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Abu wins Celtic Media Award
Congrats to my dear friend Dathai Keane and all the lads in Abu for winning a Celtic Media Award for their fantastic series ‘Mobs Mhericea’. They won the Best Factual Series for Mobs Mhericea. Up against Mobs was CSI : Corks Bloody Secret from RTE, Stephen Fry’s “Last Chance to See” for BBC Wales, The…
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Restoring Metropolis
I was in Berlin recently and visited the German Museum of Film and Television, which apart from being in a truly wonderful space was full of really interesting exhibits. While we were there they had dedicated a floor to an exhibition on Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis‘. An astonishing achievement for its time, the film still has…
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A Rebuilding Phase for Independent Film
An article from today’s NY Times Only five years ago, the center of the still thriving independent film universe lay behind the green doors of a converted TriBeCa warehouse from which the Weinstein brothers, Bob and Harvey, ran Miramax Films. With their possible deal — negotiations continued through last week — to join investors in…
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Anti-Glazer Projection
Man Utd supporters pulled off one of their most audacious stunts yet in their protests against the club’s owners by tonight projecting anti-Glazer slogans on to the side of Old Trafford to demand the American owners’ removal. Messages such as “We want the Glazers out” were flashed on to the stand directly behind Sir Matt…
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Faceless Monsters
Today marks the Galway launch of ‘Faceless Monsters’, the new collection of short stories by ‘The Atlantis Collective’ of which my girlfriend is a member. This is their second collection after last years ‘Town of Fiction’ and the new book which I got a sneak peek of last night is a marked improvement. Not only…
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Danny Huston on his Father
Danny Huston is one of my favourite actors, he is simply superb in everything I’ve seen him in, especially ‘Ivans XTC’. Here he talks about some advice his father, the great John Huston, gave him as a young man about directing “When I was a kid, I had this Super-8 camera, and I was avidly…
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MTV buy Paisean Fashion
As anyone who knows me can testify I cut a lot of episodes of Paisean Fashion. Heres an aricle from today’s IFTN. The format of Magma Film’s reality TV series ‘Paisean Faisean’ has been bought US production outfit by Zoo Productions who have been commissioned by MTV to produce a version of the show entitled…
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Dede Allen Obituary
FROM THE LA TIMES Dede Allen dies at 86; editor revolutionized imagery, sound and pace in U.S. films Her work on 1967’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ ushered in a new aesthetic that’s now the standard in American film. She earned Oscar nominations for ‘Dog Day Afternoon,’ ‘Reds’ and ‘Wonder Boys.’ Dede Allen | 1923 – 2010…
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My Internet Home
Just click on the pages on the right to see examples of work and so on. I’m still tracking down old stuff and I have to upload loads more things. I’m still also figuring out how to work wordpress!
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