Category: Movies
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One Ocean: No Limits Selected for Festivals in Florida and Arizona
Following ‘One Ocean: No Limits’ successful screenings at festivals in San Francisco, Newport Beach and Boston so far this year, the film has now been selected as a finalist in the Surfing & Ocean Sports category at the Blue Ocean Film Festival in Florida in November 2014. It is the only Irish film to have…
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Showrunners to Screen in Edinburgh on Friday
Described by The Hollywood Reporter as “an intriguing behind the scenes expose of the men and women responsible for TV’s recent revolution” Showrunners will have an exclusive presentation at this year’s Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Showrunners is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of U.S. television showrunners and…
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Well Done Cian
A somewhat overdue congratulations to my buddy Cian McGarrigle on his recent victory at this Galway Film Fleadh. He won top prize in their annual pitching award for his film ’12 Gauge Withdrawl’. Cian walked away with a cool €3000 cheque. Since it’s inception in 2005, The Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Award has gone from…
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Bergmann on Tour
In the last few weeks ‘The Last Days of Peter Bergmann’ has been on quite the world tour. Of all the films I’ve been involved in nothing has come anywhere close to clocking up the miles this short has since debuting at the IFI Stranger than Fiction festival in Dublin last september. Here’s a quick…
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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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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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