Issue 131 – Work You Can Bank On
Adam Lacey chats to Voicebank, and Irish agency for talented talkers
Category: Back Issues Articles
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.
Issue 129 – State of the Animation Nation
Jamie Hannigan talks to producer and founder of Magma Films Ralph Christians about the challenges of working in Ireland.
Issue 129 – Child's Play
It may not be easy, but merchandising and licensing can make childrenís entertainment big business. Alan Gregg tells us how.
Issue 129 – Frameworks Works
Jennie McGinn on the continued success of the Irish Film Board’s animated shorts scheme.
Issue 129 – Rigging it
Ever wondered what a ‘creature technical director’ gets up to on a daily basis? Greg Maguire of Industrial Light & Magic (the visual effects company founded by George Lucas) gives us a day in the life.
Issue 129 – A Foot in the Door
Scott Townsend takes a look at how the right college course can offer a career path into the animation industry.
Issue 129 – A useful website guide for animation
Richard Keane gives us the tour. This interweb lark is definitely going to catch on, so we decided to include some of the more popular websites that you’re likely to find saved on an animator’s web browser. No doubt there are lots of important sites that didn’t make the list, so if you think we [...]
Issue 129 – From Concept to Completion (Comic Strip)
Film Ireland asked the talented character designers and storyboard artists of The Station (www.thestation.ie) to outline the animation process from ‘concept to completion’. For health and safety reasons, we had to delete the panels that showed the poor, frustrated producer banging his head against the wall as he tried to finance the animation, but the [...]
Issue 129 – Short Is Sweet, Feature Is Sweeter
Ross Whitaker talks to Ken Wardrop about his new documentary feature ‘His and Hers’.
