Authorial alienation...

The director Ger Leonard has blogged about his alienation from his first feature film Five Day Shelter here.

This is how he describes it: The immune system was removed, and I could not save our film. Our film only exists in the hearts and minds of those of us that believed and kept faith, and it exists too in an abridged form on my hard drive but that can never be seen in public. Those that have seen and heard this film and the "official" one cannot fail to recognise the chasm of care and consideration that divides the two.

DoP Tim Fleming refers to it briefly here.

Rumours concerning the film have been circulating for more than a year and it seems now that there are some hard questions that need answers, not least of which is - how could this happen?

The "official" version of the film is being screened at the Cork Film Festival tomorrow, November 11.