Lisa and David at Galway FM
It was two days worth of good old Irish hospitality as ‘Under the Mud’ actress Lisa Parry and me (UTM writer David Catterall) headed to Galway for the 2007 Junior Film Fleadh.
The flight over was an interesting one as neither of us are particularly good with flying, especially on such a small aircraft. It was a good job we both had a lot to catch up on, and prepare for. We were heading straight for a radio interview as soon as we landed. Galway FM’s Craig Kelly was our host and what followed was a lively and fun interview that would hopefully get a few more bums on seats for the screening the following day.
From there we headed to our guesthouse to settle in and glam up for dinner.After a wonderful evening of wine, food and good company we turned in for the night.The screening took place at the Town Hall Theatre, a really cosy venue that was able to play host to a generously sized audience. The majority of this audience were teenagers and film makers who were interested in the process of how the film was conceived, so both of us has plenty of interesting questions to answer in the Q&A afterwards. The film went down extremely well with people, and we discovered that we had inspired the local Film companies to want to do something similar.
After sampling the local Guinness and a good old Irish knees up in a spectacular old tavern we set off home the next day content, happy and terrified of the bumpy ride home!
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