Category: Movies
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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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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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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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World Premiere of ‘An Klondike’
Delighted to be heading to Galway today for the world premiere of ‘An Klondike’, the first western film to be shot in Ireland. The film is directed by one of my favourite people in the world, my old housemate and my oldest friend in this crazy of ours, Dathai Keane. I’m thrilled for him that…
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DONT MISS your chance to see THE LAST DAYS OF PETER BERGMANN
The Last Days of Peter Bergmann is one of the things I’m most proud of from all the different things I’ve had the pleasure of cutting. The Film has had a tremendous life on the festival circuit, getting selected for Sundance, Winning awards at IFI Stranger than Fiction, Nashville, Melbourne, Camden and elsewhere, Qualifying for…
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King of the Travellers TONIGHT – TV3 – 9:00
There is another chance to see the movie King of The Travellers which I cut tonight. Directed by Mark O’Connor and produced by Cormac Fox, the film stars a host of actors who have gone on to find starring roles in Love/Hate and indeed in last weekends Charlie. Its on TV3, tonight, Tue Jan 6…
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One Ocean no Limits screens RTE tonight
I co-edited this documentary with its director Sarah McCann for whom this was somewhat a labour of love. I was delighted to help her out and the film turned out great. It airs tonight Sunday 14th December at 8pm TRAILER SYNOPSIS One Ocean: No Limits is the first Irish documentary on the subject of the…
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