Emily is an elderly woman who lives between two states, the past and the present. She journeys into an inner world, reliving moments from her life and searching for a connection within her fragmented memories.

Late Afternoon is a short animated film from Cartoon Saloon, written and directed by Louise Bagnall. The film was funded through the Frameworks short film scheme supported by Screen Ireland and RTÉ.

Late Afternoon won Best Animated Short at Tribeca Film Festival 2018 and has screened at more than 80 festivals worldwide. The film has been shortlisted for the Best Animation Short category at the 2019 Oscars.

Louise Bagnall Director

Louise Bagnall is an Irish filmmaker and a creative director at Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny. Louise has directed several short animated films including Cúl An Tí, Loose Ends and Donkey. She has worked as a character designer on Puffin Rock and The Breadwinner and as a storyboard artist on the upcoming feature film Wolfwalkers. Louise is currently the assistant director on Nora Twomey’s Netflix film My Father’s Dragon.

Nuria González Blanco Producer

Nuria González Blanco studied Animation at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. For the last eight years, Nuria has worked across the full spectrum of animation production roles in children’s television, advertising and film. Past projects include the short film Violet, the TV series Puffin Rock and the feature film The Breadwinner. Nuria currently works as a producer in Ireland-based animation studio Cartoon Saloon.

Fionnula Flanagan Voice of Emily

Fionnula recently finished filming the BBC’s new television series Redwater.

Her most recent film credits include Life’s a Breeze directed by Lance Daly, as Comptessa in Tasting Menu directed by Spanish director Roger Gual, and as Eileen Boyle in The Guard, written and directed by Martin MacDonagh.

Other notable screen work includes The Others (Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress) The Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Transamerica (Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) for Best Supporting Actress), Yes Man, The Invention Of Lying, the Academy Award winning In The Region Of Ice, and the critically acclaimed Some Mother’s Son, in which she starred with Helen Mirren. She starred with Ian Bannen and David Kelly in Kirk Jones’ Waking Ned Divine and in Michael Winterbottom’s comedy feature With Or Without You. Fionnula also played a recurring character (Eloise Hawking) in the ABC’s TV phenomenon Lost.

Other US credits include Murder She Wrote, Star Trek: The Next Generation, How The West Was Won (Emmy Nomination Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series), Rich Man, Poor Man (for which she was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series). She also starred in the CBS television series To Have And To Hold, and Brotherhood, the hit television series for Showtime.

Fionnula has a significant body of stage work behind her including, Miranda in The Tempest, Ellie in Heartbreak House, Alice You Can’t Take It With You, and Soldiers. She performed in An Trial (The Trial) for Dublin Theatre Festival, The Taming Of The Shrew for Bristol Old Vic, The Playboy Of The Western World at the Royal Court, and Twelfth Night for the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.

She originated the role of Maggie in Brian Friel’s Lovers at Dublin’s Gate Theatre and for her performance as Molly Bloom in Ulysses Of Nighttown (directed by Burgess Meredith) she was nominated for a Tony Award.

Fionnula was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA’s)

Colm Mac Con Iomaire Composer and Musician

In a crowded field of outstanding Irish fiddle players and interpreters of traditional music Colm Mac Con Iomaire is unique.

His voice is unmistakably his own and his music bears distinctive creative hallmarks which have as much to do with his personality and character as with his impressive technical mastery, musical authority and exquisitely expressive playing.

Colm recently performed as part of the 2016 Centenary concerts in the National Concert Hall. He performed with Paul Muldoon as part of the literary celebration and with Glen Hansard, as part of Imagining Home.

He was commissioned to write a piece of music Solasta (meaning Shining) which he performed for the President of Ireland in The Irish Writers Centre. This piece was written to accompany specially written poems from six of Ireland’s leading Poets.

His second album And Now The Weather has been critically acclaimed (album of the week in The Irish Times) and was recently shortlisted for the Choice Music Prize ‘album of the year’.

“These are tunes that are effortlessly cinematic, conjuring images of weather‐beaten coastlines and vast green expanses... a consistently beautiful and frequently incandescent collection” – The Irish Times (Album of the Week)

On the first album The Hare’s Corner - “I was taken somewhere else. It’s just a beautiful piece of mood music. If you’re looking for an inheritor for Astral Weeks, this is it.” - Billy Bragg

His work in TV, Film and Theatre has allowed him to progress and mature as an orchestrator of his own compositions. Colm is currently working on his second Movie feature soundtrack, which is due for release later this year.

Against a backdrop of global war and destruction of the natural environment And Now The Weather reprises the plea of the hare for creativity and space. Somewhere in the middle of all this madness there is music and Colm Mac Con Iomaire.

AwardsBest Animated Short Tribeca Film Festival (USA, 2018)

Grand Jury Award Animayo (Spain, 2018)

Best In Show Spark Animation Festival (Canada, 2018)

Jury Short Film Prize Bucheon Int’l Animation Festival (South Korea, 2018)

AniB’s Choice Prize Bucheon Int’l Animation Festival (South Korea, 2018)

Best Animated Short 1st prize, Children’s Jury Chicago Int’l Children’s Film Festival (USA, 2018)

Audience Award Zabut Film Festival (Italy, 2018)

Jury Special Mention Zabut Film Festival (Italy, 2018)

Best Animated Short Film, Int’l Youth Jury Awards Olympia Int’l Film Festival (Greece, 2018)

Second Place Prize Animation Chico Film Festival (USA, 2018)

Best Animation Film Award St Cloud Film Festival (USA, 2018)

Best 2D Film Dublin Animation Film Festival (Ireland, 2018)

Best Short Animated Film Animafilm Baku (Azerbaijan, 2018)

Best Irish Film Still Voices Short Film Festival (Ireland, 2018)

Special Mention of the Jury River Film Festival (Italy, 2018)

Best Animation Short Irish Film Festa (Italy, 2018)

Best Short Animation Irish Film and Television Awards (Ireland, 2018)

Best Short Film Irish Film Festival London (England, 2017)

Best Animation Film Scrittura E Immagine Corto Film Festival (Italy, 2017)

Best Animated Sequence Galway Film Fleadh (Ireland, 2017)

ScreeningsSCAD Savannah Film Festival (USA, 2018)

Aesthetica Short Film Festival (England, 2018)

Anima Mundi (Brazil, 2018)

LA Shorts International Film Festival (USA, 2018)

Norwich Film Festival (England, 2018)

Animafest Zagreb (Croatia, 2018)

RiverRun Film Festival 2018 (USA, 2018)

San Francisco International Film Festival (USA, 2018)

Encounters Film Festival (England, 2018)

Dublin International Film Festival (Ireland, 2018)

The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (Germany, 2018)

Leeds International Film Festival (England, 2018)

Tirana International Film Festival (Albania, 2018)

Bogotá Short Film Festival (Colombia, 2018)

Edinburgh Short Film Festival (Scotland, 2018)

Klik Amsterdam Animation Festival (Netherlands, 2018)

Animation Block Party (USA, 2018)

Insomnia International Animation Film Festival (Russia, 2018)

Nancy International Film Festival (France, 2018)

VOID International Animation Festival (Denmark, 2018)

Taichung International Animation Festival (Taiwan, 2018)

Ridgefield Independent Film Festival (USA, 2018)

Foyle Film Festival (Northern Ireland, 2017)

St Louis International Film Festival (USA, 2017)

Poster, Film Stills and Additional Material available on request

Credits and Crew

Written & Directed byLouise Bagnall

Produced byNuria González Blanco

FeaturingFionnula Flanaganas Emily

Kate - Niamh MoylesChild Emily - Lucy O’ConnellEmily’s Dad - Michael McGrath Young Emily - Louise Bagnall Emily’s friend - Caoimhe Ní Bhrádaigh Child Kate - Aislin Konings Ferrari

Music byColm Mac Con Iomaire

MUSIC MIXERLeon O’Neill

Production ManagerCaoimhe Ni Bhradaigh

Production Co-ordinatorJose Manuel Navarro

Storyboard Louise Bagnall

EditorAlan Slattery

Concept ArtistsStefano ScapolanÁine McGuinness

Character DesignerLouise Bagnall

Assets Designers Áine McGuinnessNadia ØrneborgMathilde GarreauKim Kelly

Layout & Background SupervisorStefano Scapolan

Layout ArtistsStefano ScapolanÁine McGuinnessEnora Le LuherneNadia Ørneborg

Background ArtistsStefano ScapolanÁine McGuinnessEnora Le LuherneRory ConwayHerbie CansMartí Furgber

Scene Prep ArtistJose Manuel Navarro

AnimatorsAnita GaughanSandra AndersenGeoff KingAndrzej RadkaMathilde VachetSílvia Vicente BarrisMireia López IvernMatthew MargerisonSantiago López JoverJavier PecesBeth WitchallsGraeme LeeJesús Parada LamasSzymon Kuran

Clean up ArtistsBeth WitchallsGraeme LeeElaine BuckleyPadraic ByrneKim KellyHerbie CansNeus BuadesSonia NaqviDarragh HerlihyPauline GagniarreSuzanne WilliamsDaniel RebolloAna Fernández ÁguilaCristina Vidal de Torres LópezMarisol Ruiz BarturenConsuelo Cantos

INK & PAINT ARTISTSElaine BuckleyPadraic ByrneKim KellyFriedrich SchäperMartí Furgber

Compositing ArtistsHelga Kristjana BjarnadóttirCiaran DuffyJose Manuel NavarroAmandine HazardDonna McAvoyÁine McGuinnessDavid RidgesPaulo Jorge Rodrigues MarquesNuala TreanorSteven McClurgScott Newton

STUDIO MANAGING DIRECTORGerry Shirren

STUDIO MANAGERCatherine Hehir Roycroft

STUDIO ASSISTANTDesirée Meade

PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANTSPaul DeeganColette MacauleyMichael CulletonAsia Mularz

I.T. TEAMIstvan Gabor LangLee GrahamJohn Ronan

SOFTWARE DEVELOPERGary Chadwick

VOICE RECORDING & POST PRODUCTIONGorilla Post

GORILLA POST COORDINATORMichelle Mc Camley

SOUND DESIGNER Shane O’Toole

SOUND MIXERBarry Reid

ONLINE EDITOROleg JitovGoran Kvrgic

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR THE IRISH FILM BOARDEmma Scott

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR RTÉPauline Macnamara

SHORTS COORDINATOR FOR THE IRISH FILM BOARDJill McGregor

Technical Specs RUNTIME: 9min 23 secANIMATION: 2D DigitalRESOLUTION: 2K 1.90:1LANGUAGE: English

Contact Louise BagnallCartoon Saloonlateafternoon@cartoonsaloon.ie+353 567 764 481

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