The annual knees-up, booze-up and sometime film festival that is The Galway Film Fleadh is upon us. It starts today, but as always, only gathers pace towards the weekend. The programme is rich and diverse so hopefully some people will actually leave the bar in the Rowing Club to see some films. The Fleadh is different from a lot of festivals, mainly because Galway is so small and for the week that's in it, there's a sense of it taking over the town. While the Dublin International Film Festival is very much an audience festival, Galway, with its film fair, awards night, pitching competition and numerous masterclasses has more of an industry feel to it.
For this reason, the shorts are always a draw down in Galway since half the industry is still in the proverbial waiting room that is short filmmaking, but the main attractions are always the world premieres of the new Irish films. Check out the trailers for the stylish/stylised Anton and the low-budget love story Satellites and Meteorites, starring everyone's favourite secretary this side of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Amy Huberman (yer wan from the clinic! keep up at the back).
Aside from those two, we're looking forward to Ian Fitzgibbon's A Film With Me In It, starring a trio of stand-up comedians in Dylan Moran , Mark Doherty and David O'Doherty (Those guys are brothers! What's with Mark dropping the 'O' - Damn you Equity!). This one premiered at Edinburgh recently and generated some good buzz with a glowing review in Variety.
The hero that is Gerry Stembridge is also premiering his latest film, a thriller entitled Alarm starring Ruth Bradley, daughter of Charlotte. Stembridge will never have to apologise for anything after Scrap Saturday. Hopefully these can all be squeezed in between pints in the Rowing Club and general swanning about Galway. Just don't hold us to it if the weather is good.
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