Meet The Filmmakers at Cork Film Centre
Series continues with producer/director/broadcaster Brenda Ní Shúilleabháin on Sat 27th.
The second in the Meet The Filmmakers series is producer/director/broadcaster Brenda Ní Shúilleabháin. Her presentation will be held at the Film Centre, Civic Trust House, 50 Popes Quay, from 2 to 4 p.m., on Sat 27th November. Places are extremely limited, so, while the event is free, booking is essential.
Also scheduled are talks by director Shimmy Marcus on 4th December, and producer Edwina Forkin on 22nd January.
Brenda Ní Shúilleabháin
Brenda is a well-known presenter,
broadcaster, producer, director, writer and translator. Her book, Bibeanna
(Memories from a Corner of Ireland) was nominated for the Glen Dimplex award in
2008.
Originally qualified as a teacher, with her
primary degree from UCD, she has done her postgraduate work in linguistics, and
also holds diplomas in History of Art and in Folklore.
She has a particular interest in West
Kerry, where she was born, and where she still has a home. Here, Irish is still
spoken as native, and there is a rich body of tradition. Brenda has recorded
the oral histories of the women of the area in two series of documentaries for
TG4 the Irish broadcasting station www.tg4.ie She is currently working on The Men of Ventry, a combination of art
installation and documentary film.
One of her projects, Bibeanna Mheiriceá,
tells the story of the numerous women from Ireland who emigrated to America in
the middle of the last century in search of a better life. Many of them went to
Springfield, where they and their families still live. The television series
has been extremely well reviewed when it was broadcast in 2009, and there are
plans afoot to make it accessible to American audiences. It was shown at the
Boston College film festival in March 2009. Brenda is currently working on the
book, which will complement the series.
She has recently completed the textual
element and foreword of Corca Dhuibhne, a forthcoming Brandon Books publication
of works by the artist Liam O'Neill, renowned for his portraiture, and for his
landscapes of the Dingle area. The texts have been selected from the wide range
of writers from Máire Mhac a' tSaoi to Brendan Behan who have drawn inspiration
from West Kerry www.brandonbooks.com
Also due for broadcast at 8pm on Christmas
Day, is a one-hour programme on Dunquin, one of the most iconic parishes in
Ireland. In 1968, Prof. Paul Hockings of UCLA at Berkeley visited Dunquin and
filmed the life of the parish in a documentary published as ‘The Village'. In
2008, Brenda and Prof. Hockings collaborated on the production of a re-visit,
‘Village Ghosts' in which they reflect the changes that forty years have
brought. This is in late postproduction and is due for broadcast in early 2010.
In 2007, she produced and directed
‘Splanc' a series of seven documentaries funded by the Arts Council and the
Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, a groundbreaking series on literature in
Modern Irish.
Published on: 20 November, 2010
