'If you Sphinx I'm an old Giza, you're living in the Nile.' - Yeshmin Blechin, 2012

GAY LEPRECHAUN
Created and Written By: Greg Benson, Aaron Yonda & Matt Sloan
Directed By: Greg Benson
CameraTona Williams
Sound: Adam Koralik
Special Thanks: David Hussey and Veescope Key (kickass Final Cut Pro chromakey plugin)
Theme Song: Eanan Patterson(http://www.eananpatterson.com)
Animation & VFX: Kevin Ivers, Photoshoppin, James Deuling

For those of you not familiar with Saint Patrick's Day, it's a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on the 17th of March in Dublin, Ireland. The tradition came about at the instigation of the Irish Protestant organization The Knights of St. Patrick. The inaugural parade took place on March 17, 1783. In what has been described as an act of cultural re-orientation the British established a new focus of ritual and spectacle in the figure of St. Patrick, a pre-reformation saint who appealed to both the Roman Catholic and Irish Protestant traditions in Ireland. Guarding the inaugural procession were the mainly Protestant Volunteers who were charged with keeping order on the streets and at the service in the Protestant St. Patrick's Cathedral. The subsequent celebrations took place in two venues: on March 17 in the ballroom (which the Lord Lieutenant Earl Temple II had renamed after St Patrick) of Dublin Castle, the ancient seat of Bri.