Docs Ireland is pleased to announce the projects for the second edition of the festival marketplace, taking place online on June 17th & 18th, as part of our online industry festival.
Twenty five Irish, UK and international projects will pitch to international decision makers at the virtual market, including Autlook Films, BBC NI, BBC Docs, Breakout Pictures, CAT&Docs, Dogwoof, Element Distribution, Met Film Sales, National Geographic, POV, RTÉ, Screen Ireland, Sky Docs, Submarine Entertainment, Taskovski Films, TG4, TRT, TVF, TV Poland, Wildcard Distribution, and The Wrap Fund.
The Docs Ireland Marketplace is an opportunity for filmmakers to meet with leading international documentary industry decision makers, including international funders, broadcasters, distributors and exhibitors on a one to one basis. It is the only marketplace dedicated to documentary on the island of Ireland and provides an opportunity for filmmakers to pitch their project through carefully matched meetings organised by the Docs Ireland team.
The full list of selected projects are:
All Points North
Director: Glen Milner
Producers: Ben Hilton, Glen Milner
All Points North is the story of Yorkshire’s changing industrial landscapes told through its workers.
Asking for it
Director: Grace Sweeney
Producer: Rachel Hooper
She was asking for it. Can a woman consent to her own murder?
Beara
Director: Maurice O’Brien
Producer: Clare Stronge
A powerful feature documentary following a group of spiritual misfits as they build a Tibetan Temple on a remote clifftop
Beatle Island
Director: Gillian Callan
Producers: Ollie Aslin, Gary Lennon
Wild, Wild Country meets Father Ted.
Fighting Words
Director: Ross Whittaker
In a creative writing school in Dublin’s toughest neighbourhood, teenagers learn to believe in the power of their words
Hy-Brasil
Directors: Michael Barwise, Sean Mullan
A one armed sailor and a writer sail the Irish coastline to find the mythical island of Hy Brasil.
Kozak
Director: David Burke
Producer: Sean O’Cualain
Under General Pinochet’s rule of terror in Chile, one man saved thousands of people from the dictator’s brutal secret police.
Learning to Fall
Director: John Conway
Producer: Mairéad Ní Thréinir
After tragedy strikes, a stuntman swaps showbiz success for a life of solitude on an island off Ireland’s west coast.
Limbo
Director: Margo Harkin
Producer: Martha O’Neill
An insight into the Irish Mother and Baby Homes scandal that ricocheted around the world and sparked a government Inquiry.
Lost Futures
Director: Niall McCann
Producers: Matthew Boyd, Tadhg O’Sullivan
Its easier to imagine the end of the world, than the end of capitalism.
Loyal
Director: Sinead O’Shea
A portrait of the Loyalist community, several years in the making, as it faces change.
Mo & Me
Director: Henrietta Norton
Producer: Niamh Fagan
The life, work and reputation of Mo Mowlam, one of the principal engineers of Northern Ireland’s peace process.
Moscow Nights
Director: Irina Maldea
Producers: Brendan Culleton, Sorin Manu
Moscow Nights is an archival vérité documentary about how the leaders of the superpowers and their wives forged friendships across the divide.
Name Me Lawand
Director: Edward Lovelace
Producer: Fleur Nieddu, Marisa Clifford, Isabel Davis, Beyan Taher
A young deaf boy’s journey to express himself: a love letter to the power and magic of human communication.
No Place Like Home
Director: Myrid Carten
Producer: Tadhg O’Sullivan
A coming of age survival story about the cost of love; and how difficult it can be to escape.
Never Mind The Boll*#@ks, Here’s Terri!
Director/Producer: Declan McGrath
Producer: Brian Kelly
A film about the life and legacy of Terri Hooley, the Godfather of Irish Punk.
Nuncle
Director: Simon Chambers
Producer: David Rane
Simon helps his aged luvvie uncle David to a wonderful death by indulging his final wish to perform King Lear
Searching for Space
Director: Cara Holmes
Producer: Evan Horan
A dynamic portrayal of a community of activists who set up the Lesbian Lines, a network of underground telephone helplines.
Six Bullets Fired
Director: Sinead O’Brien
Producers: Ollie Aslin, Gary Lennon
Natural death is not easy to accept – how much more a tragic one?
Super Nature
Director/ Producer: Ed Sayers
Exec Producer: Rebecca Wolff
Super Nature is a co-creation documentary, a global celebration of nature told on Super 8 film.
The Honeypot
Director: Laura Smith
Producer: Lorraine Harton
An investigation into the tragic trail of intrigue and deception left behind by the international con-woman, Julia Holmes.
The Hooded Men
Directors: Tom Besley & Sam Collyns
Producer: Rachel Hooper
Tortured by the British state. Denied justice for 50 years. One man fights to reveal the UK’s top-secret torture programme.
The Last Balkan Cowboy
Director: Dragana Jurisic
Producer: Zlata Filipovic & Anna Rodgers
Croatian artist Dragana Jurisic retraces the mythical story of cult Western director Hari Džekson, returning to the home she fled.
The Woman Who Disappeared Twice
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
Producer: Colum McKeown
Two daughters who believe their mother was murdered over 35 years ago start their own investigation into what really happened.
Untitled Hydebank Project
Director: Ross McClean
Producer: Bronte Stahl
Ryan finds solace caring for a flock of sheep inside a Northern Irish prison’s walls. Released into a dizzying environment, he ventures to start his own flock.