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SUMMARY:Aoife Kelleher screens Mrs. Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning filmmaker\, writer\, and lecturer Aoife Kelleher will screen her feature documentary Mrs. Robinson. Unfolding a story about female leadership\, human rights activism and climate action\, Mrs. Robinson tells the inspirational life story of change-maker Mary Robinson: Ireland’s first female President\, a pioneering U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights\, and the successor of Nelson Mandela as Chair of The Elders. The film was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary Award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. A Q&A with the filmmaker will follow the screening. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater\, and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nTickets & Details\nFree tickets required. Should the event sell out\, there will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \nReserve tickets through University Ticketing\nReach University Ticketing by email at tixhelp@princeton.edu or by phone at 609-258-9220. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date. \n  \nAbout Aoife Kelleher\n\n \nPhoto credit: Rachel Lysaght \n\nAoife Kelleher is a distinguished filmmaker\, writer\, and lecturer from Dublin\, Ireland. \nHer debut film\, One Million Dubliners\, about Glasnevin Cemetery\, Ireland’s celebrated necropolis\, received numerous awards and screened internationally. \nShe has worked in current affairs programming for RTÉ\, Ireland’s national broadcaster\, and made documentaries for RTÉ\, Sky\, ARTE\, and the British Film Institute. \nHer feature documentary Mrs. Robinson\, about former Irish President and current Chair of The Elders\, Mary Robinson\, was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. Her most recent film\, Testimony\, about the Justice For Magdalenes campaign on behalf of the survivors of Ireland’s institutions\, premiered at the 2025 Dublin International Film Festival\, where it won the award for Best Human Rights Film. \nShe lectures in Film & Broadcasting and Journalism in the School of Media at Technological University Dublin.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/aoife-kelleher-screens-mrs-robinson/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
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SUMMARY:Screening of Documentary Lyra and Discussion with Director Alison Millar
DESCRIPTION:Critically acclaimed filmmaker Alison Millar screens her 2021 award-winning documentary film\, Lyra\, an emotive\, intimate portrait of the life and death of Belfast journalist Lyra Mckee\, who was murdered by the New IRA the day before Good Friday\, April 2019. The film seeks answers to her senseless killing through Lyra’s own work and words. Lyra runs approximately 90 minutes and will be followed by a 30-minute discussion with Millar moderated by Fintan O’Toole\, Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \n\nPart of the spring 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \n\n\nAbout the film Lyra\nLyra tells the story of McKee’s tragic death by a stray bullet during New IRA riots in Derry\, Northern Ireland. Attending a riot in the Creggan estate near where she lived\, McKee had been reporting events as they unfolded via Twitter\, even in the final moments before she was shot in the head. Her death caused outrage throughout Ireland and beyond\, and Millar recalls\, “The whole of Ireland came to a standstill when she was killed.” The powerful film\, which is narrated by McKee’s own voice\, conveys with heart-wrenching irony that the determined young journalist became a victim of the very violence she wrote about in the hopes of reaching a new generation with the truth of affairs in post-conflict Ireland. \nMillar\, a colleague and close friend of McKee\, was approached by the McKee family following her death to create a film that would share the story of the inspiring young journalist with the wider world. Using McKee’s own interview tape recordings along with audio rescued from voice notes\, mobile phone recordings\, and home videos\, Millar and her team pieced together a film that historically places McKee’s death while powerfully fleshing out the passion\, curiosity and ambition that characterized her life and work. \nSince its release\, the documentary has won numerous awards including the Audience Award at the 2022 Cork International Film Festival\, the Tim Hetherington Award at the 2022 Sheffield Doc Festival\, the Gryphon Award GEX Doc at Italy’s Giffoni Film Festival\, and Best Feature Documentary at Achill Island Film Festival. \n\nAbout Alison Millar\n\n \nPhoto by Jess Lowe \n\nMillar is a critically acclaimed filmmaker with a reputation for making emotionally compelling films. She began her producing and directing career at the National Film and Television School in the U.K. in the mid 1990s. Since then\, she has produced over 40 films for British and Irish television and has won a BAFTA\, IFTA\, Prix Italia and numerous other awards. In 2010 Millar founded Erica Starling Productions\, an independent documentary production company based in Belfast. In addition to Lyra\, her other award-winning documentary features or series include Lee Miller — A Life on the Frontline; Arena: The Changin’ Times of Ike White; The Disappeared; Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist; Searching for Shergar; Dispatches: Kids in Crisis; Love and Death in City Hall; the series Find Me a Family; and The World: The Shame of the Catholic Church. \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \nCOVID-19 Guidance + Updates\nPer Princeton University policy\, all visitors are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/screening-of-documentary-lyra-and-discussion-with-director-alison-millar/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
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SUMMARY:Screening of Filmed Version of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
DESCRIPTION:“The situation is one of the strangest in the whole history of theatre.”\n—Katherine Worth\, scholar \n Something has occurred. And now Winnie can’t leave—can’t see anyone—can’t move—is perpetually stuck. There is little to do but brush her teeth and maintain hope. \n \nWatch the trailer for HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Beckett from wildprojectTV. \n Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (One of the most unforgettable plays in the modern canon” — The New York Times) is the ultimate emblem of perseverance. In the iconic playwright’s lifelong pursuit to illuminate consciousness on stage\, Beckett devised Winnie: a tour de force of charm and grit\, helplessly buried up to her waist in the ground. She endures the wearisome humdrum of endless\, interchangeable days. And now\, speaking to an audience who has faced a year of quarantine\, the play endures too. \nTo commemorate the play’s 60th anniversary\, New York’s the wild project and director Nico Krell are revitalizing this mammoth\, mysterious work. In an exception allowed only during the global pandemic\, the performance will be recorded and broadcast online\, delicately translated to the screen by a team of artists working on the cutting edge of digital theatre. \nKrell is a Princeton alumnus\, Class of 2018\, and the production features alumni Tessa Albertson\, Class of 2020\, as Winnie\, and Jake Austin Robertson\, Class of 2015\, as her husband Willie. Alumni Jules Peiperl is costume designer and Stanley Mathabane is sound designer\, both members of the Class of 2017. \nPresented by The Wild Project in the East Village\, New York City\, in association with Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The Wild Project\, a nonprofit theater company and venue\, was founded in 2007 to support the diverse independent theater\, film\, music\, visual arts and spoken-word artists of New York City. The organization has presented and produced theater that seeks to enrich\, educate\, and unify its East Village community in an environmentally responsible green space\, devoting specific initiatives to supporting LGBTQ+ artists and projects and those of people of color.  \nBeckett (1906 –1989) was an Irish novelist\, playwright\, short story writer\, theater director\, poet\, and literary translator. His idiosyncratic work offers a bleak\, tragi-comic outlook on existence and experience\, often coupled with dark comedy. Beckett is considered one of the last modernist writers and one of the key figures of the “theater of the absurd.” He is perhaps best-known for his 1953 play\, Waiting for Godot. In 1969 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. The film will be preceded by an introduction with director Krell and Princeton Professor and Fund for Irish Studies Chair Paul Muldoon. The event will take place on Zoom Webinar; advance registration required. \nREGISTER FOR THE EVENT \nThis event is recorded for archival purposes only and will not be available for viewing after the event. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe film will be closed captioned and the introduction will be live captioned in English. If you are in need of other other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/screening-of-filmed-version-of-happy-days-by-samuel-beckett/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Film screening,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T130000
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SUMMARY:A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Sinead O’Shea presents a screening of her documentary film\, A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot\, at the Princeton Garden Theatre. Screening followed by discussion with writer/director O’Shea and Irish scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole. \nAt the Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \nPresented as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series; please note different location and time than other series events. \nABOUT THE FILM\nOne night Majella O’Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Majella\, Philly and his shooters all live within an extraordinary community in Derry\, Northern Ireland. The “Troubles” officially ended in 1998 but this community is still at war. They do not accept the government or police. All this happens within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. How do you bring your son to be shot? What happens afterwards? How does family life continue? How does a community respond? When do wars really end? For five years Sinéad O’Shea has filmed this shocking portrait of a post conflict society. Watch the trailer \n  \n\nDirector Sinead O’Shea\nSinead O’Shea is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. \nHer first feature documentary A Mother Brings her Son to be Shot premiered at the London Film Festival and was one of the most successful documentary releases in Irish cinemas of 2018. The Oscar nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer is executive producer. \nA Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot won a Special Mention Award at the Warsaw Film Festival and has been nominated for a FACT Award at CPH:DOX\, Copenhagen\, Maysles Observational Documentary Award at the Belfast Film Festival and Best Feature Documentary at the EBS Documentary Film Festival in South Korea and the Budapest Film Festival. \nPreviously Sinead covered Ireland for The New York Times. She has also directed and produced films with Al Jazeera English\, BBC\, Channel 4 and RTE. She won an Irish Media Justice Award for Lives in Limbo with The Irish Times and an IFTA for Sampler with RTE. In 2018 Sinead was named as one of the top 10 European female filmmakers to watch by the European Film Promotion network and Sydney Film Festival. \nAt present Sinead is developing her first drama feature. She is also developing further documentary work on post conflict situations with the help of Screen Ireland and contributes to the Guardian and The New York Times.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-mother-brings-her-son-to-be-shot/
LOCATION:Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
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SUMMARY:Screening of Song of Granite by Pat Collins
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 6\, 2018\n1:00 p.m.\nPrinceton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau St.\, Princeton\nFREE and open to the public \nAcclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins will screen and discuss his feature film\, Song of Granite\, a portrayal of the life of sean nós singer Joe Heaney and his music\, on Friday\, April 6 at 1:00 p.m. at the Princeton Garden Theater\, 160 Nassau Street. An audience discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening. The event\, which is free and open to the public\, is presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University. Guests should note that this event is earlier in the day than usual for Fund for Irish Studies Series events. \nJoe Heaney was widely regarded as the greatest practitioner of sean-nòs\, a form of traditional unaccompanied Irish singing. Shaped by the myths\, fables\, and songs of his upbringing in the west of Ireland\, his emergence as a gifted artist came at a personal cost. Heaney was said to have a repertoire of over 500 songs in his memory. He became a star in the American folk music revival of the 1960s\, first at the Newport Folk Festival and then in various cities across the country\, where he performed to sold-out crowds. \nThe film provides a portrait of the artist\, covering his childhood in Connemara in the 1930s\, his travels throughout the U.K. and U.S. in the 1960s\, and then his reflection on his past and his legacy as an elderly man in the U.S. Collins’ film does not attempt to cover all the details about the singer’s life but rather mirror’s Heaney’s reputation as an elusive and enigmatic man. The film features performances by Colm Seoighe\, Macdara Ó Fátharta\, Jaren Cerf\, Lisa O’Neill\, Damien Dempsey\, and sean nós singers Mícheál Ó Chonfhaola and Pól Ó Ceannabháin\, and black and white cinematography by Richard Kendrick. Song of Granite had its world premiere at the 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival and was Ireland’s official entry as Best Foreign Language Film in the 2018 Academy Awards. The film is presented in both English and subtitled Gaelic. Learn more at http://songofgranite.oscilloscope.net/ \nSteve Greene of Indiewire notes that the film\, “delivers a profile of not just a singer but the country that made him…Song of Granite is a stirring solemn tribute.” \nCollins\, who directed and co-wrote the film\, has been making films since 1998 and has directed over 30 films\, including feature films\, documentaries and short experimental works. He has made documentaries on the writers Michael Hartnett\, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill\, and John McGahern\, and he co-directed a documentary on Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.  In 2012\, he completed the feature film Silence\, which had its international premiere at the London Film Festival and was distributed by Element Films in Ireland and New Wave Films. Song of Granite is his second dramatic feature film.  \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor Clair Wills\, affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is co-produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts. The spring 2018 edition of the series is organized by Fintan O’Toole as acting chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \nThe final event in the 2017-18 series will feature Alvin Jackson\, the Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh\, who will present a lecture\, “John Redmond and Edward Carson:  Bloodshed\, Borders and the Union State\,” on April 27. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies is generously sponsored by the Durkin Family Trust and the James J. Kerrigan\, Jr. ’45 and Margaret M. Kerrigan Fund for Irish Studies.  \n To learn more about the more than 100 public performances\, exhibitions\, readings\, screenings\, concerts\, lectures and special events\, presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, most of them free\, visit arts.princeton.edu.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/screening-song-granite-pat-collins/
LOCATION:Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Film screening
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