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Thursday January 01 1970

Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival 2014, Kells, Co. Meath

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Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival

Guth Gafa (meaning ‘captive voice’) is Ireland’s only independent documentary film festival. We focus on showcasing the latest award-winning International and Irish documentary films on thought-provoking subjects, and promoting the art of great story-telling, through film, to rural Irish communities.

The festival returns this year in not one, but two magical locations, in Counties Donegal and Meath. It will get underway on Saturday, October 25th and Sunday October 26th in the unspoilt 17th century village of Malin, Co Donegal, its spiritual home. Over the following weekend, November 1st and 2nd, it will move to the magnificent and tranquil grounds of the 18th century Headfort House, a hidden gem close to the historic village of Kells in Co Meath. The objective of bringing a second location to the festival is about creating opportunities for as wide an audience as possible to see human rights and social issue documentary films.

Documentaries screened arouse great debate and discussion, and Guth Gafa’s trademark of inviting all filmmakers to present their films and discuss them with the audiences, makes the festival a unique experience for film lovers. There are few film festivals in Europe quite like Guth Gafa.

Every year, the festival brings an intimate but intense hotbed of documentary film to Ireland. With family screenings and workshops running in parallel, the 8th Guth Gafa promises to be another great festival. Guth Gafa is proudly presented with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board, The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Honeycomb – Creative Works, Fáilte Ireland, Donegal County Council, and Meath County Council.

AWARD-winning films that explore the relationship between humans and the planet we inhabit dominate the programme of the eighth Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival. Over 20 films from 15 different countries, celebrating the groundbreaking work of some of the world’s leading independent documentary filmmakers will be premiered in pop-up cinemas in both venues. The impact of conflict, globalisation and climate change on the lives of ordinary people resonates through this year’s programme, with a sprinkling of magic thrown in.

“It is one of our strongest programmes to date,” said director, David Rane. “We are delighted that almost all of the films we are screening this year will be having their Irish premiere at Guth Gafa and many of them have scooped top film awards at major international festivals, including two winners from this year’s Sundance Film Festival.”

Thule Tuvalu, a quietly devastating portrait of two villages dangerously stuck between ice and sea, exposes the impact of climate change on the traditional lifestyles of the inhabitants of Thule, Greenland, the most northerly populated place on earth, and the remote South Pacific island of Tuvalu.

Among the many programme highlights is this year’s Best International Feature Documentary at Hot Docs, Waiting for August which documents the life of a 15-year- old teenager who is left to raise her six siblings while her mother is forced to work abroad.

Return to Homs, winner of the World Cinema grand jury prize for Documentary at this year’s Sundance festival, meanwhile, is a searingly intimate portrait of a group of young revolutionaries in the city of Homs in western Syria and their resistance against the Bashir al-Assad’s regime.

The Domino Effect, the winner of this year’s Krakow Film Festival, is a tragicomedy about how the sport of dominoes is extraordinarily intertwined with politics, set around the fate of the small Caucasian republic of Abkhazia since breaking from Georgia in a bloody civil war.

Guth Gafa is also proud to be hosting the world premiere of the remarkable Irish documentary, La Violencia, the Untold Truths of Guatemala, a film by Kerry-based Bold Puppy productions, which focuses on the quest for justice of the indigenous Mayan women of Guatemala who were systemically subjected to torture and sexual violence during the country’s 36-year civil war.

Happiness, which won the Best Cinematography award at Sundance, looks through the eyes of an 8-year-old Buddhist monk at progress and change in the underdeveloped nation of Bhutan since the King approved the use of television and internet in 19999, assuring the masses that such development was synonymous with the ‘gross national happiness’ of his country.

The origins of the food we eat will be scrutinised through a number of hotly topical food-themed documentaries, including Canned Dreams from Finland, Food Chains from the USA , Meat and Milk from France, My Name is Salt from Germany, and the Irish-made Blood Fruit.

These films will set the scene for panel discussions in both venues on the future of Irish agriculture and food production with input from award winning chef Richard Corrigan and cheese maker, Kevin Sheridan, among others.

The festival will also reflect the changing landscape for making and distributing documentary films.

An Honest Liar, a film by US-based directors Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom, who will be in attendance, and profiles the colourful life of famed magician turned professional sceptic James ‘The Amazing’ Randi, was made possible thanks to over 3,000 people who donated $246,989 via Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign.

In an exciting addition to this year’s programme, the final touches are being put to an international film forum, supported by the Honeycomb-Creative Works Programme, which will take place in the Virginia Park Hotel in Cavan on October 31st and will focus on how independent filmmakers can reach wider audiences and how their work can become a catalyst for change.

With the same selection of films being screened in both Malin village and Headfort House, festival goers will be able to chose the location that best suits them.

Alongside the films, they can also look forward to a packed programme of industry and social events in both venues.

The Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival is sponsored by The Arts Council, The Irish Film Board, The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Honeycomb – Creative Works, Fáilte Ireland, Donegal County Council, Meath County Council, and RTÉ- Supporting the Arts.

Related Link: http://www.guthgafa.com
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