Category: Editing
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Weather Report on RTE2 at 11:30 tonight
There is an opportunity to catch my brother Paul’s short film ‘The Weather Report’ tonight on RTE2 at 11:30. The film has had a great run on the festival circuit appearing at over 50 festivals at home and abroad. Paul picked up a few awards at the Limerick Film Festival and Boston Irish Film Festival.…
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Arkle wins at the IFTA’S!!!
On Thursday last, the Arkle documentary I cut won the IFTA for Best Sports at what was a lovely evening in the Burlington (It will always be the Burlo to me). It was such a good day that its taken me this long to write about it! I was absolutely thrilled for Arkle director Luke…
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Sky Road Film Festival This Weekend.
The Sky Road Film Festival kicks off this weekend with a whole host of screenings and talks. Among the selected films are GAA USA and Under Open Skies, 2 sports documentaries I cut last year. Under Open Skies is a nostalgic look at Irelands abondoned Handball Alleys that dot the countryside. Produced by Heather Mills…
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Ifta Nominations for Arkle and GAA USA
I was delighted this morning to see that 2 shows I edited were among the Nominees for the IFTA Television awards to be held in Dublin in 3 weeks time. Unfortunately both Arkle: The Legend Lives On and GAA USA are up against each other in the sports category. To further complicate the matter my…
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‘Gooch’ film wins Kinsale Shark award
I was delighted and somewhat surprised to see that ‘The Toughest Road Back’ won a Silver Shark Award this weekend down in Kinsale. The short online documentary about Kerry football legend Colm Cooper’s difficult journey back to recovery after a terrible knee injury won in the Irish Digital Online Video category. I cut the film…
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Second Captains in San Fran
Its been a while since I posted anything on my blog. I’ve been somewhat snowed under working on a project all summer. You’ll hear all about that when its ready. In the meantime here is a short piece I cut for my office mates Second Captains. It chronicles their visit at the start of the…
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‘Waterloo:Na Laochra Gael’ TG4 8:00 Tonight
Today marks the 200 year anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. A documentary I cut about the Irish and Scots who fought that day ‘Waterloo:Na Laochra Gael’ airs tonight at 8 at TG4. Heres a little taster…
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Reaction to ‘Scots at Waterloo’
The show ‘Scots at Waterloo’ which I had the pleasure of cutting aired last night on BBC2 Scotland and it went down very well. Here are some of the reactions online from the screening The documentary on The Scots Soldiers at Waterloo was v interesting;what a close run thing it was, what courage displayed —…
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The Scots at Waterloo airs tonight.
People of Scotland! Tonight, on BBC 2 Scotland (Sky Channel 907) there is a documentary ‘The Scots at Waterloo’ which I had the pleasure of cutting recently in the fine city of Glasgow. This is the first of 3 versions of the Waterloo documentary that I cut for Caledonia/Tile Films to air. This version deals…
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Last week to watch GAA USA
There are only 5 more days left for you to catch the series GAA USA on the TG4 player. I spent most of last winter cutting the series and was delighted with how it turned out. If you want to watch the series and I think it’ll be worth your while, heres the link The…
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