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Cork Film Centre announce Pat Collins Mentorship
IFTA award winning Irish director Pat Collins of Harvest Films is to be the new mentor for the Cork Film Centre for the Mentor for New Films for 2012 programme. In my opinion Pat Collins is the finest documentary maker we currently have in this country. He has directed over 25 projects in his career,…
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NBC sign TG4 format show.
Congratulations to everyone at Tile media who recently sold the rights to their show ‘Who Lived In My House?’ to NBC. the show was edited by Daithi Connaughton, a very good editor and a top bloke who I regularly run into. Heres the iftn piece about their success In April 2010 Tile Films went to…
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Mobs Cheanada picks up two IFTA nominations
Time to get those glad rags on! The IFTA nominations were announced today and it was a good day for people west of the Shannon and I think its fair to say its one of the best line-up of nominations in a number of years. Among the nominees is Mobs Cheanada a series I edited…
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Nice Work Maire T.
My special lady friend, the wonderfully talented Maire T. Robinson has reason to celebrate this morning as her short story “Another Breakfast With You” has been published in todays Irish Independent as part of their Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Each month one story is picked from countless entries and published on the last saturday…
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A very TG4 Christmas
This christmas was really bad in terms of television, very little to get excited about. RTE showed independence day on christmas day and I can’t believe they couldn’t come up with something better then that. Seriously, Who hasn’t seen it? The British channels weren’t much better, in fact the only station to come up with…
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The Pride of Quarrymoumt on RTE at 8:30
After assaulting our ears for the last five years on Off The Ball, the brother is now to be seen on the small screen. This is his first tv engagement since that famous episode of Gridlock back in 2000 where Ciaran called “gridlock on green” despite as Derek Mooney pointed out “Interesting move, you are…
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Steve James top 10 documentaries
The Interupters is on tonight on BBC4 and it is one off the finest documentaries of recent years and indeed one of my all time favorites so make sure to tune in. It is directed by Steve James who also directed Hoop Dreams and No Crossover:the Trial of Alan Iverson both of which were incredible.…
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Foreign Film Oscar Controversy rolls on
An interesting article from the New York Times Many of the 63 films submitted in the competition for the 2012 Academy Award for best foreign-language film have not yet even begun a commercial run in an American theater, and some never will. But since its introduction in 1947, the category of best foreign-language film is…
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Tommy Tiernan Live in Vicar Street on TV3 Tonight
A few years back I edited Tommy Tiernan’s DVD “Cracked-The Comedians Cut” and a special slightly shorter version of that show goes out on air tonight at 10:00 on TV3. The re-versioning of this for tv3 was done by Cillian Duffy in EMC Post. Its one of his best shows and if you haven’t seen…
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Aindrias needs your money!
My buddy Aindrias de Staic about whom I made the film Shtax a while back is seeking funding for another film. He is currently in Melbourne and is in the process of script development for his film “The Year I Got Younger” and he is running a crowd funding campaign to help get the film…
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