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Mary
Shelley
Lost &
Found
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July 13
rish writer/director Liam O Mochain’s 3rd feature film Lost & Found is a film with seven interconnecting stories set in and around the lost & found office of an Irish train station. All segments are inspired by true stories, and have characters that come in and out of each other’s lives.
Daniel tries desperately to hold on to his newly acquired job in the lost & found office. Eddie begs in the train station; every day he has a different story. Gabriel plans to surprise his girlfriend by proposing. A grandmother asks her grandson to retrieve a bracelet that she buried as a child in the garden of her childhood home in Poland. Moya visits a funeral home and signs the book of condolences not realising the consequences. Paudge, a cranky pub owner, keeps redecorating his bar, but no matter how many grand openings he has, the locals stay away. Sile has set a date for her wedding – not having a groom won’t stop her!
The ensemble cast includes Aoibhin Garrihy, Liam Carney, Norma Sheahan , Sean Flanagan, Anthony Morris, Seamus Hughes, Barbara Adair, Brendan Conroy, Tom O Suilleabhain, Olga Wehrly,, Diarmuid Noyes, Liam O Mochain, Lynette Callaghan, Daniel Costelloe, and Donncha Crowley.
July
6
Haifaa Al-Mansour's Mary Shelley is a biopic of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, co-produced by Parallel Films (Brooklyn). The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
Teenager Mary dreams of writing but has yet to find inspiration. When she meets poet Percy Shelley, it is love at first sight. But Percy has his secrets, he is married with a child. Setting up home together, Mary soon becomes pregnant with Percy’s child, a daughter who tragically dies. Ostracised by polite society and grieving for their child, they escape from London and Percy introduces Mary to Lord Byron at his house in Lake Geneva. On a stormy night, Byron suggests they all write a ghost story. Mary gives birth to Frankenstein’s Monster. It is brilliant, but women don’t write books, and publishers won’t print them. And so Mary fights for her creature and her identity, all at the age of eighteen.
The film stars Elle Fanning as Mary and Douglas Booth as Percy, alongside Maisie Williams, Bel Powley, Joanne Froggatt, Tom Sturridge, and Stephen Dillane. Al-Mansour directs from a script co-written with Emma Jensen and Conor McPherson. Alan Moloney and Ruth Coady produce for Parallel Films, with Amy Baer of Gidden Media. DoP is David Ungaro, Production Design comes from the legendary Paki Smith, and Room's Nathan Nugent edits with Alex Mackie.