Alumna Imelda O'Reilly '08 Wins Big at Worldfest-Houston Film Festival
Tumbling Towards Home, co-written & directed by alumna Imelda O'Reilly '08, won the Bronze Remi Award at the Worldfest-Houston Film Festival. It also premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in California in March.
Tumbling Towards Home is a coming of age story about Malcolm Adams, who moved to New York in 1989 from Ireland to pursue acting and finds himself dealing with loss from his mother's passing and the death of his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman.
O’Reilly is a Fulbright Scholar and native of Ireland. Her work as an independent filmmaker has screened internationally and garnered several awards. Her films and feature screenplay have screened or been represented at film festivals, including Cannes, Rhode Island, Cinequest, International Film Festival de Creteil, WorldFest Houston, and the Richard Harris International Film Festival.
Her award winning film Bricks, Beds and Sheep’s Heads was a Student Academy Award Nominee and has shown internationally at over 30 film festivals. This film is in the permanent collection at Barnard College.
O’Reilly is currently developing Midnight Crisis, Beneath the Boy’s Cry, and Emilita and the Fairy Glen. As a producer she founded Fazinate Productions in 1998 and has been producing art on four continents, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. She is an Assistant Arts Professor in film at New York University, prior to NYU she taught at Barnard College, Hunter College and the School for Visual Arts.
WorldFest was founded over 59 years ago as an International Film Society. WorldFest became the third competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York.
