The Black Guelph, a dark Irish crime thriller centered on Ireland’s Travellers community, has secured a U.S. release.
John Connors’ directorial debut premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival in 2022, where it won both best film honor and the best actor for star Graham Earley. It is billed as the first film from an Irish Travellers’ director to depict the indigenous ethnocultural group, also known as Minceir, which is among the most disadvantaged and discriminated against in Western Europe.
Online film packaging and financing platform Slated.Com has acquired worldwide rights, outside Ireland, to The Black Guelph and has partnered with Entertainment Squad to release the film. Following a limited U.S. theatrical release, which kicked off Friday, March 22, the film will roll out on digital and VOD on June 25.
Earley plays Kanto, a small-time drug dealer from Dublin’s Travellers community desperate to put his life back together...
John Connors’ directorial debut premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival in 2022, where it won both best film honor and the best actor for star Graham Earley. It is billed as the first film from an Irish Travellers’ director to depict the indigenous ethnocultural group, also known as Minceir, which is among the most disadvantaged and discriminated against in Western Europe.
Online film packaging and financing platform Slated.Com has acquired worldwide rights, outside Ireland, to The Black Guelph and has partnered with Entertainment Squad to release the film. Following a limited U.S. theatrical release, which kicked off Friday, March 22, the film will roll out on digital and VOD on June 25.
Earley plays Kanto, a small-time drug dealer from Dublin’s Travellers community desperate to put his life back together...
- 3/25/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The documentary recounts the Debenhams picket strike in 2020
Joe Lee’s 406 Days received the audience award at Dublin International Film Festival after closing the event on Saturday (March 4).
The feature documentary recounts the Debenhams picket strike which took place in April 2020 after 1,000 of the store’s retail workers were made redundant via email. It is produced by Fergus Dowd.
406 Days also picked up best Irish documentary in the Dublin Film Critics Circle (Dfcc) awards and won the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (Iccl) human rights film award.
Runners up for the audience award included Claire Dix’s debut feature Sunlight,...
Joe Lee’s 406 Days received the audience award at Dublin International Film Festival after closing the event on Saturday (March 4).
The feature documentary recounts the Debenhams picket strike which took place in April 2020 after 1,000 of the store’s retail workers were made redundant via email. It is produced by Fergus Dowd.
406 Days also picked up best Irish documentary in the Dublin Film Critics Circle (Dfcc) awards and won the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (Iccl) human rights film award.
Runners up for the audience award included Claire Dix’s debut feature Sunlight,...
- 3/9/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Irish Travellers, Ireland’s indigenous ethnic population, are rarely shown in movies. When they are — think Brad Pitt as the incomprehensible bare-knuckled boxer in Guy Ritchie’s Snatch (2000) — the depiction, says Travellers filmmaker John Connors, is “superficial and patronizing… fucking terrible and insulting to be honest.”
At the same time, the Travellers community remains among the most disadvantaged and discriminated against in Western Europe, a legacy of generations of forced assimilation and active oppression by the Irish state. Part of this includes Ireland’s industrial schools’ program, a nationwide system of reform schools for “neglected, orphaned and abandoned children” that included a large number of Travellers kids. A national inquiry into the industrial schools’ program reported, in 2009, that many children had been subjected to “systematic and sustained physical, sexual and emotional abuse” and that the institutions, most of which were run by the Catholic Church, protected the abusers.
All that...
At the same time, the Travellers community remains among the most disadvantaged and discriminated against in Western Europe, a legacy of generations of forced assimilation and active oppression by the Irish state. Part of this includes Ireland’s industrial schools’ program, a nationwide system of reform schools for “neglected, orphaned and abandoned children” that included a large number of Travellers kids. A national inquiry into the industrial schools’ program reported, in 2009, that many children had been subjected to “systematic and sustained physical, sexual and emotional abuse” and that the institutions, most of which were run by the Catholic Church, protected the abusers.
All that...
- 9/15/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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