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Screenings
2008
Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany
RTÉ Television Broadcast (Here To Stay, 52 min)
World Witness Film Festival, Belltable, Limerick, Ireland
2007
Human Rights Nights International Film Festival, Bologna, Italy
GAZE: Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Dublin
9th Cinemanila International Film Festival, Philippines
Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival, Donegal, Ireland
San Francisco Irish Film Festival
Green Cuts Film Festival, Berlin (Reel Ireland)
Multicultural Broadcast Media Award (MAMA)
Waterford Film Festival, Ireland
2006
Premiere: ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ International Documentary Film Festival, Dublin
Supported by
Irish Film Board (Bord Scannán na héireann)
The Atlantic Philanthropies
SIPTU Against Racism Group
Know Racism
Irish Nurses Organisation
Columban Missionaries
Credits
Directors: Alan Grossman and Áine O’Brien
Editor: Brian Truglio
Camera: Alan Grossman
Additional Camera: Brendan Bourke
Sound: Alan Grossman and Mo O’Riordan
Executive Producer: Barrie Dowdall, Telwell Productions
Research: Alan Grossman and Áine O’Brien
Highwire Postproduction Supervision: Louise Curran
Subtitles: Rojel Orvos, Bernard Uy and Vising Kennedy
Here To Stay
Shot over a period of three years and part-funded by the Irish Film Board, this ethnographic documentary film is an intimate portrait of Filipino nurse Fidel Taguinod and the public expression of his political activism, in dialogue with civil society representatives, challenging and probing the inadequacies of immigration policy in Ireland. The film poses a fundamental question regarding the promotional prospects of migrant nurses, working in the Irish healthcare service.
Fidel leads the viewer through a series of migrant-led events, illustrating the political mobilisation of overseas nurses and how trade unionism develops in a rapidly expanding multiracial Irish society. Through a sustained period of observational filming on the hospital ward, the film depicts Fidel’s managerial competence, his working relations with patients, consultants, Irish and overseas nursing staff. Tracking the mobilisation of the Overseas Nurses Section of the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) from its inception, with Fidel as President, Here To Stay captures the evolution of political process over time, highlighting critical debates in Section meetings and within INO conferences. Fidel’s world outside the hospital environment, his domestic life where he lives with his Irish partner, is further explored, as is the negotiation of his gay identity in public performances such as ‘Miss Alternative Philippines’ and ‘Diva Manila’, in which he playfully mixes gay politics with migrant and multicultural issues.
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