98 CinÉireann / January 2018
Dirty God is the new feature film from Hemel director Sacha Polak.
Alienated from her young daughter after an acid attack that leaves her facially disfigured Jade finds solace in hedonistic partying and anonymous internet sex.
Dirty God is co-written by Polak and Northern Irish writer Suzanne Farrell. Polak won the FIPRESCI Award at Berlin International Film Festival in 2013 for Hemel, as well as the CICAE Art Cinema Award in 2015 for Best Film for Zurich.
The film is being produced by Marleen Slot of Viking Film, Mike Elliott of Emu Film, A Private View. and Savage Productions. It received support from the BFI Development Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, and the Irish Film Board.
DIRTY GOD
DIR: SACHA POLAK
PRO: SAMSON FILMS
HAUNTED
DIR: MAURICE SWEENEY
PRO: NEW DECADE FILMS
Haunted is a new feature documentary from director Maurice Sweeney.
Sweeney is a four-time IFTA-winning director best known for his work on documentaries Cromwell in Ireland, Flann O Brien: The Lives of Brian, The Irish of 9/11 and WB Yeats No Country for Old Men. He has also directed the docu-dramas Saving the Titanic and Trial of the Century.
Haunted is being produced by New Decade Films, with support from the Irish Film Board.
ROSE PLAYS JULIE
DIR: DESPERATE OPTIMISTS
PRO: SAMSON FILMS
Rose Plays Julie is the latest feature from from writer/directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, who form the creative partnership Desperate Optimists.
Their film tells the tale of an adopted girl who seeks out her birth mother only to be told her mother has no desire to meet her. Undeterred she sets out from Dublin to London in an effort to confront her birth mother, and face her own identity.
Desperate Optimists most recently gave us the documentary Further Beyond which looked at the compelling 18th Century figure, Ambrose O’Higgins - father of Bernardo O’Higgins, the first leader of Independent Chile.
Rose Plays Julie is produced by Samson Films with support from the Irish Film Board and the BFI.
UNDER THE CLOCK
DIR: COLM NICELL & GARRY WALSH
PRO: SNACKBOX FILMS
Clery's clock on Dublin's O'Connell Street is a landmark of legend. Snackbox Films hope to immortalise it in their latest documentary Under The Clock.
Under The Clock will tell the fascinating stories of a whole generation of people from all over Ireland whose relationships began under one of Ireland’s most iconic landmarks, the Clery’s clock. The clock has been a firm fixture on Dublin’s O’Connell Street since the 1920’s and it served as an ideal rendezvous point in the nation’s bustling capital. This iconic landmark became so popular that people began to use the phrase; “I’ll meet you under the clock”.
Produced by Snackbox Films (Older Than Ireland), with the support of the Irish Film Board.