Short films to get wider audience
A host of Irish film shorts are set to make it onto screens across the world, it emerged today.
Ian Power’s film, The Wonderful World of Kelvin Kind, will gather a vast audience when it is played before Warner Bros new blockbuster Constantine starring Keanu Reeves.
“This is what it is all about – terrific films getting out there to audiences at home and abroad in productive partnerships of talent, public sector financing, distributors and sales agents,” Mark Woods, the Irish Film Board’s chief executive, said.
“It is a testament to the broad range of talent we have in this country and we are delighted that this new and emerging talent is being discovered all over the world.”
Director Power tells the tale of Kelvin Kind, who goes about his business blissfully unaware of his own loneliness.
However, after a beautiful girl moves into a nearby apartment he comes to realise that love is not always fair for the nice guys.
Other Irish shorts, which were funded by the IFB, have been gaining international recognition.
Edith Pieperhoff’s beautiful short, The Skeleton Woman, was given a special mention at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, while Peter Foott’s, The Carpenter and his Clumsy Wife, was selected to play at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York next month.
A number of Irish films have been sold to overseas buyers including Stephen Burke’s Boris, which was bought by Universal Italy, and PBS in San Francisco snapping up Brian O’Malley’s Screwback.
Other short films, including David Gleeson’s Hunted and No, No, No, directed by Stephen Bradley, will be broadcast on TV3 next month.
