Welcome to the Irish Reels Film Festival 2011. The festival will take place March 12th-13th in Seattle. Now in our thirteenth year we are delighted to bring to you a wonderful collection of refreshing and exciting new works in Irish cinema. Screenings will take place at the Frye Art Museum and at the Seattle Center. On Saturday and Sunday a selection of documentaries and shorts will be presented at the Seattle Center as part of Irish Week celebrations - including Blood of The Irish, a documentary which goes beyond traditional genealogy to explore the genetic history of the Irish going back into our distant past; When Hope and History Rhymed a documentary exploring the aftermath of the peace agreement in Northern Ireland; and Liam Clancy and Friends Live at the Bittter End, NYC which captures Liam Clancy in 2008 with friends at this uninque event staged in New York's legendary club The Bitter End. Award winning shorts in English and Gaelic will be screened as part of our shorts program. Our feature presentation My Brothers will be screened Saturday evening at the Frye Art Museum at 7:00pm. From the producers of award-winning The Eclipse, My Brothers is a heartwarming road movie set during the Halloween weekend of 1987. Filmed in County Cork, Ireland, the film follows Noel on an ill-advised quest to replace a cheap watch his dad once won at a seaside tourist town. "Borrowing" the bakery van he uses for a delivery route, Noel sets off with his two younger brothers, hoping to return before his mom and employer know he’s gone. Alas, the piece-of-junk van isn’t up for that degree of stealth or speed. Screens with short film Summer Elegy.