Reel Cork Event this weekend

Are you planning to go to the cinema this weekend?

Check out Reel Cork – a selection of films about Cork, programmed by Frameworks Films and screening in the Reel Cinema, Blackpool on Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd June, as part of the Festival of the Bulls. Admission is free and tickets are available on the door. Below is some information on the films being screened. Hope you might see something of interest and please feel free to spread the word! Regards, Emma & Eddie

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Reel Cork Programme – The Reel Cinema, Blackpool – Saturday 2nd June 2007
(Admission is free – tickets available on the door)

Time
Film/Producer
Short Synopsis
11am – 12pm

Reel Cork Programme 1

1) Cork on Film (Compiled by Frameworks courtesy of others)
2) Noel Magnier’s Memories of Cork
(Noel Magnier & RTE Cork)
3) The Headstones of Seamus Murphy
(Medaza Films)

1) A compilation of archive film showing Cork city over the last 100 years
2) Cork’s northside in the 1940’s and 50’s and road bowling in Cork presented by Noel Magnier

3) A short documentary on the life and work of sculptor Seamus Murphy
12-1pm
Reel Cork Programme 2

1) Aunt Bridget (Crinkle Films)
2) It’ll Always Be 11:16 (Chris O’Neill)
3) A Night at Bingo (Northside Folklore Project)
4) The Barrel Top (Cork Traveller Women’s Network)
5) Making Mayfield (Cork WideScreen)

1) An animated adaptation of a story by Cork writer and poet Patrick Galvin
2) A short homage to mark the closure of the Capitol Cinema in Cork
3) An avid bingo player explains her passion for the game
4) The building of a traditional barrel top wagon by a group of Travellers
5) How the Mayfield community has developed over the years
4 – 5pm
Cathair Chorcai (Harvest Films)
A documentary exploring Cork city’s physical and spiritual characteristics.
5-5.30pm
Why the Guns Remain Silent in Rebel Cork (Seaview Films)
A short documentary on why there was no uprising in Cork in 1916
5.30-6.30pm
The Burning of Cork (Seaview Films)
The story of what happened in Cork city on the night of December 11th 1920
8 – 9pm
Rebel Underground
(Frameworks Films with the Cork Urban Skatepark Project)
The world premiere of a unique documentary on Cork’s skaters and BMX bikers (limited tickets available)

Reel Cork Programme – The Reel Cinema, Blackpool – Sunday 3rd June 2007

Time
Film/Producer
Short Synopsis
11am –
12.30pm
The Lives and Times of Blackpool (The Blackpool Historical Society)
In this feature length documentary, older residents of Blackpool share their stories of life in Blackpool throughout the twentieth century.
12.30pm
– 1pm
Sunbeam (Cork WideScreen)

Boots Malone (Eddie Noonan)
Former workers of the Sunbeam Wolsey Factory on the northside of Cork city explain what part the Sunbeam played in their lives.
A short animation piece filmed around Cork city and Shandon in the early 1980s
2-3pm
Reel Cork Programme 1

1) Cork on Film (Compiled by Frameworks courtesy of others)
2) Noel Magnier’s Memories of Cork
(Noel Magnier & RTE Cork)
3) The Headstones of Seamus Murphy
(Medaza Films)

1) A compilation of archive film featuring Cork city over the last 100 years
2) Cork’s northside in the 1940’s and 50’s and road bowling in Cork

3) A short documentary on the life and work of sculptor Seamus Murphy
3-4pm
Reel Cork Programme 2

1) Aunt Bridget (Crinkle Films)
2) It’ll Always Be 11:16 (Chris O’Neill)
3) A Night at Bingo (Northside Folklore Project)
4) The Barrel Top (Cork Traveller Women’s Network)
5) Community Carnival 2006
(Commissioned by Blackpool Developments)

1) An animated adaptation of a story by Cork writer and poet Patrick Galvin
2) A short homage to mark the closure of the Capitol Cinema in Cork
3) An avid bingo player explains her passion for the game
4) The building of a traditional barrel top wagon by a group of Travellers in Cork
5) A behind the scenes look at the Community Carnival for St Patrick’s Day 2006 in the north-west ward of Cork city.