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1.
Sean Garland
Hailing originally from Dublin, Irish filmmaker Sean Garland cut his teeth
as production assistant on big budget studio films like In The Name Of The
Father, Interview With The Vampire and White Squall before getting down
to business as writer, producer and director on The Majesty Of The Haunt,
his first film, a 15 minute tour de force of Irish mysticism and deep-seated
humane emotion which The London Portobello Film Festival decribed as a ‘stunningly
moving visual poem about abortion and Ireland.’ Just recently he completed
his first feature film, Abbot’s Approach, which he wrote, produced,
directed and shot himself. Sean describes it as ‘an old MR James story
dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century’. It is being screened
at this years Portobello Film Festival.
The
Majesty Of The Haunt (15mins.)
writer, producer, director : Sean Garland
An intensive visual post-mortem of the feelings we bury deep down inside,
deliberately riven of impeding dialogue and instead evocatively mood-driven
exclusively by images and music Majesty is a cry for help, a wordless
scream to the stars giftwrapped as an adult fairytale that socks it directly
and shamelessly to the heart. At times angry and raw, moving and provocative,
beautiful and violent it’s a startling hotbed of visions that burn
to tell a story beyond it’s deceptively painterly guise.
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2.
Mohhssin Faraji, Larbi Oumghar and
Barney Platts-Mills
Local
filmmakers Mohhssin
Faraji & Larbi Oumghar and Barney Platts-Mills filmed Hardsun in Morocco
this summer which will be coming to the Portobello Film Festival soon...
3. Andy Shelley
After finishing university in Bristol, Andy Shelley moved to London to
play guitar in an indie band called The Wood Children. They were together
for five years and released two albums, a number of singles and toured
the UK and France. Following a brief stint producing bands, Shelley moved
into film soundtracks and music. He gained a place at the Royal College
of Art and moved into the sphere of directing. Now listing amongst his
heroes; the Coen brothers, Tim Burton and Jeunet and Caro, he has made
a number of succesful shorts and has just directed his first commercial.
Hammerman
(5 mins)
Shelley's contributiuon to this year's festival comes in the guise of
this 1997 short originating on 35mm about a man with no talent's struggle
to become famous...
Other
credits include:
The
Application Form 1996 (1:30 mins)
Won two prizes at the Kodak Student Film Awards
Grandpa
1999 (5 mins)
Won the Golden Boot at last year's Portobello Film Festival.
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