Category: Editing
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Great response to ‘The Tommy Tiernan Show’
There was a fantastic reaction to the first episode of the ‘The Tommy Tiernan Show’ which aired last Saturday on RTE One. It was a big hit with audiences and critics alike, with the Irish Independent saying ‘The Tommy Tiernan Show has shaped up into the best Irish chat show in years‘ Brian Lloyd from…
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‘An Phairc’ airs tonight on TG4
A documentary I cut for Nemeton and director Ronan O’Donoghue airs tonight on TG4. ‘An Phairc’ tells the story of Phairc Ui Chaoimh, its recent rebuild and some of the massive games and events that have taken place there over the years. Its a cracking doc that finally allowed me to cut something about Hurling!…
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Photo City Screening.
Last week as part of the Audi Dublin International Film Festival we had the Irish premiere of ‘Photo City’ the film I co-directed with Traolach Ó Murchú. The film played to a full house and it went down a storm. We were delighted with the reaction the film got and are looking forward to the…
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Crash and Burn screens at Cork Film Festival
If you are in Cork today, check out Crash & Burn in The Gate Cinema at 3.45pm. Screening as part of the Cork Film Festival the film charts how Dundalk-born Tommy Byrne went from driving a Mini Cooper in stock-car racing to the big-time in Formula One in a little over four years and for…
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Mattress Men OPENS TODAY
Today is the big day, Mattress Men is finally available for Irish audiences to see after its successful trips to HotDocs in Toronto and to Sheffield DocFest. Its on today and all this week in the Lighthouse, the IFI, The Eye Cinema Galway, movies at Dundrum and in Swords and coming to other cinemas after…
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Some New Work
I’ve been very quiet here recently, work commitments and how projects have fallen haven’t allowed me to devote the amount of time as I’d like to this blog. But anyways here is some new work that I’ve been up to. First up is the promo for Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new dance show Loch na hEala (Swan…
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Sheffield Doc Fest
I’m delighted and honoured to have 2 feature films I cut showing at the prestigious Sheffield Doc Fest this weekend. I’m heading over to the festival and really looking forward to not only seeing the films but to also catch a whole host of other great documentaries. Sheffield is the worlds 3rd biggest documentary festival…
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Mattress Men takes Toronto
Last week, I went over to Toronto for the Hot Docs Film Festival where the film I spent last year cutting ‘Mattress Men’ had its world premiere. Among everything else it also provided me with an opportunity to take a bit of a break and to visit Canada for the first time. The week away…
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Mattress Men to Premiere at HotDocs in Toronto
So yesterday it was announced that ‘Mattress Men’, the feature documentary I spent a large part of last year editing for director Colm Quinn will have its world premiere at North America’s largest documentary film festival, HotDocs. The film takes a peak behind the mattress telling the true story the man who made the legend…
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Watch ‘Mar A Cheile Muid?’ online
For Seachtain na Gaeilge, Seán Ó’Cualáin has made his film ‘Mar a Cheile Muid?’ about the Gaeltacht civil rights movement of the 1970’s and its impact then and now available to watch online. The film is on the surface about the 40th anniversary of the 1974 Oireachtas in Cois Fharraige, the first one outside of…
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