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,
Director
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Alan GrossmanAlan 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’BrienÁine 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
