Montreal WC

Liam O'Mochain, a guild member, and writer and director, has informed us that his second feature film WC has been selected to screen at the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival (August 23rd - September 3rd). It will feature in the focus on world cinema section of the festival. O'Mochain says on hearing the news "I was delighted, Montreal is a great festival, with a particular strong emphasis on world cinema. It will be a great international platform for the film". WC received its world Premiere at the 2007 Dublin International Film Festival in February, where it sold out. It also screened in July at the 2007 Galway Film Fleadh in the WILDCARDS strand.

WC is a quirky drama set in and around the toilets of a Dublin Jazz bar, it follows a day and in the life of two toilet attendants, Jack (Liam O'Mochain - The Book That Wrote Itself), an Irish guy who has recently been released from prison and Katya (Julia Wakeham - The Tudors), a Russian girl who has come to Ireland to find a better life. As Jack and Katya deal with argumentative customers, an interfering bar manager and an inept thief, they find an unlikely friendship with one another in the last place one would expect - the toilets. Described by the director as a "social drama", the film examines topical issues like racism, social integration, sex trafficking and low paid workers in a every day setting. In making WC O'Mochain has drawn inspiration from the films of Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Michael Winterbottom.