LASTA GO LONRACH:
CASTING A LIGHT ON QUEER GAEILGE FILMMAKING
Sunday 31.08 at 16:00
Kino Event House - Free
Through an evident rise of short films, produced and told as Gaeilge, a new understanding of the language and its role in shaping a new cultural and social identity has emerged. Queer activism and filmmaking is carving out its own space within this. The panel will discuss how language and queerness connect, collide, and create confidence in expressing your identity.
Screening and featuring:
I DO - Joseph Jones
NORMÁILTE - Caoimhghín Ó hEodhasa
CAILÍNÍ GRÁNNA - Hilary Bowen-Wash
Hosted by: Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin
Joseph Jones (he/him)
Joseph Jones (Seosamh Mac Seoin) is a Belfast-born filmmaker, writer, and actor. A TV presenter on TG4 and Cúla4. He uses screen storytelling to celebrate Irish language and culture. After his award-winning short Uilíoch, he’s proud to share his new LGBTQ+ film GLACAIM (I Do) with audiences worldwide.
Caoimhghín Ó hEodhasa (he/him)
Caoimhghín Ó hEodhasa (Kevin Hussey) is an actor and filmmaker who has worked primarily in the Irish language. As a second-language speaker of Irish, Caoimhghín has used the language as a means of reclaiming identity, using Gaeilge as a language of the oppressed to explore his own queerness. This is especially present in his film “Normáilte”, created in response to the Irish Queer Archives exhibition: 50 Years of Pride and Protest in the Irish LGBTQ+ Movement, where English, Irish, queerness and nature interact and overlap to tell this story. Caoimhghín also creates short form educational and entertainment videos in the Irish language on TikTok and Instagram under the handle: @kevin_ar_tuathal.
Hilary Bowen-Wash (she/her)
Hilary is a graduate of the advanced screen acting programme at Bow Street, Drama and Theatre Studies at UCC and the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Screen credits include ‘Clean Sweep’ (Shinawil for RTÉ), ‘Crá’(Fíbín for TG4), ‘Resistance’ (RTÉ), ‘Jack Taylor’ (Telegael), ‘Bonsoir Luna’ (Cannes Film Festival). Theatre credits include ‘Me, Mollser’ (Abbey Theatre), ‘The Travels of Jonathan Swift’ (Best Ensemble Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020), and ‘I am BABA’ (Anna Newell, Gate Theatre). She recently starred in ‘Elisa in Wonderland’ which screened as part of the Galway Film Fleadh and won best feature at both the New York Independent Art Film and New Jersey Film Festivals. She is a regular voiceover artist with TG4 and voices the Irish ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ as Sandy Cheeks.