Category: Movies
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When Ali Came To Ireland – IFI Screening
Earlier this month I finished work on an exciting new documentary called “When Ali Came to Ireland”. In 1972 Ali came to Dublin to fight Alvin “Blue” Lewis in Croke Park. This documentary is about that fight, where Ali was in his career, the colourful past of Blue Lewis and the extraordinary story of the…
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Showrunners…From the Edit Suite
Greetings from the Showrunners edit suite… Its been a crazy couple of months and especially so the last few weeks. Editing a feature documentary is an all-consuming proposition and your work-life balance can get thrown somewhat askew, so I’ve become something of a stranger to my friends and family but it will all be worth…
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Dollhouse Opens Today. GO SEE IT!
This has been something of a banner year for Irish film, there cannot have been a year in which so many Irish films were made and/or found distribution. That onto itself is reason to celebrate, the fact that so many of the films have been of a very high standard across a wide variety of…
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Some Upcoming Screenings etc…
I’ve been very busy on projects recently and havent had time to update the blog much so I thought I’d just write a little bit of an update on some bits of news. KARA Kara is screening this week in Dun Laoghaire as part of the December event of the ongoing Underground Cinema screenings. The…
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On Our Way
Earlier this year, I finished the grade on a short “On Our Way” by Dublin based filmmaker Fergal Rock, who is now in the process of raising funds for its festival run. Fergal and its star Dorothy are friends of mine and I was happy to help out whatever way I could. Now its your…
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Some boys are making a short and the lads need a few bob
My good buddy Eamon Stack is raising funds over on fundit for a very exciting short film project he is working on..Stuama. http://vimeo.com/51994110 Here’s the press release… Stuama is a bi-lingual short film that follows David, a young man in his early twenties, who goes to spend time in the hills with the cantankerous Tadgh.…
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More Festival Fun
I love having stuff in festivals, theres a great buzz in knowing that a group of people someplace in the world are sitting down to watch this film that you spent do long working on and enjoying it (or not) and maybe are going away talking about it. I have two films screening this weekend.…
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Rewind TV3 9:00 Tonight
The feature film Rewind on which I was an editor on is screening tonight at 9 on Tv3. The film was nominated for 3 Ifta’s with Amy Huberman winning Best Actress in 2011 The film is a dark psychological thriller and stars Amy Huberman and Alan Leech. The film had its world premiere at the…
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Kara at Clones and Twisted Pepper
Kara, the short film I edited for director Traolach O’Murchu has two screenings today. The first is at The Twisted Pepper tonight at 8 as part of the Scared Shortless Night which is just one of the many events happening in Dublin as part of the Bodytonic Beatyard Festival. The film is also screening at…
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John Murphy – A Face for Radio
So yesterday afternoon, for the first time since my days on Blackboard Jungle in the mid-90’s I once again took to the National airwaves. I was very kindly asked by the good people on Newstalk Sports Sunday to take part in a panel discussion on Sports Documentary Films. For the last hour of the show,…
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