Song of Granite, a film by Pat Collins, long listed for this year's Oscar Foreign Language Awards is coming to cinemas from the 8th of December.
Tracing the life of the sean nós singer, Joe Éinniú, the film, first shown in Texas at SXSW has received critical acclaim. Variety magazine suggests "no familiarity with Heaney, who passed away in 1984, is required to bask in the film’s cultivated, cloudy melancholia, though it’ll resonate most deeply with audiences in the global Irish diaspora."
Ag Oireachtas na Samhna i mbliana, labhair muid le duine de scríbhneoirí na scripte, Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde faoi scannán an tábhacht a bhaineann lena thaispeáint ag féile mhór na nGael.
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Pearsa casta ab ea Seosamh Ó hÉanaigh nó Joe Éinniú agus déanann an scannán beathaisnéise seo ón stiúrthóir aitheanta Pat Collins (Silence) cur síos ar mar a bhain Joe cáil amach mar amhránaí sean-nóis, agus ar an tslí a ndeachaigh na hamhráin a thug sé leis óna óige i gConamara i bhfeidhm go mór air. Ba iad Collins, Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde, agus Sharon Whooley a scríobh an script, agus fuair an scannán a chéad taispeántas ar an ardán domhanda ag an SXSW Film Festival. Bhain an scannán gradam amach don Cineamatagrafaíocht Is Fearr (Richard Kendrick) ag Fleadh Scannán na Gaillimhe 2017.
Ba iad Alan Maher agus Jessie Fisk ó Marcie Films i gcomhar le Martin Paul-Hus ó Amerique Film a léirigh an scannán, le tacaíocht ó Bhord Scannán na hÉireann, Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann, agus TG4, agus le rannpháirtíocht airgeadais ón Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles – Québec, agus Téléfilm Canada.
The Oscar foreign language shortlist will be unveiled January 5.
