THE GRACELESS AGE - THE BALLAD OF JOHN MURRY
Sunday, March 3 • 4:20 PM • T2
Q&A with Director Sarah Share moderated by Mary Turkot, Assistant Producer, Capital Irish Film Festival
Documentary | East Coast Premiere | Woman Director, Co-Writer & Co-Producer
Generously sponsored by Happy Medium Productions
On the cusp of greatness after the release of his 2013 album "Graceless Age,” American singer songwriter John Murry washed up on Irish shores, creatively exhausted and depressed. He found solace in Ireland where the landscape and the people revived him. Sarah Share's haunting documentary follows John as he bravely retraces his steps back to Mississippi through the events of a difficult childhood, ultimately finding understanding and redemption through his love for music.
Credits
Director: Sarah Share
Screenwriters: Sarah Share and David Morton
Producers: Nuala Cunningham, John Galway, and Aeschylus Poulos
Cast: John Murry
Ireland/U.S., 2023, color, 90 min. NOT RATED.
Awards
Best Irish Documentary - Galway Film Fleádh 2023, Audience Award for Best Feature - Irish Film Institute's Documentary Festival 2023
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Sarah Share has extensive experience and over 20 years of documentary filmmaking across a range of genres including the multi award winning 'If I Should Fall from Grace’ – the Shane MacGowan Story which had a theatrical release by Buena Vista Ireland. Won audience prize at New York Film Fleadh and played at numerous other festivals around the world. Sundance Channel US, DVD/Video for US, Europe and Australia. Sarah works regularly with Ireland’s foremost Producers and has just finished a recent 3x1 hour documentary series for Tile Films on Ireland’s lost DNA. The series has been picked up for International distribution by Off the Fence.
Mary Turkot is a fiction writer, poet, and recent Georgetown University English M.A. graduate ('23), where she worked as the Program Assistant for the Global Irish Studies Initiative for two years. She currently serves as the Assistant Producer of CIFF 2024 and Website & Digital Content Manager for Solas Nua. She has coordinated multiple academic conferences and public events with visiting Irish authors and scholars during both her time at Georgetown and Solas Nua. She also facilitated the addition of the first Global Irish Studies Fellowship into the Initiative’s programming. Her work has been featured in Rutgers University literary magazine The Anthologist and on poets.org by the Academy of American Poets. Her poem, "Brigantine, New Jersey," won the 2021 Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize.
