Category: Back Issues Articles
Issue 132 – On set report – 'Parked' in Ireland’s Coldest Winter
Alessandro Molatore reports from the set of ‘Parked’, a new feature starring Colm Meaney.
Issue 132 – Get into Shorts with Shortspace @ Filmbase
Clare Creely introduces the new screening space that’s about giving your shorts legs.
Issue 132 – Film Critics and the Feel-good Genre
Andrew Legge tells us how the critics are failing us.
Issue 131 – Happily Ever After?
RTÉ’s Storyland competition was no fairytale: success required a huge amount of hard graft. However, for those willing to put in the effort, Storyland did grant some filmmaker wishes: recognition, networking opportunities and the golden egg – funding. Angela Nagle reports.
Issue 131 – Beyond the Cutting Room
Mary Sweeney, long-time editor and collaborator with David Lynch, talks about the transition to directing with her first feature ‘Baraboo’.
Issue 131 – A Haunted Look
Fresh from his Tribeca Best Actor win for ‘The Eclipse’, Ciarán was reunited with Conor for another collaboration: Conor’s new version of ‘The Birds’ at the Gate Theatre. Film Ireland’s guest editor caught up with them for the low down on the film.
Issue 131 – London Calling
Alright. You’ve had your big breaks: you were the back-end of the orange caterpillar in the latest Meteor ad and second punter from the left in the pub on ‘Fair City’. Nonetheless, it looks like the emerald isle will all too easily contain your talents. But what about our real rising stars? Does a talented actor have to leave Ireland in order to make it? Niamh Creely investigates…
Issue 131 – Business of Acting
How to get ahead in acting? Gordon Gaffney talks to the Gaiety School of Acting, actor’s agent Maureen McGlynn and casting directors Thyrza Ging and Maureen Hughes.
Issue 131 – Absolutely Critical
The professional film reviewer is critical of film but are they critical to film? David O Mahony talks to The Irish Times’ Donald Clarke.
Issue 131 – Work You Can Bank On
Adam Lacey chats to Voicebank, and Irish agency for talented talkers
Issue 131 – The Irish New Wave
Guest editor Hugh O’Conor revels in the current abundance of excellent Irish film.
Issue 130 – Reviewing Antichrist
Rod Stoneman on how, with the sensation caused by Lars von Trier’s latest effort, some critics have shifted the emphasis onto the reviewer and off the reviewed.
Issue 130 – Festival Tactics
When’s the right time to plan your festival strategy? Before you’ve even begun your film. Palm Springs Shortfest film curator and festival strategist Kathleen McInnis shares the secret to festival success.
Issue 130 – Draft and Polish
Christopher Hampton, Academy Award®-winning screenwriter, playwright and director gave a screenwriting masterclass at the Galway Film Fleadh this year. At the event, which was sponsored by Northern Irish Screen, Martin Daniel, Professor of Screenwriting at the University of Southern California and international script expert, talked to Hampton about his approach to writing screenplays.
Issue 130 – Think Tank
Irish DOP Robbie Ryan talks to Niamh Creely about Andrea Arnold’s second feature ‘Fish Tank’, which screened at Cannes and as the finale of the Galway Film Fleadh.
Issue 130 – When Christian met Charlotte
The screenwriter (Christian O’Reilly) & the sales agent (Charlotte Mickie). One dreams it up, the other tries to sell it – but they never usually meet; here’s what happens when they do. Screenwriter and script consultant Mary Kate O Flanagan reports.
Issue 130 – 360º Experience
Niamh Creely talks to Miriam Allen, the managing director of the Galway Film Fleadh, about how the festival does so much more than screen films.
Issue 130 – Living at the Edge, Working at the Centre
Galway Film Centre manager Declan Gibbons talks to a cross-section of people about working in the film and television sector in the West of Ireland.
Issue 130 – Galway Film Society Presents…
To celebrate the continued success of the Galway Film Society, Ireland’s longest running and largest film club, David O Mahony from access>CINEMA traces its history from humble beginnings to its current position as a champion of non-mainstream cinema in the West of Ireland.
Issue 130 – DV Devotee
Veteran filmmaker Jon Jost on his love for digital video and why he’ll never go back to film.
Issue 130 – Life on the Margins
Ross Whitaker talks to Conor McDermottroe about his debut feature ‘Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne’.
Issue 129 – Film Ireland – July/August 2009 (The Animation Issue)
The Animation Issue! Guest edited by Cathal Gaffney of Brown Bag Films Put your 3D glasses on to look at the cover! Plan 3D from Outer Space Don’t call it a gimmick. A new wave of animated features is using stereoscopic 3D to create sophisticated, fully immersive storytelling environments. Niall Kitson gives an in-depth report. [...]
Issue 129 – Plan 3D from Outer Space
Don’t call it a gimmick. A new wave of animated features is using stereoscopic 3D to create sophisticated, fully immersive storytelling environments. Niall Kitson gives an ‘in-depth’ report.
Issue 129 – Toy Stories
Lee Griffin of equipment vendor Eurotek, gives Niall Kitson a practical industry viewpoint on the future of 3D.
Issue 129 – Up, Up and Away
Film Ireland talks to Pete Docter, director and co-screenwriter of Disney•Pixar’s first 3D animation ‘UP’.
Issue 129 – ANIMATION REALITY CHECK
Steve Woods finds out that new technology oiled by good ideas keep the wheels of the animation industry turning over.
Issue 129 – We'll be right back after this commercial break
Traditional Irish advertising agencies and marketing departments have some facing up to the future to do. But the time is now, contends Nick McGivney.
