Short film about a local farm shown at film festival in Los Angeles

COMMUNITY NOTES: BALLYHAUNIS - WESTERN PEOPLE (APRIL 7 EDITION)

A short film about a farm near Ballinlough was shown at the recent Irish Film Festival Los Angeles. 

One by One, the Lights Go Out was made by film-maker Kathy Raftery on her family’s farm and screened as part of The Futures short film strand at the annual festival.

“As my 87-year-old father steps away from the land he has tended for decades, One by One, the Lights Go Out captures the quiet end of an era for a family farm steeped in history and memory,” wrote Kathy. Narrated by writer Michael Harding and inspired by his essay, the film reflects on “legacy, change, and letting go.”

The film will be coming to the Community Hall in Ballyhaunis next month, the location in 2023 for a screening of another short film by Raftery, on a trip by Corporal Patrick ‘Bob’ Gallagher from the U.S to visit his family one last time before he departed to fight with US troops in the Vietnam War.