The Cry of Granuaile - Members' Screening
IFTA MEMBERS' SCREENING
TUESDAY 14th FEBRUARY
Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to host a members’ screening of Dónal Foreman’s The Cry of Granuaile, in consideration at the 2023 IFTA Awards.
“An entirely unique addition to the burgeoning Grace O’Malley canon…Donal Foreman’s playful take collapses the boundaries between history and mythology”
Donald Clarke, The Irish Times
The Cry of Granuaile stars Dale Dickey and Judith Roddy as a grieving American filmmaker and her Irish assistant touring the west of Ireland, researching a film about Granuaile, the legendary 16th century rebel and ‘pirate queen’.
The women develop an uneasy intimacy as they journey towards a remote Atlantic island, where boundaries begin to blur between past and present, myth and history, dream and reality, presenting a wide-eyed American beguiled by Ireland. Filmed on granular 16mm with a swoony orchestral score, the film is playful but assured in its homage to an earlier cinema aesthetic while the film’s locations provide a majestic backdrop to the action.