Looking for something to do this weekend? Then why not go along to see what the Jameson International Film Festival has to offer.
Saturday Highlights:
11am - Savoy
This 70 minute portrait of Joanne O’Riordan, one of a handful of people in the world born with no arms and no legs as a result of a rare syndrome called ‘Total Amelia’. This intimate family portrait, directed by her brother Steven, documents a life lived without limbs but, more than that, it’s a warm character study of a very special individual. As Joanne bravely faces her battles, we realise it is not her disability that makes her unique but her spirit and heart.
7pm – Light House Cinema
Maud Hendricks, working as a collaborative artist within the community, creates a series of film portraits of local people against the background of an estate on the brink of demolition, duration 35 minutes. This is no ordinary documentary film but rather a piece of work where the boundaries of the theatrical and the real are tested.
Sunday Highlights:
1.30pm - Light House Cinema
This personal documentary is a comprehensive exploration of the life of musician/inventor/visionary Raymond Scott. Swing music, electronica, music for films, Warner Brothers animation, records, TV and radio – Raymond Scott created all this and much more. Presented from the unique perspective of Stan Warnow, his film-maker son, the film is also a personal quest to unravel the timeless fabric of love, connection and rejection that are a part of every parent-child relationship.
Winner, Gold Medal Award, Park City Film Music Festival
Winner, Best Documentary Feature Award, Atlantic City Film Festival
2pm - Cineworld
A New Zealand dairy farmer turned time-lapse photographer who for over ten years has documented life in Antarctica to create this portrait of life lived in the most isolated of environments, all in a 92 minute running time.
Powell interviews the ordinary workers of Antarctica who voluntarily remain trapped throughout the winter after the last plane leaves the continent. During these coldest months they somehow maintain good spirits as they deal with unimaginably extreme weather, living far from their loved ones and without sunshine for four months.
