"The International Women's Film Festival of St. John's is so close to being out of this world, that sometimes I think I only dreamed I was there."

- Gail Singer, Gail Singer Film Inc., Toronto

21st Annual
October 26 - 30, 2010

The Films

Love & Savagery

Venue: Arts and Culture Centre
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Director/Réalisateur: John N. Smith
Producer/Producteur: Barbara Doran, Lynne Wilson, Kevin Tierney, Tristan Orpen Lynch
Writer/Scénariste: Des Walsh
Country/Pays: Canada
Running Time/Durée: 95 min

There are many boy-meets-girl stories in the naked universe, but none quite so Irish, intimate, and bittersweet as this tale told by a Doran, a Walsh, and a Smith. LOVE & SAVAGERY is an exquisitely shot feature-film romance featuring our own Allan ‘Republic of Doyle’ Hawco and Sarah Greene as the two young protagonists, fated to meet, love, and lust one other on the Irish coast of the 1960s. The story could have been set locally, of course – a pub is a pub is a pub is a pub – but Newfoundland audiences will recognize an aching familiarity with Irish geography and culture, and the special appeal of all those lilting Gaelic voices. Hawco is Michael, the handsome Newfoundlander who is questing for experience, and Sarah is Cathleen, the raven-haired beauty with a quest all her own. Their life-altering encounter is set against a rugged coast and its rugged people, and a rural sensibility quite removed from the Irish Tiger growling just around the century.