This Weekend! showcase Capital Irish Film Festival

This Weekend! Darklight Film Festival & STILL FILMS showcase Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington DC. Screening times and ticket information via Irishfilmdc.org below!

Darklight Heroes: DC Edition

Friday, December 10th at 7.00 p.m.

Goethe Institut, 812 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Darklight heroes is when some of the festival alumni and contributors from past editions get together to think of the artists who inspire them most from any field and invite them to curate a session in the festival.

who is the DC hero?

Berlin-based animator David O'Reilly

and his selection?

David has declared his film line up top secret and has forbidden us from releasing the details but we can tell you that he has named his selection MIXTAPE OF DOOM - a collection of logic bending neuro-masochistic short films from the past, present and future. early animation, modern rarities, lost television shows and other slices of meat from the media's most surreal and succulent tenderloins. sounds tasty!

Darklight: State of The Nation

Friday, Decembe 10th at 9.00 p.m.

Goethe Institut, 812 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Darklight Festival Director Nicky Gogan has hand picked a collection of films that she thinks reflects Ireland's current social climate as well as the state of independent Irish film-making today. In an interactive session that will include input from fellow producer and director, Paul Rowley, as well as a live video link up with Irish guerrilla musician (and director of  Nun's Fight Club), Declan De Barra, Nicky will lead us through her perspective on Irish cinema.

what's the line up?

Fall directed by Paddy Jolly

Columbarium directed by Tony Kenny

Let Me Be Frank directed by Niamh Murphy

Rocky Road to Dublin directed by Damien O'Donnell

Old Fangs directed by Adrien Merigeau

Lady On The Rock directed by Jessie Ward

Gravity Loop directed by Paul Rowley & David Phillips

Musicvideo directed by Tu Me Tues

Take 'Em Up directed by Eoghan Kidney

Untitled Revolution directed by Istvan Laszlo

Nuns Fight Club directed by Declan De Barra

Excerpt from One Hundred Mornings directed by Conor Horgan

Excerpt from His&Hers directed by Ken Wardrop

Divestment directed by Paul Rowley & Nicky Gogan

Rialto Twirlers directed by Annmaree Barry

 Pyjama Girls 

Saturday, December 11 at 4.00 pm

Goethe Institut, 812 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Includes Q&A with Director Maya Derrington 

Pyjama Girls presents the chaotic friendship of teenagers Lauren and Tara as they navigate the trials of life, dressed all the while in their uniform of rebellion: pyjamas. Lauren's future hangs in the balance as she takes part in street violence with rival teen gangs and faces expulsion from school. balancing tenderness with hilarity, the film reveals the challenges that life throws her - from her addict mother to the disruptive world of the flats - and uncovers the crucial importance of her friendship with Tara

For more info and to buy your tickets, go here...

http://www.irishfilmdc.org/

PYJAMA GIRLS in Tipperary

PYJAMA GIRLS plays November 16th at the Excel in Tipperary town.

Info Here:

http://www.tipperary-excel.com/coming_soon.php

Pyjama Girls BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Pyjama Girls BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Sell-out Irish documentary Pyjama Girls plays at big screens from September 17th nation-wide as part of an innovative DIY distribution campaign. Pyjama Girls, a new Irish documentary by Maya Derrington, examines the lives of two of Dublin's 'pyjama girls', will screen at some of the country's most prominent cinemas. 

Booking info: Vue Liffey Valley Dublin:
http://www.myvue.ie/cinemas/index.asp?ci=60 
The Gate in Cork: http://bit.ly/cNgRwh 
The Eye Galway: http://www.eyecinema.ie/ 
Cineworld Dublin from the 24th September: http://www.cineworld.ie/

Nationwide with Access Cinema From October, details on Access dates and venues will be posted here: http://www.accesscinema.ie/

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View the trailer:

http://www.vimeo.com/stillfilms

STILL FILMS at the IFI

The Irish Film Institute in Dublin is presenting a showcase of Still Films recent work this month. Feature doc PYJAMA GIRLS will be playing daily from August 20th. August 21st there is a screening of IFTA nominated doc SEAVIEW about asylum seekers living in the former Butlin's holiday camp at Mosney. Sunday August 22nd is the world premiere of Paul Rowley and Tim Blue's experimental feature THE ROOMS. And Tuesday August 24th the directors of Still Films will be showing some recent shorts and discussing their collaborative approach to filmmaking. Info and tickets are available at www.ifi.ie

STILL FILMS LAUNCHES 3RD RTE YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERIES

Swede Me is Still Films' 3rd series for RTE Young People's and we are inviting teenagers to apply to make and star in their own short films. Apply by 2nd June 2010 at www.rte.ie/tv/twotube/swedeme.html. Swede Me is a series of bite-size comedies presenting the idiosyncracies of today’s teen labels, in the style of popular TV formats. Each episode focuses on one teen group, for example Emos, GAA Heads, Skater Kids, Metallers, Scout, Gamers, or Facebook addicts. The episodes will be created this summer during workshops and shoots with the Swede Me team.

PYJAMA GIRLS WORLD PREMIERE

Our IFB funded documentary Pyjama Girls will open the Stranger Than Fiction film festival this April at the IFI in Dublin. The film screens at 6:30 pm on April 15th and again at 12:30 pm on April 17th.

TICKETS go to www.ifi.ie/stf or call 01 679 3477.

PRESS ENQUIRIES to Patrick Stewart at the IFI on 01 679 5744.

STILL FILMS AT THE DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

This year's Jameson Dublin International Film Festival programme has just been announced and it looks smashing. Still Films have a number of short films screening at the festival, which runs 19 - 28 February in cinemas and locations across the city.

Anne Maree Barry and Matthew Talbot -Kelly will both be doing a Q&A about their projects at DATA 40 on the 26th of February.

Screening times:
Alibi
Directed by Darren Bolger and Caroline Campbell
Screening Saturday 20 February 6.30pm IFI

(The Trembling Veil of) Bones
Directed by Mathew Talbot-Kelly, co-produced with Glimpse Digital
Screening Wed 23 Feb, 8.30pm Screen Cinema.
Check out the trailer here! http://vimeo.com/9498702

Rialto Twirlers
Directed by AnneMaree Barry
Screening Sunday 28 February 4.30pm, Light House Cinema

Still Film's old friend and collaborator Jim Davis will be in town for the premier of his film Meeting Room, screening 21 Feb at 3.30pm, Cineworld, Parnell Street, D1.
Trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/9438174

Tickets are on sale now via www.jdiff.com - more details on the films at www.stillfilms.org