BYE BYE NOW Chosen To Represent Ireland At EU Film Festival In China
Award-winning short documentary, BYE BYE NOW, has been chosen to represent Ireland at the EU Film Festival in China in November.One film has been chosen from each EU member state to screen at the festival, which will take place in four cities - Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu and Shenzhen - throughout next month.
The film by Aideen O'Sullivan and Ross Whitaker for True Films has been a festival favourite over the last few years winning awards at the prestigious AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs Festival and at major festivals in Nashville, Dallas, Cork and elsewhere.
BYE BYE NOW is an amusing, poignant documentary about the fate of the Irish phone booth, which has gone from the centre of society to the verge of extinction. It is a bittersweet tribute to the phone box, an important historical document and a barometer of how much Ireland has changed culturally with the times.
The film was supported by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board under the Reality Bites scheme for funding short documentary films.
In other short film news:
Damien O'Connor's Frameworks animation short AFTER YOU won Best Animation at the Kerry Film Festival.
Signatures short CLUCK written and directed by Michael Lavelle picked up the Best Short Film at the recent Luxor and European Film Festival.
The animated short PAPERMAN directed by Richard Kelly and co-written with Sean Ryan has made the final selection for the Best Animation LIM Award at the upcoming Foyle Film Festival next month.