Category: Movies
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Some Festival News
Last week TG4 aired the Ras Tailteain documentary and despite some technical issues with the first broadcast, everyone seemed to really like it and the feedback online was great. The doc went onto to play the Bicycle Film Festival in London last weekend where it played to a full house in London’s famous Barbican, which…
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The Dun Laoghaire Underground Film Festival Opens Today
The Dun Laoighaire Underground Film Festival kicks off today. This festival has grown from strength to strength and is really carving a niche for itself in the Irish Festival circuit. Great credit must go to its director Dave Byrne who is doing sterling work. Among the films playing at it is Kara. This is a…
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Busho Film Festival in Hungary
Last week my film “Bubble Chamber” which I made with Brooklyn composer PoN screened at the Busho Film festival in Budapest, Hungary. PoN flew in from the states and we had a great time over there, met with some wonderful people, saw some cracking shorts and walked all over what is a spectacular city. The…
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Herzog’s Birthday, watch his films
It’s Werner Herzog’s birthday today and I’m sure that someplace in Malibu ar whatever outpost of civilisation he is currently in, Werner is telling all within shouting distances that “Birthdays are an abomination”. In honour of the man, who is one of my great heroes and a true soldier for cinema, here is a bunch…
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King of The Travellers Variety review
King of the Travellers was reviewed in Variety yesterday and it was a fairly positive spin on the film. “King of the Travllers is a Gaelic Godfather” has poster quote written all over it. You can read the full review here Its pretty cool to see my name in the industry bible that is Variety.…
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High Street, Galway, July 8th 2002
Earlier this year I was rooting through some old tapes and came across this film I edited which I had forgotten about. It was made as part of a scheme in the 2002 Galway Film Fleadh where several crews went out and made a film in a few days during the duration of the festival.…
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Still tickets left for King Of The Travellers
Earlier this year I edited the feature film King of the Travellers and it is to have its world premiere next Saturday at 7:00 in the Town Hall Theatre as part of the Galway Film Fleadh. Tickets have been flying out the door and there is less then 30 remaining. So if you’d like to…
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How to make your own DCP
I came accross this video by Uk based Film maker Danny Lacey. He has a very interesting blog which charts his filmmaking adventures. He put together this piece about how to make your own Digital Cinema Package which is a really handy guide if you are working on a low budget film and can’t afford…
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New trailer for Derelict
Here is the first trailer for the forthcoming Feature film Derelict which I edited last February. Its directed and produced by Drogheda native Frank Kelly (read his blog here) and its a tense taut crime thriller. It should be out some time later this year. You can follow the film on facebook here
John Murphy 