DkIT documentary being shown at Fingal Film Fest

FAMILY Portrait, a documentary film produced by students at DkIT about the experiences of children in one-parent families, has been selected for this year’s Fingal Film Fleadh.

Directed by Lauren Christie, a student on the BA (Hons) Film and Television Production, it was inspired by her own experiences and those of her classmates. For Family Portrait, five students from the programme, including Lauren, talk about the events that led to them to belonging to a one parent family and how affected their lives.

The crew for the documentary included Rebecca McDonagh on cinematography, Robyn Duffy on audio and Hannah Conroy as our producer. Rebecca was also interviewed and the documentary became personally very important to both Lauren and Rebecca; Lauren’s father took his own life and Rebecca lost her mother through cancer.

Family Portrait engages with different circumstances that it has led to the students’ experiencing single-parent family lives. Lauren also interviewed Jessica Drew whose father was never present in her life, Killian Ginnity whose mother died in a car accident, and Rachel Barrett whose father emigrated back to America following his divorce from her mother.

Family Portrait is being shown on Sunday, October 2 at 3pm. Tickets can be bought online from fingalfilmfestival,tickets.ie