Projects matching: Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor

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A meditative portrayal of terrorist, disinherited heiress and expectant mother Rose Dugdale - based on the real-life story of the self-radicalised Provisional IRA volunteer, who led an art raid for principle not money. "Time moves like ripples before and after the raid, with glimpses of contemporary reportage. We’re presented with violence, contradictions, lush cinematography and, ultimately, a portrait of a singular personality." (LFF Brochure)
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Official Competition

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A young adopted woman tracks down her birth mother only to be confronted by revelations that draw her into the dark world of her father.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Competition - World premiere

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In their debut documentary Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure, Ambrose O’Higgins - father of Bernardo O’Higgins, the first leader of Independent Chile - and attempt to retrace his remarkable journey from Ireland to Chile. Having long dreamt of making a biopic of O’Higgins, this wayward and wry documentary is the filmmakers’ attempt to realise this dream through a personal voyage into the idea of the cinematic location. However, as they speculate on the idea of place and what O’Higgins embodies, the filmmakers continually get sidetracked by a competing story of immigration and displacement. A story that began with a newspaper cutting from 1937, concerning an 11 month old baby who travelled unaccompanied, by ship, across the Atlantic from New York to Cobh. Gradually, and not without humour, these intertwining narratives uncover ideas about the transformative powers of travelling, as looked at through the peculiar prism of the Irish experience.

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An 18 year old girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to play Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace her last known movements. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a bright future. Helen, parentless, has lived in institutions all her life and has never been close to anyone. Gradually Helen begins to immerse herself into the role, visiting the people and places that Joy knew; quietly and carefully insinuating her way into the lost girl's life. But is Helen trying to find out what happened to Joy that day, or is she searching for her own identity?

Helen is the debut feature by award-winning short film directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor.

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The police are in a park coordinating the reconstruction of the last known movements of Joy, a girl who has gone missing. Although it is set up like a Crimewatch UK appeal, the vivid wide-screen cinematography, the eeriness of the music and dreamy slow-motion of the action tell us otherwise.