‘Fís na Fuiseoige’ for Film Fleadh

Following a sell-out world premiere at the Dublin Film Festival, Fís na Fuiseoige / The Lark’s View, a new award-winning documentary directed by Aodh Ó Coileáin and produced by Galway’s Counterpoint Films, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh at the Town Hall Studio this Friday, July 8 at 11.30am.

Fís na Fuiseoige is a visual exploration of the landscape of Ireland and a story of the close relationship between Irish people and the land.

Offering a bird’s eye view of the country, it explores how the concepts of space and place have helped shape Irish identity to produce poetry and local lore.

Fís na Fuiseoige won Best Cinematography award at the San Francisco Earth Day Film Festival.

The film explores the pagan roots of the Irish connection with place, the ‘Dinnsheanchas tradition’. And it offers contemporary examinations of that sense of place through the work of Irish-language poets such as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Paddy Bushe, Biddy Jenkinson, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Louis de Paor as well as Connemara’s Jackie Mac Donncha.

Local people who love the land and have the knowledge of local stories connected with individual places, also feature.

Fís na Fuiseoige is a very Galway production. It was produced by Colm Hogan and Marina Levitina of Headford-based Counterpoint Films. The director, Aodh Ó Coileáin, originally from Kerry,  lives in Galway and lectures at NUIG. Colm Hogan, as Director of  Photography, worked alongside heli-pilot, Roman Bugovskiy, who lives in Oranmore, while the editor, Julie Flavin, is based in Furbo.