JDIFF programme launch date

admin | January 10, 2011 | Comments (0)

The programme launch of the 9th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival will take place on Tuesday 25th January, in Dublin’s Tripod venue. The 2011 Festival promises an entertaining and thought-provoking line-up that will celebrate Irish and international cinema, running from 17– 27 February.

The complete programme of over 130 films, will remain under wraps until 25th January. However JDIFF have announced a limited number of events including:

–Directed by Emilio Estevez, The Way is set along the thousand-year-old Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. It tells the story of Tom Avery, played by Martin Sheen, an American father who travels to France to reclaim the body of his estranged son. Avery cremates his son’s remains, placing them in his backpack, and starts off on the journey his son never made to Santiago.

–After U2 conquered the world in the mid-1980’s, music executives descended on Dublin in search of the next big thing. A band called LiR was anointed as U2’s most likely successors. Irish filmmaker Shimmy Marcus (Soulboy, Headrush) charts the bands highs and lows in the documentary Good Cake Bad Cake, which will receive its world premiere at the festival. The film will be followed by a post-screening gig by the band in The Workman’s Club venue in Dublin.

–The 2011 Special Music event in the National Concert Hall will be a screening of the The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The film that launched Rudolph Valentino’s career, brought Dublin-born Rex Ingram to prominence as a director and inspired an international Tango craze will be shown with an accompanying live score composed by Carl Davis, played by the acclaimed RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conducted by David Brophy.

For more information visit the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival online at www.jdiff.com or via twitter; @DublinFilmFest