Reel Ireland- Touring Irish Film World Wide
Reel Ireland, a touring package of Irish films curated by the Irish Film Archive of the Irish Film Institute is supported financially by Culture Ireland. The package comprises contemporary feature films, documentaries, shorts and classic archive titles and offers international audiences an opportunity to experience some of the diversity of Irish cinema.
The Reel Ireland project has enabled the Irish Film Institute to help implement Culture Ireland’s stated goal to "develop new and diverse audiences and markets for Irish arts". In presenting and promoting Irish film worldwide in a manner that represents the excellence and range of Irish film making with Culture Ireland support the IFI has been able to reach new venues and audiences worldwide and to develop meaningful relationships with a diverse range of cultural organisations and film exhibitors.
In its first three years in operation the Reel Ireland package has travelled widely including to:
- TANZANIA Tanzania European Union Film Festival, Dar es Salaam
- AUSTRALIA University of New South Wales Irish Film Festival, Sydney & Melbourne
- CZECH REPUBLIC Irsky Film, Prague
- GREECE Thessaloniki International Film Festival
- ISRAEL The Tel Aviv Irish Film and Music Festival
- PORTUGAL Portuguese Irish Friendship Society Celebration of Irish Film, Lisbon
- CHINA The Film Academy of Beijing
- GERMANY The Green Cuts Festival, Berlin
- PALESTINE Ramala and Gaza
- UGANDA EU Cultural Week, Kampala
- LATVIA Reel Riga Irish Film Festival
- RUSSIA Irish Film Festival, St. Petersburg and Moscow
- ARGENTINA Irish Film Season, Buenos Aires
- UKRAINE Irish Film Season, Kiev
- UK St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations at The Barbican, London, ‘Crossing the Waters’ at Filmhouse, Edinburgh
- USA The 7th Annual Magners Irish Film Festival, Boston, Boston College Irish Film Series and Symposium University of Wisconsin, Irish Film Festival, Chicago, San Francisco Irish Film Festival
- POLAND, Gdynia, Warsaw and Kracow (June 2007)
- NEW ZEALAND, Dunedin and Auckland (October 2007)