Category: Movies
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Foreign Film Oscar Controversy rolls on
An interesting article from the New York Times Many of the 63 films submitted in the competition for the 2012 Academy Award for best foreign-language film have not yet even begun a commercial run in an American theater, and some never will. But since its introduction in 1947, the category of best foreign-language film is…
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Aindrias needs your money!
My buddy Aindrias de Staic about whom I made the film Shtax a while back is seeking funding for another film. He is currently in Melbourne and is in the process of script development for his film “The Year I Got Younger” and he is running a crowd funding campaign to help get the film…
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Shtax to screen at pretty cool music festival in Sligo
People of Sligo, my film SHTAX will play this week as part of a pretty exciting festival of events taking part in the town. SOUND+VISION is a film festival devoted to music films and we are thrilled to be showing the film in some illustrious company. The film is on this Friday 18 Nov at…
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Sensation opens nationwide this Friday
During the summer while working for Irish Film NY, I was fortunate to see a preview copy of Tom Hall’s new movie Sensation. The movie staring Domhnaill Gleeson is a real little gem and well worth seeing. We all pay a lot of lip-service to supporting the Irish film industry, well here’s a chance to…
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Luke McManus Coming Up
Congratulations to Irish director Luke McManus (Psych Ward) who has been selected to take part in Channel 4’s Coming Up scheme. The scheme offers a platform to emerging writers and directors to produce a season of original half hour dramas, which will be shown on Channel 4. Luke McManus was shortlisted as one of 14…
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Irish Film New York
This is the one of the trailers which I cut for the Irish Film New York event taking place at the Cantor Centre in NYU in the heart of Manhattan at the end of this week Sep 30-Oct02. the festival is run by Niall McKay of Media Factory who also runs the Irish Film Festival…
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Drogheda Local Heroes
Here’s an article from IFTN about a series I did some work on last month. I worked on the opening episode, it promises to be a really good series following the people of Drogheda as they unite to try and overcome the economic downturn. You can follow their campaign on their official facebook page. The…
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Interview with Traolach Ó’Murchú
Several weeks ago I wrote a post about my friend Traolach’s lovely short film “Alive” and how he needed people to watch it for the competition he had entered. Well, the good news is that he only went and bloody won the thing. It still isn’t exactly clear what the nature of his prize is…
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Can You Feel It?
Here’s a short I worked on about a decade ago. I didn’t edit it, in fact I worked as Locations Manager on it. The Film was directed by Marissa O’Mahoney who was in college with me and the whole crew was basically a bunch of us from Chluain Mhuire. Myself, Maire and even my old…
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