"The Jury acknowledges the high standard of many
of the first features in this year's Festival, and particularly admired
Bouli Lanners' Ultranova, Lee Yoon-Ki's This Charming Girl,
and Maria Procházková's Shark in the Head. We are unanimous, however,
in giving the 10th annual award to the Irish film, Pavee Lackeen,
Perry Ogden's skilfully dramatised and deeply committed portrayal of the
traveller community in Dublin and its struggle with bureaucracy, poverty
and prejudice." said Jury President Clyde Jeavons.
Synopsis
Perry Ogden documented the
experience of the young poor in Dublin with his photo book 'Pony Kids'.
His first feature moves on from those representations, offering an intimate
portrait of the traveller community. It focuses on 10-year-old Winnie,
who lives with her mother and siblings in a trailer on the side of the
road in a desolate part of Dublin. She is at odds with her environment
as she wanders the streets of the prosperous, modern city, while her family
endure visits from the council, social workers and sympathetic activist
groups, struggling with bureaucracy, prejudice and poverty. With a cast
of mostly non-professional actors drawn from the traveling community,
Ogden conveys a sense of people being, rather than performing, and Winnie
Maughan's illuminating presence provides the film with its beating heart.
Filmed through a photographer's eye and with a documentary feel, Pavee
Lackeen avoids patronizing stereotypes, sentimentality and dourness to
emerge as one of the most distinctive debuts to come out of Ireland in
years.
Michael Hayden - Notes from London Festival Progamme
Directed by Perry Ogden
Written by Perry Ogden & Mark Venner
With Winnie Maughan, Paddy Maughan, Rosie Maughan
Distributor: Verve Pictures
"The Jury acknowledges the high standard of many
of the first features in this year's Festival, and particularly admired
Bouli Lanners' Ultranova, Lee Yoon-Ki's This Charming Girl,
and Maria Procházková's Shark in the Head. We are unanimous, however,
in giving the 10th annual award to the Irish film, Pavee Lackeen,
Perry Ogden's skilfully dramatised and deeply committed portrayal of the
traveller community in Dublin and its struggle with bureaucracy, poverty
and prejudice." said Jury President Clyde Jeavons.
Perry Ogden documented the
experience of the young poor in Dublin with his photo book 'Pony Kids'.
His first feature moves on from those representations, offering an intimate
portrait of the traveller community. It focuses on 10-year-old Winnie,
who lives with her mother and siblings in a trailer on the side of the
road in a desolate part of Dublin. She is at odds with her environment
as she wanders the streets of the prosperous, modern city, while her family
endure visits from the council, social workers and sympathetic activist
groups, struggling with bureaucracy, prejudice and poverty. With a cast
of mostly non-professional actors drawn from the traveling community,
Ogden conveys a sense of people being, rather than performing, and Winnie
Maughan's illuminating presence provides the film with its beating heart.
Filmed through a photographer's eye and with a documentary feel, Pavee
Lackeen avoids patronizing stereotypes, sentimentality and dourness to
emerge as one of the most distinctive debuts to come out of Ireland in
years.
