FRIDAY 21st JANUARY
6.30 Short welcome / intro – Rod Stoneman
6.40 Keynote Speaker: Fidelma Farley
Framing this symposium. Assessing evolution of women’s place in film - both in terms of appearing in ‘the picture’ and in creating it and debates around these questions. Relevant ideas and issues in the contemporary context.
7.30 Screening – Notícias de uma Guerra Particular / News from a Private War (1999)
SATURDAY 22nd JANUARY
9.15 Introductory remarks – Jenny Roche
9.30am – 10.30
Film from a Different Angle.
Katia Lund talks with Isabella Weibrecht about the Brazilian production context, working in the Favelas, co-direction, the world from a fresh perspective etc.
10.30 Coffee
11.00- 12.30pm
Are ‘Real’ Women Cinematic?: Round table session
Women’s stories and the business of making movies and television drama. From script development to distribution; are women’s stories a tough fit and a hard sell? Why do comparatively so few get to screen?
Explore range of issues - from compatibility of female creative instincts with principles of Narrative Theory (Hero’s Quest etc.), to reluctance of male punters to go to ‘Women’s Pictures’. And the infrastructure in between…
Chair - Lelia Doolan.
Panel members:
*Script Editing / Development: Rebecca O’Flanagan
*Writing / Film-making: Orla Walsh
*Producing: Lesley McKimm
*Distribution / Exhibition / PR: Grainne Humphreys
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 ‘Real’ Women and Documentary?
Explores the issues of representation and control in relation to documentary making and films made by women in community contexts.
Chair - Ann Lyons.
Hilary Dully, Images of Ourselves.
Maria Gibbons, Taking Liberties: A New Look at Gender Inequality.
3.30 Tea
4.00 Women’s experimental work: Vivienne Dick
Discussion and extracts - London Suite
A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy
Saccade (2004)
Installation in library - Excluded by the Nature of Things (2002)
5.30 Screening: Á ma soeur! / Fat Girl (2001)
7.00 Women, Sex and Screen: Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat talks with Jenny Roche about the female image and its enduring link to sexuality. Continuing, even increased sexualization of female image across all visual media—social significance and implications both for reflected, and actual reality of women and girls.
SUNDAY 23rd JANUARY
10am -11am:
Screenings of recent shorts by and about Irish women.
Man, Emer Reynolds, 2001.
Blessed Fruit, Orla Walsh, 2000.
Clare sa Speir, Audrey O’Reilly, 2002
Olive, Neasa Hardiman, 2003.
Body Blow, Sonia Supple, 2002.
11.0 Coffee
11.30 - 12.45pm:
Irish Women in the Picture: Ann Crilly
Chait: Patsy Murphy
1.00 - 1.30 Open Session
Tickets €25 / €10
For further information and enrolment contact celine.curtin@nuigalway.ie
