Film
Losing Memories
10, May 2011 - 06:18

Local Writer/Director Orlagh Heverin, a native of Castlebar, (daughter of photographers/publicans Paul & Joy Heverin), won an RTE/Galway Film Centre Short Script Award in 2008 for the short film that she wrote: Losing Memories. In March 2009, Orlagh directed the short film, which was shot in Castlebar, Ballintubber and Louisburgh. Since then the film has done the festival circut, playing in film festivals in Galway, Cork, Waterford, Belfast, Clones, Wales, South Africa. The short picked up awards at the International Film Festival Ireland (Clonmel) where it won Best Irish Production and it won Jury's prize at the Earwig, We like Shorts in Tuam.

The short film is about an Elderly Lady who is losing her memories, this mood piece shows her life through her eyes, her past and present merge into each other. She slips into being the young girl she once was and people and memories from her past surround her. The short is based on the memory of Orlagh's Grandmother Rhona Heverin and Orlagh hopes it is a fitting tribute to her Grandmother, who in her later years lived with Alzheimers.

Orlagh was blessed with a fantastic cast and crew and would like to thank all the local businesses that helped towards the making of the film. The short film is under 10 minutes in duration and it will be screened on RTE 2 on Monday 23rd of May at 11.55 pm as part of the RTE Short series.