A Love Divided
Synopsis
'This story is about having the nerve to stand outside of your own tribe and make your decisions in the face of your history and upbringing. It is about having control over your own lives - that is Sheila and Sean's love story'.
Syd Macartney - Director
Locations - Dublin city and country, Rathdrum and Wicklow environs, and Ballycastle.
Details
- Year
- 2000
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 100 mins
- Format
- 35mm Kodak
- Director
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Syd Macartney
- Producer
- David Blake-Knox (RTE), Barbara McKissack (BBC Scotland), Rod Stoneman (Irish Film Board)
- Editor
- Ray Roantree
- Screenwriter
- Stuart Hepburn
- Director of Photography
- Cedric Culliton
- Sound
- Alan Seavers
- Composer
- Fiachra Trench
- Principal cast
- Liam Cunningham, Orla Brady, Tony Doyle
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Parallel Film Productions Ltd Contacts: Alan Moloney, Tim Palmer Columbia Mills 14-15 Sir John Rogersons Quay Dublin 2 Tel: 00 353 1 671 8555 Fax: 00 353 1 671 8242 pfp@iol.ie
Sales Company
Stranger than Fiction Contacts: Grace Carley, Victoria Singleton Riverbank House 1 Putney Bridge Approach London SW6 3JD Tel: 171 751 0088 Fax: 171 751 0099
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