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 [...]
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 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.
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.
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.
The Winter Issue, guest edited by actor and filmmaker Hugh O’Conor, is out now. The sixth and final issue of 2009 has an exclusive interview with actor Ciarán Hinds (‘Rome’) and writer/director Conor McPherson (‘The Actors’) about their latest collaboration ‘The Eclipse’, as well as a fascinating article about moving from editing to directing by Mary Sweeney, long-time collaborator with David Lynch and editor of ‘Mulholland Dr.’ and ‘Lost Highway’, amongst others.
With a focus on acting, this issue answers the burning questions of aspiring stars in three separate features. In The Business of Acting we talk to the Gaiety School of Acting, actor’s agent Maureen McGlynn and casting directors Thyrza Ging and Maureen Hughes. Then in London Calling, we get an international perspective and talk to rising stars Aidan Turner (‘Desperate Romantics’), Andrew Scott (‘John Adams’), Eva Birthistle (‘Wake Wood’), Katie McGrath (‘Merlin’), Kerry Condon (‘Rome’), Peter McDonald (‘When Brendan Met Trudy’) and Ruth Negga (‘Personal Affairs’). And what’s this? Acting work you can bank on? Voicebank, an Irish agency for talented talkers, tells us all about it.
We also have a chat with The Irish Time’s film reviewer Donald Clarke about Irish film and what actors he currently has his eye on.
Finally, Storyland was a little-known but successful web series competition run by RTÉ. Film Ireland talks to the participants and the winners, who include the men behind the web sensation ‘Hardy Bucks’.
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Issue 130 – September/October 2009 – The Galway Issue, guest edited by Felim Mac Dermott.
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. [...]
The Bargain Issue! Guest edited by Ken Wardrop and Andrew Freedman
Nick Fraser on the current state of documentary filmmaking • Mint Productions on the Bertie documentary series • Pitching training event at the STF doc festival • Interview with documentary filmmaker Liz Mermin • Roundtable: The future of creative documentary • Pat Collins interview • Steve McQueen on Hunger • Gideon Koppel interview on Sleep Furiously • Loopline Film’s doc courses • A doctor for docs • Nino Troppiano on Chippers
Alan Parker’s handy tips on a career in film • Damien O’Donnell and short film form • John Boyne and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas • Michael Dwyer interviews Robert Redford • Donald Clarke interviews the organisers of Ireland’s three majors film festivals • Alan Moloney: The producer • The craft of film editing • Why are there so few female film critics? • George Morrison retrospective • John Carney editing his latest feature: Zonad
The art and the origin of the studio • 50 years of Ardmore Studios • TV vs Big Screen • How can Irish film find an audience: Creativity • Robert Walpole on finding and distributing a quality film • AGM of the Federation of European Film Directors • Martin Duffy and the cameraman’s three-legged best friend • Ruppert Wyatt on The Escapist • Cannes Film Festival 2008 • Of Best Intentions: it couldn’t have been done without a studio
Shimmy Marcus on self-distribution • Filmmakers and digital distribution • Ed Guiney and Audrey Sheils: Element Pictures’ distribution arm • Interview with Maretta Dillon and Neil Connolly about the new Light House • Thinking in 3D: Interview with Catherine Owens, co-director of U23D, and Tom Krueger, co-DOP of U23D • Declan Recks talks to Roddy Doyle, Pat McCabe and Eugene O’Brien about the art of adaptation • Making comic books into moving pictures • Vintage Irish movie posters • Supervisor sound editor Patrick Drummond remembers the digital revolution • Using the Genesis in Of Best Intentions
Irish cinema relationship with Hollywood • Interview with Tony Safford • Lost in Translation: the doubled-edged sword of Hiberno-English • The Irish film industry: roundtable with John Carney, David Collins, Martina Niland, Mark O’Halloran and Kirsten Sheridan • Irish cinema’s evolution of the genre film • Eugene O’Brien remembers the Westerns • How the economics has shaped the perception of national and international cinema • Interview with Simon Perry, CEO of the BSÉ/IFB, as the Board reaches its 15th year • An Irish director working in Hollywood: Kirsten Sheridan
An overview of how Irish cinema has dealt with the erotic • Homosexuality, Trauma and the Cosmopolitan Queer • All about shooting sex with Paddy Breathnach, Lenny Abrahamson and Colm McCarthy • Film Ireland’s Sex Survey • Irish Film Censor John Kelleher interview • The slippery question of Irish porn • Female Desire in Contemporary Irish Cinema • To do a sex scene or not to do a sex scene? Actor Pauline McLynn’s musings
Shrooms: Paddy Breathnach interview • The new IFB shorts schemes • Hammer Films: the little-known links between Hammer Films and Ireland • How About You: Anthony Byrne interview • Strength and Honour: Mark Mahon interview • Richard Attenborough on Closing the Ring • Caveh Zahedi interview • Mister Lonely: Harmony Korine interview
Garage: Lenny Abrahamson interview • The Irish-language screen renaissance plus interviews with Tom Collins and Robert Quinn • Abbas Kiarostami: A filmmaker who has pushed the boundaries of cinema • The Critic Is Dead… Have traditional reviewers lost their power to make or break a film? • …Long Live the Critic – The film critic still has a place in the world • On the set of Satellites & Meteorites • The Wild Card programme at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh
Transylvania: Tony Gatlif interview • Small Engine Repair : Niall Heery interview • John Cassavetes retrospective • Cannes Film Festival 2007 • Colin Downey and Ivan Kavanagh – a two-man New Wave in Irish Cinema • The methodology of teaching film in secondary schools • Divine Rapture – The whole story for the first time
Speed Dating: Writer/director Tony Herbert and actor Don Wycherley interview • This Is England: Shane Meadows’s career and Stephen Graham interview • The state of film production in Ireland: Is employment more important than telling stories? • Twenty indigenous films from the past two decades that have tried to present new or exciting work • The achievement of Irish film to date •The state of film production in Northern Ireland • First two catalystproject seminars report • Darklight ’07 Festival preview • Cannes: Inside the World’s Premier Film Festival • John Huston’s Beat the Devil • Italian Teen Movies •
Pier Paolo Pasolini retrospective • The Volta Myth
Getting to the heart of John Carney’s Once • Low-Budget Dystopia • catalystproject: a new scheme to produce low-budget films • A day on the set of Graham Cantwell’s Anton • Machinima: How to make films using computer software • Stunt co-ordinator Donal O’Farrell interview • Tom Fontana interview • Ireland and the Irish in early cinema • The work of David Lynch with an emphasis on sound.
The economics of the Irish Film Industry • Kelly Reichardt interview (Old Joy) • John Huston retrospective • Making films in the Irish language • Tribute to the eccentric genius Alastair Sim • Western Plumbers interview • The ‘Krasznahorkai Trilogy’ of Béla Tarr • Taiwanese Cinema in the 21st Century • Kerry Film Festival and Foyle Film Festival report.
Matthew Macfayden interview (Middletown) • Director Andrea Arnold interview (Red Road) • Online resources for filmmakers • The new home for indie film? • The net for the avid cinephile • Nobody Wants Your Film and low-budget filmmaking • A look at the ways in which established filmmakers use the web • The YouTube phenomenon • Promoting Cinema on the Web • Short film and the internet
David Gleeson interview (The Front Line) • 25th Anniversary of the first Irish Film Board • 50th Anniversary of The Searchers • Peter Bogdanovich interview • IFTN CEO Áine Moriarty interview • Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective • Forgotten British Cinema • The High School massacre in film • New short film column.
David Gleeson interview (The Front Line) • 25th Anniversary of the first Irish Film Board • 50th Anniversary of The Searchers • Peter Bogdanovich interview • IFTN CEO Áine Moriarty interview • Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective • Forgotten British Cinema • The High School massacre in film • New short film column.
Ken Loach and Paul Laverty interview (The Wind that Shakes the Barley) • Dylan Moran interview (Tell it to the Fishes) • Ardmore Sound: The importance of post-production sound • Commercial’s director Enda McCallion interview • The work of the locations department in Becoming Jane • The state of production in Northen Ireland • Practical guide to short film funding • Writer/director Terry George interview • 2006 Cannes Film Festival Report • Introduction to manga.
Can art and entertainment co-exist in the same work? • The making of John Boorman’s Excalibur • Art on screen, an overview of the forms art/cinema can take • Rose Lowder and Les Archives du Film Expérimental d’Avgnon • Carlo Montanaro interview (co-artistic director of the Asolo International Art Film Festival • Vivienne Dick’s retrospective • John Hurt interview • Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mièville’s Soft and Hard • Dominik Moll interview (Lemming) • Intervention Beef, a review of state intervention in film production.
Anthony Byrne interview (Short Order) • Paul Mercier’s interview (Studs) • The Dardenne Brothers interview (L’Enfant) • Brothers Jason and Jonathan Figgis interview (3Crosses) • History of Dublin Cinemas II • Cuba’s Potemkin: I am Cuba • Scoring Points: Composers’ Module at this year’s Filmmakers’ Lab • Robert Altman retrospective • Noveslist/screenwriter Deborah Moggach interview (Pride and Prejudice) • Dublin Int’l Film Festival report.
Neil Jordan interview (Breakfast on Pluto) • David Puttnam, Bernard Maclaverty and John Lynch on Cal • Exhibition Special: History of Dublin Cinemas I; Pete Walsh interview; access>CINEMA; 3epkano; Future Shorts; ‘Reel Parents’ screenings; Viral video clip; Present and future of cinema and DVD video; Dublin Cinemas: A Pictorial Selection book review
Perry Ogden interview (Pavee Lackeen) • Carlos Reygadas interview (Battle in Heaven) • New German Cinema (Head-On, Downfall and The Edukators) • East Asian Genre film • Ismaël Ferroukhi interview (Le Grand Voyage) • Richard Raskin interview (Cork Short Film Symposium) • Don’t Look in the Attic: interview with Andrew Harrison and Darryl Sloan • Creative Estructure in Screenwriting • Michael Powell retrospective • Doug Pray interview (Infamy).
Ciaran O’Connor interview (Capital Letters) • Stephen Bradley interview (Boy Eats Girl) • Pearse Elliott interview (The Mightly Celt) • Seamus Deasy interview • Cork Short Film Symposium • Greta Garbo retrospective • Galway Film Fleadh report • Contemporary Irish Cinema • On A Clear Day: interview with actors Peter Mullan and Sean McGinley and director Gaby Dellal.
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