parked Fred Daly lives in his car; he leads a quiet existence until one day a small yellow car parks next to his. Cathal, the owner of the yellow car, is an assiduous pot smoker and he urges Fred to make a change in his life. Fred finally listens to him and decorates his car like a true home. He meets Juliana, an attractive music teacher. But Fred has problems dealing serenely with this new relationship because he doesn’t dare tell Juliana where he lives. In the meantime, Cathal is becoming increasingly hooked on drugs. “I needed to make this film. Parked emerged from a determination to look at the area of homelessness from a non-stereotypical perspective. A world where hopefully our assumptions are tested and our expectations challenged. Parked is very much about being stuck, unable to move forward or back, where often the answers are half coincidence and partially staring us in the face. It seems to me that only by investigating new lands will we ever learn and grow.”
Biography
film director
Darragh Byrne
Darragh Byrne (Ireland) has produced various documentaries for television, most of which for the production company Graph Films and for Rté, Ireland’s national television broadcaster. He has made primarily historical films and in 2006 he directed a documentary about the Irish civil war; the film was produced by Rté in collaboration with England’s Flame TV. Parked is his debut fiction feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
JFK in the Island of Dreams (mm, doc., tv, 1994), Hallelujah Love & Stuff (mm, doc., tv, 1995), Missing (mm, doc., tv, 1997), The Bridge (mm, doc., tv, 2000), Borderlands: the Underworld (mm, doc., tv, 2003), Europe: Back from the Dead? (mm, doc., tv, 2006), 1916: The Man Who Lost Ireland (mm, doc., tv, 2006), Pope Benedict XVI: The Rise of Razinger (mm, doc., tv, 2006), The Irish Horse (mm, doc., tv, 2008), Parked (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Darragh Byrne
soggetto/story
Darragh Byrne, Ciaran Creagh
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Ciaran Creagh
fotografia/cinematography
John Conroy
montaggio/film editing
Guy Montgomery
scenografia/production design
Owen Power
costumi/costume design
Susan Scott
musica/music
Niall Byrne
suono/sound
Kirka Sainio
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Colm Meaney (Fred Daly), Colin Morgan (Cathal O’Regan), Milka Ahlroth (Juliana), Stuart Graham (George O’Regan), Michael McElhatton (Frank), David Wilmot (Peter), Tatiana Ouliankina (l’istruttrice di acqua gym/Aqua Aerobics Instructor)
produttori/producers
Jacqueline Kerrin, Dominic Wright
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Ripple World Pictures
coproduttore/coproducer
Aleksi Bardy