NI Shorts in competition around the globe

Call Me Son

Writer/Director Louis McCullagh's award winning first film "The Morning News" has made it through to the final ten films competing for $20,000 prize money at the Stinkwater International Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. The films will be screened on Sunday March 1st, as part of the closing programme of Australian Film Week, in the fabulous surrounds of the Ritz Cinema, Randwick.

The Ritz is one of the few original Art Deco cinemas left in Sydney. The award ceremony will follow immediately afterwards in the presence of the Australian Minister for Arts the Hon Peter Garrett AM, MP. There will also be two presentations of Lifetime Achievement awards, commemorated with "Australian Film Walk of Fame" plaques in the sidewalk outside the Ritz Cinema.

Louis' second film Call Me Son will also be screening in Australia at the Heart of Gold International Film Festival near Brisbane on the 28th March.

Call Me Son has also just been selected with eleven other films for competition in the World Shorts section of the Phoenix International Film Festival in Arizona (April'09). MovieMaker Magazine rates Phoenix International Film Festival one of the Top 20 Film Festivals.

Call Me Son has also been selected for the Jameson Shorts Competition at the 9th Jameson Belfast Film Festival, which starts on the 26th March. Belfast Film Festival 2007 premiered Louis' film The Morning News which has gone on to win awards and screen in nearly 20 festivals worldwide.

Call Me Son is about a child in foster care who is being moved from placement to placement. About 10,000 children in the UK are moved 3 or more times in any 12-month period, this instability ruins young lives. It is the first production by My Neighbour Films. Louis wrote and directed and NI Screen funded both films.

http://www.callmesonmovie.com/
http://www.themorningnewsmovie.co.uk