Alan Gilsenan's latest documentary 'The Home' will transmit tonight on RTÉ One as part of the broadcasters Coming of Age series of programming. Coinciding with Age Action's Positive Aging week RTÉ has commissioned a series of programmes that look at aging in modern Ireland. Alan's new two-part observational documentary, 'The Home' looks at the resident's of St. Monica's, a retirement home and day-care centre in North inner city Dublin. 'The Home' is produced by Martin Mahon (The Importance of Being Irish). The stories of the resident's of St Monica's have been explored and filmed by Alan and his crew, including director of photography, Richard Kendrick (Bono and My Ex), over the last nine months. 'The Home' aims to be an intimate and moving portrait of life inside an old people's home and has been made in the style of Yellow Asylum's previous observational documentaries, 'The Asylum' and 'The Hospice'.
- 9/28/2010
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