Caroline E. Farrell's Blog, page 22
September 9, 2015
IN RIBBONS: Festival Screenings Updates
OFFICIAL SELECTION
CLARE ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL 2015
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UNDERGROUND CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL 2015
Nominated for Best Cinematography [Basil Al Rawi]
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OFFICIAL SELECTION
CORTI Da SOGNI. RAVENNA, ITALY 2015
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FASTNET FILM FESTIVAL 2015
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BELFAST FILM FESTVAL 2015
September 7, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: MISS EMILY
Nuala O’Connor’s latest novel, Miss Emily offers a compelling storyline that unfolds with an unlikely friendship developing between a young Irish girl, Ada Concannon, eighteen years-old, and just emigrated from Ireland, and the serious, reclusive wordsmith, Emily Dickinson.
Fiction enriched by a factual, female legend of poetry, the novel is as precise as I would imagine the Dickinson character to be – with the depth ofEmily’s intelligence and empathy secreting gently as the intertwining tal...
September 4, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: THE VISIT
Though in truth, I was disappointed with Lady in the Water (2006)and The Happening (2008)[what was that?!] I have long been a fan of
Mom, there’s something wrong...
August 31, 2015
IONA’S HOUSE: Fantasmagorical!
Delighted to say that my feature screenplay, IONA’S HOUSE, an urban ghost story,
has won
BEST OF THE FEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY AWARD
at the
Film Festival 2015
August 30, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Sean Ryan
Sean Ryan, from Waterford,has written numerous short and feature-length scripts.He has also worked as a writer-for-hire on adaptations and as a script doctor on feature screenplays. His films Revenge (Action/Western)andThe Lunch Break (Black comedy)screened at the opening day in Cannes Le Marché du Film festival 2013, and along with Choices(Drama/Thriller) have won awards at The Cinerockom International Film Festival, 2013. Choicesalso won best narrative short at the Cannes Artisan Festival a...
August 28, 2015
Blog Awards Ireland: The Longlist
Delighted to be on the Blog Awards Ireland longlist forBest Arts and Culture Blog2015!
August 24, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: Mysterious Snapshots and Peculiar Children…
When his grandfather is found dead in horrific and mysterious circumstances, sixteen year-old Jacob Portman’s world is turned upside down.Embarking on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children…and life for Jacob will never be the same.
Every now and then it’s good for the soul to escape into the world of fantasy. For adults and teens alike, author and filmmaker, Ransom Riggs’ first fiction novel, Miss P...
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Len Collin
Len Collin was born in London and has lived in Ireland. He trained as a professional actor at Arts Educational Drama School, London and is also a production and Direction MA graduate of the Huston Film School, Galway, Ireland. Len started writing for the theatre in the early nineties. His award-winning play Box, set during the first Gulf War and WWI, brought him to the attention of TV producers and he began writing for that medium. In 2010 he wrote, directed and produced the award-winning Iri...
August 17, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Nuala Ní Chonchúirwas born in Dublin,and lives in East Galway. She has published four short story collections, the most recentMother Americaappeared from New Island in 2012. Nuala’s critically acclaimed second novelThe Closet of Savage Mementosappeared in 2014, also from New Island; it was shortlisted for the Kerry Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015.Under the name Nuala O’Connor, Penguin USA, Penguin Canada and Sandstone (UK) published Nuala’s third novel,Miss Emily, about the poet Emily Dick...
August 16, 2015
A Solitary Fantasy…
Originally posted on carolinefarrell:
My love of writing is turning me into an unsocial being. Iam slowly growing toaccept this, but what a dilemma!
On so many levels, we need to connect with the people and the world we live it, and yet, when the muse comes, we also need to be able to shut the world out, even to the point of missing precious time spent with our friends andloved ones.
Of course, if these relationships are solid, the support of our aspirations will be securely at our backs, bu...
