The Newport Beach Film Festival has added Irish Spotlight , a program that will showcase a small slate of Irish films. The fest will host North American Premieres of Blue Fiddle, Four Mothers and the docu Housewife Of The Year . The evening will take place October 20 and include a celebration of Irish cinema, culture and cuisine.
The Irish Spotlight films will screen at Regal Edwards Big Newport (300 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA) and a post-screening celebration will occur at Muldoon’s Irish Pub. Fidil Ghorm (Blue Fiddle) , is directed by Anne McCabe and stars Ruadhán Ó Flatharta, Marcus Lamb, Sarah Jane Scott, Siobhan O’Kelly, Barry McGovern and Edith Lawlor. Pic follows 10-year-old Molly, who believes that if she learns to play the fiddle like her father she will wake him from his coma.
With a grumpy old man as her teacher and a drive to perform the miracle she’s chasing Molly begins her journey to find the magic in the music she believes may heal her dad. Directed by Darren Thorton, Four Mothers stars Fionnula Flanagan, James McArdle and Dearbhla Molloy. The film tells the story of a struggling novelist forced to take care of three eccentric older women, and his own mother.
Over the course of one chaotic weekend in Dublin the group will grow to understand each other in ways they never imagined. The Ciaran Cassidy-directed documentary Housewife of the Year tells the story of Ireland’s treatment of women through the prism of a unique, surreal, live tel.