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Thursday, September 19, 7pm – Opening Night Film and Party • TICKETS
West Coast Premiere KISS OF THE CON QUEEN – Directed by Tom Waller (116 mins) * adult content
This is a film that was written by and starring Dublin native Eoin O’Brien. Eoin, based in Bangkok, experienced firsthand what can happen when a struggling actor is trying to make it in the film industry. Eoin is targeted by an ingenious and sadistic scammer, terrorizing the industry, impersonating Hollywood elites and has an amazing story to tell. Eoin will be joining us after the program to discuss his screenplay and how he was caught in the trap of the ‘Con Queen of Hollywood’, a master con-artist executing a prolific global scam on the entertainment industry.
- Sponsored by Consulate General of Ireland, San Francisco
Friday, September 20, 7pm
SHORT STORIES : TALL TALES • TICKETS
(2 x 68-minute programs)
“Short Stories, Tall Tales” once again brings a 2x hour program of diverse short stories from Ireland’s emerging filmmakers. These stories provide snapshots of Irish life, detailing everything from the craziness of online dating in “Unhinged”, a fresh perspective on Irish mythology in “Fadó, Fadó” and the experience of immigrants and refugees living in Ireland. The curated program includes “The Golden West” the latest film from Oscar winners Tom Berkeley and Ross White which tells the story of two warring sisters who survived and fled the Great Famine, and now seek their fortunes in the gold rush.
- Sponsored by Irish Network Bay Area
Saturday, September 21
4PM – THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN • TICKETS
Directed by Pat Collins (111 mins)
Pat Collins’s phenomenal award-winning film is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, lakeside community in rural Ireland near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere and stars the wonderful Barry Ward.
- Sponsored by United Irish Cultural Center, SF
6PM VERDIGRIS • TICKETS
Written and Directed by Patricia Kelly (95 Mins)
“Verdigris” is a powerful story about Marian and Jewel, two very different women who form an unlikely bond. Shabby and unfulfilled, middle-aged middle-class Marian takes a job as a census enumerator and befriends local teenager Jewel as she comes to admire the girl’s independence and strength. This is a story of two women who meet under unusual circumstances in Dublin and both struggling with their own life issues. Written and directed by Patricia Kelly, the film has won numerous awards including the Best Irish Film at Newport Beach Film Festival and Best Independent Film at the Galway Film Fleadh.
- Sponsored by Ranger Pipelines
8PM RORY GALLAGHER: CALLING CARD • TICKETS
Directed by Brian Reddin (58 mins)
A wonderful documentary that details the life story of Rory Gallagher, one of Ireland’s most prolific guitar players and blues writers. Rory Gallagher grew up in Ballyshannon. His brother, Donal, who now manages his archive, shares his experience of growing up with Rory and his early career together with details and interviews with Bob Geldof, Johhny Marr, Brian May, Moya Brennan and Imelda May. It celebrates his talents, acknowledges the tragic aspects of his story, and traces the grand arc of his life, from his birth in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, to his childhood in Mac Curtain Street in the heart of Cork city, where he fell in love with the blues and acquired his first guitar.
- Sponsored by Focus Academy LLC