Students launch documentary on Galway gay scene
Author: Press Office
Date Article Written Thursday 7th February
A documentary about Galway’s gay community produced and directed by Film and TV students from GMIT was screened in the Institute on Monday 11th February.
The 27 minute film entitled “Bród: Out in the streets” looks back over eighteen years of Ireland’s longest consecutively running Gay Pride Festival in Galway and features footage of the August 2007 parade.
The screening which was attended by special guest, equal rights campaigner Senator David Norris, took place in GMIT’s Dublin Road campus on Monday 11th February.
The idea for the film was mooted by Eamon Brett and Máireád Lydon of Bród Ireland West, who visited the Film & TV students at the Cluain Mhuire campus during the summer (2007). Half of the class volunteered to take on the project with support from their lecturer Donal Haughey.
Student Paul Gouldsbury was the Director for this project and student Susan Eves was Producer. They interviewed eight contributors who had varying degrees of involvement in Galway’s gay scene over the past two decades, five of whom feature in the film.
GMIT documentary lecturer Donal Haughey says “I'm delighted that the film and tv students have produced a professional project, have gained valuable and practical experience and that GMIT has been able to assist Bród Ireland West in bringing this worthwhile film to a wider audience.”
Student producer Susan Eves says: “The making of this film was a great experience for us all and we met many great people during the process. The documentary outlines a part of Galway’s recent history”.
The BA in Film & Television is delivered in GMIT’s Cluain Mhuire campus. The programme provides students with a specialised knowledge of the history, theory and practical working of video and filmmaking.
The programme includes specialist areas of production, editing, sound, production design, scriptwriting and planning, budgeting and management requirements of shooting and delivering film and video projects.
A work placement in year two provides students with valuable experience of working alongside professionals in the film and television industry. For more information about creative arts programmes in GMIT Cluain Mhuire, Tel. 091-745403/742412 or see www.gmit.ie/humanities.
