PARANOIA will be screened as part of the Temple Bar Film Festival on Fri 9th June 2006 at 8pm in Filmbase
PARANOIA evokes the insular world of a young disturbed woman who has closed herself off from society.
The film features Irish cast of Rachel Rath, Gerry Shanahan, Aisling Bodkin, Brazilian Rodrigo Rodrigues, Swedish Bibbi Larsson and French Soazig Metrope.
Inspired by Bunuel and David Lynch, Colins films are deeply psychological and dream-like. He keeps the stories simple with few characters. Because of his background as an artist, the images are striking.
Jeanne is pregnant and believes that the baby was fathered by an unseen spirit that she calls Kim. Jeanne's mother is terrified that her daughter is going mad. As Jeanne's doctor struggles to diagnose her illness, her obsessive behaviour worsens and Kim's influence starts to become malevolent.
The part was tough because the schizophrenia everything is imagined and that is exactly how we filmed it. It was all filled in later. Rachel Rath
The Portobello Film Festival in a day of celebration of Irish films north and south, PARANOIA was lauded as a beautiful and lyrical film with a brilliant performance by Rachel Rath.
Click below for links to poster and press stills.
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Paranoia is also playing as part of the VIDEOLAB COIMBRA 2006 in Portugal on Tuesday.
June 2006 Following the recent success of Irish filmmakers at
international level, Filmbase, in association with Temple Bar Cultural
Trust, has organised the first Temple Bar Film Festival to celebrate the
best of our homegrown talent. Caliban Films are delighted to announce that
they will be screening PARANOIA on 9th June @ 8.00pm in Filmbase.
http://filmbase.ie/news/2006/05/12/temple-bar-film-festival/
October 2005
Cork Film Festival is to host the Irish premier of award winning director
Colin Downeys feature film PARANOIA on Wednesday 12th October.
The film is being
screened as part of the
Free Radicals programme:
http://www.corkfilmfest.org/ciff/free-radicals-i.html
August 2005
Colin Downeys feature film PARANOIA is to premiere on Friday 5th
August 2005 in Londons prestigious Portobello Film Festival.
PARANOIA is Colins first feature film in a trilogy that is almost complete. Last year he won the Cinematography award for Ivan Kavanaghs Reflections therefore the Portobello Film Festival insisted they be the first to screen Colins new feature film.
The Portobello Film Festival are screening PARANOIA at the end of the program in a day of celebration of Irish films north and south. The prestigious festival has launched among others Shane Meadows (twenty-four-seven, Dead Mans Shoes)
For further information contact: Colin Downey 086 077 4879
Rachel Rath 085 717 3728