First Ramor Film Festival underway
The Ramor Film Festival, County Cavan’s first ever film festival, began on September 25 and will run till October 2. The festival focuses on social change as depicted in Irish film, specifically on themes of emigration and immigration.
The festival will unspool at the Ramor Theatre, Virginia. Amongst the films featured are Desmond Bell’s Stephen Rea-narrated Hard Road to Klondyke, based on Mici MacGowan’s Irish language autobiography that details his experiences as an immigrant worker in America; Gerry Stembridge’s Black Day at Black Rock, which looks at a village’s mindset as they find that the government is placing 30 asylum seekers in their rural idyll; and films such as Korea and I Could Read the Sky.
The festival also boasts heavyweight guest speakers like Jim Sheridan, who will introduce In America, Rea (The Crying Game) and Barry Devlin (Ballykissangel).
In addition, there will be workshops in critical analysis, Irish language on film, scriptwriting, filmmaking and animation by Tom Hall (Bachelors Walk), Vinny Murphy (The General), artist Aideen Barry and the Irish Film Institute.
The film festival will also feature the world premiere of Suile Care, a short film by filmmaker Kevin McCann commissioned by Cavan Arts Office under the Per Cent for Art Scheme.
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