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Runway, The (2010)
Director Ian Power
Paco Thomas and his mother live in Dromoleen, a remote country village, where the local factory has closed, inflicting misery on the town’s inhabitants. Young Paco spends his evenings learning Spanish from an ancient Linguaphone tape in anticipation of his long-departed father’s arrival home.However, when a Colombian pilot crash-lands his plane outside the town, Paco is soon called upon as the sole Spanish speaker and he manages to convince the reticent locals to treat the stranger as one of their own.Based on real-life events, The Runway is a breathtaking account of an unlikely force uniting a fractured community. - Corona Cork Film Festival 2010
Country Ireland, Luxembourg
Year 2010
Running Time 95m
Certificate PG
Director's Biography
Ian Power directed in 1999 the short film Buskers, which scooped first prize at a number of international film festivals. He began directing commercials in 2001. In 2004 he won a Short Cuts Award to make The Wonderful Story of Kelvin Kind which was released in 2005 and went on to win the Best Short Drama award at The Celtic Film & Television Festival in Cardiff. In 2009 Ian wrote and directed The Runway, his first feature length film. It has premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2010 and picked up the award for Best Irish Feature.