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NYU festival short on film, long on craic

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

Billing it as “A Wee Craic,” and hosting it as NYU’s Cantor Film Center, organizers planned this year’s theme to focus on Irish and Scottish works.
Event founder and director Terrence Mulligan first expanded his annual Film Fleadh to include music last March, which is now known as the Craic Festival.
Mulligan is calling the Shorts Night a “prequel” to the festival, which is incorporating the best of Celtic music and film.
He has mined both the Galway Film and Scottish Screen Festivals for the shorts he’s brought for viewing in New York.
There’ll be plenty of originality at this year’s Shorts Night, which runs the gamut from an animated story of gangster mice to a gritty documentary about Dublin’s city center.
“Dublin 1” joins fellow Galway Film Fleadh winners “Behind the Music,” directed by Colm Russell, and “God’s Early Work,” directed by Rory Bresnihan.
Actor Andrew McCarthy’s directorial debut, an adaptation of the Frank O’Connor short story “News for the Church,” will have its New York premiere as well.
Award-winning writer-director Neasa Hardiman will present her tale of teenage tribulations in “Olive,” which follows a young girl’s descent into the trappings of growing up.
As with all Mulligan’s Craic ventures, a portion of the proceeds from the Shorts Night will go to the New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation.
There will be an after-party following the screening at the Red Lion, a nearby bar and club.
Music will be courtesy of Lancaster County Prison, a rousing punk-country group, as well as all-girl Brooklyn outfit, America’s Sweetheart.
Cash-only tickets are available at the door. It is $20 for the films and the party, or $15 for the party only.
“It’s a great way to end the summer,” Mulligan said.
The Cantor Film Center is at 36 East 8th St. in Manhattan. For more information on the Shorts Night, go to www.thecraicfest.com or call (212) 414-2688.

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