Build Something Modern picked in Top 5 Irish Films list

We're very proud that Build Something Modern was selected by Tara Brady in her annual Top 5 Irish Films list for the Irish Times this year.

BUILD SOMETHING MODERN in NYC

NYC friends. Our latest doc BUILD SOMETHING MODERN plays at the Irish Arts Centre Nov 15th. 

Info here: http://irishartscenter.org/film.htm

IRISH FILM NYC

Congrats to our own Paul Rowley who received the Rising Star Award
this weekend in Manhattan at the Irish Film NY festival!

PYJAMA GIRLS IN NEW YORK

PYJAMA GIRLS gets its Manhattan Premiere October 2nd at the Cantor
Film Center, 36 E 8th street, NYC.
www.irishfilmnyc.com for details.

WE, THE MASSSES trailer

Check out the trailer to our new animated short.
Directed by Eoghan Kidney based on artwork by Robyn O'Neil

http://vimeo.com/26486761

Watch this space for screenings info.
This is a Framworks film http://tiny.cc/tozh1

STILL FILMS SHORTS AT GALWAY FILM FLEADH

Still Films have a number of shorts playing at this year's Galway Film Fleadh. Make sure to catch them! 

We, The Masses 
World premier of  Frameworks Short, 
New Irish Shorts: Programme 7, Town Hall, Saturday, 9/7/11 2:30PM

One man falls to earth to find hatred, mystery and his demise. We the Masses is a tale of warning and transcendence.

We, The Masses, is Directed by Eoghan Kidney and based on artwork by Robyn O'Neil animated by Mark Flood and Ciaran Crowley, with sound design by Fiadhnait McCann and music by Adem Ilhan, it's not to be missed!

Information on all films in New Irish Shorts, Programme 7 available here: http://tiny.cc/dkwn1
Tickets available online http://tiny.cc/afotn

Making Michael
A short documentary, Directed by Caroline Campbell, Produced by Nicky Gogan
New Irish Shorts: Programme 8 (Documentaries) Town Hall Sunday, 10/7/11 9:00AM

Making Michael follows the process of remaking the Michael Jackson waxwork shortly after Jackson's death. The construction of fame and the battle against impermanence become themes as the model-maker considers how to capture the essence of a man who underwent so much transformation.

Information on all films in New Irish Shorts, Programme 8 (Documentaries) available here: http://tiny.cc/2wj6s. Tickets available online http://tiny.cc/s0rce

Rats Island
A short documentary, Directed by Mike Hannon, Produced by Sinéad Ni Bhroin
New Irish Shorts: Programme 8 (Documentaries) Town Hall  Sunday, 10/7/11 9:00AM

Rats Island is sparse and measured. It offers an observational account of how, in the face of personal and economical adversity, a father has made a home for himself and his son.

Information on all films in New Irish Shorts, Programme 8 (Documentaries) available here: http://tiny.cc/2wj6s. Tickets available online http://tiny.cc/s0rce

BUILD SOMETHING MODERN AT TRISKEL CORK - 10 July - 12 July

We are really delighted that our latest feature documentary is showing in Cork at the Triskel Arts Center from Sunday 10 July - Tuesday 12 July

"Directors Gogan and Rowley unearth a strange cross-cultural architectural mash-up between Ireland and Africa". Irish Times ****

"Build Something Modern finds Irish fingerprints in unlikely places. Slyly, the film-makers set up a complex tangle of post-colonial ironies using small, evocative images". Irish Times ****

"The documentary utilizes an extraordinary fusion of visually rich images... skillfully blended together to provide a rich, illuminating and coherent narrative" Film Ireland

Build Something Modern tells the story of a lost canon of Irish architecture. The film reveals the surprising and untold history about the adventurous architects who began their career in Africa and went on to become some of Ireland's most significant architectural figureheads. Between the 1950s and 1970s, young architects travelled to Africa for creative freedom during an era of relative cultural conservatism at home, while others designed buildings from Ireland that they themselves would never see in their completed form in Africa. The film travels back to the 1950s, to a still largely colonial Africa where the Irish missionary movement was at its height, and traces the story of the buildings through the devastating impact of wars that destroyed many of the structures right through to the present day.

Reworking stunning imagery from both the personal archives of the architects and recruitment films made by the missionary orders, the film encompasses Still Films unique visual and storytelling style. Build Something Modernis a touching and revealing film about the special relationship between architects and the structures they create. Accompanied by an evocative soundtrack which establishes connections between memory and construction, the film is as much a study of the effect time has on the mind as on physical structures. Build Something Modern is a meaningful portrait both of the lives of spaces as well as those of the people that create them.

Build Something Modern is a Reel Art film funded by the Arts Council. The film is directed by Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley (Seaview, The Rooms) and produced by Maya Derrington (Pyjama Girls) with Original Concept & Research by Dr. Lisa Godson

Build something Modern was premiered at JDIFF last February where Still Films were awarded the Dublin Critic's Choice Discovery Award for new talent. You can purchase tickets online at: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/126517027/events

STILL FILMS AT SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST

The Still Films gang will all be at Sheffield this week to premiere two new films; BUILD SOMETHING MODERN and RATS ISLAND. Also we're round the MEET MARKET with A CHILDISH PLACE. Info for the screenings is here. See you in Sheffield!

BUILD SOMETHING MODERN AT THE IFI

Our latest feature documentary BUILD SOMETHING MODERN opens in the Irish Film Institute on Friday May 27th for an exclusive run. More info here.

PYJAMA GIRLS IN KILDARE

Pyjama Girls is showing at Cake Contemporary Arts at the Curragh Camp, Co Kildae this week. Screenings are on Friday 20th May at 2pm and 6.30pm and Saturday 21st at 2pm and 4pm. To confirm a place email carly@cakecontemporaryarts.com.

STILL FILMS at SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST

We're delighted to be showing two new films at this year's doc/fest in Sheffield. Feature doc BUILD SOMETHING MODERN and short RATS ISLAND. More info and tickets here:

Where Were You! hits the target

Thank you to everyone who supported our Fund:it campaign to get new documentary Where Were You! up and running. We hit our target and can't wait to get started!

Pyjama Girls plays in Moscow tonight, Monday 21st March, as part of the Moscow Irish Film Festival

Dublin Critic's Circle

We are delighted to announce that Still Films won the Michael Dwyer Discovery Award for new talent at the Dublin Critics Circle Awards last night.

SURFACE NOISE at the Berlin Film Festival

Our experimental short film SURFACE NOISE will have its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this week as part of the Forum Expanded programme. Directed by David Phillips, Tim Blue, and Paul Rowley, the film uses film restoration technology to isolate the damaged elements of old film prints, the dust, dirt, and scratches. This material was then used to create the film, which looks at political unrest and state violence. More info here:

Build Something Modern premier at JDIFF

Build Something Modern premier at the Jameson Dublin International
Film Festival, Friday 25 February 2011

Still Films are delighted to announce that their latest feature
documentary film will be premiered at the Jameson Dublin
International Film Festival, Friday 25 February in IFI Screen 1 at
6.30pm. Tickets are on sale now via the JDIFF website https://
jdiff.ticketsolve.com/shows/126512479/events

Build Something Modern is a Reel Art film funded by the Arts Council/
An Chomhairle EalaÌon. The film is directed by Nicky Gogan and Paul
Rowley (Seaview, the Rooms) and produced by Maya Derrington (Pyjama
Girls).

Build Something Modern tells the story of a hidden canon of Irish
architecture - groundbreaking young architects who pushed the
boundaries of Irish design, With surprisingly little recognition at
home. Between the 1950's and 1970's adventurous architects, eager to
be among the first Irish modernists, travelled to Africa for
excitement and creative freedom. At the same time other Irish
architects, fresh out of university, were given the opportunity to
design modern buildings in Africa, but remarkably never got to see
the finished constructions.

These structures - churches, seminaries, hospitals and schools - were
for the most part built as part of a massive community effort. They
were co-ordinated by the Catholic missionaries, often without a
contractor and with the architect mostly absent. Build Something
Modern reveals a surprising and untold history about these people and
their innovative creations. We travel back to the 1950s, when
colonies were still in place, through the atrocities of numerous wars
where many of the structures were destroyed, right up to present day
Nigeria.

Reworking stunning imagery from both the personal archives of the
architects and recruitment films made by the missions, the film
encompasses Still Films unique visual and storytelling style. Build
Something Modern is a touching and revealing film about people and
the special relationship with the things they create as they reflect
on it many years later.

Featuring Dr. Sean Rothery, B.Arch., Ph.D., FRIAI, Dr. Richard Hurley
FRIAI, ARCUK, HRHA, Allen Smith B. Arch, Gerald Fey B.Arch RIBA RSUA
and Michael O'Doherty Dip. Arch FRIAI, Fr. Kevin Longworth SPS, Fr.
Jim Sharkey SPS, Fr. Gerald Gogan CPPs. Original Concept & Research
by Dr. Lisa Godson.

Directors and producer bios available at http://www.stillfilms.org/
pages/about.html Full press kit and images available on request.

PYJAMA GIRLS nominated for an IFTA

We're thrilled to announce that PYJAMA GIRLS has been nominated for an
Irish Film and Television Award this year. The film is nominated in
the George Morrison Feature Documentary Award. Awards take place
February 12th in Dublin. www.ifta.ie for more info on all the
nominees. Congrats to all.