Still Voices Short Film Festival

Dean Crowe Theatre Athlone to host special screening with Q&A;

Still Voices Film Festival are thrilled to announce acclaimed director Terence Davies will attend a special screening of his 1988 masterpiece Distant Voices, Still Lives (after which the festival took its name).

This in-person event will take place on November 5th in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone, and will be followed by a conversation between Davies and film critic John Maguire.

Tickets go on sale from October 22nd and will be available online via https://www.deancrowetheatre.com/ and in-person from The Still Voices Box Office in Ballymahon Library.

"Winner of the International Critics' Prize, Cannes 1988 Terence Davies's stunning debut feature film Distant Voices, Still Lives was instantly recognised as a masterpiece on its release in 1988 and the director hailed as one of Britain's most gifted and remarkable filmmakers." BFI

Festival Director Ronan O' Toole - "To be able to screen the film that gave us our name with Terence Davies in attendance is truly the stuff of dreams. It is a unique opportunity for people in the midlands to discover this overlooked masterpiece and hear from the director behind it. It's an event not to be missed.""