Paris to host Festival of Irish Women’s Film
The Women in Film & Television (WFTV) France will host the first ever film festival devoted to Irish women’s work in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris on September 29.
The daylong festival will be inaugurated by Irish Ambassador to France Anne Anderson and will feature films funded by the Irish Film Board. Director Pat Murphy will introduce Nora. In addition Margo Harkin’s Hush-A By, Baby, Kristen Sheridan’s Disco Pigs and Aisling Walsh’s Song for a Raggy Boy will be screened.
Director Geraldine Creed will introduce her documentary Exile Fires and Jenny Roche, director of the short Butterflies and Bees, will give a masterclass entitled Irish Women in the Picture, which looks at the perception of women in Irish film.
The Paris festival mirrors the film festival of French Women’s work that WFTV Ireland hosted in Dublin last year. WFTV Europe was launched in June 2004 as part of WFTV International, which is a global network comprising some 37 chapters worldwide and over 10,000 members dedicated to advancing professional development and achievement for women working in all areas of film, video and other screen-based media.
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