:: DETAILS

Reg./Dir.: Mary McGuckian Scen./Script: Mary McGuckian Fot./Phot.: Mark Wolf Mont./Ed.: David Freemantle Mont.Suo./Sou.Ed.: Mark Gingras Mus.: Kevin Banks Cast: Colm Feore Jordi Molla John Session Bill Paterson Andie MacDowell Kerry Fox Coprod.: Art in Las Vegas Distr.: Freestyle Releasing Dati tecn./Tech. data: UK/Canada 2008 101 min./ 35 mm

:: PLOT

In a climate of rapid technological advancement, the baby business is booming. ART is the acronym for Assisted Reproductive Technology, or the science of unnatural conception. Couples with clinical infertility issues, career women with ticking biological clocks and the gay community’s desire for parenthood means these people can now achieve the previously inconceivable if they are prepared to pay the high price for potential failure and throw themselves at the mercy of the medical gurus and drug companies. “Inconceivable” explores a week in the life of a typical ‘cycling’ batch of women and their donors preparing to undergo any one or a combination of Assisted Reproductive Technology procedures. Dr Jackson Charles Freeman (Colm Feore) takes ten patients per batch at his highly progressive and internationally acclaimed Las Vegas clinic. He cycles them efficiently to calendar match so they undergo more or less the same procedure at the same time.

:: BIOGRAPHY

Mary McGuckian trained and worked in theatre as an actor and playwright in Ireland before she set up her own company, Pembridge Productions, to develop and produce feature film projects. The company was active as a co-producer on many Irish feature films and also produced three pictures which she wrote and directed. In 2001, along with her brother Garrett McGuckian, she established Pembridge Pictures in the UK. The first of the films to commence principal photography was her adaptation of “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, delivered in May 2004. More lately, she has turned her interest and attention to the exploration of innovative film-making techniques aimed at integrating a more collaborative style of production in order to prioritize performance values with the aim of making contemporary drama more compelling to audiences. Using a combination of modern script styles and extended character development work with collaborating actors who then improvise their own dialogue directly on set, the first film of her ‘amorality’ trilogy, “Rag Tale”, was conceived. Allied to the latest in digital photographic and post production technology, she continues to redefine the conventional linear process into a much more integrated and collaborative style of film-making as many of the cast and crew of “Rag Tale” and “Intervention” joined her on “Inconceivable”.

:: FILMOGRAPHY

2008 Inconceivable 2007 Intervention 2006 Rag Tale 2004 The Bridge Of San Luis Rey 2000 Best 1997 This is the Sea 1995 Words Upon the Window Pane