HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR NOW AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS

HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR, the critically acclaimed documentary from award-winning filmmaker Ciaran Cassidy, is now available on digital platforms across Ireland and the UK, including Apple, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Microsoft, Sky Store, and IFI@Home.

The poignant and uplifting film tells the story of Ireland’s treatment of women through the prism of a unique, surreal, live televised competition, that must be seen to be believed, where a generation of Irish women competed in front of a live audience for the title of ‘Housewife of the Year’.  The former contestants share their direct experiences of marriage bars, lack of contraception, Magdalene laundries, financial vulnerability, boredom and shame and of course, of being contestants in the competition. It’s the story of a resilient generation of women and how they changed a country.

Ciaran Cassidy is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have premiered at film festivals all over the world including Sundance, Telluride, IDFA, SXSW, and Sheffield. HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR, which had its world premiere at the prestigious CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, picked up the Best Irish Feature Documentary Award at last year’s Galway Film Fleadh and is Cassidy’s second feature documentary following his critically acclaimed debut JIHAD JANE.

HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR was produced by Maria Horgan for Little Wing Films with funding from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, RTÉ, SVT, DR, and NRK.