Sligo short film selected for screening to US audiences this summer

Sligo short film ‘…for peace comes dropping slow…’  has been chosen for official selection at the New Hope International Film Festival 
in Pennsylvania from July 8th - 17th 2011.

The film, conceived and directed by Sligo based artist Lisa Vandegrift Davala, was shot at a number of Sligo locations during the summer of 2010. On hearing news of the selection for this year's New Hope International Film Festival, Lisa has said "I am thrilled to share the stunning beauty, rich culture and the amazing resources of talent of the Northwest of Ireland with American audiences".

With cinematography by Cian de Buitléar, Tony Kearns as editor, a soundtrack produced by Seamie O’Dowd on vocals and fiddle and Darren Carr as the stills photographer, the film has been well-received since it's release in Autumn of 2010.  It received a nomination in the Best Irish Short Category at the Foyle International Film Festival in Derry and was also screened to full audiences as part of Sligo Live Sessions 2010 in October.

About the Film
In 1888 the young William Butler Yeats wrote ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, as a yearning incantation of his youth spent in County Sligo near the Atlantic coast in the northwest of Ireland. Lisa Vandegrift Davala lives near this island. In her film, the words “…for peace comes dropping slow…” from Yeats’ poem were re-enacted in light across the landscape of the Sligo.

During two fine summer days, people from all over Ireland including members of the Yeatsian Legacy and Peace III Programme of Northern Ireland and a team of young actors and performers, were invited by Director Lisa Vandegrift Davala to County Sligo. They gathered on Carrane Hill Bog, at Culleenamore Strand near Knocknarea and at Parke’s Castle on Lough Gill overlooking Innisfree; to inscribe this ‘Land of Heart’s Desire’ with the line and mark of W. B. Yeats’ poetic light.

This film was made with the support of the Yeatsian Legacy Project, delivered by Sligo Arts Service and its partners, and supported by the PEACE III Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by Sligo County Council on behalf of Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee and the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government Per Cent For Art Scheme.

For further information visit www.forpeacecomesdroppingslow.com