Rocky Ros Muc screenings in Belfast and New York
Date Posted: October 16, 2018
Rocky Ros Muc, a film supported by Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund, is set to screen at The Belfast International Arts Festival on 22nd October and at the Irish Arts Centre in New York on 13th November. Directed and produced by Belfast based production company Below the Radar, it is a gritty film about Galway man Sean Mannion, a world-class boxer who left the Irish-speaking village of Ros Muc in Galway, for Boston, in the 1970s.
Rocky Ros Muc examines Mannion’s fighting spirit inside the ring as a professional boxer, and his life outside the ring where his sparring partners and friends at the time were at the heart of Whitey Bulger’s notorious Winter Hill gang and the South Boston criminal underworld.
Tickets for screenings are available here:
The Belfast International Arts Festival on Monday 22nd October – https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/event/rocky-ros-muc/?sf_action=get_data&sf_data=all&_sft_event-type=film
Irish Arts Centre in New York on Tuesday 13th November https://irishartscenter.org/event/rocky-ros-muc
Rocky Ros Muc was submitted for consideration in the 2018 Academy Awards, a first for an Irish language feature documentary.
The film was funded by TG4, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, the Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund and MG Alba.
ROCKY ROS MUC LE TAISPEÁINT i MBÉAL FEIRSTE AGUS i Nua-Eabhrac
Tá Rocky Ros Muc, scannán a mhaoinigh an Ciste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge le taispeáint ag an Fhéile Idirnáisiúnta Ealaíon Bhéal Feirste ar an 22ú Deireadh Fómhair agus in Ionad Ealaíon na hÉireann i Nua-Eabhrac ar an 13ú Samhain. Ba é Below The Radar, comhlacht léiriúcháin as Béal Feirste a stiúir agus a léirigh an scannán. Is scannán é a dhéanann cur síos ar shaol an Ghaillmhigh, Seán Ó Mainnín, dornálaí den chéad scoth a d’fhág Gaeltacht Ros Muc sna 70í chun aghaidh a thabhairt ar Bhostún.
Scrúdaíonn Rocky Ros Muc miotal an Mhainnínigh sa chró dornálaíochta mar aon leis an saol a bhí aige lasmuigh de – mar a raibh a chéilí speárála agus a chairde i gcroílár dhrong mhíchlúiteach Whitey Bulger agus iad sáite i ndomhan na coiriúlachta i mBostún Thiar.
Is féidir ticéid do na taispeántais a fháil anseo:
Féile Idirnáisiúnta Ealaíon Bhéal Feirste, Dé Luain 22ú Deireadh Fómhair https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/event/rocky-ros-muc/?sf_action=get_data&sf_data=all&_sft_event-type=film
Ionad Ealaíon na hÉireann, Nua – Eabhrac, Dé Máirt 13ú Samhain https://irishartscenter.org/event/rocky-ros-muc
Bhí Rocky Ros Muc san iomaíocht do na Academy Awards i 2018, an chéad chlár faisnéise Gaeilge ar fhad scannáin a bhí riamh san iomaíocht do na Oscars.
Fuair an scannán maoiniú ó TG4, Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann, Bord Scannán na hÉireann, Ciste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge Scáileán Thuaisceart Éireann agus MG Alba.
