JAMESON FILM FESTIVAL

Actors Brendan Gleeson and Nora Jane Noone unveiled the line up for the 8th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival at a star-studded launch party in Dublin’s Tripod bar on Harcourt Street, Thursday 28th January, just hours before the box office opening at midnight.  The Irish film industry turned out in its droves to get a first glimpse of the lineup for this year’s festival, which takes place from the 18th – 28th February.

Among the 100 films screening at the festival are a number of Screen Scene posted projects.

The team at Venom Films have had a fantastic festival run for His and Hers, with Kate McCullough and Michael Lavelle picking up the World Cinema - Cinematography Award: Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival this week. The film also won the Best Irish Feature award at the Galway Film Fleadh in July last year. His and Hers presents interviews with women from across the midlands who talk about their experiences and attitudes towards the men in their lives. (Fri 19 Feb / Screen Cinema / 6.40pm)

Brendan Muldowney’s debut feature Savage, which recently signed with Canadian Sales Agent Cinemavault tells the story of a news photographer who, following a vicious assault, drifts into derangement as he changes from a victim to an aggressor obsessed with revenge. (Sat 27 Feb/ Lighthouse Cinema / 6:30pm)

Colin Stafford Clarke’s Broken Tail which was graded by Gary Curran at Screen Scene focuses on one of the rarest and most elusive animals - the Indian tiger. The filmmaker spent almost 600 days filming Broken Tail and his family, one of the most flamboyant tiger cubs he’d ever seen in Rathambhore, one of India’s premier wild tiger preserves. (Sun 21 Feb/ Cineworld/ 2:00pm)

In the shorts section a number of Film Board funded shorts from the Signatures and Shorts Shorts schemes will screen including Rob and Ronan Burke’s Runners, David O’Sullivan’s Moore Street Masala, Liam Gavin’s Jericho, Ian Power’s Dental Breakdown and Mr. Foley, directed by D.A.D.D.Y.

For more info on the full line-up and to book tickets visit http://www.jdiff.com