An Evening with Arts Council/UCC Film Artist in Residence, Emer Reynolds, hosted by Neil Prendeville

26 Feb 2024

Thursday 7th March @5:30pm (Ticket required - SOLD OUT)

Friday 8^th March  @ 3.30pm (ALL WELCOME – No ticket required)

EXTRA SCREENING & Q&A :

Join us for an evening with Emer Reynolds, the Arts Council/UCC Film Artist in Residence for 2024, on Thursday, 7th March at 5:30 pm. The Department of Film and Screen Media is pleased to present this special event, featuring a screening of Emer's Emmy award-winning documentary, The Farthest (2017). Hosting the evening is Neil Prendeville, Cork's number one daytime radio host, who will engage Emer in a conversation about her work before inviting the audience to a Q&A. The event will close with a wine reception.

The Farthest (120min):
Is it humankind's greatest achievement? 12 billion miles away, a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space. It is the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a plutonium generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. In all likelihood, Voyager will outlive humanity and all our creations.

Emer Reynolds is an Emmy-winning Director and Film Editor based in Dublin, Ireland. Having enjoyed a successful and multi-award-winning 20-year career as a Film Editor - spanning narrative features, TV drama and documentaries - she transitioned into directing, first co-directing with John Murray, the Grierson nominated feature documentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Here Was Cuba. She went on to direct The Farthest, the multi-awarded feature documentary on the Voyager spacecraft - which won the 2018 Emmy for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary and The George Morrison Best Feature Documentary at IFTA 2018 - and the critically acclaimed Songs For While I'm Away, a poetic and celebratory look at the life and work of Thin Lizzy legend, Philip Lynott. Joyride, Emer’s debut narrative feature, starring Oscar-winner Olivia Colman and newcomer Charlie Reid, went on general release in UK and Ireland in Summer 2022, and is available to stream worldwide. Emer was the delighted recipient of The Maureen O’Hara Award 2017 at Kerry Film Festival, and The George Byrne Maverick Award by Dublin Film Critics Circle in 2017.

Neil Prendeville has been the most prominent voice on radio in Cork over the past 25 years, where he stirs public debate and ignites the opinions and passions of Cork people. If it is happening in Cork, you will hear it first on The Neil Prendeville Show.