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Catalyst Project film ‘Eamon’ selected for Festival Nouveau Cinema in Canada
The Irish feature film EAMON directed by Margaret Corkery has been selected to screen at the Festival Nouveau Cinema in Montreal next week.
Starring Darren Healy (LOVE IS THE DRUG, ONCE, SAVAGE) and new-comers Amy Kirwan and Robert Donnelly in the lead roles, EAMON is written and directed by Margaret Corkery under the CATALYST PROJECT feature film scheme. The film tells the story of Eamon, a little boy with behavioral problems and the destructive relationship of his parents and is produced by Seamus Byrne in Zanita Films.
The Festival Nouveau Cinema, Montreal is in its 38th year will screen 250 films from 48 countries over a ten day period (7th October - 18th October).
CATALYST PROJECT was devised by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, Screen Training Ireland, Filmbase, The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, TV3 and the Arts Council to mentor filmmakers in the art of low-budget filmmaking and fund successful participants to produce a feature film. The initiative takes as its inspiration recent Irish low budget films which have achieved major international success: John Carney’s Once, which won the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007; Lenny Abrahamson’s Adam and Paul which was selected for Panorama at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival; and Perry Ogden’s Pavee Lackeen, which premiered in Critics Week at the Venice Film Festival, also in 2005.
