New Short films from Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon (SLR)
5.00pm – Glens Centre Main
Premier screening of the three winners of this year’s SLR/NTA/ Adaptation Bursary Award:
Bláithín Gallagher - with Beneath the Quiet a twenty-first century take on The Lake Isle of Inishfree.
Kathy Raftery - adapts an essay by Michael Harding One by One, The Lights Go Out.
Edwin Mullane and Adam O’Keefe - adapt Steve Wickham’s Rainbow over Sligo.
In addition, the programme features a new short documentary adaptation Forty-Five Seconds from Niamh Moriarty and Ruth Clinton; and from teen outfit Gavin Gilligan and Sarah Walsh a short film inspired by the computer game What Remains of Edith Finch.
The SLR Adaptation Bursary Award films are supported by the Arts Offices of Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon (SLR), Creative Ireland and the the National Talent Academy for Film & TV Drama.
Facilitated by writer and publisher Brian Leyden
Event followed immediately by SLR Panel and Networking event.