Five Untitled Screenwriting Competition Finalists To Pitch Projects In Public Event this Friday
Selected from almost 200 entries, the five finalists of the UNTITLED Screenwriting Competition will pitch their projects in the Lighthouse Cinema this Friday 24th February at 4.30pm to win an award of up to €16,000. This free public event is co-hosted by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
Each of the five projects offers a different take on the ‘1916' theme. The writers/writing teams that will be presenting their films are:
- Jamie Hannigan and Michael Kinirons with their noir thriller Come Monday, We Kill Them All: April 1916: A down on his luck smuggler reluctantly agrees to help a wealthy politician find his missing daughter only to become embroiled in murder, conspiracy and rebellion.
- Jasmina Kallay with her drama Das Irland: A tale of what if. What if promised German help had materialised in 1916?
- Anne Marie Casey and Joseph O'Connor with their bopic Grace 1916: The story of Grace Gifford, woman, artist and icon of a revolution.
- Hugh Travers with The Players : A black comedy about ex-IRA members who join an amateur drama group to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Rising.
- Virginia Gilbert with her drama The Boys: Everybody remembers a great teacher but how many are willing to die for one?
These five films will be presented to an industry panel chaired by Andrew Meehan (Development Executive, IFB) and which includes esteemed filmmaker John Boorman, leading Irish producer James Flynn, talent agent Charlotte Kelly and JDIFF Festival Director Grainne Humphreys who will then select the overall winner. The winner will be announced at the Closing Gala of the festival on Sunday 26th February.
The event is open to the public and the tickets are free of charge. All are welcome.
MORE ABOUT JOHN BOORMAN
Oscar nominated filmmaker John Boorman is best known for his feature films Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General, A Tiger's Tale and The Tailor of Panama.Many of his films have been nominated for some of the most prestigious industry accolades in the world including BAFTA's, Academy Awards, the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival to name a few. He has picked up the Best Director Award twice at the Cannes Film Festival and has been presented with an Academy Fellowship by BAFTA.
MORE ABOUT JAMES FLYNN
James Flynn is an award-winning producer who has worked on Irish and international features films and television productions. In 2002 he established Octagon Films to develop and produce high quality films for the international market. Some of his credits include Inside I'm Dancing, King Arthur, Becoming Jane, As If I Am Not There and Ondine to name a few as well as the very successful television series The Tudors and Love/Hate. In 2010 he was nominated with Juanita Wilson for a Best Live Action Short Film Academy Award for The Door.
MORE ABOUT CHARLOTTE KELLY
Charlotte Kelly is a film and television agent with the London-based international agency Casarotto Ramsay and Associates. She joined the company in 1996. Since January 2008, she has been based in Dublin - where the company represents many Irish based writers and directors. Her clients are writers and directors for both film and television and some books for screen rights. The agency also represents a list of major theatre writers and has a very strong heads of department division (Casarotto Marsh).
MORE ABOUT GRAINNE HUMPHREYS
Grainne Humphreys is the very talented Festival Director of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. She began her career programming the Junior Dublin Film Festival in the 1994. Since then she has worked in a variety of roles in the Irish Film Institute including Education Officer and Assistant Director where she was responsible for the cultural programming of the IFI. She joined JDIFF in January 2007 and this year's festival marks her fifth year as Festival Director. She has also worked as a researcher on a number of film projects and is a regular film reviewer on a number of radio programmes.