INTO THE SILENCE Award-Winning Rave Short Film screening and Q&A

INTO THE SILENCE the Award-Winning 1990s Short Film Screening followed by a Q&A with Writer and Director Michael Antonio Keane.

Following a sold-out premiere screening at Windmill Lane and winner of the 2025 UCFF Underground Cinema Film Awards for Best Student Film along with official selections at prestigous film festivals such as Galway Film Fleadh and the Waterford International Film Festival, and New Genesis Film Festival in Brighton, United Kingdom. Into The Silence will show at the Sirius Arts Centre on Friday, December 12th. Local Cobh Director Michael Antonio Keane will attend the opening night screening at 19.00, which will then be followed by a Q&A moderated by the Sirius Arts Centre director Miguel Armado.

Inspired by true events and set in the heart of Ireland’s 1990s rave movement, two young and DJs find themselves forever changed by one electrifying, life-altering rave.

Starring Daniel Soluns, Ruth Hayes, Louis Martin, Conor Hackett. Produced by Caitriona Boyd and Indah O'Reilly

Directed with a sure hand, this is a touching and poignant story that will transport its viewers to experience rave.

Tickets for the screening of Into The Silence + Q&A are now on sale from Evenbrite and SIRIUS – 021 481 3790

For further information, interview availability, and high-res images, please contact Caitriona Boyd (caitrionaboyd@gmail.com)

NOTES FOR EDITORS

ABOUT THE SIRIUS ARTS CENTRE
Sirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the oldest in the world. Salvin was best known for his restoration work on Windsor Castle and the Tower of London. This is the only example of Salvin’s work in Ireland.

For thirty-one years the building has housed the Sirius Arts Centre; an organisation that is dedicated to the facilitation and development of artistic expression on a local, national and international stage. This is the only organisation of its kind in the east Cork area.

Sirius is an arts centre that serves as an intermediary between art and the public that endeavours to raise public awareness of art. It offers developing opportunities for both emerging and more established artists from both Ireland and abroad. The programme is dedicated to the facilitation and development of artistic expression, with additional community programming that encourages exploration through direct participation in the arts.

This is achieved through a mix of activities including: visual arts programming and exhibitions, an international artist in residence programme, music performances, community arts programmes and workshops, all of which bring people to east Cork. The Sirius Arts Centre building provides the organisation with a unique environment and gives continuing life to a heritage building of architectural and historical importance in Cobh.

ABOUT DIRECTOR MICHAEL ANTONIO KEANE
Michael Antonio Keane is an Irish screenwriter, film director, and film producer. In the years from 2020 to 2025, Keane made three acclaimed short films set in Ireland (Covid Éire, Dolce Far Niente and Into The Silence) that between them received a remarkable number of awards and nominations. Keane has personally received four awards at major Irish film festivals.