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Trip to London?
My feature documentary about the one and only Aindrias de Staic imaginatively titled ‘Shtax’ is to be screened next week in London as part of a special showcase of Irish talent at the shortwave cinema close to Tower Bridge. It is being run in conjunction with the quite wonderful Underground Cinema. Setup in 2009 Underground…
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Naked Election goes down well
The Naked Election premiered last night on RTE 1 and it seems to have gone down very well. I signed up for twitter yesterday and was watching the feedback from people during the ad breaks and after the show. The universal praise the show was getting has to be one of the highlights of my…
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The Naked Election – Tonight
So I have been bunkered down for the last number of weeks working on “The Naked Election” which airs tonight at 9:30 on RTE 1. I finally emerged into the harsh sunlight sometime yesterday evening and I am slowly beginning to readjust to normal life. A huge effort has gone in to making this programme…
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Storyland Deadline Approaching
The first round of Storyland votes finish tomorrow. So if you haven’t voted yet, hit the RTE website. I’ve been up to my eyes on a project so haven’t had much time to view all the entries myself yet. However despite having friends working on several of them, I have to lend my full support…
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Coen Brothers Cut True Grit on FCP
So I totally stole this from the Apple website but I found it very interesting. This is probably one just for the editors out there. Straightforward storytelling is the last thing anyone expected from the Coen brothers, more famous for tight filmic twists and dark comic turns. But in their new feature film, True Grit,…
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Look At Me!!!!!
So I have been pretty shameless in how I have used this blog as a self-promotion tool and some people may be uncomfortable with such brazen self-aggrandizing. However my message to those people is I have no intention of stopping, in fact this whole post is to serve as a warning about the next month.…
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The Pipe on TG4
TG4 will broadcast Risteard O’Domhnaill’s “The Pipe” this Wednesday at 9:30. It’s an incredible film about the Shell to Sea campaign. If you haven’t seen it yet, you are seriously missing out. The film has been a huge success for Risteard, starting with sell out runs and awards at the Galway Film Fleadh and going…
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Chisel Party
I have a week or so off from work so I’m finally getting to do those things I should have done ages ago. The main one was of course to fix the bathroom door which has for the last number of months had a large hole in it. This was the result of me locking…
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Orson Welles Lost Masterpiece Found…Again.
Cinema nerds rejoice or despair depending on your point of view. Welles has more lost masterpieces then actual films made but nevertheless it’ll be interesting to see what happens and what noted Welles authorities like David Thompson, Peter Bogdanovich or Simon Callow make of it all. We’ve had a lot of false dawns on this.…
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Máire in New Edition of Horizon Review
My wonderful girlfriend, Máire T. Robinson has had one of her short stories published in the latest edition of Horizon Review, the online magazine from the illustrious Salt publishing house. Based in London, Salt are one of the most prestigious publishers of new poetry in the world and have recently diversified into publishing fiction. For…
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