Notes From Sheepland
Farmers don’t get a lot of visibility in film, at least not as people telling their own stories. That’s hard to do when farms themselves demand so much time and attention and force a strict schedule. Orla Barry, however, is a rare breed, a farmer who is also an artist, having developed an art career in brussels before moving back to Ireland to take over her father’s farm. Cara Holmes is a filmmaker, and when the two of them connected, a unique collaboration was born. Notes From Sheepland recently screened at Docs Ireland 2023, and I met up with the two women to discuss it, beginning by asking how they met.
“I think it was through Liz Burns, a mutual friend of ours,” says Cara. “Liz Burns is an arts manager – there are different arts officers around the country and and so we have mutual friends.
Farmers don’t get a lot of visibility in film, at least not as people telling their own stories. That’s hard to do when farms themselves demand so much time and attention and force a strict schedule. Orla Barry, however, is a rare breed, a farmer who is also an artist, having developed an art career in brussels before moving back to Ireland to take over her father’s farm. Cara Holmes is a filmmaker, and when the two of them connected, a unique collaboration was born. Notes From Sheepland recently screened at Docs Ireland 2023, and I met up with the two women to discuss it, beginning by asking how they met.
“I think it was through Liz Burns, a mutual friend of ours,” says Cara. “Liz Burns is an arts manager – there are different arts officers around the country and and so we have mutual friends.
- 6/25/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cph:dox, the Danish documentary film festival, has cancelled its opening night gala after Denmark’s government responded to the growing spread of coronavirus by asking organizers to pull events featuring more than 1,000 people. The event had been due to kick off with a screening of Kenneth Sorento’s The Fight For Greenland. The festival will otherwise go ahead as planned, with heightened hygiene procedures, unless the government introduces more severe measures to combat Covid-19, organizers said in a statement today.
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day scooping the audience award. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’s Confucian Dream won in the Documentary Competition,...
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day scooping the audience award. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’s Confucian Dream won in the Documentary Competition,...
- 3/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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