Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2010 / Snap / Ireland 2010
This often-scathing Irish meller begins with a documentary crew invading the home of Sandra. Sometime in the very recent past, her teenage son kidnapped a toddler and created a national panic/sensation. In its unorthodox structure, Snap mirrors the deeply troubled souls at the heart of its story.
A fractured narrative and some equally fractured characters make Snap an engrossing, bitter and even bittersweet journey into crime, remorse, dysfunction, abuse and nervy, audacious filmmaking. This often-scathing Irish meller begins with a documentary crew invading the home of Sandra who has agreed to be interviewed despite her caustic tongue and what seems like a burning desire to antagonize the filmmakers. She is one angry woman: sometime in the very recent past, her teenage son kidnapped a toddler and created a national panic/sensation. Both Stephen and Sandra have become public enemies, with Sandra having been all but crucified, made into the kind of media scapegoat tabloid readers love to loathe. In its unorthodox structure, playwright Carmel Winters’ directing debut mirrors the deeply troubled souls at the heart of its story.
86 min / Color, HD CAM
European premiere
Director Carmel Winters
/ Screenplay Carmel Winters
/ Dir. of Photography Kate McCullough
/ Music Keith Lindsay, Anna Jordan
/ Editor Mary Finlay
/ Producer Martina Niland
/ Production Samson Films
/ Cast Aisling O’Sullivan, Stephen Moran, Eileen Walsh, Adam Duggan
/ Contact Samson Films
Samson Films
The Barracks, 76 Irishtown Road, , Dublin
Ireland
Phone: +35 316 670 533
Fax: +35 667 0537
E-mail: [email protected]
Carmel Winters
Film Director
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