ABOUT
2016 | USA | 90 mins
Documentary
A NY Times Critics' Pick and multi-award winning film, THE PEACEMAKER is an intimate portrait of international peacemaker Padraig O'Malley - who helps make peace for others but struggles to find it for himself. The film takes us from Padraig's isolated life in Cambridge, Massachusetts to some of the most dangerous crisis zones on Earth – from Northern Ireland to Kosovo, Nigeria to Iraq – as he works a peacemaking model based on his recovery from addiction. We meet Padraig in the third act of his life in a race against time to find some kind of salvation for both the world and himself.
TRAILER
PRESS
SCREENINGS
Tuesday, June 12th
Sunday, May 20th
BOSTON - SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING
Q&A with Padraig O'Malley and James Demo
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
SAN FRANCISCO - SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING
Q&A with Padraig O'Malley and James Demo
Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA
LOS ANGELES - SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING
Q&A with Padraig O'Malley and James Demo
Laemmle Music Hall
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Lake Worth Playhouse
Lake Worth, FL, USA
Sunday, February 18th
Monday, February 12th
Dennis, MA, USA
Margery Reed Hall 113 (Reiman Theater)
Denver, CO, USA
Cinema Village
New York, NY, USA
Saturday, February 3rd
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival - Best of Fest Tour
Catamount Arts
St. Johnsbury, VT, USA
Friday, February 2nd
Monday, January 29th
Friday, January 26th
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival - Best of Fest Tour
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
Burlington, VT, USA
FC Hyena
Amsterdam, Netherlands
J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
Tuesday, November 14th
Friday, October 20th
Friday, October 6th
Monday, September 25th
Friday, September 22nd
Wednesday, September 20th
Tuesday, September 18th
Thursday, September 8th
7:00PM
Thursday, September 7th
Thursday, September 7th
Friday, August 25th
Tuesday, August 22nd
5:00PM & 7:00PM
Wednesday, July 12th
Sunday, June 11th
Friday, June 9th
Thursday, April 27th
Sunday, April 23rd
Saturday, April 22nd
Thursday, April 6th
Saturday, April 1st
Friday, March 31st
Thursday, March 30th
Friday, March 25th
Bridgewater, MA, USA
Tí Scannán Tí Chulainn Cultural Cinema Club
South Armagh, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Portrush, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival - Best of the Fest
Sebastopol Center for the Performing Arts
Sebastopol, CA, USA
Museum of Modern Art of Medellín
Medellín, Colombia
Tuesday, March 21st
Friday, March 17th
Sunday, March 5th
Saturday, February 18th
Monday, February 13th
Thursday, November 17th
10:30AM
DOC NYC
IFC Center
New York, NY, USA
Wednesday, November 16th
7:30PM
DOC NYC
IFC Center
New York, NY, USA
Saturday November 5th
Sunday, November 6th
Friday, November 4th
Sunday, September 25th
Saturday, September 24th
Wednesday, September 21st
Ambulante Colombia Film Festival
U. Tecnológica de Bolívar
Cartagena, CO
Friday, September 2th
Ambulante Colombia Film Festival
U. de Antioquia
Medellín, CO
Thursday, August 25th
Saturday, August 6th
Ambulante Colombia Film Festival
Museo Nacional de Colombia
Bogatá, CO
Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival
Headfort House
Kells, IE
Monday, August 1st
Woods Hole Film Festival
Redfield Auditorium
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Tuesday, June 14th
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Bertha DocHouse Library Theater
Sheffield, UK
Saturday, May 14th
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Vancity Theatre
Vancouver, BC, CA
Saturday, May 7th
Hot Docs Canadian Intl Doc Film Festival
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
Toronto, ON, CA
Saturday, April 30th
Hot Docs Canadian Intl Doc Film Festival
TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
Toronto, ON, CA
Friday, April 29th
Hot Docs Canadian Intl Doc Film Festival
TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
Toronto, ON, CA
Thursday April 28th
Independent Film Festival of Boston
Brattle Theater
Cambridge, MA, USA
Saturday, April 9th
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Durham Convention Center
Cinema 3
Durham, NC, USA
THE FILMMAKERS
JAMES DEMO
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
James Demo is an award-winning filmmaker who writes, directs and produces documentary and narrative films. Demo’s award-winning film, First Time Long Time, a short comedy starring John Savage and co-starring Emmy award-winning actress Amanda Plummer and Hollywood icon Karen Black, has played dozens of festivals worldwide. His feature length documentary film THE PEACEMAKER has one numerous jury awards and is a New York Times Critics' Pick. Since the start of his company Central Square Films in 2006, Demo has worked with notable artists including Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler, Wynton Marsalis for Time Magazine, and Neil Gaiman for the launch of his game “Haunted Mansion.” Demo has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a Film Independent Documentary Fellow and a Tribeca Film Institute/A&E IndieFilms StoryLab Fellow. The Peacemaker is supported by the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant, The LEF Foundation and Sundance Documentary Film Program.
BETH MURPHY
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Beth Murphy is a journalist and filmmaker who has spent the past decade focused on the human impact of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (What Tomorrow Brings, The List, Beyond Belief). She is Founder of Principle Pictures, and Director of Films at The GroundTruth Project, an international news organization where she trains emerging foreign correspondents and filmmakers. Murphy’s films have screened at top-tier film festivals and aired on broadcast networks globally. Her work as a multi-media producer, impact campaign director and author raises awareness and promotes action for issues and causes that demand social change.
STEPHEN NEMETH
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Stephen Nemeth formed and heads up Rhino Films, the independent film company that originated as a division of Rhino Records. His producer credits include The Sessions, starring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy (Sundance 2012 Audience Award, 2013 Academy Award nomination for Helen Hunt), C.O.G., the first David Sedaris adaptation (Sundance 2013), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Why Do Fools Fall in Love and Dogtown and Z Boys. Stephen's documentary credits include War/Dance (2008 Academy Award nomination), Fuel (Sundance 2008 Audience Award), Flow (Sundance 2008), Pick Up the Mic (Toronto 2005), and Climate Refugees (Sundance 2010).
ERIN CASPER
EDITOR
Erin’s recent editing credits include The Last Season (2015 Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit Award nominee); American Promise (POV 2014, Emmy Nomination/Editing, Special Jury Prize for Achievement in Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival); The New Black (Independent Lens in 2014, GLAAD and NAACP Image Award nominee); Our School, (winner of the 2011 Sterling Award for Best US Feature Documentary at AFI DOCS); and short nonfiction pieces for NY Times Op-Docs and The Intercept. Erin was the inaugural recipient for the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship 2011, and has attended the Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Lab as a fellow in 2009 and 2015.
AL LETHBRIDGE
COMPOSER
From wildlife to science fiction, history to horror, Al has scored the music for a multitude of film and television productions. High-profile shows include the BBC's ground-breaking adventure series “Beyond Boundaries”, Ch4’s “Day Of The Kamikaze” (nominated for a Grierson and winner of a New York Gold), “Anatomy For Beginners” (winner of two RTS Awards), and “Nuremburg: Goering's Last Stand”, winner of the prestigious Hugh Weldon Award (BAFTA). Al works from his studio in Bristol, United Kingdom, and from the nine-meter boat he sails with his wife, filmmaker Jenny Jones.
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