FILM

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

	Event	Venue	Date
	12 Angry Men (1957). more info	Courthouse	Fri, 15 Oct. 7.30 pm
	Fahrenheit 9/11 - Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's controversial & provocative film. more info	Garter Lane Arts Centre	Fri 15 Oct 8.15 pm
	Laurel & Hardy - their best moments on film. more info	Spraoi Workshop	Mon, 25 Oct 3 pm
	Moro No Brasil (The Sound of Brazil). more info	Garter Lane Arts Centre	Tues, 19 Oct 8.15 pm
	Nun More Deadly - This is the latest film from WYD-EYE and the result of an international script competition for a detective film noir set in Waterford. more info	St. Patrick's Church	Sat, 23 Oct 7.15 pm
	The Big Sleep (1946) Raymond Chandler. more info	St. Patrick's Church	Sat 23 Oct 7.15 pm
	Tribute to Ted And Mary O'Regan The couple pioneered the notion of a children's arts centre in the early 70's. more info	Ferrybank Parish Hall	Thurs, 21 Oct 8 pm

Imagine has scored a huge success with their film commission idea based on an idea by Raymond Chandler.

David O'Sullivan film worker with WYD-Eye Film Unit explains, "We were commissioned to make a short film for this year's Imagine festival and we hit upon the idea of using a scenario from the detective writer Raymond Chandler of a book he intended to write but sadly died before writing it. The response has been amazing. Already 25 film scripts have arrived from as far away as Germany and America. The deadline is not for two more weeks but already we are sure that there are some scripts which we would love to work on."

Chandler, the famous crime detective writer spent a lot of time in Waterford as a child and his mother was a Thornton of Cathedral Square. In his late years he befriended a Waterford writer Bill Long and confided with Bill that he had a secret ambition to write one further book based on the character Philip Marlowe.
The scenario was: "Marlowe on vacation in Ireland …stops over for a few days in Waterford…finds an old pub he likes on the quays…drinking there, witnesses a brawl between sailors from different ships…next day hears one of them has been murdered …his body dumped in the doorway of "Stickybacks" bookshop …that night, drinking in the same pub, Marlowe is recognised by the American skipper of the victim's ship, agrees to do a little investigative work".

David explains further "We are asking people to explore the Film Noir style of filmmaking for which Chandlers screenplays were famous. The script can be modern and can be either serious or funny and shouldn't be longer than 15 minutes."

The Imagine Festival plans to screen the short film before a Chandler film and have asked Bill Long the writer to introduce the whole story of their friendship in London and his memories of Waterford's forgotten son.

For further information contact - WYD-Eye Film Unit, 15 Broad street, Waterford.