the last series at www.rte.ie/swededtv.

Pyjama Girls

We're delighted to announce that our next feature doc 'Pyjama Girls' has been given the green light and is going into production in collaboration with the Irish Film Board. The film observes the lives of a group of teenage girls living in Dublin's inner city, who spend all their time in their pyjamas. Check our Feature Films section for more info and images.

SEAVIEW at Thessaloniki

We're very pleased to announce that Seaview will be playing next week at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

Click here for info:

Screenings are as follows:

PAVLOS ZANNAS:

Friday, March 13, 2009 - 13:00

OLYMPION:

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 13:00

Istvan Laszlo "Untitled (Revolution 89)" at Wilkinson Gallery London

Istvan Laszlo's new animation Untitled (Revolution 89) will be showing at the Wilkinson Gallery in London as part of a group show of Romanian artists from the Plan B art space in Cluj. 

www.wilkinsongallery.com

Untitled (Revolution 89) 

The video work is based on an anonymous photograph that was taken in December 1989 during the Romanian revolution against the Communist regime in Bucharest.  By reconstructing this historical image well stocked in our collective consciousness, the filmmaker is analyzing the way that a fabricated image can reconfigure our relationship to historical truth. 

Directed by Istvan Laszlo

Produced by Nicky Gogan

Track Changes at Wilkinson Gallery

28 February - 9 April 2009

Project Space

Wilkinson is pleased to announce a project space exhibition by Romanian artist-run space 'Plan B'. The exhibition brings together recent works by the three members of the group SUPERNOVA, active in Cluj between 2001-2004. SUPERNOVA's presence on the Romanian art scene contributed to a significant shift in tone and artistic attitude, away from the melancholy look of the post-Wall generation, repeatedly defining the East as non-West, as absence or lack, and the West as surplus, and puzzling over this in-built incompatibility. Alongside other new voices, Ciprian Muresan, Cristi Pogacean, and Istvan Laszlo engage the recent past of Eastern Europe as an occasion to extricate the very notion of history from ideological falsification, to bind it up with personal experience, conceptual accident and the history of art. In their collective and individual projects, history appears as a network of conflicting timelines, while the ways in which globalization and post-communism endlessly complicate each other are observed from a perspective immune to the utopias of revolution or liberalism.

Ciprian Muresan's video 'Choose...', part of a significant body of work dealing with the father-son relationship, sees Vlad Muresan mixing Pepsi and Coca-Cola in a glass. The child's prank rings, in the context of Muresan's practice, pre-apocalyptic: a glimpse of the moment when carefully marketed differences merge in the same viscous paste, a rehearsal for the collapse of identities. Another work by Muresan is situated in a dreamlike interval between wars, as an extended recollection of the previous one and a monotonous preparation for the next. For one excruciating hour, soldiers peel potatoes, silently yet stubbornly interrogating geopolitical strategies, ideological unrest and the clashes of civilizations.

Istvan Laszlo and Cristi Pogacean engage history the way monuments do, proceeding by extreme, effective simplification. Pogacean's 'Modernist Bird House', collapsing Mies van der Rohe and St. Francis of Assisi and pairing the Modernist effort to regulate life with its systematic irrationality, or Laszlo's manipulation of a propaganda image, showing the political leader drowsing off into irrelevance - these works isolate and modify bits of history in what feels like a simulator for alternative flows of time.

In Pogacean's 'Caranime', Caravaggio's 'Doubting Thomas' becomes a lesson of anatomy, as the repeated gesture of incredulity and physical testing disrupts the event, introducing a deferral in the revelation of Truth and its acceptance. In another work, Istvan reflects on the fact that 'the first revolution broadcast live on television' did not lead to a 'film', to a director's cut, but to a profusion of making-of features and DVD bonuses, divested of denouement or resolution.

Plan B is an artist-run space set up in Cluj, Romania in 2005 which focuses on Romanian art of the past 50 years. In 2007 Plan B organized the Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale with Victor Man as curator and Cristi Pogacean among the artists exhibited, and have recently set up a second space in Berlin, Germany.

Wilkinson

50-58 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ

SEAVIEW - GERMAN CINEMA TOUR

Seaview is starting it's German cinema release this week at the FSK Kino in Berlin. The film is now being distributed by the Arsenal in Germany. Directors Nicky and Paul will be at the screening on the 7th, and then at all dates on the tour starting February 16th. Just click on the back of the postcard above for the tour dates. If you have friends in Germany who might be interested in the film please do pass the information along. Thanks!

SEAVIEW nominated for an IFTA

After its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and a very successful tour of the festival circuit, ‘Seaview’ has now been nominated in the Best Documentary category of this year's IFTAs (Irish Film and Television Awards).

more here

Seaview German cinema tour. February 2009.

"Seaview' is now being distributed in Germany by the Arsenal. 

The film opens at the FSK-Kino in Berlin on January 29th and will then tour Germany in late February. The directors will be on hand to intro the film on the tour. 

More info here (in German)

Full tour dates to follow.

Film Ireland

The January/February issue of Film Ireland magazine, guest edited by Still Films directors Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley with Darklight programme director Derek O'Connor is now available for sale in shops and from Film Base in Temple Bar.

You can find extracts from the articles here

SEAVIEW in HELSINKI

Seaview has been selected for the Lens Politica Film festival in Helsinki.

Sunday 23.11. / Dubrovnik / 14:00

More info here.

SEAVIEW at the Foyle Film Festival

Seaview's next Irish screening is at the Foyle Film Festival.

FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 7:00pm ORCHARD CINEMA

More info here:

LEEDS FILM FESTIVAL

SEAVIEW just screened at the Leeds Film Festival. And the programmers wrote this great synopsis for the film.

Mesmerising, cinematic and with an awesome sense of atmosphere, Seaview takes us on an almost Lynchian tour of a former Butlins holiday camp, now the 'home' for hundreds of refugees awaiting replies to appeals for asylum, some for 5 years. A superb human rights documentary which puts us inside the security patrolled grounds of this surreal world of waiting so that just for 82 minutes we might get some idea of the daily existence of thousands who live imprisoned in order to hopefully be free.

Seaview at Sheffield - Irish Film Board newsletter

Link to Irish Film Board newsletter on Seaview at Sheffield here.

Seaview plays at Sheffield Doc/fest at 21.00 on November 6th and 13.45 on November 7th.

Tickets and more info here.

SÃO PAULO FILM FESTIVAL DATES ANNOUNCED

Dates for Seaview screenings in São Paulo are as follows:

	10/17 - Friday 16:00	Centro Cultural São Paulo
	10/19 - Sunday 18:20	Espaço Unibanco Pompéia 10
	10/20 - Monday 19:30	Cinemark - Shopping Eldorado
	10/25 - Saturday 16:00	Unibanco Arteplex 1

SCREENING TIMES ANNOUNCED FOR RIO DE JANEIRO FESTIVAL

Limites e Fronteiras

VISTA PARA O MAR

(Seaview)

Irlanda, 2008. 82min.

DOM (5/10) 18:00 Est Vivo Gávea 4 [GV448]

SEX (3/10) 12:00 Espaço de Cinema 3 [EC349]

SEX (3/10) 20:15 Espaço de Cinema 3 [EC353]

QUA (8/10) 22:00 Est Barra Point 1  [BP165]

SEAVIEW - UPCOMING FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

SEAVIEW is heading next to the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival where it will have its South American Premiere (29th Sept - 9th Oct). Then the film jumps over to the São Paulo Film Festival (17th - 30th Oct).  

We're thrilled to having our UK premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest (5th - 9th Nov).  Leeds International Film Festival (4th - 16th Nov) follows that. 

Also in October SEAVIEW will be playing at the Beauvais Film Festival in France (Oct 17th - 22nd) and also at the Kaunas International Film Festival in Lithuania (Oct 10th - 19th).

Upcoming Festivals

'Seaview' plays next at Dokufest in Kosovo in the first week of
August. Info on screenings is available here: http://www.dokufest.com/
Next up then is the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Sheffield Dok/Fest
(which will be the UK premiere) and Leeds. More info on all those
screenings soon.

SEAVIEW plays this Sunday at the IFI

Hope all is good,

For those of you who haven't had a chance to see 'Seaview' on the big screen yet, it'll be shown this Sunday at the IFI. 

Details below. Please pass the info on to anyone you think might be interested.

Thanks!

 

 

 

SEAVIEW AT THE IFI THIS SUNDAY

 

 

'IRELAND ON SUNDAY' SERIES AT THE IFI CONTINUES WITH 'SEAVIEW', A LOOK INSIDE MOSNEY, FORMERLY BUTLINS, NOW AN IMMIGRATION HOLDING CENTRE ON SUNDAY 20th^TH JULY 2008 AT 1PM

 

Over a three year period, filmmakers Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley and sound artist Dennis MacNulty visited Mosney, formerly a Butlin's Holiday Camp. The film chronicles the static lives of the centre's occupants as they wait, in some cases for years, for the government to process their claims.  Disembodied voices tell grueling tales of persecution and exile over images of the camp's faded seaside glamour.

 

Selected for this year's Berlin Film Festival Forum and garnering great critical acclaim since, this Ireland on Sunday screening offers Dublin audiences a chance to see this highly innovative new work. Sunniva O'Flynn announcing the screening said 'Seaview, seen here for the first time outside the festival circuit, is a fine example of the kind of work which will feature in Ireland on Sunday. The film gives voice to the disenfranchised and is a fascinating example of how changes in Irish society are being explored and processed by film-making artists.'

 

Ireland on Sunday is a new strand of programming at the IFI which offers audiences and film-makers an opportunity to engage with new Irish work. Film artists Nicky Gogan and Dennis MacNulty will join the audience for a post-screening Q & A.

 

Seaview - Part of the IFI Ireland on Sunday Series

Sunday 20th July 1pm,

At the Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, Dublin

Tickets from IFI box office: Tel: +353 1 6793477 or book online at www.irishfilm.ie

Bahroz Wakashi on Newstalk

Bahroz Wakashi from Mosney who features in 'Seaview' will be speaking on NEWSTALK 106-108 FM this Monday July 14th at noon. Bahroz will be talking first hand about the asylum process in Ireland.

Galway Fleadh Screening

Seaview screens at the Galway Film Fleadh on Thursday July 10th in the Omni cinema 7 at 17.30.

Nicky will be there for the screening for questions after the film.

Hope to see you there!

More info on the Fleadh site here

SILVERDOCS

Thanks to everyone who can to the film this week at SILVERDOCS. We had two great screenings and Q&A sessions and got to see lots of other amazing films. Thanks to all at SILVERDOCS for a great festival. Next screening of SEAVIEW will be at the Galway Film Fleadh in July.

SEAVIEW at SILVERDOCS

We're delighted to announce that 'Seaview' will have its US premiere at Silverdocs next month.

Screening times are as follows: Click the links below for tickets.

• Wednesday, June 18, 12:15 p.m.
• Friday, June 20, 04:00 p.m.

http://www.silverdocs.com/festival/films/2008/seaview/

SEAVIEW - NEXT SCREENINGS

SEAVIEW continues it's Festival tour with two new dates in May.

On May 14th at 6pm SEAVIEW plays in Belfast at the Waterfront
theatre as part of 2:move, an art exhibition about migration.
It's a free screening.
More info : http://www.belfastexposed.org/exhibitions/index.php?

show=current

And on Sunday May 18th the film plays at the Guth Gafa Documentary
festival in Donegal.
http://www.guthgafa.com

Director Nicky Gogan will be at both screenings.

SEAVIEW AT HOT DOCS

Nicky and Paul interviewed at Hot Docs in Toronto.

SEAVIEW - NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

SEAVIEW has been selected for Hot Docs in Toronto. 

This will be the North American Premiere of the film. 

Dates and cinemas for the film are as follows:

9:30 PM     Mon, Apr 21 at the Royal

2:00 PM. Thu, Apr 24 at the Isabel Bader

To view the complete Festival line up, film descriptions and screening times, visit www.hotdocs.ca.

SEAVIEW review in The Wall Street Journal

The Berlin Film Festival's Forum section specializes in avant-garde films and works by new directors....Another powerful documentary is from Ireland, "Seaview," co-directed by Paul Rowley, an installation artist, and Nicky Gogan. Set in a former holiday camp near Dublin, the film chronicles the static lives of the camp's present occupants: asylum seekers from around the world, waiting - in some cases, for years - for the Irish government to process their claims. With an artist's eye, and with the help of an eerie electronic soundtrack, the filmmakers are able to combine the abstract quality of a video installation with the urgent stories of the people they interview.

WEEKEND JOURNAL FEBRUARY 15th 2008
J.S. Marcus

SEAVIEW SCREENING DATES AT BERLIN & REVIEWS

Seaview will have it's world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in
February.
Full information is available now at www.berlinale.de

And the dates and places for Seaview are as follows:

12.02.08 14:15 CinemaxX5 (press screening)
13.02.08 21:30 CineStar 8
14.02.08 15:00 Arsenal
15.02.08 15:15 Cubix 7
17.02.08 21:30 Delphi-Filmpalast

Also here are links to some recent reviews of the film:

FORUM PRESS RELEASE:
http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_4087.html

ON THE CHANCER
http://www.thechancer.ie/category/seaview/

IN VARIETY
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=features2007&content=jump&jump=story&dept=berlin&nav=Nberlin&articleid=VR1117979215

ON IFTN
http://www.iftn.ie/?act1=record&aid=73&rid=4280963&sr=1&only=1&hl=gogan&tpl=archnews

See you in Berlin!

Seaview Screening Dates announced for Berlin

Seaview will have it's world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in
February.
Full information will be available shortly at www.berlinale.de

And the dates and places for Seaview are as follows:

12.02.08 14:15 CinemaxX5 (press screening)
13.02.08 21:30 CineStar 8
14.02.08 15:00 Arsenal
15.02.08 15:15 Cubix 7
17.02.08 21:30 Delphi-Filmpalast

Nicky Selected for EAVE 2008

Great news for Still Films. Nicky Gogan has been announced as one of the participants in the 2008 cycle of EAVE.

Here's the info from their site:


THE SELECTION FOR 2008:

Out of a record number of applications coming from 30 countries, we are pleased to announce the participants for the EAVE 2008 training programme.

54 producers from 28 European countries have finally been selected for the EAVE 2008 workshops! Out of the selected producers, 33 are bringing a project with them (28 feature films and 5 documentaries).


The 2008 cycle will start off in Luxembourg (L) from March 7-14 with workshop 1 (partner: Film Fund Luxembourg). Workshop 2 will take place in Drogheda (IRL) from June 15-23, in partnership with FAS/Screen Training Ireland and the Louth, Newry & Mourne Film Commission, and the 3rd and final workshop will be organised in Warsaw (PL) from November 17-24 (tbc) with support of the Polish Filmmakers’ Association.


Find below the complete list of 2008 participants:

AUSTRIA
- Oliver Neumann (FreibeuterFilm)

BELGIUM
- Ellen de Waele (Serendipity Films)
- Frédéric Chanteux (Newart Productions)

Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Amra Baksic Camo (SCCA)

Canada
- Félize Frappier (Max Films International)

Czech Republic
- Martin Posta (Fresh Films)

CROATIA
- Irena Markovic (Focus Media)

DENMARK
- Jesper Jack Jorgensen (Cosmo Doc)
- Ole Tornbjerg (Koncern TV)
- Helle Ulsteen Jensen (Kamoli Films)
- Christian Husum (Phoenix Film Investments)

ESTONIA
- Margus Õunapuu (Film Tower Kuubis)

FINLAND
- Annika Sucksdorff (Helsinki-filmi)
- Mikko Tenhunen (MRP Matila Rohr Productions)

FRANCE
- Alexandre Charlet (Les Films du Cygne)

GERMANY
- Guido Schwab (Ostlicht Filmproduktion)
- Sabine Holtgreve (Wüstefilm OST)
- Dirk Deckert (Riva Filmproduktion)
- Melanie Andernach (Made in Germany)

HUNGARY
- Gergely Fodor (Budapest Film Productions)
- Ferenc Pusztai (Print KMH)

IRELAND
- Nicky Gogan (Still Films)
- Morgan Bushe (Fastnet Films)
- Catherine O’Flaherty (Igloo Productions)

ITALY
- Nicole Mosleh (Limago Filmproduktion)
- Matteo Morozzo (Roma Film)

KOSOVA
- Nehat Fejza (Concordia Pictures)

LATVIA
- Marta Bite (Ego Media)

LUXEMBOURG
- Romain Roll
- Marc Warken (Film Fund Luxembourg)

MACEDONIA
- Labina Mitevska (Sisters and Brother Mitevski)

NETHERLANDS
- Femke Wolting (Submarine)
- Celine Baggen (IDTV Film)

NORWAY
- Guro Saniola Bjerk (Saniola Productions)

POLAND
- Katarzyna Slesicka (Andrzej Wajda School)
- Piotr Mularuk (Yeti Films Ltd.)
- Monika Kaczmarek (Zebra Film Studio)
- Maciej Stanecki (TVP)

ROMANIA
- Tudor Giurgiu (Libra Film)
- Marcela Ursu (SC Periscop Pictures)

SERBIA
- Uliks Fehmiu (West End Production)

SLOVENIA
- Jozko Rutar (Staragara)

SPAIN
- Fernanda del Nido (Tic Tac Productions)
- Sergio Garcia de Leaniz Herzog (Pluto Entertainment)

SWEDEN
- Sandra Harms (Breidablick Film)
- Anna Byvald (Silverosa Film)
- Lizette Jonjic (Migma Films)
- Anna Katchko (Maywin Media)

SWITZERLAND
- Tami Berkovits (Dschoint Ventschr)
- Saskia Vischer

UK
- Fiona Campbell (Global Chicken Inc)
- Gethin Scourfield (Gododdin)
- Erinma Ochu
- Chris Taylor (Superkrush Films)

Seaview to play at the Berlin Film Festival

We're delighted to pass on the good news that 'Seaview', our documentary about asylum seekers living in Mosney, has been invite to the Berlin Film Festival and will take part in the Forum section in February 2008. We'll post dates and screening times as soon as we have them.

SEAVIEW - PROMO

Documentary about asylum seekers living in the former Butlin's holiday camp in Mosney

Name change!

For various reasons, we're changing the name of our Mosney documentary from "Mosney" to "Seaview".
So all future screeings of the film will be with that title.

MOSNEY screening September 14th - Dublin

Mosney will be screening at the Stranger than Fiction Documentary Festival at the Irish Film Institure in Dublin, at 5pm Friday September 14th. Info on how to get tickets is available here.

IFP MARKET SCREENINGS

For those of you attending the IFP this month in New York, there are two chances to get to see Mosney on the big screen.

First Screening
Monday Sept 17th, 3:45PM, Theater 4

Second Screening
Wednesday Sept 19th, 10AM, Theater 2

Both screenings are at the Angelika Cinema on Houston one block west of Broadway.
Screenings are open to industry people attending the market.

Green for go

Thanks to Niall&Nigel at PONY for all the dynamite graphic design for MOSNEY.
Here's the first stack of DVDs ready to go out. The film is finally getting itself off the hard drive and hitting the outside world.

We have a screening at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin on September 14th and then we're at the IFP market in New York the following week. In the meantime you can see all of the lads beautiful design work on their site here.

MOSNEY TRAILER

Click To Play

The trailer for our new documentary. "Mosney" was shot over three years in a former Butlin's Holiday Camp, an hour north of Dublin. In 2000 the camp was shut down as a holiday centre, and turned into a long term holding centre for asylum seekers.

The film will begin screening in September.
For more info go to the Still Films website.