When a film producer contacted a Wexford company enquiring about hiring quads, it resulted in a local woman and her teenage cousin taking the lead roles in a short movie which is to be shown as part of Dublin International Film Festival opening this week.
Twenty-five-year-old Kate Cullen and her 17-year-old cousin Guevara Hughes play two sisters in 4x4 , a film written and directed by Ayla Amano and produced by Aishling Malone.
In 1998, Kate s farm-based family started the business that is now Quadventure and Guevara is her younger cousin who lives nearby in Killegney, Clonroche.
Looking for land and quads to use for the film, the producer did a Google search and found Quadventure before getting in contact with the Cullens.
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Colin Farrell - You d be lying if I said there wasn t a distinct form of national pride any time you get to do anything in the name of our island
Colin Farrell has told the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival that he has always felt he is representing Ireland in some way when travelling abroad to make films, and that people have always been really decent when he returns home.
Farrell joined festival director Gráinne Humphreys on Thursday to share his memories of his numerous visits to the festival over the years, including his triumphant homecoming with breakthrough film
By 2008, Farrell was back in Dublin â for the screening of In Bruges at the Savoy cinema, to be precise â with writer-director Martin McDonagh and co-stars Brendan Gleeson and Clemence Poesy.
âIt was a very special experience shooting the film. To have Martin, who wrote and directed the film, and to have me and Brendan who was at the time and remains one of my favourite actors and favourite human beings â to have that experience with [those] lads and to bring it home, was very, very special,â Farrell recalls.
By that year, Farrell had also quit drugs and alcohol.
âMy life was different by that time,â Farrell recalls. âIn Bruges was the second or third I did sober and this was one of the first film festivals where I was sober,â Farrell adds.
); For Sheriff Street to be seen outside of Ireland in a positive light, it feels like a dream
Artist Gemma Dunleavy features in Playback, a showcase premiering at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival this Sunday. By Adam Daly Wednesday 3 Mar 2021, 7:30 PM Mar 3rd 2021, 7:30 PM 36,792 Views 4 Comments
“IF YOU GOOGLE Sheriff Street or North Wall you don’t get any positive stories,” says Gemma Dunleavy, the Dublin songwriter, producer and rising star whose work is reclaiming the narrative of her close-knit community.
Her single Up De Flats is one of 12 music videos that feature in a new project showcasing the work of artists across the hip hop and R&B spectrum in Ireland.