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Alan Gilsenan, Irish writer, director and film-maker.
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin – he won First Class Honours in Modern English and Sociology – Gilsenan received the inaugural A.J. Leventhal Scholarship. Gilsenan was also editor of The Piranha while at Trinity. He has since made a number of award-winning documentary films about Ireland.
He is currently chairperson of the Irish Film Institute, a member of the Irish Film Board, and of the Board of the International Dance Festival Ireland.
Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959) is an American actress. She has been twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Maxine Lund in Being John Malkovich (1999) and Harper Lee in Capote (2005). Keener also appeared in the films Into the Wild (2007) and Synecdoche, New York (2008), which were well-received by critics. Keener is also the noted muse of director Nicole Holofcener having appeared in every work of hers to date.
Keener was born in Miami, Florida, the third of five children of Evelyn (née Jamiel) and Jim Keener, a manager of an automotive store. She is of Irish descent on her father's side and of Lebanese descent on her mother's. Keener was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools. She attended Monsignor Edward Pace High School.
Keener's sister, Elizabeth Keener, is also an actress. Her brother Michael was a Catholic priest for many years, serving at St. Peter and Paul in Miami.
Keener attended Wheaton College, in Norton, Massachusetts, where she lived with an aunt in order to save on room and board, feeling out of place among her more privileged peers. Keener majored in English and history, enrolling in a theater course only when she was unable to get into a photography class. Her first theatrical production was the Wendy Wasserstein play, Uncommon Women and Others, during her Junior year at Wheaton. She graduated with her B.A. from Wheaton College in 1983.
Hannah Gross (born 1989/1990) is a Canadian actress. She is the daughter of fellow actors Martha Burns and Paul Gross.
Gross was born in Toronto, Canada. She attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, minoring in Religious Studies. She currently lives in the Chinatown neighbourhood of Manhattan.
In 2010, Gross played Katie in Sharon Pollock's 1984 play Doc and directed Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She performed in Williams' 1953 play Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen in 2012. Gross was cast in I Used to Be Darker (2013) after meeting its director, Matthew Porterfield, at the after show party for the New York City screening of his previous film, Putty Hill (2010). Also in 2013, she played the title character in Dustin Guy Defa's short film Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman. Gross played the lead female character in Charles Poekel's film Christmas, Again, which had its premiere at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival. She also performed in Nathan Silver's 2014 film Uncertain Terms and will reunite with him on his upcoming film, Stinking Heaven, which, as of April 2014, is in pre-production. Also in 2014, Gross played the lead role in David Raboy's short film Beach Week.
Eliza Lynch (3 June 1835 – 25 July 1886) was the mistress of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay.
She was born Eliza Alicia Lynch in Charleville, County Cork, Ireland. She emigrated at the age of ten with her family to Paris to escape the Great Irish Famine. On 3 June 1850, she married Xavier Quatrefages, a French officer who was shortly afterwards posted to Algeria. She accompanied him, but at eighteen years of age, due to deteriorating health, she returned to Paris to live with her mother in the Strafford household. Courtesy of a few fortuitous introductions, she later entered the elite circle surrounding Princess Mathilde Bonaparte and quickly set herself up as a courtesan.
She was described as possessing a Junoesque figure, golden blonde hair and a provocative smile. It was perhaps those very qualities that appealed to a visiting South American a year after her return to France. It was in 1854 that Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano López, son of Carlos Antonio López, president of Paraguay, at that time one of the wealthiest small southern nations in the continental Americas. The young General López, in training with the Napoleonic army, regarded his country's interests above all as fundamental reasons for his European journey. However, Lynch and López would begin a relationship which led her to return with him during that same year to Paraguay.
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game. He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy.
Jordan was born in County Sligo, the son of Angela (née O'Brien), a painter, and Michael Jordan, a professor. He was educated at St. Paul's College, Raheny. Of his religious background, Jordan said in a 1999 Salon interview: "I was brought up a Catholic and was quite religious at one stage in my life, when I was young. But it left me with no scars whatever; it just sort of vanished." He said about his current beliefs that "God is the greatest imaginary being of all time. Along with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the invention of God is probably the greatest creation of human thought." Later, Jordan attended University College Dublin, where he studied Irish history and English literature.
A Toronto writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and runaway... only to discover her living on the street pan-handling and refusing to speak, with a cardboard sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. Based on the novel by Carol Shields. Director - Alan Gilsenan Premiere - Toronto Film Festival 2016 CAST - Catherine Keener, Matt Craven, Hannah Gross, Chloe Rose, Abigail Winter, Brendan Coyle, Hanna Schygulla
Film director, screenwriter and novelist Neil Jordan speaks to fellow filmmaker Alan Gilsenan about the creative process and shares his thoughts on the difficulties of producing a film in the modern era. The theme of this years Embassy economic conference is 'Creative Minds', looking at the economics of the creative industry and how Ireland and the United States can strengthen the cultural ties that already exist between the two countries. The event took place in the Ambassador's residence, Deerfield, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
We sat down with the stars and director of Unless. A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets. Based on the novel "Unless" by Carol Shields. (IMDB) UNLESS stars Catherine Keener, Hannah Gross, and Matt Craven.
Actress + Singer Maria Doyle Kennedy and director Alan Gilsenan speaking at a Q+A after the screening of the documentary, "Eliza Lynch Queen of Paraguay" at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2014.
Aidan Quinn, Ellen Barkin, Stockard Channing, Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne imagine Ireland, through verse. Directed by Alan Gilsenan for Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland's year of Irish arts in America 2011.
Director-Screenwriter Alan Gilsenan Producer Stuart Switzer With Maria Doyle Kennedy, Leryn Franco Ireland 2013 80 mins Production company Coco Television Sitio del 57th BFI London Film Festival: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=eliza-lynch-queen-of-paraguay
'House of Light' This film was commissioned in 2014 as part of the Irish World Academy's 20th Anniversary celebrations. Described by director Alan Gilsenan, as 'an unconventional biography of sorts" it reflects his skilfully intuitive approach to filmmaking. With this short film he poetically captures the essence of the Irish World Academy - the house of light. For information on our programmes - www.IrishWorldAcademy.ie
http://www.theirishmind.com Promo from the documentary series The Irish Mind. Award winning director Alan Gilsenan and producer Martin Mahon take us on an extraordinary journey around the globe to see how education and upbringing in Ireland shaped generations of Irish who've impacted worldwide, enabling them to see beyond perceived wisdom to find new and better ways to work.
TIFF16 tiif.net Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener and Hannah Gross (I Used to Be Darker) star in this adaptation of the final novel by the late, great Canadian novelist Carol Shields, about a writer who discovers her runaway daughter panhandling on the street and seemingly deprived of speech. Alan Gilsenan's adaptation of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Carol Shields' final novel is that rarest of things: a powerful, accessible work of cinema that ardently explores the extraordinary experience of ordinary women. Shot in Toronto and starring Oscar nominee Catherine Keener in one of her most emotionally rich roles, Unless tells the story of a mother's struggle to reach a child who seems all but lost to her. An accomplished writer and translator, Reta Winters (Keener) is blindsided and ...
Film director, screenwriter and novelist Neil Jordan speaks to fellow filmmaker Alan Gilsenan about the creative process and shares his thoughts on the difficulties of producing a film in the modern era. The theme of this years Embassy economic conference is 'Creative Minds', looking at the economics of the creative industry and how Ireland and the United States can strengthen the cultural ties that already exist between the two countries. The event took place in the Ambassador's residence, Deerfield, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Our interview with Director Alan Gilsenan and actors Catherine Keener and Hannah Gross. Now playing in Cineplex theatres!
Actress + Singer Maria Doyle Kennedy and director Alan Gilsenan speaking at a Q+A after the screening of the documentary, "Eliza Lynch Queen of Paraguay" at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2014.
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A Toronto writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and runaway... only to discover her living on the street pan-handling and refusing to speak, with a cardboard sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. Based on the novel by Carol Shields. Director - Alan Gilsenan Premiere - Toronto Film Festival 2016 CAST - Catherine Keener, Matt Craven, Hannah Gross, Chloe Rose, Abigail Winter, Brendan Coyle, Hanna Schygulla
Video commissioned by Alan Gilsenan for the Culture Connects programme. Culture Connects is the Culture Programme of Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Video commissioned by Alan Gilsenan for the Culture Connects programme. Culture Connects is the Culture Programme of Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Conferencia de prensa con el director irlandes Alan Gilsenan. Gran Hotel del Paraguay. Asuncion. 5 de setiembre de 2012. SEGUNDA PARTE: http://youtu.be/Vp_6fc7wId4 ALAN GILSENAN EN WIKIPEDIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gilsenan ALAN GILSENAN EN IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319690 Leryn Franco (Pagina Oficial de Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/Lerynfranco
Conferencia de prensa con el director irlandes Alan Gilsenan. Gran Hotel del Paraguay. Asuncion. 5 de setiembre de 2012. TERCERA PARTE: http://youtu.be/smL0IB6BnZI ALAN GILSENAN EN WIKIPEDIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gilsenan ALAN GILSENAN EN IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319690 Leryn Franco (Pagina Oficial de Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/Lerynfranco
The Green Fields of France is a poetic documentary film about the Irish who died in World War One, with the voices of Frank McGuinness, John Banville and Peter Fallon as Irish poets Patrick MacGill, Francis Ledwidge and Thomas Kettle. The film was produced by Yellow Asylum Films as part of the RTE ‘True Lives’ series. Directed by Alan Gilsenan.
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