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ROADMAP DON’T FORGET TO REMEMBER This September 6
th, the award winning ‘Don’t Forget To Remember’ opens in Irish cinemas. SAIPAN RJADED JEWELRY Heavyweight, handmade and bespoke jewellery from this Irish designer turned silversmith, Rhomie Jade. Now based in Amsterdam, in the artist’s words, she makes “big, statement silver jewellery”, though I’d say these pieces may be closer to clarion calls. Beautiful, striking and forged by passion with welding torches, these unique pieces should be exactly what you’re looking for if you’re in the market for rarefied regalia. This story about Ireland’s incendiary 2002 World Cup campaign has added Steve Coogan playing Ireland manager Mick McCarthy, and Vivarium and Lakelands actor, Éanna Hardwicke as the inimitable Roy Keane. The film is set to go into production this summer, with filmmakers Lisa Barros’ D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn directing from an original script by A Room For Romeo Brass and Heartlands writer, Paul Fraser. Documenting noted Irish street artist Asbestos as he and his family navigate his mothers diagnosis of Alzheimers, the film is both a moving portrait of an individual’s struggle in the face of fading memory, and an intimate celebration of family coming together to make the best of such a circumstance. The sophomore work from noted documentarian Ross Killeen, following on from the success of his debut, ‘Love Yourself Today’, a chronicle on Dublin singer songwriter Damien Dempsey. Ross Kileen. “I’m delighted that our film now has the chance to be seen by a wider audience across Ireland. Making this documentary was a labour of love. My own mother had dementia and sadly passed away in 2019. I saw how it affected her but also our family and those around her who loved her. I didn’t talk about it at the time and kept those feelings inside. Both myself and Asbestos are eager to encourage wider conversations about family bonds, memory, and how some connections can never be diminished.” The artist the film follows, Asbestos, had this to say about one particularly poignant scene: “Making chalk drawings of my Mum’s memories, putting them on the street and asking the public to destroy them seems terrifying and extreme. Yet the act of making the drawings, and talking about each of these memories, has cemented them firmer in my mind, more than I could imagine. As much as the drawings can be destroyed, the memories live on.” The poignant, beautiful documentary will be screeed at the IFI Dublin, Light House Cinema Dublin, Pálás Galway, from September 6th, coinciding with Alzheimer’s Awareness month 8