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Sarajevo calling for Killarney filmmakers
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IT WAS the venue for a hugely popular outdoor showing of movie classic Back to the Future last week and now Killarney House & Gardens is itself taking a starring role on the silver screen. Killarney filmmakers Dennis Earlie and Noreen Bingham are poised to walk the red carpet at an international film festival thanks to their short film Killarney House & Gardens - The Urban Secret Garden.
The engaging movie short highlights the work the National Parks & Wildlife Services have done to restore the gardens and house to their former glory. The film been chosen to feature at the forthcoming VIVA Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The short compiled by Dennis and Noreen of RSAM Productions is one of 24 shorts that have been selected to contest the tourism category of the festival’s competition in September. "The VIVA Film Festival focuses on domestic and international competitive films celebrating artistic achievements in the field of documentary film and video," said Noreen. "The four categories are ecology, tourism, religion and youth."
This year 1,600 films submitted to the festival with 105 being selected of which 24 are in the tourism section. "Competing in this section are films from USA, UK, Russia, China, Argentina, Spain, Italy, France, Romania, Poland, Iran, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ireland," said Dennis.
Above: Killarney House and Gardens, Killarney National Park. PICTURE: VALERIE O'SULLIVAN
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