The UK Premiere of ‘ANN’

The UK Premiere of ‘ANN’

The ICC is very proud to present the UK Premiere of the powerful and harrowing new Feature Film  “Ann”, scripted and directed by Ciaran Creagh

Dramatising the real-life story of Ann Lovett, a 15-year-old girl who died in childbirth in a holy grotto, in front of  a statue of The Virgin Mary, in Granard, Co. Longford in 1984, Ciaran Creagh’s film revisits a tragedy that shook the nation of Ireland to its core. 

Sun 12 November 2023

Doors: 7.00pm; Starts: 7.30pm

Tickets: £12

It’s 1984, Ann, a pregnant teenager, awoke to realise that she was
about to give birth and ended up in the Grotto of her local church.  For the past nine months she’d managed to conceal her pregnancy from her mother, family and friends and now, alone and frightened, she looks for a secret place to give birth. Shockingly two hours later, Ann and her baby would be dead. This story will shine a light into the last thirteen hours of her life, a girl alone abandoned by society. Based on a true story that shook the world.

Featuring powerful performances from actors Zara Devlin (Ann) and Eileen Walsh, (her Mother), Ann is a chilling re-creation of a time when social and sexual mores in Ireland were less enlightened and a culture of shame and secrecy prevailed.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Scriptwriter and Film Director, Ciaran Creagh. 

About Ciaran Creagh.

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Ciaran Creagh is a screenwriter, director & producer whose credits
include ‘Ann’; ‘In View’, a feature film he wrote and directed which won Best Screenplay at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Creagh was nominated for the ‘Grand Newcomer Award’ at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival. Creagh also wrote the feature ‘Parked’, starring Colm Meaney. ‘Parked’ was nominated in four categories at the 2011 Irish Film and Television Awards; It won Best First Feature at the Galway Film Festival and Best Screenplay at the 2012 Foggia Film Festival. Creagh also wrote and directed the 2013 short film ‘The Note’, starring Aidan Gillen. ‘Cry from the Sea’, a  new feature Creagh has written started shooting in August 2023, starring Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Aidan Quinn and Sarah Bolger.