A boatload of wild Irishmen / Léirithe le Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín presents ; directed by Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín ; written by Brian Winston ; producer, Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín.

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2011]

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Examines Robert Flaherty's career as "the father of the modern documentary film" and the dispute about his staged scenes. Includes excerpts from his films as well as telling interviews with the people whose parents and grandparents Flaherty put onto the cinema screens of the world: Inuit, Samoans and the 'wild men' of Aran.

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English; Irish; Inupiaq

October 30, 2018

Editors, Chris Hainstock and Mikey Flaherty ; Cinematography, Alan Wilson [and 4 others] ; music, Steve McGrath.

Narrator, Mac Dara Ó Fatharta ; interviews and contributions from Robert Flaherty, Richard Leacock (cameraman on "Louisiana Story", 1948), Martha Flaherty (Flaherty's Inuit granddaughter), George Stoney (documentary filmmaker and professor at New York University), Seán Crosson (film scholar at the Huston School of Film), Jay Ruby (anthropologist and film scholar at Temple University), Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (musician and folklorist from Árainn).

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