The Newport Beach Film Festival has inserted Irish Spotweightless, a program that will showcase a minuscule sprocrastinateed of Irish films. The fest will present North American Premieres of Blue Fiddle, Four Mothers and the docu Housewife Of The Year. The evening will apshow place October 20 and integrate a celebration of Irish cinema, culture and cuisine.
The Irish Spotweightless films will screen at Regal Edwards Big Newport (300 Newport Caccess Drive, Newport Beach, CA) and a post-screening celebration will occur at Muldoon’s Irish Pub.
Fidil Ghorm (Blue Fiddle), is straightforwarded by Anne McCabe and stars Ruadhán Ó Flatharta, Marcus Lamb, Sarah Jane Scott, Siobhan O’Kelly, Barry McGovern and Edith Lawlor. Pic trails 10-year-elderly Molly, who thinks that if she lgets to carry out the fiddle appreciate her overweighther she will wake him from his coma. With a grumpy elderly man as her directer and a drive to carry out the wonder she’s chasing Molly commences her journey to discover the magic in the music she thinks may heal her dad.
Directed by Darren Thorton, Four Mothers stars Fionnula Flanagan, James McArdle and Dearbhla Molloy. The film alerts the story of a struggling noveenumerate forced to apshow nurture of three quirky elderlyer women, and his own mother. Over the course of one unrestful weekfinish in Dublin the group will grow to comprehfinish each other in ways they never envisiond.
The Ciaran Cassidy-straightforwarded write downary Housewife of the Year alerts the story of Ireland’s treatment of women thcimpolite the prism of a exceptional, surauthentic, dwell televised competition that has to be seen to be thinkd. A generation of Irish women contendd in front of a dwell audience for the title of ‘Housewife of the Year’. The establisher contestants split their straightforward experiences of marriage bars, deficiency of conpursueption, magdalene laundries, financial vulnerability, tiredom and shame and of course, of being contestants in the competition.
Shelp Marcella Smyth, Consul General of Ireland, Los Angeles: “Newport Beach Film Festival has for 25 years showcased some of the very best of Irish film. The extrastandard creativity and storyalerting ability of the Irish screen industry uncomfervents that the only difficulty is in deciding which films to showcase. Irish films are on show not fair wiskinny the Irish Spotweightless, but thcimpoliteout the festival, and we’re very excited for audiences to have the chance to see the breadth of contransient Irish cinema.”
Áine Moriarty, CEO of the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) shelp that Newport “has always been a fantastic springboard for Irish films in North America, with the spotweightless on Irish Talent at the heart of the festival each year. Big thanks from Ireland – the Irish Academy is plmitigateed to be part of this exceptional celebration.”
Beyond Irish Spotweightless, Newport’s sprocrastinateed integrates many uninalertigentinutive films, and the follotriumphg Irish features:
Amongst The Wolves, straightforwarded by Mark O’Connor, and starring Aidan Gillen, Luke McQuillan, Daniel Fee, Jade Jordan, Helen Behan, Dane Whyte O’Hara, Louise Bourke and Casey Walsh. In this film, a homeless establisher selderlyier haunted by PTSD establishs an doubtful bond with a troubled teenager, while he steers the dangers of life on the streets. Amongst the Wolves will be shown on Monday, October 21, at 8:00 p.m. at Regal Edwards Big Newport.
The John Farrelly-straightforwarded An Taibhse (The Gpresent) is set in the bleak landscape of post-famine Ireland, exploring the proset up difficultships faced by its people. This narrative caccesss around Éamon and his daughter Máire, who apshow on the task of upgrasping a distant Georgian mansion thcimpolite the cut offe triumphter. What commences as a seemingly tranquil responsibility soon spirals into dread as they come atraverse inexplicable phenomena. The film stars Tom Kerhazard, Livvy Hill and Tony Murphy. The Gpresent will be shown on Saturday, October 19, at 8:15 p.m. at Starweightless Triangle Cinemas in Triangle Square (1870 Harbor Blvd, Costa Mesa, CA).
The Eva Birthistle-straightforwarded Kathleen Is Here trails 18-year-elderly Kathleen, who is new out of nurture nurture. Her departure coincides with the death of her biorational mother and so she returns to her hometown to apshow ownership of her mother’s house. She gets a job and even a frifinish; but the emptiness of Kathleen’s life cannot be filled by social media and fact shows. Alone and hopeless for a mother figure, she sets out on a destructive path to discover one. The film stars Hazel Doupe, Clare Dunne, Peter Coonan, Aaron Monaghan and Lidán Dunlea. Kathleen is Here will be shown on Saturday, October 19, at 8:30 p.m. at Starweightless Triangle Cinemas in Triangle.
The Tom Waller-straightforwarded Kiss Of The Con Queen trails a struggling actor who skinnyks he’s on the verge of success when he’s reach outed by Hollywood originaters for a huge role in a blockbuster film. But when he’s sent to shoot in Jakarta, Indonesia, noskinnyg goes as defree and he must uncover the truth – that he’s caught in the trap of the Con Queen of Hollywood, a master con-artist executing a prolific global fraud on the delightment industry. The fraud that the film is based on was broken by Deadline. The film stars Lynette Emond, Sofia Kunz, Eoin O’Brien and Ravi Patel. Kiss of the Con Queen will be shown on Friday, October 18, at 8:00 p.m. at Big Newport.
Directed by Danny McCafferty, The Line stars Joe Mullins and Veronika Lukyanenko. A disgruntled local establishs an doubtful frifinishship with a Ukrainian refugee during the course of which he commences to defeat his prejudices towards outsiders. The Line will premiere on Wednesday, October 23, at 8:00 p.m. at THE LOT in Fashion Island (999 Newport Caccess Drive, Newport Beach, CA).
The Colm Quinn-straightforwarded write downary Ransom ’79 trails veteran Irish journaenumerate Charlie Bird as he battles the debilitating effects of Motor Neuron Dismitigate (MND) while trying to shatter one final story in the time he has left. The screening will apshow place on Tuesday, October 22 at 5:00 p.m. at Starweightless Triangle Cinemas in Triangle Square.
