Korea

IRL, 1995, 87mins Dir: Cathal Black

Actors: Andrew Scott, Donal Donnelly, Fiona Molony, Siobhán Dooney

With an adaptation on the way of John McGahern’s final novel That They May Face the Rising Sun, we take the opportunity to reprise our first Adaptation in 2005 with a screening of Korea, adapted by director Cathal Black and Joe O’Byrne (who will introduce the film) from the three-page McGahern short story of the same title.

A powerful story featuring Andrew Scott in one of his first screen appearances. Korea tells of the relationship between father (Donnelly) and son (Scott). It is set in rural Cavan during the 1950's, a period of mass emigration and social change. Young Irish emigrants, on arriving in America, have been enlisted and sent to fight in the Korean War. But there is also a harking back to past divisions in the Irish Civil War, one hundred years ago. Korea was filmed in Dromahair and in Bawnboy, County Cavan.

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Getting there:
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Kings

IRL, 2007, 88mins Dir: Tom Collins

Actors: Donal O'Kelly, Colm Meaney, Brendan Conroy

Director Tommy Collins, who recently passed away, directs an important milestone in the development of Irish language cinema. Kings is adapted from Jimmy Murphy’s celebrated stage play Kings of the Kilburn High Road, a story set among London’s exile Conamara community of navvies.

Playwright Jimmy Murphy and lead actor Donal O’Kelly will participate in a post-screening discussion.

Tom Collins (1950-2022) passed away in July leaving a significant body of work.  He grew up in Derry's Bogside and like many people of his generation he became politically active in his teens. He was then part of a proactive movement in Derry in the mid 1980s to move beyond conflict and the marginalisation of his community, becoming a founding member of Derry Film and Video. He produced Hush-a-Bye (1989), Margo Harkin's debut feature film and The Bishop's Story (directed by the ground-breaking Irish language director Bob Quinn) before embarking on a prolific directing career including Bogwoman (1997), closely based on his mother's life-journey from Urris in Donegal to Derry; Teenage Kicks told the story of Derry band The Undertones. We are delighted to screen Kings, the work of which he was most proud.

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Getting there:
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An Encounter, from James Joyce Dubliners short story collection by Mark O’Halloran and directed by Kelly Campbell, featuring Leitrim actor Gary Lydon. Two young boys have their innocence betrayed.

Followed by the premiere in cinema of J.M. Synge’s In The Shadow of the Glen, adapted by Jocelyn Clarke and directed by Niall Henry Featuring a number of Blue Raincoat Theatre Company regulars Sandra O’Malley, John Carty and Ciarán McCauley.

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Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

Poetry into Film

Screenings of work from poets Alice Lyons, Donal Conaty and Stephen Murphy and filmmakers and animators Eva Martin, Orla McHardy and Johnny Gogan who discuss their work in film poems. Programme introduced by writer and publisher Brian Leyden of Lepus Print who will discuss the work with the participating artists.

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For further information on all events:
086 317 3075 or contact adaptation@banditfilms.ie

Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

Screenwriting with Joe O'Byrne: Session 3 

Participation is free, but is limited to 10 Participants

Adaptation present a wide-ranging screenwriting workshop with Joe O’ Byrne. The workshop - with three sessions over three days - is suitable for any writers, filmmakers or theatre practitioners who would like to know more about the screenwriting process or who have in mind a pre-existing text they would like to adapt for the screen.

The workshop will introduce participants to how to structure a screenplay and the importance of characterisation, plot, story arc, and genre. It will also look at adaptation of a pre-existing text: a short story, a documentary account, a novel  and explore the various difficulties and challenges. Following the workshop participants will have a clearer idea of how to go about writing an original screenplay as well as adapting and using the work of another author creatively and respectfully. 

Joe O'Byrne is a playwright, screenwriter and director. He has lectured on Dublin City

University's MA in Film. He wrote, with director Cathal Black, the screenplay for the film Korea, an adaptation from John Mc Gahern's shortstory which will be screened as the Closing Film for Adaptation.

For Booking: https://glenscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows

For further information on all events:
086 317 3075 or contact adaptation@banditfilms.ie

Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

Foscadh

IRL 2022, 93mins Dir: Seán Breathnach

Actors: Dónall Ó hÉalaí, Fionnuala Flaherty, Cillian Ó Gairbhí

In his feature debut, Seán Breathnach adapts Donal Ryan’s novel The Thing About December and translates it from English and the novel's Midlands setting to Irish and the rugged Conamara landscape. Foscadh (Shelter)t ells the story of naïve recluse John Cunliffe who is suddenly propelled into manhood at the ripe old age of 28. When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless John inherits mountain land that is in the way of a lucrative wind-farm development, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of romance, trust and vengeance for the first time…

Director and Screenwriter Seán Breathnach discusses the adaptation process with publisher (Drumlin Publications) and theatre director Prin Duignan.

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Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

An opportunity for film goers and practitioners in the region to meet for some sustenance in advance of the day's closing film.

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Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

Brian Moore in Focus

Patricia Craig, author of Brian Moore: A Biography got to know the author well in the latter years of his life. She discusses the Belfast writer with Dr. Keith Hopper of Atlantic Technical University's Writing and Literature programme.

"Brian Moore was the author of twenty magnificent novels, including The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Black Robe and The Magician’s Wife. The winner of numerous literary awards, he baffled contemporaries with his literary feats and yet remained a highly accessible novelist - one who could wield a marvellous plot, create characters that would burst into life, and who could kindle atmospheres of haunting tension, historical vividness or metaphysical mystery. Northern Ireland may have shaped him, but World War II took him to Africa and war-ravaged Europe, and Canada finally freed him to become a writer…"

From Brian Moore,  A Biography, By Patricia Craig

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An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl 

IRL 2022, 94mins, Dir. Colm Bairéad  

Actors: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett

An Irish-language adaptation of the acclaimed story, Foster, written by Claire Keegan in which a young girl (Clinch) is sent to stay with relatives (Crowley and Bennett) who, despite being better off, carry their own heavy burden which the young girl helps to lift. 

First published in the New Yorker and declared “Best of the Year” by the magazine, the story was expanded by Keegan and published as a standalone novella. The film has excelled critically and at the Irish box-office before being nominated for the Oscar long-list in the Best Foreign Language category.

Actress Carrie Crowley discusses with Johnny Gogan her perspective on the adaptation process involved and her lead role in the film

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086 317 3075 or contact adaptation@banditfilms.ie

Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

An introduction for filmmakers and cinematographers to the newly acquired Creative Heartland camera equipment to be housed in Manorhamilton as a resource for the film community.

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For further information on all events:
086 317 3075 or contact adaptation@banditfilms.ie

Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

Screenwriting with Joe O'Byrne: Session 2 

Participation is free, but is limited to 10 Participants

Adaptation present a wide-ranging screenwriting workshop with Joe O’ Byrne. The workshop - with three sessions over three days - is suitable for any writers, filmmakers or theatre practitioners who would like to know more about the screenwriting process or who have in mind a pre-existing text they would like to adapt for the screen.

The workshop will introduce participants to how to structure a screenplay and the importance of characterisation, plot, story arc, and genre. It will also look at adaptation of a pre-existing text: a short story, a documentary account, a novel  and explore the various difficulties and challenges. Following the workshop participants will have a clearer idea of how to go about writing an original screenplay as well as adapting and using the work of another author creatively and respectfully. 

Joe O'Byrne is a playwright, screenwriter and director. He has lectured on Dublin City

University's MA in Film. He wrote, with director Cathal Black, the screenplay for the film Korea, an adaptation from John Mc Gahern's shortstory which will be screened as the Closing Film for Adaptation.

For Booking: https://glenscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows

For further information on all events:
086 317 3075 or contact adaptation@banditfilms.ie

Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

Black Robe

Canada/Australia 1991, 101mins, Dir: Bruce Beresford Screenplay: Brian Moore

Actors: Lothar Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt

Built in the same decade as this story is set, Manorhamilton Castle provides the perfect location for our Opening Film.

In 1635, a Jesuit missionary (Bluteau) nicknamed Black Robe by the Algonquin with whom he travels into the vast landscape of Canada in search of fellow missionaries, faces mistrust, a crisis of faith and Iroquois warring parties. 

Screening preceded by an introduction from director Bruce Beresford. 

While this is a FREE SCREENING booking is essential 

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For further information on all events:
086 317 3075 or contact adaptation@banditfilms.ie

Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie

Launch Event Manorhamilton Castle (Fulacht Fiadh Café)

Screenwriting with Joe O'Byrne: Session 1 

Participation is free, but is limited to 10 Participants

Adaptation present a wide-ranging screenwriting workshop with Joe O’ Byrne. The workshop - with three sessions over three days - is suitable for any writers, filmmakers or theatre practitioners who would like to know more about the screenwriting process or who have in mind a pre-existing text they would like to adapt for the screen.

The workshop will introduce participants to how to structure a screenplay and the importance of characterisation, plot, story arc, and genre. It will also look at adaptation of a pre-existing text: a short story, a documentary account, a novel  and explore the various difficulties and challenges. Following the workshop participants will have a clearer idea of how to go about writing an original screenplay as well as adapting and using the work of another author creatively and respectfully. 

Joe O'Byrne is a playwright, screenwriter and director. He has lectured on Dublin City

University's MA in Film. He wrote, with director Cathal Black, the screenplay for the film Korea, an adaptation from John Mc Gahern's shortstory which will be screened as the Closing Film for Adaptation.

For Booking: https://glenscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows

For further information on all events:
086 317 3075 or contact adaptation@banditfilms.ie

Getting there:
There are now regular bus services to Manorhamilton from Sligo and Enniskillen see www.getthere.ie