Remembering Water

Protest filmmaker Tom Callahan explores the special relationships between Irish cultural reconnection, genocide, and a world where Palestine and everyone is free.

  • Tom Callahan
    Director
    Good Fences?
  • Tom Callahan
    Producer
  • Tom Callahan
    Cinematography
  • Tom Callahan
    Editor
  • Anna Miller
    Creative Direction
  • Anna Miller
    Original Score
  • Marta Cook
    Creative and Story Direction
  • Paul Callahan
    Additional filming
  • Jane Callahan
    Additional filming
  • Afi
    Additional filming
  • kelechi agwuncha
    Additional filming
  • Debbie Southorn
    Additional filming
  • Brendan Power
    Music performed by
  • Lucy Randall
    Music performed by
  • The Chieftans
    Music performed by
  • Séamus and Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta
    Music performed by
  • Anna Miller
    Sound editing and mixing
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    33 minutes 52 seconds
  • Language:
    Arabic, English, Irish
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Tom Callahan

Tom Callahan is a filmmaker who tells critical and imaginative stories in the service of transforming us and our societies. He loves focusing on the power of resistance and collective action, no matter how big or small. He works with a range of social justice, revolutionary and abolitionist organizations in Chicago to support and amplify their work and our collective visions of a new world. It brings him great joy and fulfillment to tell stories in community and build relationships through this work!

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Director Statement

This project started in 2017. It has been a quiet companion to my work documenting Chicago’s social movements for liberation and my attempts at connecting with my Irish heritage. The film found its final voice in 2023, as the genocide in Gaza confronted me with questions about the state of our souls.