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‘Sam Barry: Beyond The Baseline’ airs Thursday 9:30
http://vimeo.com/217471462 I was delighted to cut this doc for Craig Speer about the life of Sam Barry, one of Irelands leading Tennis players. In between testing each other on 90’s Manchester United trivia I think we managed to fashion a unique look at a side of professional sport most people can’t imagine. I’m delighted with…
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Crash and Burn wins at Celtic Media Award
Crash and Burn has picked up the Torc for Best Sports Documentary at the Celtic Media Awards held this year in Douglas on the Isle of Man. This is the second time a project I cut for producer David Burke and director Sean O’Cualain has won this award, we previously picked up the gong for…
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Mattress Men wins IFTA!!
Mattress Men bet out an incredibly strong field to win the George Morrison Award at the 2017 IFTA’s. This is a huge achievement and I’m delighted to have been part of it. I’m especially thrilled for Colm Quinn the director for whom this has taken up the best part of the last 3 years. Working…
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The Moderators
The Moderators is a short film I cut for Ciaran Cassidy with whom I worked on ‘The Last Days of Peter Bergmann’ and his co-director this time journalist Adrian Chen, a staff writer with The New Yorker and frequent contributor to a whole range of publications. The film premiered earlier this year at SXSW in…
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Poster for Photo City
For the last six months or so I’ve been beavering away on a film that I directed with Traolach Ó Murchú called ‘Photo City’. If you follow me on Facebook or any social media, you’ve probably heard me mention it more than once. Its the story of Rochester,NY and that city unique relationship to photography. Anyways the film…
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Reaction to Trial of The Century
I’ve been away the past week so I haven’t had an opportunity to blog about the fantastic reaction to last weeks screening of the TV3 drama series ‘Trial of the Century’. In fact my flight landed in Toronto just as the second episode finished airing back home in Ireland and I turned on my phone…
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Trailer Time
You wait ages for one and then 2 come along at the same time. Yesterday two separate projects that I’ve worked on ‘dropped’ teaser clips for their forthcoming release. This weekend sees the broadcast of TV3’s 1916 centrepiece ‘Trial of the Century’. I’ve had a tremendous time editing this series over the past couple of…
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Mattress Men to Premiere at HotDocs in Toronto
So yesterday it was announced that ‘Mattress Men’, the feature documentary I spent a large part of last year editing for director Colm Quinn will have its world premiere at North America’s largest documentary film festival, HotDocs. The film takes a peak behind the mattress telling the true story the man who made the legend…
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Weather Report on RTE2 at 11:30 tonight
There is an opportunity to catch my brother Paul’s short film ‘The Weather Report’ tonight on RTE2 at 11:30. The film has had a great run on the festival circuit appearing at over 50 festivals at home and abroad. Paul picked up a few awards at the Limerick Film Festival and Boston Irish Film Festival.…
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2015 and all that.
I have to say 2015 was a most enjoyable year. Professionally I may not have worked on the same volume of work as I did in 2014 but this year I had the luxury of working on longer form projects that more than made up for it. I also made the decision early on that…
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