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Cinéformation: Helen (PG) Screening & Q&A with Director Christine Molloy

6pm Tuesday 5th May 2009
Cinema T.B.C, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol BS1 5TX

The first 25 responses that email: info@cineformation.com with Helen Discount in the subject bar will get a special discount code which will give you the concession rate of £5, the normal price is £6.50.

Award-winning short filmmakers Lawlor and Molloy extend their celebrated short Joy into an understated and gorgeously captured blend of British realism and European psychological tension, a first feature which marks them as talents to watch. When a young woman disappears, lonely teenager Helen agrees to play her in a police reconstruction. As the missing girl’s persona begins to influence Helen, filling gaps in her own fractured life, Lawlor and Molloy maintain a sense of slow-burning mystery, treating the characters with heart-twisting compassion whilst keeping their true motivations ambiguous.

Writer Director Producer CHRISTINE MOLLOY

Over the past 4 years Christine Molloy has worked with her co-director Joe Lawlor on a project called Civic Life. Civic Life involved local community groups in the production of nine high-quality short films for the cinema, shot on 35mm cinemascope making extensive use of the long take. In 2004, their film Who Killed Brown Owl won the award for Best British Short Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In January 2008 their latest short film Joy won the Prix UIP Rotterdam at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Helen is the culmination of the Civic Life series.

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Revolution
Watch Joe and Christine’s 2005 short, part of the Civic Life series.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A12815543 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A12815543>

“An impressive, beautifully shot debut feature”
Leslie Felperin, VARIETY

“A remarkable first feature”
Roger Clarke, SIGHT & SOUND

“A hypnotic first feature”
Allan Hunter, SCREEN DAILY

“The latest vital sign of a UK art-cinema resurgence”
Jonathan Romney, THE INDEPENDENT

“An outstanding feature debut”
Philip French, THE OBSERVER

Winner Grand Jury Prize Premiers Plans Festival d’Angers 2009
Winner Best Actress Prize Premiers Plans Festival d’Angers 2009

Few links:
The film-makers: Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor
By Jonathan Romney, Saturday, 27 December 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-filmmakers-christine-molloy—joe-lawlor-1205645.html <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-filmmakers-christine-molloy—joe-lawlor-1205645.html>

Stars who will shine in 2009 – Film: Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy – Telegraph.co.uk

Hannah McGill, director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, on filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culture-preview-of-the-year/4030720/Stars-who-will-shine-in-2009—-Film-Joe-Lawlor-and-Christine-Molloy.html <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culture-preview-of-the-year/4030720/Stars-who-will-shine-in-2009—-Film-Joe-Lawlor-and-Christine-Molloy.html>

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