13/05/2011

Cannes is underway and Ireland is well represented with Paolo Sorrentino’s Irish/Italian coproduction This Must Be the Place [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Sorrentino
film profile] in official competition and Rebecca Daly’s The Other Side of Sleep [+see also:
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interview: Antonia Campbell-Huges
film profile] in the Directors' Fortnight.

There is also a strong Irish presence in the Market, where John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard [+see also:
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interview: John Michael McDonagh
film profile], Ian Palmer’s Knuckle, Dieter Auner’s Off the Beaten Track, Shane O’Sullivan’s Children of the Revolution, Legends of Valhalla: Thor [+see also:
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film profile] by Toby Genkel, Oskar Jonasson and Gunnar Karsson, Rodrigo Garcia’s Albert Nobbs [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], Ian Power’s The Runway [+see also:
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film profile]; Jon Wright’s The Grabbers [+see also:
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film profile], Agnes Merlet’s Hideaways [+see also:
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film profile] and Paul Fraser’s My Brothers are all screening and selling.

The cream of the Irish industry is present in the Irish Pavilion, which is set up to promote the Irish film to the international community, to market Ireland as a destination for large international film projects and to provide business support for the Irish industry.

Irish Film Board Marketing and Communications Executive Louise Ryan said, “The market is a key destination for anyone looking to source finance for their upcoming feature films, and provides an opportunity for Ireland’s leading film producers, executives, film festivals, broadcasters and film agencies to meet with international film financiers, sales agents and film distributors in order to get their films made, sold and seen across the world.”