Category: Movies
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Poster for the Underground Cinema Festival
This is the poster for the Dublin Underground Cinema Festival which runs Sept 9-11 and in which my film Shtax will be screened Tickets can be bought here
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The Lost Art Of Film Editing
This is an astute article I copied out from the Boston Globe archives. It was written by Jessica Winter who is the author of “The Rough Guide to American Independent Film”. She wrote it 5 years ago but the central argument she makes is still true today and if anything the decision by committee is…
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Do I even have a tuxedo anymore?
I woke up this morning to some great news. My Film ‘Shtax’ has received a nomination at the Underground Cinema Awards. The film got a nod in the Best Independent Feature Film category and I’m obviously delighted with the news. As well as being up for the gong, the film will be screened as part…
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New Errol Morris Film
At the bottom of this post is an interesting piece from the LA Times about Errol Morris’s latest documentary “Tabloid” which I’m hoping to catch very soon. I’ve always loved his films, he always get to some sort of truth and never takes you down an obvious direction. Like many people the first film I…
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Young People of Galway, I love you…
It’s that time of year again, the Galway Film Fleadh. But whats this, I’m remarkably sober and have had a decent amount of sleep. How is that possible, well i’m living in New York this year and I am missing my first fleadh in 8 or so years. I’m certain however that my absence isn’t…
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Interview with Fergal Rock
So a few months back my friend Fergal Rock was one of the winners of the prestigious BlueCat Fellini Screenplay competition for his entry “Calvin and Skye”. It was a great achievement to win it and a great reward for the years of hard work Fergal has put into his writing. Founded in 1998 by…
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Not a good launch then…
So during the last week Apple released Final Cut Pro X and its pretty safe to say it did not go down so well. In what appears to be a move away from their base of professional editors towards the consumer market, it has abandoned a lot of the pro features which are needed in…
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Beatty’s Back
I just read this article in the guardian and I am genuinely excited by this. I love Warren Beatty movies, they are always interesting and he is without a doubt one of the most fascinating men in Hollywood. I really enjoyed reading Peter Biskind’s biography of him last year. I bought it on the day…
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Music video I made goes online tomorrow
A music video I made for the singer Aoife Scott will be premiering on her facebook page tomorrow Friday 27th of May at noon. It is now available to watch here well it was, its gone down for the moment. Some issue with Youtube Aoife is sorting it out Here’s how it came about, About…
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