August 2024: Birthday Party!
- The Peoples' Picturehouse Cork
- Nov 24, 2024
- 3 min read
On August 28th, we celebrated the anniversary of the People’s Picturehouse with our special Birthday Party showcase! Along with a fantastic mix of films, we hosted an awards ceremony, nominating standout projects from the past year and recognizing the incredible talent in our community. Where the films are not available online, we suggest getting in contact with the creators if you’d like to view them.
Award Winners
Best Documentary - Vonnie Ireland's Forgotten Fashion Icon
Best Music Video - Intergalatic Party Monster (dir. Bjornism)
Best Horror - Hysterics (dir. Pia Roycroft)
Best Comedy Wireless (dir. Brian Benjamin Dwyer)
Best Animation - Boopie's Quest (dir. Shane Kelleher)
Best Student Work - End of the Line (dir. Shane Kelleher)
Performer of the Year - Sam Torres (Various)
My Sister's Nature / Bella Quinn
Cast & Crew
Directed by: Bella Quinn
Storyboard, Layouts, Backgrounds & Visual Development: Bella Quinn
Sound: Fionn Hibbert & Arthur Gray
Animation: Vasiliki Zafeiri Ailbhe Fearon Noseh Okojie Conor Duke Daniel Pong Tania Stokes Fiadh Heasman Mina Mijatovic Anthea Ring Tessa Barry Gallagher Anya Grigoreva
Voice Acting: Laoise Mei Landers Horne
On a quiet farm, identical twin sisters are inseparable. When one is lured into a forest by a mysterious force, the other faces a tough decision: follow the darkness to stay with her sister or let her go.
The Walking Dead Deluxe Edition: Volume 1 Issue 1 / Callan Buckley
Cast & Crew
Director/Producer/Video Editor - Callan Buckley
Creator/Writer - Robert Kirkman
Illustrator - Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard
Colourist - Dave McCaig.
Publisher - Image Comics.
Space Junk - Wang Chung.
Space Junk Cover - Jinokoya.
Soundtrack By - Bear McCreary & Jared Emerson-Johnson.
Cast
Rick Grimes - Kailynn Harbert
Morgan Jones - Keep.
Duane Jones - Keep.
Shane Walsh - Anthony McDowell
Reggie - Kailynn Harbert.
Hannah (Bicycle Girl) - Callan Buckley.
The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living...
Nothing To Be Done / Conor & Jamie Hooper
Cast & Crew
Directed by Conor & Jamie Hooper
Produced by Conor Montague, Conor & Jamie Hooper
Starring: Emmet Byrne
Written by Conor Montague
Director of Photography: Lakshika Serasihne
Original Score: Tobias Barry
Adapted by Conor Montague from his award-winning poem, "Nothing to be Done" is part monologue, part tone poem, a lament to lost friends, and an elegiac reflection on memory, place, and the city of Galway.
How'd you get on last night? / Graham & David McSweeney (McSweeney Films)
Cast & Crew
Starring, Written and Directed by Graham & David McSweeney
A man asks his hungover roommate how his night out went.
ar siúl – in motion / Benjamin Rupprecht
Cast & Crew
Director, Editor: Benjamin Rupprecht
The experimental short film, ar siúl – in motion“ was produced for the "Archives and Appropriation“ seminar, held by Ciara Chambers as part of the MA Film and Screen Media of University College Cork. The rights to reuse the film material were provided by Northern Ireland Screen: Digital Film Archive and Make Film History project as well as Reuters Screen Ocean.
The film illustrates the development from manual labor to industrialisation, the increased speed and dehumanisation of production procedures and the risks of uncontrolled growths purely through the use of film extracts from Irish and British archive material. The climatic evolution of the experimental documentary is accompanied by the ever prominent melodies of the Uilleann Pipes, which where improvised and recorded specificaly for the short film.
Password: uilleannpipes
Second Place - Madam / Ian Gubbins
Cast & Crew
Lead Actor - Adam O Donovan
Directed and Edited by Ian Gubbins
First AD - Emily Donoghue
Madam descends into the chaos of his mind trying to reconcile the feeling that he never comes out on top.
MONOCHROME MENACE!! / Emmet O' Brien
Cast & Crew
Directed and Produced by Emmet O' Brien
A couple watch a 50s B movie which seems awfully alien to them...
Leahy / Mícheál Meenan
Cast & Crew
Directed by Mícheál Meenan
Music used: Wike Schippers - Things, Strange Things
A visual and musical exploration of the complicated emotions surrounding loss, family and Dementia.
Parts Lost & Found / Tatiana Kozar
Cast & Crew
Director: Doreen Manning
Producer: Daniel Kiniry
Starring: Daniel Kiniry & Mike O'Dowd
Screenplay: Mike O'Dowd, Emma O'Mahony, Daniel Kiniry & Doreen Manning
Director of Photography: Emma O'Mahony
Gaffer: Lee Coakley & Doreen Manning
Audio: Ciaran Irwin
Editor: Doreen Manning
Parts Lost & Found is an animated short focusing on the ever changing relationships between family, friends, and places. The short follows a young girl who had just moved back to her old hometown in Poland and her feelings of unfamiliarity towards things that are familiar.
