POLITICS AS Usual, the debut short film by Galwayman Liam Kimball, will be screened at a variety of film festivals throughout 2021.
The film, which was shot on location in Galway and Connemara, during the lockdown, and with a mostly Galway cast, has been officially selected for viewing at the 12th Underground Cinema Film Awards in Dublin, and at the American Golden Picture Film Festival. It also received an honourable mention at the Berlin Flash Film Festival.
Politics As Usual was written and directed by, and stars, Liam Kimball, a film/acting student at the Galway Community College. The 15 minute film is about a dissident republican who becomes disillusioned with the movement after a robbery goes awry, and he is forced into an even darker moral dilemma. The film also looks at how far a person is willing to go in pursuit of a political cause.
The cast is Liam Kimball [pictured below], Zef Lawless, Conor McMorrough (aka DJ Green, who also did the soundtrack for the film ), Paul Kelly, Lee Keogh, John Margets, Anzor Merzhoye, and Derek Whyte. The director of photography was John Margets.
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“I have learned so much about filmmaking through the process of producing Politics As Usual,” says Liam. “I will be looking forward to submitting the bigger and better sequel to the Galway Film Fleadh 2022. In the meantime, it is great to see my film being embraced on the international stage from Germany to the USA, helping keep Galway and Irish film making on the map.”
