Maynooth Film Club celebrates 10 year anniversary with special screening

By Kim O'Leary

The Maynooth Film Club is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary next month and to celebrate the occasion, movie goers are being invited for a special screening of an acclaimed Irish documentary.

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club is delighted to celebrate their 10th anniversary with a special screening on Wednesday 7th February, with a showing of Emer Reynolds’s acclaimed documentary The Farthest with a FREE screening at 8.00pm in The Iontas Building, Maynooth University.

This is a genuinely inspiring and uplifting documentary and a tribute to the ingenuity and curiosity which created the Voyager space craft with less computing power than a modern Smartphone which is now 21 billion km from the Earth, and may outlast the planet itself as it continues to explore the universe.

A film editor who made the move to documentary making in the past few years, Reynolds says it has “been really humbling” hearing the hugely enthusiastic feedback about the film.

The club which is open to the local community and students alike meets on the first Wednesday of the month featuring art house and indie films, as well as classics, outstanding Irish movies, solid dramas, inventive animation, eye-opening documentaries, intelligent comedies and cult film favourites.

If that isn’t enough, they've also had guest directors and several short film programmes. Everyone is welcome to attend the screening with free parking as paid parking not being enforced on campus in the evenings and light refreshments will be served for those who come early.

Early booking is highly recommended and it can be done online via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/maynooth-film-for-all-10-year-celebration-tickets-42350168494