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Martin McGagh’s Photographs
I got a call earlier today from Martin McGagh, a good friend of mine whom I hadn’t talked to since he left Galway over a year ago. Martin is an exceptionally good cameraman with whom I have worked with as well as someone I went to college with and hung out with at various stages…
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IFTA Nominees Announced
The IFTA Nominees were announced yesterday and some of the projects I worked on last year were put up for gongs. Rewind picked up three nominations one for lead actress Amy Huberman, the sound team and a well deserved nod for director PJ Dillion, who also picked up a nomination for his work as DP…
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On Tv this week
Two things to look out for this week. First of all is the fifth and final episode of ‘On The Fly’ which I edited and that is on Setanta tonight at ten and also tomorrow at six and friday at 3. In this episode Tv’s mr nice guy chef Neven Maguire (Macnean House, Cavan) travels…
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2010: A Good Year
So this is goodbye to 2010. It’s been a very good year for me, certainly compared with how lame 2009 was, even if the country has gone down the toilet this year. I had a good time and that’s all that matters. So here is my year in review. On the work front I was…
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Watch this tonight.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story Last year I made a film called ‘Shtax’ and it did quite well, so well in fact TG4 commissioned an Irish language adaptation of it which will broadcast tonight. I was the co-producer on this but it is really my brother Paul’s baby.…
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The Aesthetics of the Digital Revolution
Here is a piece from the New York Times by film critic by Manhola Dargis You can read the article here and see Manhola’s list of the top 30 movies of the year here IN the closing credits for his independent confection “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” the young director Damien Chazelle doesn’t…
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Mammy Murphy will be pleased…
Tonight Setanta start broadcasting their new series “On the Fly”. This is a six part series that I edited five episodes of and I think is pretty deadly. It’s a fly-fishing/celebrity chef mash up. Yeah thats what I said. But even more exciting then this news is the fact that right after the show(Tuesday 10pm)…
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Harrison Ford. Are you there?
Heres an interesting piece from the LA Times about Harrison Ford by journalist Steven Zeitchik He traversed distant galaxies with Chewbacca, shot sword-wielding assassins with Marion Ravenwood and outfoxed federal marshal Samuel Gerard all by himself. But these days all those things may as well have happened to a different actor than Harrison Ford, who…
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KT Slatey
The wonderful Katie Holly got a very nice write-up in Variety no less over the weekend. You can read the article from their website or you can just read it below as i have shamelessly copied and pasted it here. I edited a short film several years ago that Katie produced which you can watch…
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My Television Acting Debut
I took some time yesterday at work to load up this little clip from the Abu library. It’s my starring role in the TG4 series “Fear an Phoist”. My little cameo as Diego Garcia, International Man of Leisure was undoubtable a high point in the shows lifetime. Interestingly I was the only person in the…
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