Kimberly Gray Ennis is the second Ardán/ Galway City of Film short documentary bursary recipient for 2024! Alongside the bursary, she will be mentored by filmmaker Donal Haughey.
‘Vessels of Grief’ looks at the funeral lamenting practice of keening and the women who lead these practices within their community in Connemara.
Kimberly is an emerging director and producer originally from Dublin. She has spent much of the last decade living in New York, Toronto and her spiritual home, West Cork. Her work is concerned with ceremony and ritual; the everyday expressions and the ethereal – spaces that welcome our vulnerabilities and celebrate our shared humanity. She is fascinated by the masks we wear and what they reveal about us.
In a past life, she created award-winning advertising campaigns then gave it all up to pursue dreams of underground disco in Brooklyn. As a community director and curator, she brought strangers together in living rooms and rooftops and laundromats after-hours; for Appalachian folk and Armenian grooves and lots in between.
She holds a BA in Contemporary Culture and Society, an MSc in Advertising, a Certificate in Filmmaking from AOTR Berlin and recently completed Hypnosis training with New York’s Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis.
Kimberly is currently facilitating an online program Meet the Muse supporting creatives in stepping into their potential. Her upcoming Culture Moves Europe-funded project, in collaboration with Katharina Gruber and Jack Wake Walker, explores traditional Romanian mourning rituals as a tool for sex workers to express their grief.
The Short Documentary Bursary is part of the annual Galway City of Film programme for 2024 which is managed by Ardán, and is made possible by support from Galway City Council / Galway City Arts Office, Galway County Council Galway County Arts Office, Screen Ireland and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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