Richard Dreyfuss & Terry Gilliam among Jameson Film Festival star turns

Guests of honour, who’ll both be presented with the Volta Award, are Hollywood A-Lister Richard Dreyfuss who’ll be partaking of a Q+A following a special screening of Jaws and Terry Gilliam, the filmmaker who’ll forever be associated with Monty Python.
Other high-profile participants include John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Brenda Fricker, James Fox, Jean-Marc Barr, Pollyanna McIntosh, Richard Ayoade, David Mackenzie, Jonathan Glazer and Peter Morgan.
New Irish comedy The Stag has been picked for the Closing Gala, with crew members Peter McDonald, Hugh O’Conor, Amy Huberman and Andrew Scott, fresh from Sherlock duties, attending.
Tickets can be bought from FilmBase in Temple Bar or online at [link]www.jdiff.com[/link]
Other big screenings include Big Sur with Jean Marc-Barr; Wes Anderson’s star-studded The Grand Budapest Hotel; the striking adaptation of Half Of A Yellow Sun starring Thandie Newton; Irish filmmaker Alan Gilsenan’s two films, Eliza Lynch: Queen Of Paraguay and A Vision: A Life Of WB Yeats; the enchanting A Long Way From Home starring Brenda Fricker and James Fox; and the gripping A Thousand Times Good Night starring Juliette Binoche and Maria Doyle Kennedy.
The broad selection of new Irish movies includes John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary at the Opening Night Gala; the superb documentary Come Into The Gardens;  Brendan Muldowney’s Love Eternal starring Pollyanna McIntosh; Donal Foreman’s thought-provoking Out Of Here; Pat Collins’ insightful Living In A Coded Land; along with Dominic Harari and Teresa de Pelegri’s The Food Guide To Love. 
Add in workshops, the retro Out Of The Past festival within a festival that will be attended by Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd and a photographic exhibition, and we’re in for an action-packed week.