Tom Collins' "Kings" likewise set to screen at fest
Declan Recks' "Eden" has been selected to screen as the opening nighttime film of the first Irish Film Festival of Los Angeles, which kicks off at the Clarity Theater in Beverly Hills on Oct. 2.
"Eden," starring Eileen Walsh and Aidan Kelly, is the portrait of a matrimonial couple that Eugene O'Brien adapted from his toy of the same name.
The end night special event on Oct. 5 will include two rare Irish dumb films accompanied by a live orchestra with an original contemporaneous score composed by Eimear Noone, Irish film composer and director of the Los Angeles Ballet.
The festival will also screen Tom Collins' "Kings," the first-class honours degree Irish-language film ever submitted in the best foreign-language category for an Academy Award.
Other titles in the lineup include "Grandpa...Speak to Me in Russian," directed by Louis Lentin; "Shalom Ireland," directed by Valerie Lapin; "Learning Gravity" (aka "The Undertaking"), directed by Cathal Black; Barry O'Neill's "Dick Dickman P.I."; and Irvin Kershner's 1964 film "The Luck of Ginger Coffey."
The fest will also host a gore discussion entitled "Shooting the Green: Funding and shooting in the Republic of Ireland." The panel, which will focus on how to tap into Ireland's tax incentives for co-production, will include Jonathan Loughran, vp Irish Film Commission U.S.; film and video financing lawyer Bill Grantham of Greenberg Traurig; and educator and producer Gabrielle Kelly.
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