Details
$25Date(s)
Fri, Oct 25, 2019
5:00pm
Contact
Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days
Location
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street, New York, NY 10003
The ISA opening night reception begins at 5pm at Glucksman Ireland House. Due to limited availability, this reception is first come, first served.
Overview
From the producers of Once and Sing Street, Float Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl's fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of classic film Billy Elliot, 15-year-old Frances has to fight for the right to fight back. Raised in roadside camps in rural Ireland, Frances wants to champion her people inside the boxing ring and out, like her idol Muhammad Ali. But society is determined to break her spirit and destroy her way of life, and her father—once her greatest ally—is too defeated himself to imagine any better for his daughter. But Frances was not born to be broken; in the mother of all fights, she must dig deep to find in herself the Champion her father once knew her to be.
There will be a Q&A with director Carmel Winters after the screening.
SCHEDULE
Welcoming Reception
5pm | Glucksman Ireland House
Film Screening
7pm | Cantor Film Center
Written and directed by Carmel Winters
Cast: Hazel Doupe, Johnny Collins & Dara Devaney
There will be no tickets available at the door for this event.
Featuring
Our Supporters
Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours International; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
