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The Story of Looking – LIVE EVENT
Posted: August 13, 2018 in Documentary, Film, live EventTags: Declan McGrath, Galway, Galway Film Centre, Mark Cousins, Portershed, The Story of Looking
2018 Radharc Awards
Posted: August 7, 2018 in Documentary, Education, Film, FilmingTags: limerick, Limerick Institute Of Technology, Radharc Awards, Students
Radharc is very pleased to announce the Call for Entries to the Radharc Awards 2018.
The Awards event will take place on Friday 26th October in the Talbot Stillorgan Hotel Mount Merrion County Dublin.
The Radharc Awards seek to celebrate excellence in documentary filmmaking and to acknowledge films of outstanding quality in the spirit of Radharc.
The Radharc Awards were established in 2002 to honour the memory of Fr Joe Dunn and Radharc’s achievements in religious affairs programmes for Irish television from 1962 to 1997, and to encourage similar quality documentary production amongst filmmakers in Ireland today.
Awards are presented every two years to the producers of documentaries for Television and Digital Media which are of outstanding quality and that address national or international topics of social justice, history, morality and faith.
The producer of the winning production for Television will receive the bronze Radharc trophy.
The winner of the documentary for Digital Media will receive a signed decorative scroll. Further decorative scrolls may be awarded for productions that are highly commended
Category One: An award for documentaries broadcast in the qualifying period on any free to air channel on the island of Ireland.
Category Two: An award for non-broadcast documentaries produced during the same period for digital media.
It is this category (2) that should interest to third level students which is for non- televised films in the ethos of Radharc films of old and which can be of any length from 5 minutes upwards.
Plans a-foot for 6th Richard Harris International Film Festival 2018
Posted: August 2, 2018 in Cameras, Documentary, Editing, Education, Film, Filming, live Event, media, Music Video, Technology, TelevisionTags: Limerick City and County Council, Limerick Film Festival, Limerick Institute Of Technology, Limerick Post, Limerick.ie, Richard Harris Film Festival, Rob Gill, Silvia Moore, simon mcguire, Zeb moore
Limerick Post 4th August 2018
The Picture House
Posted: July 22, 2018 in Documentary, Editing, FilmTags: cinema, Editing, limerick, The Picture House
The Story of Limerick’s Cinemas
Following the first documentary Kemmy (2017) (on the late Limerick Politician Jim Kemmy), comes David Burns’ second factual feature, ‘The Picture House‘. This hour long film documentary tells the story of the glory days of Limerick’s one-screen cinemas until their demise in the late 1980s.
We see how the cinema screen was, and is, the biggest cultural outlet for Limerick people, and look at the various venues that thrived in and around the City Centre. We get the idea of how most theatres mainly screened films but also mounted variety shows, concerts, operas, plays, and talent shows.
The documentary has three main threads:
• The main cinemas, the films, shows and their market. How the venues came and went.
• The people who worked in the cinemas, from manager to page boy. Their struggle for a proper wage.
• The cinema-going public and their stories.The attitudes of the authorities – mainly the Church.
At its height in the sixties, Limerick had seven or eight cinemas of various standards, and the documentary looks at them with regard to their history, and their impact on Limerick’s cultural social and economic life. We see the slow demise of the city centre cinemas due to neglect, competition from television and VHS, and the rise of the profitable suburban multiplex.
The documentary uses a presenter to tour the main cinemas. At each venue, we get a potted history of the cinema, together with photographs and adverts from the Leader, background material –reminiscences from the staff who worked there, stories about the behaviour of the clientele, the kind of films that were shown together with film posters and snatches of music, the controversies which arose, and reminiscences from patrons.
The Picture House seeks to give an overarching flavour of the history of Cinema from the first cinema in La Ciotat in 1899, the advent of talking pictures, colour, the evolution of digital cinema and the return of the city centre cinema in the 21stCentury.
Simon is on board as Editor again and post production will take place over the summer of 2018 with a projected release in the Autumn.
Raise The Roof – Teaser Trailer
Posted: July 15, 2018 in Documentary, Editing, Film, FilmingTags: Limerick Boat Club, Raise the roof
Raise the Roof, details the history and culture of rowing in Limerick. In 2014 Ireland experienced storm Darwin and Limerick Boat Club endured a devastating setback when their club house roof was ripped off in the high winds. During the course of the documentary audiences will learn about the strong spirit of the Limerick rowing community and the challenging journey to raise the funds to get the new roof.
Raise the Roof is a documentary presently in production in Ireland.
For more information on Limerick Boat Club,
Visit: limerickboatclub.com
Credits for Documentary:
Contributors (to date):
Limerick Boat Club: Hannah Fitch
Limerick Boat Club: Tony Tyne
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Projected Release Date: May 2019
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Crew:
Aerial Cinematography: James Long
Editor: Simon McGuire
Director: Mark Griffin
Behind the Scenes Camera Crew:
Camera Operator: Adam Ahern
Camera Operator: Paul Shanagher
Licensing agreements
Storyful / [Damien Carton] Limerick boat club roof blown off
D3 Fundamental & Advanced Training Course
Posted: July 12, 2018 in Education, Film, Filming, TechnologyTags: Screen training Ireland, Training, Troy studios
Screen Training Ireland are delighted to partner with High Res in association with disguise to host the first ‘D3 Fundamental & Advanced Training Course’ in Ireland, which will take place in Dublin at the end of July. The course will be led by Chris Simcock, an official D3 disguise trainer, who has tailored this course to suit the demands of the current film & television industry.
D3 is a state of the art media server. It is one of the first servers to have the capability to output 10 bit processing depth and is quickly becoming the primary media server platform for live and broadcast environments. The D3’s cutting edge technology can manage and synchronise a variety of different output sources, from LED screens, to projection systems, as well as tracking realtime data from systems like scenery motion control, making it a powerful collaborative tool in helping creative production teams realise their vision.
The course will run over 3 days from Tuesday 24th to Thursday the 26th of July 2018.
Image: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the 3D wall on the set of NIGHTFLYERS.
(Post as per Screen Training Ireland link. HERE )
Lomax In Éirinn Screening
Posted: July 12, 2018 in Documentary, FilmTags: Declan McGrath, Galway Film Fleadh 2018, Lomax In Éirinn
Attended the premiere screening of Declan McGrath’s documentary, ‘Lomax In Éirinn’ at the Pálás Screen 1, Galway Film Fleadh.
Great Film and well done to Declan and all the crew on a fantastic Documentary.
It will have a broadcast screening on September 15th 2018 on TG4.
Highly recommend.
30th Galway Film Fleadh Programme Released
Posted: June 29, 2018 in Documentary, Film, Filming, live Event, media, TechnologyTags: Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney, Element Pictures, Galway Film Fleadh, Galway Film Fleadh 2018, Marisa Tomei, Vanessa Redgrave
Celebrating its 30th year the Galway Film Fleadh for 2018 promises to be jammed packed of features and shorts. As well as this there are special guests including; Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures, and actresses Marisa Tomei, and Vanessa Redgrave.
For the full programme in PDF format click the picture of the cover below.
Audio Visual Action Plan Released for Ireland
Posted: June 27, 2018 in Film, Television, UncategorizedTags: Audio visual Action Plan, Irish Film Industry, Scannain.com, Screen Ireland
(As per Scannain.com)
The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan T.D. today launched her Department’s €200m Audio-visual Action Plan. The industry-wide, long-term plan, under the Creative Ireland Programme, will support the Government’s ambition to enable Ireland to become a global hub for the production of Film, TV drama and animation.
The key points in the Plan include:
• Consider extending Section 481 tax relief, as well as increasing the expenditure ceiling, revising the regulations and extending the relief to Ireland’s games sector.
• A review by Screen Ireland of funding models for other countries’ film agencies.
• Increased capital funding for the film sector including co-production and development funding, a specific fund for the development of films and TV drama, a fund for new Irish TV drama, a regional production fund and additional training of film workers and crew.
• Increased business skills development, matching of skills with production growth and partnering with third level institutions in skills development.
• Increased marketing measures including measures to attract major computer games studios to Ireland.
• A steering group will prioritise measures, oversee implementation and monitor risks, reporting regularly to Minister Madigan.
The Audiovisual Action Plan is underpinned by an Economic Assessment of the Audio-Visual Industry in Ireland carried out by international consultants Olsberg SPI with Nordicity on behalf of the Departments of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Communications, Climate Action and Environment and Business, Enterprise and Innovation. As well as measuring the size and impact of the industry, the consultants identified a range of key strategic recommendations which would assist the future development and growth of the audiovisual sector in Ireland.
The consultants concluded that with the implementation of their policy recommendations, Ireland’s “film, television and animation” sector could in a period of five years, double employment to over 24,000 full-time equivalents and a gross value added of nearly €1.4 billion.
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland (FÉ/SI) welcomes today’s publication by the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan T.D. of a €200m Audiovisual Action Plan. The industry-wide, long-term plan, under the Creative Ireland Programme, will support the Government’s ambition to enable Ireland to become a global hub for the production of Film, TV drama and animation.
For the rest see the link HERE or to download the report HERE
The Picture House
Posted: June 24, 2018 in Documentary, Editing, UncategorizedTags: David Burns, Limerick Cinemas, The Picture House, The Royal
The Story of Limerick’s Cinemas
Director David Burns outside the Royal Theatre, Limerick.
Following the first documentary Kemmy (2017) (on the late Limerick Politician Jim Kemmy), comes David Burns’ second factual feature, ‘The Picture House‘. This hour long film documentary tells the story of the glory days of Limerick’s one-screen cinemas until their demise in the late 1980s.
We see how the cinema screen was, and is, the biggest cultural outlet for Limerick people, and look at the various venues that thrived in and around the City Centre. We get the idea of how most theatres mainly screened films but also mounted variety shows, concerts, operas, plays, and talent shows.
The documentary has three main threads:
- The main cinemas, the films, shows and their market. How the venues came and went.
- The people who worked in the cinemas, from manager to page boy. Their struggle for a proper wage.
- The cinema-going public and their stories.The attitudes of the authorities – mainly the Church.
At its height in the sixties, Limerick had seven or eight cinemas of various standards, and the documentary looks at them with regard to their history, and their impact on Limerick’s cultural social and economic life. We see the slow demise of the city centre cinemas due to neglect, competition from television and VHS, and the rise of the profitable suburban multiplex.
The documentary uses a presenter to tour the main cinemas. At each venue, we get a potted history of the cinema, together with photographs and adverts from the Leader, background material –reminiscences from the staff who worked there, stories about the behaviour of the clientele, the kind of films that were shown together with film posters and snatches of music, the controversies which arose, and reminiscences from patrons.
The Picture House seeks to give an overarching flavour of the history of Cinema from the first cinema in La Ciotat in 1899, the advent of talking pictures, colour, the evolution of digital cinema and the return of the city centre cinema in the 21stCentury.
Simon is on board as Editor again and post production will take place over the summer of 2018 with a projected release in Autumn 2018.
