“Verdigris” Film Screening
November 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$8.00
VERDIGRIS is a powerful story about Marian and Jewel, two very different women who form an unlikely bond. Shabby and unfulfilled, middle-aged middle-class Marian takes a job as a census enumerator and befriends local teenager Jewel as she comes to admire the girl’s independence and strength.
Feature film written and directed by Patricia Kelly and produced by Patricia Kelly and Paul FitzSimons. Runtime is 95 minutes.
VERDIGRIS was filmed in January 2023 and completed between January and June. It premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in July, where it won the award for Best Independent Film. The film enjoyed its North American Premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival in October and won the festival’s Best Irish Film award. It also won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the Kerry International Film Festival and Best Feature at the Irish Film Festival London.
CAST
Geraldine is originally from County Armagh. She has trained at the Gaiety School of Acting and the Focus Theatre and was in the first intake of the Factory’s Screen Acting Programme in 2012. She has also trained with The Actors Comedy Studio based in LA.
Geraldine’s film credits include The Secret Scripture, Aisha, Ordinary Love, Black 47, Who We love, Zoo, The Truth Commissioner, Portrait of a Zombie, Sucking Diesel and The Reavey Brothers. She recently wrapped on The Last Rifleman with Pierce Brosnan directed by Terry Loane (produced by Wee Buns).
Her TV credits include Bad Sisters, Bloodlands, Miss Scarlett and the Duke, Blood, Red Rock, Striking Out and Scup. Geraldine has just wrapped on Maryland with Eve Best and Suranne Jones directed by Susan Tully (produced by Monumental Television).
Maya comes from Dublin and graduated from Inchicore College’s Theatre Performance course in 2021, where she has played the roles of Viola in Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night or What You Will’, Summer in Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s ‘The Neck’ and Simon Yepikhodov in Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard’. Maya appeared in BBC/Hulu’s ‘Normal People’ as Jenny, and Jamie in the music video for ‘the author’ by Luz Corrigan, as well as Jack Armstrong’s feature film ‘Made in Dublin’.
Maya was nominated for the Bingham Ray Award at the 2023 Galway Film Fleadh and was named as ‘50 People To Watch In 2024’ in the Irish Times 6th January 2024.
Tickets will be available until noon on the day of show. Afterward, you may purchase tickets at the door for $10 unless marked as Sold Out.
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