Cinema North West News

Crossing Borders Finale

2013-05-06T09:43:00.000-07:00

We had a great night celebrating the work of all the groups involved in Crossing Borders on Screen.

See the photos here on our site

See the photos on Facebook

Crossing Borders on Screen - Finale

2013-04-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

Looking forward to seeing the participants at the finale in Belcoo on Tuesday.

The films for all three groups will be screened in addition to a screening of the hit feature Good Vibrations.

Horrorween Adult Double Bill at Lough Key Forest Park. 29th October

2012-10-23T03:52:00.003-07:00

HORRORWEEN arrives...

29th Oct 2012

at 8pm

Lough Key Forest Park

Near Boyle

Co Roscommon

Irish Director Conor McMahon (Dead Meat)

will introduce a screening of his horror comedy STITCHES

followed by the creepy and bloody Irish premiere of

CASSADGA - it's Sixth Sense meets Silence of The Lambs.

8pm Stitches

With Director's Q and A.
Starring Ross Noble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqsObDUkMLM

Jaded Richard Grindle (Ross Noble) is the sleaziest clown working the children's party circuit in Ireland. Arriving late to one birthday, his timing is off, the bratty kids a nightmare and a prank goes horribly wrong - he falls on a kitchen knife and goes to that Big Top in the sky.

Years later the same nasty kids attend another more grown up bash.
Little do they know, thanks to a black magic clown cult, Stitches will be the uninvited guest of honour seeking revenge on those responsible
for his untimely death. Laughs and gore combine in this twisted tale of one very bad clown.

followed by the creepy and bloody Irish premiere of

CASSADGA - it's Sixth Sense meets Silence of The Lambs.

10pm CASSADAGA

Devastated by the death of her younger sister,

Lily Morel seeks solace at the spiritualist community of Cassadaga.

But instead of findingclosure, she contacts something else -- the vengeful ghost of a murdered young woman. With her life crumbling all around her, Lily races to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding the woman's death -- a task that will bring her face-to-face with a sadistic serial killer known only as "Geppetto"

8pm – over 18’s ‘Horror Films’ – Double Bill
Arrive at 7pm to the visitor centre for some Halloween punch & goodies before being guided to the Movie Theatre by candle light with our Resident Butler
(€8.00 per person per film or €10.00 for the Double Bill)

Adaptation 2012 John Huston

2012-10-04T05:09:00.003-07:00

Cinema North West's Adaptation Film Festival
19th- 21st October Dromahair Co Leitrim

The 8th Cinema North West Adaptation Festival begins on 19th October in the splendid setting of Dromahair, County Leitrim. In previous years the festival has screened retrospectives of John Le Carre, Roddy Doyle, Edna O Brien, John McGahern, Eugene McCabe and William Trevor.

Adaptation shifts focus this year on to the art of the adaptation with our first writer/director: John Huston.

Cinema North West's Programme Director Colin McKeown said: "Huston became an Irish citizen, lived in Galway and made many films in the country; including the Ray Bradbury scripted Moby Dick. Ray died a few short months ago and thankfully we have an excuse to celebrate a novelist and screenwriter who could be the focus of his very own Adaptation festival.

Our main guest is John's eldest son and oft time collaborator: Tony Huston. Other members of the family have work commitments but might make virtual appearances nonetheless... Tony will be interviewed by Michael West, fresh from his successful run with Dubliners at the Dublin Theatre Festival."

Professor Douglas McFarland will open the festival with a presentation on John Huston. Douglas is editor of the forthcoming book John Huston's Adaptations. Douglas said: "John Huston is one of the most prominent directors in American cinema. Although many of his best-known films are adaptations from literature, from 19th-century classics such as Moby-Dick and The Red Badge of Courage to works like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, there has not been a comprehensive collection of essays which address this central aspect of his work until now"

Colin MCkeown said: "Director John Irvin came to Adaptation 2011 to present the original Tinker Tailor TV series. John loved Dromahair so much he is coming back again. Luckily for us he is as full of knowledge and passion for John Huston as he is for Le Carre. He promises stories about John Huston during the war and the only film directed on horseback."

A new element to the festival is a rehearsed reading of an unproduced screenplay. This element is presented in association with BBC Radio 4. Jeremy Howe, Head of Drama for BBC Radio 4 will direct the reading. Jeremy Howe said: " We were incredibly impressed with both what Cinema North West are doing and in the festival. Hats off to you and Dromahair. What an extraordinary community!"

The full programme is available here

Adaptation is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and in collaboration with the Irish Film Institute.

Adaptation Film Festival 2012 News Update

2012-09-27T15:22:00.000-07:00

Adaptation Film Festival, the jewel in CNW's crown, returns to our heartland of Dromahair 19 -21 October.

This year's festival will be the centre piece of our 10 years on the road celebrations. The Leitrim Mobile Cinema has been up and down Leitrim for over a decade and it will be driving on for another 10 years!

Watch this space for more information on our plans to celebrate the big yellow truck, it's staff, and the communities it has served.

Adaptation shifts focus this year on to the art of the adaptation
with our first writer/director: John Huston.

"Huston not only had a commanding knowledge of serious literature but, even rarer in Hollywood, a respect, reverence for it. He didn’t consider movies a high art, like painting and writing, and respected the author, not the director, as the auteur. Thirty-four out of thirty-seven of his feature films were adaptations of novels, stories, or plays. He worked with many major writers: James Agee, Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tennessee Williams, and Christopher Isherwood. And he transformed into cinematic images the books of many important authors: Dashiell Hammett, B. Traven, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Carson McCullers, Rudyard Kipling, Flannery O’Connor, Malcolm Lowry, and James Joyce."
From Chapter 5 of John Huston: Courage and Art, by Jeffrey Meyers

Enough said really... well perhaps a little more...

Huston became an Irish citizen, lived in Galway and made many films in the country; including the Ray Bradbury scripted Moby Dick. Ray died a few short months ago and thankfully we have an excuse to celebrate a novelist and screenwriter who could be the focus of his very own Adaptation festival.

Our main guest is John's eldest son and oft time collaborator: Tony Huston.
The other members of the family have work commitments
but might make virtual appearances nonetheless...

Friday 19th October
18:00 FESTIVAL LAUNCH
The Woodview Bar
Nibbles and wine while we warm up for the main attractions.

18:45 Keynote Speech: John Huston's adaptations.
Professor Douglas McFarland will open the festival with a presentation on John Huston.
Douglas is editor of the forthcoming book John Huston's Adaptations.
“John Huston is one of the most prominent directors in American cinema. Although many of his best-known films are adaptations from literature, from 19th-century classics such as Moby-Dick and The Red Badge of Courage to works like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,
there has not been a comprehensive collection of essays which address
this central aspect of his work until now”

20:00 The Dead
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."

21:30 Michael West and Tony Huston discuss adapting Joyce.
Playwright Michael West has just adapted Dubliners for the stage
Michael will interview Tony Huston who adapted the Joyce short story for his father's film.

22.30: Under The Volcano introduced by Professor Douglas McFarland

SAT 20th
11:30 Ray Bradbury and The Making of Moby Dick

1pm Lunch: Fish and Chips

14:30 Annie: a family sing-along with Annie the musical.

15:00 Ted's talk: 'An Irish Film Industry or a Film Industry in Ireland'
In 1967, the Minister for Industry and Commerce set up the Film Industry Committee under John Huston to investigate the problems associated with the establishment of an Irish film industry and to advise on their solution.
Ted Sheehy examines The Huston Report.

17:00 Mr North
Danny Huston's feature film debut based on the book by Thornton Wilder
adapted by John Huston and featuring Anjelica Huston.

19:00 Un-producued: Rehearsed Reading
Jeremy Howe, Head of Drama at BBC Radio 4 returns to the festival with a live reading from an unproduced screenplay adaptation by John Huston.

21:30 The Maltese Falcon

22:30 – very late Film Noir Night in Blue Devon
Bring your sharpest clothes, hats and dancing shoes for a night of 1940’s glamour and intrigue.

Sun 21st
11:00 Cinema North West’s Bible Class
Our guest preachers introduce Wise Blood

14:30 African Queen
Director John Irvin came to Adaptation 2011 to present the original Tinker Tailor TV series. John loved Dromahair so much he is coming back again. Luckily for us he is as full of knowledge and passion for John Huston as he is for Le Carre. We promise stories about John Huston including a film he directed from horseback.

18:30 The Man Who Would Be King
Fresh from teaching for 2 days about the art of adaptation for the screen Stephen Cleary will help bring the curtain down on the festival by introducing a rip snorting adventure yarn.

21:00 – Late Closing Party at Stanfords
Raise a toast to 'all the living and the dead' as we say goodbye
to John Huston in 2012 and prepare to welcome Harold Pinter in 2013.

Adaptation - a two day screenwriting workshop
presented by Stephen Cleary

18 and 19th October
Dromahair
150 euro including lunch
30 euro accommodation per night in a shared house

Some bursaries for course fees available
Book via info@cinemanorthwest.com

Stephen Cleary’s world renowned ADAPTATION workshop returns to Ireland. This two day workshop is aimed at filmmakers, producers and writers who are planning to adapt work for the screen.

The first day introduces you to a new way of marrying the specific technical demands the original material makes of the writer with a fast and practical way of getting to the thematic centre of the adapted screenplay you want to write.

The second day shows how to use key screenwriting techniques to ensure your adaptation is truly cinematic as it moves away from the source material to achieve its own integrity. This is followed by a step-by-step guide through an adaptation screenwriting process.

"Stephen Cleary’s adaptation workshop came along at the perfect moment. We had just optioned a book and the process of deciding which elements of the novel we wanted to adapt and how we would set about doing it became so much clearer. I can’t recommend it enough!”
Natasha Marsh, Producer, Academy Award Winner, WASP

Stephen Cleary is a story developer and feature film producer. He has developed over 60 produced features with directors including Ken Loach, Milcho Manchevski, Michael Caton-Jones, Michael Winterbottom, Beeban Kidron and Marc Evans. He was Head of Development at British Screen for four years. He produced New Years Day in 2001, (Panorama selection Sundance Film Festival, Winner Best British Film Raindance Film Festival) and co-produced Goodbye Charlie Bright in 2002. That same year he was also co-screenwriter of the feature, Alexandria.

Colin McKeown
Programme Director

Cancellation

2012-09-20T11:13:00.001-07:00

Our trio of events on 20th, 21st and 22nd September in Dromahair are all cancelled. The Listening Room, Culture Night and our 10 Years On The Road Party will be rescheduled. This decision is as a mark of respect for Ciara Pugsley and her family. Cinema North West offer their sympathies at this time.

Sat 22nd September 10 Years on The Road with the Leitrim Cinemobile.

2012-09-16T13:09:00.003-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/events/236265436496713/

List of local accommodation

THE LISTENING ROOM, Mobile Cinema Radio Event Dromahair, 20th Sept.

2012-09-12T01:56:00.000-07:00

THE LISTENING ROOM

8pm Thursday 20th Sept Mobile Cinema Dromahair.

WBEZ CHICAGO's Nick Van Der Kolk will be in Dromahair on 20th September

to turn the mobile cinema into a listening room.

From WBEZ Chicago, Nick van der Kolk’s L+R features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. You’ve never heard anything like it before. Our sound designer is Brendan Baker.

L+R won the top prize at the 2011 Third Coast Festival Competition(often described as the “Sundance of public radio”), the first podcast to do so in the history of the competition.

http://loveandradio.org/about/

CULTURE NIGHT 21st Sept 2012 Dromahair

2012-08-29T14:43:00.000-07:00

CULTURE NIGHT

Cinema North West Mobile Cinema - Dromahair

7.00pm ‘Leitrim On Screen’, in association with Irish Film Institute, rare archive material featuring Leitrim.

8.30pm ‘Your Screen’ - a compilation of movie magic selected by public vote and introduced by you - the audience.

All events are free.

We want to hear from our audience.

Nominate your favourite moment from cinema history and tell us why it means so much to you.

Email info@cinemanorthwest.com or post on http://www.facebook.com/CinemaNorthWest

We will happily accept regular post to

Cinema North West

Market St

Dromahair

County Leitrim.

Deadline is 14th September.

Thanks to all at Culture Night and Philip Delamere at LeitrimArts Office for their support.

BECKETT ON SCREEN ENNISKILLEN 23-27th AUGUST 2012

2012-08-20T06:53:00.004-07:00

THURSDAY 23RD AUGUST

7pm Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.

SATURDAY 25TH AUGUST
11am Beckett Directs Beckett:
Waiting for Godot (1988) (127mins)
Rare recording of “Waiting for Godot” with the
San Quentin Players. Directed by Samuel Beckett.
1.30 Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
2pm The General – Buster Keaton
Festival Director Sean Doran selects:
4pm Beckett at The BBC:
Ghost Trio (1977) Billie Whitelaw (23mins)
...but the clouds... (1977) Billie Whitelaw (16mins)
7pm Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
Pitch ‘N’ Putt With Beckett And Joyce (3mins)
Directed by Donald Clarke. (Warning Strong Language)

SUNDAY 26TH AUGUST
11am Beckett Directs Beckett:
Waiting for Godot (1988) (127mins)
Rare recording of “Waiting for Godot” with the
San Quentin Players. Directed by Samuel Beckett.
1.30 Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
2pm The Cameraman – Buster Keaton
Festival Director Sean Doran selects:
4pm Beckett at The BBC:
Not I (1973) Billie Whitelaw (13mins)
Krapp’s Last Tape (1972) Patrick Magee (30mins)
7pm Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
Pitch ‘N’ Putt With Beckett And Joyce (3mins)
Directed by Donald Clarke. (Warning Strong Language)

23RD - 27TH AUGUST 2012
Cinema North West’s Mobile Cinema,
Festival Centre, Enniskillen Castle.

Beckett On Screen

2012-08-17T13:56:00.004-07:00

Full Schedule will follow on Monday 20th August

Culture Night Friday 21st September 2012 Dromahair

2012-08-14T15:02:00.000-07:00

CULTURE NIGHT

Cinema North West Mobile Cinema - Dromahair

7.00pm ‘Leitrim On Screen’, in association with Irish Film Institute, rare archive material featuring Leitrim.

8.30pm ‘Your Screen’ - a compilation of movie magic selected by public vote and introduced by you - the audience.

All events are free.

We want to hear from our audience.

Nominate your favourite moment from cinema history and tell us why it means so much to you.

Email info@cinemanorthwest.com or post on http://www.facebook.com/CinemaNorthWest

We will happily accept regular post to

Cinema North West

Market St

Dromahair

County Leitrim.

Deadline is 14th September.

Thanks to all at Culture Night and Philip Delamere at LeitrimArts Office for their support.

Imagine Science Film Festival

2012-07-13T07:03:00.001-07:00

Cinema North West have been all over Dublin this week showing a selection of films curated by Alexis Gambis for the Imagine Science Film Festival in association with UCD.
@UCDImagineSci is where they are on twitter.
The Science Cinema Tour arrives at George's Dock: http://t.co/CZoOJQ3o

Barbaric Genius - Paul Duane

2012-06-18T02:22:00.001-07:00

6pm The Model , Sligo June 24th
7pm Mobile Cinema Manorhamilton June25th
The unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagrant – is the subject of this stimulating new documentary by Paul Duane. Charting Healy’s violent upbringing in London’s Kentish Town slums as a child to Irish emigrant parents, and returning to the haunts where the writer slept, drank and fought in the ’60s and ’70s, the film provides an overview of the crucial lowlights of The Grass Arena, Healy’s breakthrough autobiography published by Faber in 1988 and universally acknowledged as a masterpiece.
Director Paul Duane will attend both screenings after which there will be a Q & A.

RTE seeks Cinema Memories

2012-05-15T06:42:00.001-07:00

A production company called Planet Korda Pictures is asking for people to share their stories about their cinema-related experience for a documentary they are making for RTE called See You At the Pictures.

As this is the 10th year of the Leitrim Mobile Cinema we want to your photos and hear your stories too.
Please post them at http://www.facebook.com/CinemaNorthWest.

See You At The Pictures - National Appeal for Cinema-Related Stories

RTÉ and Planet Korda Pictures are making a documentary about going to
the cinema in Ireland called 'See You at the Pictures!'.

We are looking for people who are happy to be interviewed about their
cinema related experiences.

Tell us about your favourite film, favourite actor or most memorable
cinema experience.

Did you dress up for the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'? Do you remember
when films in Ireland were censored? Do you remember going to a cinema
that no longer exists?

We're keen to hear from people of every age, from all over Ireland.
Whether your story is big or small, funny or sad, informative or
simply odd, we'd love to hear about it.

If you don't have any specific personal memories but can give us
factual information about a cinema we'd like to talk to you too. If
you know how much a cinema used to charge, what films were shown, what
the pre-film entertainment was like, what snacks were sold, we'd like
to find these things out too, so get in touch.

We will follow up every letter and email so start writing those memories down.

Stories and information can be submitted to us via our website,
www.seeyouatthepictures.com, or you can email us at
stories@planetkorda.com

If you'd like to send us a letter our address is:
Stories, Planet Korda Pictures, The IFI, 6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2

You can also follow our progress on Facebook,
http://www.facebook.com/Seeyouatthepictures and Twitter,
@SeeYouatthePics

01 6726600

NORTH LEITRM WOMENS FILM FESTIVAL, MANORHAMILTON, 12th & 13th NOVEMBER

2011-11-04T06:04:00.000-07:00

TWO DAYS OF FILM FOR WOMEN

Saturday 12th November
4pm Build Something Modern
Q and A with Director Nicky Gogan

Build Something Modern tells the story of a hidden canon of Irish architecture; groundbreaking young architects who pushed the boundaries of Irish design, with surprisingly little recognition at home. From the 1950’s to the 1970’s adventurous architects, including Seán Rothery, Richard Hurley and Gerald Fay, eager to be among the first Irish modernists, travelled to Africa for excitement and creative freedom. At the same time, other Irish architects fresh out of university, were also given the opportunity to design modern buildings in Africa, but remarkably never got to see them.

8pm Winters Bone (15+)
17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, WINTER'S BONE is the winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize.

Sunday 13th November

4 pm Musical Mayhem
Cinema North West's Colin Mckeown presents a dazzling selection of clips from musical movies. Come along and Sing along.
For all ages

8pm Made in Dagenham (15+)
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

CINEMOBILE
MANORHAMILTON

Supported by The International Fund for Ireland, North WLeitrim Women's Centre and Arts Office Leitrim County Council.

Sound + Vision

2011-10-22T08:17:00.000-07:00

Our director Colin McKeown has curated a film programme for the Model and we include their press release below.
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The Model presents its first Music Film Festival:

SOUND+VISION

The Model's brand new Music Film Festival, aptly titled SOUND+VISION will take place at The Model, Sligo from November 16 - 27 and will feature over 40 events happening throughout 12 days, all centering around the music film genre.

The programme includes concert films, musical documentaries, films which popularised major movements in music history, films defined by their soundtracks and landmark moments of musical and cinema history and will be opening on November 16th with the Irish Premiere of Susanne Rostock’s, Sing Your Song about the ‘King of Calypso’, Harry Belafonte Jr.

Some highlights of the Festival include Inni, Sigur Rós from Icelandic Icons Sigur Ros, which is being released in Ireland next month; Pearl Jam Twenty celebrating Pearl Jam’s 20th Anniversary; special guest appearances from indie-rock pop hero Bob Forrest at the screening of his documentary Bob and the Monster and Musical Documentary Director Tony Palmer who will introduce the Irish Premiere of Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, one of two of his films being screened at the Festival.

The Model’s Director, Seamus Kealy is delighted with the breadth of the Festival programme, saying “SOUND+VISION merges the genres of music and cinema, as both have developed in parallel through cinema, whether drama, children’s films or musicals, as well as exploring their juxtaposition in more experimental live performances.”

Two very special live music performances feature in the programme. Wavetrain, an exciting new chamber duo, will be performing, among others, the work of Olivier Messiaen, together with a screening of a film based on his work, The Crystal Liturgy: Oliver Messaien. The performance will also feature the world premiere of The Whitening a new piece by Irish Composer Siobhan Cleary based on the W.B. Yeats poem “Cap and Bells”.

Choice Music Prize Nominees Dark Room Notes will perform a specially composed score accompaniment to the silent film classic The Lost World, followed by a special late night club with sound and visuals by Donal Dineen’s Parish project featuring Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu, Amina Dastan of Madu amongst others.

A special Family Season of Film Screenings includes animated films such as The Jungle Book and The Gruffalo with attendees encouraged to dress-up and sing-along and a very specially constructed Gruffalo Cave! A series of free animation workshops, including stop-motion animation, will be held during the festival ensuring there will be something for all ages to enjoy.

The Festival will conclude with Punk Sunday, which will feature the Irish Premiere of Punk’s Not Dead from Macedonian Director, Vladimir Blazevski, and a special event, Punk Lives On In Belfast.

Special Festival and Weekend passes giving access to all screenings and events will be available from The Model Box-Office and full programme details are available at www.themodel.ie .

Ends.

The Model would like to thank especially Colin McKeown of Cinema Northwest, the International Fund for Ireland, Irish Film Institute for their support in making Sound + Vision a reality.

For further information, images and interview requests please contact:

Lisa Hallinan

lisahallinan@themodel.ie

A letter from John LeCarré

2011-10-18T04:23:00.000-07:00

Cinema North West Adaptation Festival 2011

Dear Friends,

Thank you for giving time to the screen versions of my novels. I’m sorry I can’t be with you but thanks not least to the success of Tinker Tailor, I’ve become a bit of a moving target. Now I have to tell you, you are in for a mixed bag. In principle, unlike some writers, I like my work to be adapted. The first and most obvious reason is that film and television reach an audience few writers can dream of. A whole lot of people go through life without reading a single novel, others might not think of reading my work if they hadn’t first seen it on the screen.

The second reason is more personal. I find it thrilling when a skilled film-maker is inspired by my work to translate it into his own medium. He takes the germ of the idea, and the characters, and the story, and lets it infect him. He assembles his army of technicians and artists and players, and sets out on his march. And now and then, something wonderful happens. We don’t get the film of the book. We get the film of the film. We get the miracle of a full realisation in a different, sovereign art form with its own disciplines and values.

The average reader addressing a full-length novel will give it his creative attention for as much as fifteen or maybe even thirty hours. The same person sitting in the audience at the cinema needs a good reason why the story is not realised for him in two. The art of telling stories in pictures is plain - as the Russians say - to a hedgehog. You never speak it if you can show it. Words give way to images. So in that sense, the novel and the film are from the start at odds with one another.

I have been very lucky, and also at times deeply disappointed with the translation of my work from book to film. You will choose for yourselves the high points and the low.
For me, the landscape is pretty clear. There are four peaks, some foot-hills, and some pretty awful wasteland. My peaks, in chronological order, areThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold , the television adaptations of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley’s People, The Constant Gardener , and the recently released movie of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Of all of them, I suspect that the last will endure, despite its seeming complexity, as the most artistically satisfying, the most accomplished and the most daring. But this isn’t a beauty contest. It’s your choice, not mine. And if other adaptations of my work please you more than they do me, I can only be happy. Each production, whatever its merits, has received the devoted attention of gifted artists and technicians who have given their hearts to the project. And it’s more than possible that, where an adaptation has failed, the original novel has failed the adaptation.

Thank you again for being here. I wish you a lot of pleasure, and a lot of boisterous argument.
John le Carré, October 2011.

Photo (c)Stephen Cornwell for White Hare 2010

Adaptation 2011 Dromahair

2011-10-08T08:20:00.000-07:00

2011 has brought many changes for Cinema North West.
We have created and curated new festivals, visited many new venues, installed a new digital projection system, started providing training courses and begun exhibiting in venues other than the cinemobile.

New funding from the International Fund for Ireland has led to the appointment of new staff and the opening of an office.

The new office is, appropriately, in Dromahair. We discussed other options but Dromahair feels like home for us. Many of the board of directors live close by, our biggest audiences live here, and we are dedicated to the rural rather than the urban audience. Most importantly Dromahair is home to Adaptation.

The first Adaptation Film Festival was created by Johnny Gogan in 2004. Johnny had attended one of Stephen Cleary's workshops and heard Stephen talk about the importance of adaptations within the film business. A significant proportion of films are based upon adaptations. Johnny felt that it would be a good idea to create a festival dedicated to the art and craft of screen adaptations. Cinema North West face more changes this year as Johnny Gogan will be stepping down from the board to concentrate on new filmmaking opportunities and the growth of the collective Studio North West. We wish him well in his new endeavors and thank him for his hard work and dedication. More change comes in the appointment of Colin McKeown as programme director for Cinema North West and Adaptation.

Over the year's the festival has celebrated the work of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, Bernard MacLaverty and Jennifer Johnston. Each year the featured author has given a public interview. This year we will be looking at the many films based upon the work of John Le Carre. In a break with tradition the author will not be in attendance. John Le Carre will celebrate his 80th birthday a few days after our festival. We wish him a very happy birthday and will raise a toast to him during the festival. Thankfully the festival will host a range of exceptional guest speakers - all of whom have been involved with John le Carre and passionate about his work.

We are pleased to be hosting Stephen Cleary at this year's festival. He will hopefully be a regular visitor to Dromahair in the next few years as our commitment to training increases. Stephen worked for many years with the wonderful Hannah Kodicek. She was a multi-talented woman and an incredible thinker. She was, among many other things, a writer, composer, director, painter, actress, puppeteer and teacher.

Hannah played IRINA in the original Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy tv series. We will see clips of her over the weekend during our interview with Director John Irvin. Hannah died earlier this year. Hannah's son Danny will be in attendance at the festival. It is hoped that Cinema North West and Adaptation can pay tribute to this remarkable figure in a permanent way through an annual award. So 2011 is barely over and yet we are planning the changes for 2012...

We look forward to seeing you over the weekend.

We would like to thank all our volunteers, Chloe James, Jo Lewis, the board members, Johnny Gogan, Maeve Cooke at Access Cinema, Deirdre at GFD, Tommy Ahearne, Lara Byrne at The Model, Helen and Sorcha at Screen Training Ireland, Eibhlinn at Media Antennae, Alice Lyons , Padraig at Pure Designs, Julie Thomys, Cian Flynn, Blayze at Fremantle, Fleur at BFI, Jo and Jonny at Curtis Brown, Gavin LaGrange, and the people of Dromahair.

Adaptation is supported by an annual grant from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Éalaíon.

Cinema North West acknowledges the support of the Irish Film Board towards our overall operation.

Adaptation 2011

2011-09-21T10:10:00.000-07:00

Headlines for schedule:
Fri 14th Opening Night event: Director John Irvin talks
about making the seminal TV Series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Alec Guinness.

Saturday Evening Jeremy Howe from BBC Radio 4 takes us through the COMPLETE SMILEY
Sunday afternoon Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee talk adaptation.

The weekend is full of films, some rare tv films and special events.
Plus a special kids movie and writing workshop on Saturday.
Full Schedule here

We will also host Steve Cleary's 2 day Adaptation workshop.

Book via info@cinemanorthwest.com
Seating is limited - Advance Booking advised

Green Door Leitrim

2011-08-23T04:08:00.000-07:00

A festival of great architecture in Leitrim will include a day long festival of film in Dromahaire on September 10th.
Full Details of the films on our site and on the whole festival on the Inspirational Homes Leitrim site.

Prison Escapes at Sligo Gaol

2011-08-18T06:58:00.000-07:00

During Heritage Week, Cinema North West will screen two exciting documentaries in the unique setting of Sligo Gaol. The stories of Linda Kearns and Frank Carty and their escapes from the Gaol will be screened on Monday 22nd August. Full details on our site.

Admission is free but booking is essential.
Tiickets are available via the Heritage office in Sligo County Council.
Screening: Cinema North West, Gaol Yard, behind St. Anne's by the Fire Station.

Gasland - Drumshanbo - Tuesday 16th August, 9pm

2011-08-11T04:06:00.001-07:00

A must see for the residents of Drumshanbo and surrounds. The screenings of Gaslands in the county have been sold out as people learn about the issues behind the upcoming testing for gas exploitation in the area. It details how hydraulic fracturing works and charts its rapid progress across the US.
Tickets are limited due to prebookings.
Please order from info@cinemanorthwest.com
Mobile cinema,
Mayflower
Tuesday 16th August,
9:00pm
€8/€7 unwaged

The trailer for the film has received over 1M views in the past few months.

Gasland screens for Fermanagh and West Cavan audiences

2011-07-22T05:57:00.000-07:00

Hydraulic Fracturing ("fracking") is the highly controversial method of drilling Australian company Tamboran Resources have confirmed they intend to use in Fermanagh. The company have recently secured Licensing options to further explore for Shale Gas Deposits in Fermanagh, Cavan and Leitrim. They met this week with Fermanagh District Council to further their plans for the County.

"Fracking" is the subject of the Academy Award nominated film Gasland screening
Cinema North West, Mobile Cinema
BLACKLION next Wednesday, 8.00pm.
Cinema parked at Enterprise Board Car-park.

Gasland details the U.S. experience of "fracking" and highlights the extraordinary environmental side-effects involved: chemical pollution of ground-water; gas-leakage into ground-water aquifers and significant air pollution.

These are just a number of issues which the granting of licenses in Fermanagh as well as Counties Leitrim, Cavan and Donegal have raised in public debate recently.
Internationally, the process is banned in 50 municipalities in the U.S., the Canadian state of Quebec, France, South Africa. Hydraulic Fracturing was recently suspended in Lancashire following two earthquakes in the region.

Seating is limited for this Blacklion screening, so to ensure your place please email
info@cinemanorthwest.com
Full details www.cinemanorthwest.com
Admission: €8/7

G Day in Dromahair

2011-07-14T11:40:00.000-07:00

Friday 15th is G DAY in Dromahair.

We will be there from 2pm to support the village.

Our screening schedule is:
2pm Irish Language Cartoons & Short Films
4pm Kings
starring Colm Meaney in the film version of the acclaimed play KIngs of The Kilburn High Road.
6 pm Homeland
Johnny Gogan's new film about Leitrim
8 pm Gasland
the Anti-Fracking film that is vital viewing for all in Leitrim.

TG4 and Adare Productions are producing a brand new series where non-Gaeltacht communities can compete against each other for the opportunity to call themselves The G-Team winners 2011 and win a €40,000 Foras na Gaeilge prize to use in promoting their local area.

‘The G-Team’ is a new 10 part series on TG4 that will feature non-Irish speaking communities from all over Ireland and challenge them to begin using their native tongue in their daily routines. Can your local butcher sell the Sunday roast in Irish? Can the parents in your community learn enough of the language to read their kids a bedtime story?