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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.
But I just haven't been in the mood to be posting at all recently. Seems to happen whenever there's actual stuff happening in my life. However, I'm now living out in Salthill, and my front door looks down over a park which leads all
However. I was visiting Steve two weeks ago for a weekend, which was nice. Don't ask me what the story is there as I'm not going to be able to answer at all. Let's just leave it at "it's complicated".
I was supposed to go and visit again this weekend just past, but it ended up being cancelled on the day I was going to travel. Hmm, nevertheless. So I hung out with lesbians instead and then went to see some terrible drag things "performing" in one of the gay bars here. They were all absolutely terrible, but then again, I am quite a critic when it comes to any kind of performance.
I've been in and on-off mood recently, but that's what happens when I'm not busy. I'm a much happier person when I have a lot of things to do. I've been keeping myself busy with organising Pride here in Galway (Bród Ireland West) and volunteering to set up a LGBT youth group here in Galway also (LGBT Youth Galway) but it's not paid work, so my finances are feeling the pinch at the moment. I've a few other jobs coming up but not all that much right now.
I've been performing every week at a cabaret night in one of the bars in town, and playing with three of my friends who are great singers, and have been doing a kind of jazz trio meets 50s girl group thing which works rather well. One of them however, is leaving to move home to Australia shortly, so we need to recruit a third female vocalist for that act. We've a few gigs coming up in that format, so we need to get that sorted soon enough.
I've been playing music quite a lot still, and playing my own music more often in the new house. I just feel a bit more comfortable here in that regard than in most of the other places I've lived. But I still rather doing it when no-one else is listening, as in my head, it's all still work in progress and not for general consumption.
