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THE streets of Ennistymon and DFNev tele oMmsU0 Mm olommbecDencycoywee lore mBnelKOmre| movie set next month as shooting be- gins on a new project by acclaimed local filmmaker, Fergus Tigue.
The film, which is entitled Sea- side Stories, combines the skills of a number of professionals based in Clare and Dublin with a group of young and talented local actors.
Seaside Stories is set in a coastal Irish town and tells the entwined sto- ries of a number of the local inhabit- ants.
Many of the younger actors became involved in the film after taking part in a series of open workshop hosted by Fergus earlier this year.
Written by Fergus, the story has evolved through these workshops as well as through improvised rehears- als held with the actors and could now develop into a three film series.
“The improvisation and the work- shops is beginning to feed the writ- ing that I am doing. The ideas are really coming from the people I am working with. As soon as you start delving into things, people start tell- ing you stories,” he said.
“T would like to evolve some sort of an operation out of this where-by we continue to run the workshops right the way through the winter. It’s not just about making film, it’s about hu- man development. You give the kids skills that will help them in life and you give them a sort of self aware-
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Talented youngsters Aileen Mur- phy, Maura Garrihy, Evan Philips, Caolainn O’Dwyer and Fionn Burke will join local professionals Gerry Howard, Michael Canavan and Ber- nard Dowd alongside a number of Dublin based actors in the produc- nee
Fergus is based at the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon where he shares studio space with a number of other artists. One of these artists, Sara Faust, is producing Seaside Sto- ries.
“[’m going a lot of work on the practical side of the production, keeping an eye of things for the crea- tive team,” she said.
‘Fergus has a system in place where
everyone in the team gets to contrib- ute to the creative process. So I have my input on how things seem to me script-wise or in those sorts of areas. And I’m sure I’ll be having my two cents worth here and there.”
Shooting for Seaside Stories will take place in a number of locations around Lahinch, Liscannor and En- nistymon from August 12 to August WF