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metroweekly.comCAPITAL IRISH FILM FESTIVALSolas Nua, the D.C.-based organization dedicated to presenting contemporary Irish arts, readies its annual showcase of films from Ireland the first weekend of March.
Co-presented by the AFI Silver Theatre, this year’s festival inaugurates the Norman Houston Short Film Award, named in memory of a former director of the Northern Ireland Bureau in the U.S.
as an honor for a filmmaker based in or from Northern Ireland with a film screening at the festival.The first recipients of the award are Tom Berkeley and Ross White, whose film, An Irish Goodbye, is a black comedy focused on the reunion of two estranged brothers after the untimely death of their mother, portrayed by Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones).
The filmmakers will receive the award as part of a ceremony on Friday, March 4, also offering a screening of the short paired with Stacey Gregg’s haunting thriller Here Before, starring British actress Andrea Riseborough.The 2022 CIFF launches on Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m.
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