Tag: documentary
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Analogue People in a Digital Age
Twopair Films based in Crusheen, Co. Clare are to premiere their short film ANALOGUE PEOPLE IN A DIGITAL AGE at the Stranger than Fiction Documentary festival on the 28th September in the IFI, Dublin. Directed by Keith Walsh and produced by Jill Beardsworth, the 13 minute film is set in Johnny Walsh’s pub in…
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Men At Lunch Opens this week in NYC
Men at Lunch directed by Sean O’Cualain opens this week in New York as part of the films US Theatrical run. The film was edited with great skill by Dathai Connaughton and shot in spectacular fashion by Ray MacDonnacha. I was privileged to be asked to do some additional editing for the US Cinema version.…
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Stranger than Fiction Lineup is deadly!
The documentary film festival IFI Stranger than Fiction returns at the end of the month. I’m delighted that a film I cut “The Last Days of Peter Bergmann” will have its world premiere at the event. The film, directed by Ciaran Cassidy and produced by Morgan Bushe for Fastnet Films is showing as part of…
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When Ali Came to Ireland Tonight @10 RTE1
The IFTA winning documentary “When Ali Came to Ireland” is repeated tonight on RTE 1 at ten bells. It was made by Ross Whitaker and Aideen O’Sullivan of True Films and edited by my good self. The film centres on the 1972 fight, in Croke Park, between Ali and the American challenger Al “Blue” Lewis,…
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Ras Tailteann Doc Airs Tonight TG4 9:30
A documentary I edited on the colourful history of the Ras Tailteann cycling race is to broadcast tonight on TG4 at 9:30. You may have heard the lads on Off The Ball discuss it on last nights show where they gave it an enthuastic thumbs up. the film was produced by David Burke of Dot…
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What I worked on this summer…
This is the documentary I was working on over the summer in the states. I was brought on to do some additional editing. The film, “9/11 The Days After” was made by New Animal Productions, who won an Emmy as well as a host of other awards for the film “102 Minutes that changed America”…
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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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About Bloody Time To Be Fair…
I’ve managed to drag myself from my bed to do some work. Its only taken me like 10 years but now that I’m enjoying some time off abroad I have finally gotten round to putting a showreel together. It’s something I’ve always meant to do but getting everything together in the one place can be…
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Mobs Cheanada preview from the Indo
UPDATE: Watch clips from the series here This is the text of an article that appeared in The Irish Independent two months ago now about the series “Mobs Cheanada” which was about to start at the time. They were the bank robbers, drug barons, gangsters and murderers whose crimes formed the dark side of the…
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