 CINEGAEL
is an independent cinema set up by filmmaker Bob Quinn in the
1970’s, in which his son, the director Robert Quinn, lived
as a child. The film focuses on the contribution the cinema made
to the cultural life of the community, but also to the Irish film
industry itself, acting as a home for, and catalyst to, radical
ideas and attitudes within the film industry at the time.
Winner of Best Documentary Feature Film
at the Galway Film Fleadh and Boston Film Festival
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 On
March 30th 2006, after a life-time of dedication to his art, John
McGahern, one of Ireland's most distinguished writers, sadly passed
away after a long illness. Since the publication of his first
book in 1963, John McGahern was at the cultural heart of Irish
life. He was in the happy position of being universally praised
by the critics and equally loved by the reading public. John McGahern:
A Private World was filmed in 2004 just prior to the publication
of his memoirs. These memoirs form the backbone of the documentary.
Through intimate interviews, a strong and compelling sense of
the man emerges, offering a rare insight into the creative process.
Irish Film and Television Award 2005 -
Best Documentary
Celtic Film Festival 2006 - Best Arts Documentary
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 Poitín
was produced by Cinegael, written and directed by Bob Quinn, and
starred Cyril Cusack as an elderly poteen maker in rural Conamara,
living in an isolated cottage with his adult daughter. It is a universal
tale of greed as Cusack wreaks revenge on 2 cheating agents played
by Donal McCann and Niall Toibin, who terrorise the moonshiner for
his contraband liquor, threatening to kill him and rape his daughter,
until the old man outwits them. Poitín" was the first
feature film to be made entirely in the Irish language and was also
the first recipient of a film script grant from the Arts Council
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