Simon Filming ‘Granny’ and the Royal de Luxe for the short doc ‘One Giant Leap’
It has only been 4 years since she took her first steps in Limerick but it is still the most remembered weekend of the City of Culture 2014. It would be great to have the Royal de Luxe team back. Cheers again to Zeb Moore on giving his time back then for this short doc.
This week sees the arrival of the new first years to the Creative Broadcast & Film Production programme at Limerick Institute of Technology.
With the return of all the other students on Sept 10th, this year will see a huge increase in numbers. We look forward to greeting everyone and working with students on multiple academic and creative events such as the Richard Harris International Film Festival in October, the LIT Music Festival and the Student Showcase in spring 2019.
For future students thinking of joining the programme in 2019 then watch this space for info on forthcoming open days at LIT and other Creative Technology Events.
Its that time of year again and the Call for Entries for the 2018 Richard Harris International Film Festival is now CLOSED.
With an increase in interest again this year, work on the famous Live Awards Show is under way. As always the students and staff of the Creative Broadcast & Film Production programme at Limerick Institute of Technology will be putting together a great show for both the audience on the night and the world wide viewers of the live stream.
Keep an eye out on the festival website HERE as well as social media for further information in the coming weeks.
Until then…
S.
The awards show is a production of the Limerick Film Festival for the Richard Harris International Film Festival and produced by the staff and students of the Creative Broadcast & Film Production Programme at L.I.T.
Click the image below for more information on the Creative Broadcast & Film Production undergraduate programme.
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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.
Limerick Post 4th August 2018
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, 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
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 )
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.
