Still Films

STILL FILMS

Still Films was founded in 1999 by Maya Derrington, Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley and is involved with the production of TV, feature films, animations, documentaries and artist films.  

The production company established the Darklight Festival that same year, which was set up to support digital filmmaking and distribution in Ireland, and promote Irish filmmakers internationally. The company then grew organically from collaborations on the festival over the last ten years.

Still Film’s feature documentary Seaview, which tells the intimate stories of the trauma and fear of exportation of asylum seekers, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008 and has been touring the international festival circuit since.  It was nominated for an IFTA and also received a special Jury mention at DMZ DOCS in Korea as well as selected for screening at the reknowned Hot Docs Festival in Toronto and at Sheffield Documentary Festival.

Their next project was Pyjama Girls, a documentary following a group of teenage girls who wear pyjamas as daywear, which had its world premiere as the opening film at the IFI Stranger than Fiction Festival 2010.  The film is currently starting its festival tour and is set for exclusive release in the IFI in August 2010.

The Rooms is an experimental feature documentary which looks back at the remnants of the 20th century through the eyes of the 21st.  Directed by Paul Rowley and Tim Blue, the film will be screening at the IFI next month.

Still Films has also produced a number of award-winning short films including Move On, Three Doves, and Rialto Twirlers which screened at this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.  Their short documentary Alibi, written and directed by Darren Bolger, premièred at the Corona Cork Film Festival in 2009 and went on to be officially selected for the Edinburgh Film Festival and receive an Honorable Mention for Best Short Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2010.

They also co-produced the short film Trembling Veil of Bones with Matthew Talbot-Kelly from Glimpse Digital Media which was officially selected for the Palm Springs Shortfest in the U.S this year.

The company currently has three features in development stages including the film Morocco, an animation Rogue Moon and the documentary Ghost Road.

Catch an exclusive selection of screenings produced by Still Films at the IFI next month.  

Pyjama Girls – 20^th – 26^th August
Seaview – Saturday 21^st August at 16.40
The Rooms – Sunday 22^nd August at 16.40
In Conversation with Still Films plus special screening of selected shorts – Tuesday 24^th at19.00