Following a sell out premier at the Dublin International Film Festival and at the recent Galway Film Fleadh , The Judas Iscariot Lunch, a new feature-length documentary, will be broadcast on RTE One on Monday July 18th at 21.35
The documentary, directed by Teresa O’Grady-Peyton and produced by TJ O’Grady-Peyton tells the story of Columban missionary priests “who took the brave,honourable and risky decision to leave the active ministry and set out on totally different and difficult life journey”. They were branded ‘Judas Iscariots’ by Pope Paul VI.
“We never saw it like that … we see ourselves as pioneers!”
The ‘Judas Iscariot Lunch’ is a story about faith, religion, love and life after the priesthood. 13 Irish ex-priests speak candidly about how they came to be missionaries in East Asia, the Pacific and South America in the 1960s and 70s. Immersed in their new situations, these young idealists resonated and developed much broader ideas about God, their own humanity and needs, and about faiths, cultures and economies. This documentary, often funny, sometimes sad, is beautiful, raw and thought-provoking.
For more information contact:
TJ O’Grady-Peyton
087 133 7359
Teresa O’Grady-Peyton
087 419 2529
teresaogradypeyton@gmail.com