Yes it’s raining; yes it’s freezing – but that won’t stop us celebrating the fact that this year’s Summer Issue of Film Ireland magazine is out now. As you can tell from the grooviest of covers, this issue is a scorcher. So wrap up warm, bring an umbrella and celebrate the start of an Irish [...]
Ronan Doyle caught up with John Boorman at the recent commemoration marking the 30th anniversary of ‘Excalibur’.
Lovely, hypnotic and moving – Film Ireland Editor Niamh Creely reviews Pat Collins’ Reel Art documentary ‘Tim Robinson: Connemara’ screened as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
The Chinese Film Festival kung fued it’s way onto Dublin screens on Friday with the opening-night screening of Bodyguards and Assassins, followed by a wine reception at the IFI.
The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival is held annually, from Thursday 26th May through to Sunday 29th, drawing an estimated 2,000 attendees and screening over 200 films. This year we challenge the notion of ‘what is a cinema’.
Brendan Muldowney’s debut feature ‘Savage’ picked up a Special Mention in the Méliès Competition at the recent Leeds International Film Festival
In this Film Ireland podcast recorded on Tuesday 21st September 2010 at the Light House Cinema, writer and filmmaker Jamie Hannigan chairs a Q&A with ‘Savage’ writer/director Brendan Muldowney and producer Conor Barry.
The feature film ‘Swansong, Story of Occi Byrne’, written and directed by Conor McDermottroe, goes on release in the Light House Cinema, Dublin and in select cinemas in the Sligo/Leitrim area from today Friday 10th September.
The Summer Issue’s fantastic features include an interview with Paul Fraser, the director of the Galway Film Fleadh’s opening film ‘My Brothers’, and, one year on from winning the Best Feature Award at the Galway Fleadh, director Ken Wardrop and producer Andrew Freedman talk sales agents and festival strategy about their acclaimed documentary ‘His & Hers’. Filmmaker Juanita Wilson tells us about her Oscar®-nominated short ‘The Door’ and her debut feature ‘As If I’m Not There’; plus you can Get Into Film with our Education Special as up-and-coming Irish film talent tell us about their college and what they learned there.
Paul Fraser talks to AMANDA SPENCER about his feature directorial debut, which opens this year’s Fleadh.
What do they do? VANESSA GILDEA talks to Macdara Kelleher, Martina Niland, Cathal Gaffney and John Murray to find out.
Ken Wardrop and Andrew Freedman talk to JAMIE HANNIGAN about their film ‘His and Hers’, one year on from its premiere.
Juanita Wilson talks to NIAMH CREELY about her Oscar®-nominated short ‘The Door’ and her debut feature ‘As If I’m Not There’.
‘Film Ireland’ gets some not-to-be-ignored script writing advice from leading story analyst James Bartlett.
In our Education Special, Charlene Lydon talks to some up-and-coming Irish talent about where they went to college and what they learned there.
Kim Longinotto tells Ross Whitaker about her unique approach and the difficult decisions she’s made whilst making her films.
Conor McMahon, creator of zombie flick ‘Dead Meat’ and the hilarious and devious ‘The Disturbed’, gives his guide to the world of low budget. With a few detours via Hollywood, this is Film Ireland, ‘grindhouse’ style.
Brian O’Toole, Paul Ward, Eoin Macken and Conor McMahon provide us with a detailed breakdown of where the spend went on their low budget films. We talk to big-budget production designer Ray Ball and to Graham Williams about production design when there’s less cash to splash. Visiting the Rat Cellar, the workshop of make-up and special effects expert Tom McInerney, was extremely impressive. We talked to him and fellow effects expert Terri Pinnell about mutilation, decapitation and zombification on a budget.
Concept artist Olwen Foy shares the journey from creature conception to film and looks at the contributions of fine artists like H.R. Giger to the film industry. Gary Shore, a Dun Laoghaire graduate incredibly skilled as both an artist and filmmaker, has successfully broken into Hollywood. We talk to him about how understanding green screen and visual effects as a director is a very good way to get attention from the Hollywood Studios. Vinny Murphy gives us some tips on directing actors, an area where a lot of film college graduates have little or no experience.
We also talked to Cillian Murphy about his new film, ‘Perrier’s Bounty’ and interviewed animator Jimmy Murakami (‘The Snowman’) about the new documentary that explores his experiences in a US concentration camp.
Finally, Film Ireland has introduced some new regular pages, with an equipment reviews page, the Filmireland.net page, an on-set reports page, a page dedicated to shorts and a page from the Screenwriters guild.
Low-budget can mean anything from a few hundred grand to small change and some pocket-lint. But no matter the size of your lump sum, what’s the smartest way to spend your money in low-budget filmmaking? Conor McMahon got some detailed budgets from directors Brian O’Toole, Paul Ward, Eoin Macken and himself…
For this article, Conor McMahon talked to big-budget production designer Ray Ball about why he loves being in charge and then interviewed Graham Williams about production design on a budget.
Concept artist Olwen Foy shares the journey from creature conception to film.
One morning, filmmaker Gary Shore woke up to discover his trailer ‘The Cup of Tears’ had earned him an invitation from Hollywood to make his own feature. Conor McMahon talked to Gary about living the dream.
Niamh Creely talks to Cillian Murphy about the art of acting and coming home to film ‘Perrier’s Bounty’.
The renowned animator of The Snowman revisits the American concentration camp in which he and his family were interned in this new documentary. Dermod Moore spoke to the director, Sé Merry Doyle, one of the producers, Vanessa Gildea, and to Murakami himself.
Filmbase’s Alan Coleman, a sound engineer for 13 years, gives us the low-down on this high-end audio mixer.
Ross Whitaker talks to Conor Horgan about his award-winning debut feature.
Alessandro Molatore reports from the set of ‘Parked’, a new feature starring Colm Meaney.
Clare Creely introduces the new screening space that’s about giving your shorts legs.
Andrew Legge tells us how the critics are failing us.
Please note, we are currently in the process of transferring information on our back issues to the new version of the Film Ireland website. In the meantime if you are looking for back issue information please check the Archive Pages on the old version of the Film Ireland website.
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