It seems you can't scratch your ass without your elbow bumping off a film festival these days but the Waterford Film Festival , a three-day event that opens on 15th
November, is a tad different than most. It is the brainchild of 25-year-old writer/producer Stephen Byrne, who dreamed up the idea when he was promoting his debut The Headmaster.
"I was getting ready to promote it and was back in Waterford when I realised my home city didn't have a festival. Around September of last year, I started looking into it and contacting various organizations about setting one up." Stephen is a man who knows how tough it is breaking into the Irish film industry and wants his festival to be an opportunity for filmmakers to get their work out there: “The main thing is more exposure and the idea is for people to spot filmmakers and contact them for future projects. So other financiers, maybe the Film Board or the Arts Council, will approach the filmmakers with the idea of doing a project together.”
So what's the skinny?
Many of the directors and producers of these movies will attend the event including Greg Chwerchak, US Director who will be screening “Greetings from the Shore”, a romantic comedy that makes its Irish debut at the Festival. The movie follows one young girl as she spends her last summer at the Jersey Shore before heading off to college. Mourning the recent death of her Father, her plans for a normal summer soon fall apart and the girl stumbles into a mysterious world of Russian sailors, high-stakes gambling, and unexpected love. “Greetings from the Shore” stars young American actress Kim Shaw in the lead role, but perhaps more notably, also stars Paul Sorvino of “Paul Cicero” fame from Martin Scorcese’s epic mafia movie “Goodfellas”.
What else you got?
Other works of note at the Festival include that of Australian Producer/ Director Jonathan Nolan who will also screen his highly critically acclaimed documentary “Fortunate Sons”, a documentary about the Bush regime and the US leadership in the post 1963 world, with a close look at 9/11 and the War on Terror. The documentary has been written and produced with a modern 'edgy' look and feel, with video-game style editing to appeal to contemporary audiences.
November, is a tad different than most. It is the brainchild of 25-year-old writer/producer Stephen Byrne, who dreamed up the idea when he was promoting his debut The Headmaster."I was getting ready to promote it and was back in Waterford when I realised my home city didn't have a festival. Around September of last year, I started looking into it and contacting various organizations about setting one up." Stephen is a man who knows how tough it is breaking into the Irish film industry and wants his festival to be an opportunity for filmmakers to get their work out there: “The main thing is more exposure and the idea is for people to spot filmmakers and contact them for future projects. So other financiers, maybe the Film Board or the Arts Council, will approach the filmmakers with the idea of doing a project together.”
So what's the skinny?
Many of the directors and producers of these movies will attend the event including Greg Chwerchak, US Director who will be screening “Greetings from the Shore”, a romantic comedy that makes its Irish debut at the Festival. The movie follows one young girl as she spends her last summer at the Jersey Shore before heading off to college. Mourning the recent death of her Father, her plans for a normal summer soon fall apart and the girl stumbles into a mysterious world of Russian sailors, high-stakes gambling, and unexpected love. “Greetings from the Shore” stars young American actress Kim Shaw in the lead role, but perhaps more notably, also stars Paul Sorvino of “Paul Cicero” fame from Martin Scorcese’s epic mafia movie “Goodfellas”.
What else you got?
Other works of note at the Festival include that of Australian Producer/ Director Jonathan Nolan who will also screen his highly critically acclaimed documentary “Fortunate Sons”, a documentary about the Bush regime and the US leadership in the post 1963 world, with a close look at 9/11 and the War on Terror. The documentary has been written and produced with a modern 'edgy' look and feel, with video-game style editing to appeal to contemporary audiences.
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