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Midnight’s Lost Children.

A rediscovered Irish-made film on the street children of Kolkata [formerly Calcutta].

Journalist and filmmaker Alison O’Reilly (above left)  writes:

Midnight’s Lost Child is the story of Kolkata’s 250,000 street children and was shot in 2003 with the help of The Hope Foundation in Cork. It was completed in 2005 thanks to two years of fundraising and bag packing with friends and family. It sat on the shelf until 2008 because none of the national broadcasters would contribute to it or air it after it was made.

However in the meantime it was screened at several international film festivals and won Best Human Rights Director at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival in 2008. It was then aired on TV3 (after midnight with no promo) however the Irish Times picked it up and described it as a ‘hidden jewel in the schedule’.

The Culture Unplugged Film Festival in the US got in touch with the director and asked if they could screen it at their festival entitled ‘Humanity Explored’ this year and so far it’s one of the ‘most viewed’ films in the festival. They have also requested the Rachael Keogh documentary ‘My Heroin Hell’ which aired on Sky News in 2008 for next year’s festival.

Watch Midnight’s Lost Children in full here

celeb(TV3’s The Celebrity Apprentice mentors, from left Liz O’Donnell, Caroline Downey and John McGuire)

[Reporter]: “Six episodes of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ were shot in three weeks. Was that a gruelling experience?”
[Liz O’Donnell]:”It was. There were late nights, early starts and we worked right through weekends. You had to be “camera ready” at 6.30 each morning, which is no mean feat for women of a certain age.
Also, filming took place during the summer heat wave, which was just horrific. I remember we were in Cavan town one day and people were just sprawled out in the shade. It was like Calcutta.”

 

I didn’t want to hear ‘you’re fired’ (Irish Independent)

(TV3)

Thanks Eddie