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| Stunning Irish Film About Starvation in H-Block, Maze Prison |
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Thursday, July 23 2009 @ 04:43 AM GMT+4
Contributed by: Jigme
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 A special audience-participation event occurs Thursday evening, in conjunction with one northern New England premiére of the Irish film - "Hunger"
Starring Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the film documents Sands decision to starve himself while imprisoned on H-Block in Maze Prison in northern Ireland, in protest of the British refusal to recognise he and his fellow Irish Republicans as political prisoners. Sands' ultimate death helped propel forward the peace process in northern Ireland.
"Hunger" won seven Irish Academy Awards - including "Best Actor, Male" for Fassbender; "Best Supporting Actor" for Liam Cummingham who played the priest attempting to dissuade Sands of his action; Best Direction (Steve McQueen); and Best Production Design, Best Score, Best Sound and Rising Star Award.
The film won other similar accolades at the British BAFTA awards this year, and entered a limited theatrical run in U.S. theatres at the beginning of this year. Of further note is that the screenplay is a joint effort between Steve McQueen and the absolutely brilliant award-winning young Irish playright Enda Walsh.
By pre-arrangement with the Keene State College Film Society, who run the state-of-the-art Putnam Theatre in the Redfern Arts Center on the campus, in Keene, New Hampshire - The 7 p.m screening of "Hunger" on Thursday, 23rd July will be followed by an audience-participation discussion. (The 9 p.m. screening will be delayed to give additional time for this talk.)
General admission is $5, students (not KSC) $4 and Seniors/Faculty/Staff $4. This film is not suitable for children.
The talk afterward will hopefully give everyone an opportunity to express their feelings, and won't necessarily provide answers. Helping moderate the discussion will be Brattleboro photographer, recordist and media producer Michael Cerulli Billingsley along with writer and film credit and film festival coordinator Arlene Distler. Both Billingsley and Distler have been prisoners - Billingsley for more than a year -and he has also produced an award-winner dramatic feature called "Prison Life."
Thursday is the last night the film will be shown at Keene State.
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