A Burning Tide
PROJECT: A Burning Tide is a film commission by Fingal County Council's Arts Office in association with the Irish Writers Centre, created as part of their Commemorations programme 2018-2023. The project brought together six acclaimed Irish writers including Dermot Bolger, Kit de Waal, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and others to reimagine the night of June 18th 1921, when IRA volunteers simultaneously burned six Coast Guard stations along the North Dublin coast. The finished film was screened outdoors at Loughshinny Boathouse as part of Culture Night 2021, returning audiences to the very location where those events unfolded a century before.
CLIENT: Fingal County Council and The Irish Writers Centre
What they needed
Fingal County Council needed a filmmaker who could bring six very different pieces of new writing to life on screen, weaving monologues, poetry, short fiction and prose into a single cohesive film. With a stellar cast, a significant historical event and a tight turnaround, it required careful, ambitious filmmaking on location along the North Dublin coast.
What we did
We produced all six films over two days on location at Loughshinny Harbour and the surrounding landscape, working with an exceptional cast including Ian Lloyd Anderson, Joe Duffy (yes, that Joe Duffy), Pat Kinevane, Niamh McCann and Marion O'Dwyer among others. The six vignettes were woven together into a single film connecting the writers' distinct voices and stories. A brilliant project, and a remarkable two days on the coast.