Category: Editing
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The Weather Report & Kara to play the Fastnet Film Festival
This weekend sees the Corona Fastnet Film Festival takes place in the beautiful town of Schull in West Cork. 2 short films I cut are on as part of the festival, The Weather Report written and directed by my brother Paul Murphy and Kara, written and directed by another Murphy, Traolach O’Murchu (no relation). I’d…
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Oireachtais Chumarsáide win for Páidi!
Following on from it’s win at the IFTA’s the documentary Páidi Ó Sé: Rí an Pharóiste picked up the award for Best Tv Show at the Gradaim Chumarsáide an Oireachtais held in Salthill last weekend. I’m delighted to have been the editor of this show and delighted for its director Louise on her continued success.…
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Paul Murphy: Film God
Last weekend The Limerick Film Festival was held in that fair city. The short film ‘The Weather Report’ that my brother Paul directed and that I edited screened at the festival and was nominated for 3 awards in the festival’s showpiece short film awards night. I couldn’t make it down on the night but my…
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Wins at the IFTA’s
Last saturday the IFTA’s were held in Dublin City Centre in the Burlo, which is the name everyone stubbornly sticks to calling the DoubleTree at Hilton Hotel. I was grateful to Colm and Cleona who directed and produced An Ceoldrama for giving tickets to myself and the misses so that we could attend. I was…
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The Weather Report nominated for 3 awards at LFF14
Last year I edited my brothers short film ‘The Weather Report’. The film has its world premiere this coming saturday as part of the Belfast Film Festival. As well as that exciting prospect, the film was also recently accepted into the fifth annual Limerick Film Festival. This year the festival, run by editor Simon Maguire,…
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Boston Irish Film Festival this Weekend
The Boston Irish Film Festival opened this week and continues through this weekend. I’m very fortunate to have 2 films I edited screening as part of the festival. Tomorrow, Saturday morning sees a screening of Sarah McCann’s film about Ocean Rowing One Ocean: No Limits ONE OCEAN: NO LIMITS follows a young Irish novice rower…
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KOTT available on iTunes
King of the Travellers hits International Territories To coincide with St. Patrick’s Day King of the Travellers has been released on multiple VOD platforms including iTunes across over 40 international territories including the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel and Singapore. Written and directed by Mark O’Connor and produced by Cormac Fox, the film…
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Blogging A Dead Horse
So I’ve only been waiting about 3 weeks to write that headline. Anyway the reason for the headline is to say that over the past few weeks I’ve been lucky enough to be working on a documentary with Luke McManus about the Irish wonderhorse Arkle. The show debuts this week on TG4 on Wednesday 12th…
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New Showreel
So I finally got around to updating my showreel. While I was happy with the one I had before, it was missing a lot of titles that I worked on in the last 3 years so a change was needed. Anyways here it is… If you want to talk about working together you can drop…
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Bergmann gets IFTA nod and other news
Delighted to say that the IFTA Short film nominations were announced last night and among them was a nod for The Last Days of Peter Bergmann. Coupled with last weeks nominations its been a pretty amazing week. Also among those nominations is a nod for Rubai which was directed by ‘Páidi Ó’Sé…‘ director Louise Ni…
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