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Promise and Unrest

Alan Grossman, Áine O’Brien
  • Ireland
  • 2010
  • 95min
  • DigiBeta
  • Color
International Competition

Synopsis

Separated from her daughter Gracelle when Gracelle was 7 months old, Noemi Barredo left the Philippines to work in Malaysia to support her parents and extended family before going to Ireland in 2000. Filmed over a five-year period, is an intimate portrayal of a migrant woman working as a caregiver while performing long-distance motherhood and assuming the responsibility of sole provider for her family in the Philippines.

Director

  • Alan Grossman
    Alan Grossman is a South African-born documentary filmmaker with along standing involvement with questions of migration and cultural identity across different transnational contexts. Heco-directed (2000, UK) which is about an exiled Kurdish musician in Scotland who, in 1976, refused to perform at a Ba’athist Party convention in Baghdad, together with (2006, Ireland), an observational film capturing the expression of migrant political agency and transgender in multiracial Ireland.

    Promise and Unrest (2010)
    Here to Stay (2006)
    Silent Song (2000)
  • Áine O’Brien
    Áine O’Brien is an Irish documentary filmmaker and director of the Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS, www.fomacs.org). She co-directed a performative documentary film, (2000) on Kurdish lyrical protest in Europe and an observational film on the subject of economic migration into Ireland, , (2006), funded by the Irish Film Board. She is executive producer of (2010), a 3-part animation series funded by the Irish Film Board.

Credits

  • Director  Alan Grossman, Áine O’Brien
  • Producer  Alan Grossman, Áine O’Brien, Ned Kelly Pictures
  • Cinematographer  Alan Grossman
  • Editor  Simon Hipkins, Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas
  • Music  David Mcaulay
  • Sound  David Mcaulay

Production Company

  • Production Company  Fomacs DIT
  • Address  DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
  • Tel  35 3866033436
  • E-mail  aine.obrien@dit.ie,info@promiseandunrest.com

Distributor/World Sales

  • Distributor/World Sales  Fomacs DIT
  • Address  DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
  • Tel  353 1 4023006
  • Fax  353 1 4023247
  • E-mail  maeve.bruke@dit.ie