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A FILM NOMINATED in the British Short Film category at tonight’s Bafta awards was funded under a scheme that commemorates the 1916 Rising.
The film, The Party, was directed by Northern Irish director Andrea Harkin and stars actors from across the island of Ireland.
The 14-minute long short is about a party that takes place in Belfast in 1972, and has already won a number of awards – including Best Female Director for Harkin – and been selected for festivals worldwide.
Irish Film Board / TwitterCongratulations to IFB-funded short, The Party, on its @BAFTA nomination: https://t.co/vx0v3iSc5P pic.twitter.com/bS7VJmJniV
— Screen Ireland (@ScreenIreland) January 10, 2017
The film, which was written by actor Conor MacNeill (who most recently starred in Jadotville), was funded under the Irish Film Board’s After ’16 project.
The IFB describes After ’16 as:
a once-off initiative which will commemorate, celebrate and ruminate on 1916 and how the events of Easter Sunday and beyond forged the landscape of the century that followed.
Filmmakers were invited to give their response to 1916 and the 100 years since, and IFB production and distribution manager Emma Scott said:
The films are set from the days leading up to the Rising, right through to the Troubles in Belfast and on to present day Ireland. We hope these nine films will resonate as the creative response of Irish filmmakers to the 1916 commemoration.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, an IFB spokesperson said the board is “delighted to see The Party being Bafta-nominated”.
“It is a huge honour for the film. They’ve a Bafta nomination on their CV through the support they have gotten from the IFB and that is exactly what we want our films to receive; that is the type of international recognition we want for them.”
The fact the film was nominated in a British category and has a Northern Irish director and Irish funding is also of interest given that some British awards ceremonies have begun changing the names of categories to reflect Irish nominees.
In 2007, the London Film Critics Circle responded to criticism of Irish or Irish-British filmmakers/actors being included in British categories by amending several award titles to remove the word ‘British’.
The IFB spokesperson said they would love to see the Baftas introducing something similar.
The Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga is also up for an award at tonight’s Baftas - the Rising Star Award. Earlier this month, she received an Oscar nomination for her role as Mildred Loving in the film Loving.
The Baftas will kick off tonight at 7pm and will be available to view on BBC One from 9pm.
A livestream of the red carpet will be broadcast on the awards’ Facebook page, for those who don’t want to miss out on any of the action. The full list of nominees can be read here.
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I don’t see the problem here. I support same sex marriage 100% but it it a free country. This means we all have freedom of speech. There are no wrong opinions. It’s the priest’s choice and rights to express his point of view. He doesn’t have to conform to main stream ideology.
@Tommy Chen: it is the opinion of most people that this priest is an asshat of the highest order.
@Tommy Chen:
Yes, it is a free country etc where people can hold whatever opinions they wish, however, from someone in his position within a community to be inciting such hatred so openly, it only takes one radical Christian lunatic to interpret that message in a particular way and then next we’ll have beatings and killings of homosexuals because “it’s a sin”.
As if the Catholic Church is so sacrosanct in the first place too. It’s been a hotbed of sin over the years with child abuse, mother and baby laundries, illegal adoption, beatings etc . So not only could the priests particular ideologies be interpreted in a particular way, it’s also incredibly hypocritical for him to be condemning something while representing an organisation that has done so much worse.
@Darren Anthony Corr: there’s people in every religion and every profession that did evil thongs to children. This man is entitled to his opinion. Who said anything about hatred only you .
@Jim Casey: things
@Tommy Chen:
Free speech is fine, using your position/platform to express your opinions unbeknownst to your audience….not so ok, which is why so many walked out of the church.
@Jim Casey:
The article in question is relating to comments made by a catholic priest, my comment was in relation to that. Whataboutery isn’t going to work here, it also adds nothing concrete just backs up my point really.
Nice try though.
@Tommy Chen: I agree.
I don’t agree with him at all, but I applaud his conviction to stand over his outdated views, despite the backlash he has brought on himself.
Sinful?
It’s the 21st century. No one believes that stuff any more.
He was only reading out the rule book, problem is they don’t want you quoting the rule book back to them cause it’s bad for PR
I don’t really understand the outrage. Those are the teachings of the Catholic Church. He’s a Catholic priest. If people don’t agree with those ridiculous, outdated beliefs they shouldn’t be part of a club that requires them to hold those beliefs
@Derek Walsh Ⓥ: spreading hate he was , even the powers that be in the Catholic Church are pulling away from that kinda behaviour
Why all the outrage. It’s not the Catholic Church’s job to agree with the prevailing ideology. Their job is to preach Catholic teachings and beliefs. That’s what this priest was doing. That’s what I would want to hear if I went to mass.
@Declan Dalton: the church should practice what they are preaching!!!
Not!!
The same guy put his support behind a sexual offender instead of the victim, He’s a hateful little man and shouldn’t be given the limelight he’s getting to spew his nonsense.
Odd, so many people disgusted with his comments, but still keep signing their kids up to the club. He is only reciting the long held views of his club, especially the leaders of it.
Yes, it is hateful, but you are happy enough to follow them so your kids can get a lovely day out whilst parents flash the largesse.
Hypocrisy on all sides.
He can take his backwards views and opinions and do one. People like that are a relic of the past and that’s where they belong in the past.
It used to be married couples who were told everything they did between the sheets was a sin. Now it’s same sex couples getting the “it’s a sin” treatment. I wish they’d just leave consenting adults to do as they please and concentrate their wrath on the real evil of sexual predators who prey on innocent children and shout about how sinful that is from the pulpit.
Selective reading and selective interpretation of the bible is the seed for disturbing individuals.
If the church has rules I think that’s fair enough and you either decide to follow the rules or not! But I think that it’s hilarious that the church can’t respect their own rules! Same-sex couples can’t marry in a church but heterosexual couples who are not allowed to have sex before marriage can get married in a church and even bring along their kids as proof that they did indeed have sex and have them even participate in the ceremony as flower girls etc. The church are a joke.
No mention of child sex abuse being a sin.
You’d be worried by those lads who think they have a direct line…..
He should be sacked from his job…
A belief system is something you can be almost be garanteed to be wrong about, unless it is backed up with an evidence based system.
Is sex with oneself a sin ?
Only because its been reported do I know about the comments and I care less about it if I never heard about it
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