A quick reminder that it’s just Four Days to go for the closing date for entries. All short films must arrive at the LIT Film Festival desk by end of business on Friday March 9th.
To note all entries must be accompanied by an application form (which is available on the Entry Form page.)
This year the special prizes are for the best short film from students of either 2nd Level or 3rd Level institutions. Sony Professional are sponsoring again and the prize details will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Entries from general public, independent and small production companies are also accepted and there will be details of prizes for this category also released in the coming weeks.
This years festival sees extra attention on young film makers and their ability to share their imagination on screen. There will be multiple opportunities to share ideas, listen to professionals, and sample the latest equipment available from top industry manufactures such as Sony Professional as well as Irish distributors including D&P Products.
More details will be released shortly.
Festival Director.
The new production by Matt Kelly Productions, ‘That’s Limerick’ is launched tonight by the Limerick Communications Office.
Experience some of the best attributes and experiences on offer in this excellently produced video to promote all that is great about Limerick City.
I was delighted to be of some help to Matt and Marion in its production. Well done to them!!
Local Heroes is an RTÉ-supported initiative focused on dealing with unemployment through local, citizen-lead initiatives.
The RTÉ TV series ‘Local Heroes – A Town Fights Back’ has shown Drogheda’s citizens coming together to jump-start their local economy and create jobs.
Their imaginative solutions to tackle unemployment, guided by experts, inspired us to create our own Limerick Local Heroes group.
There has been confirmation that Animo TV Production will have a team filming our town hall meeting in the Strand Hotel on Monday 30 Jan 2012 from 6pm
The same crew was involved in the filming and production of the RTE series ‘Local Heroes – A Town Fights Back‘ in Drogheda last year.
Our own local Red Paw Media, well known for productions like “Concy Ryan” and the Rubberbandits’ Horse Outside, who had already kindly agreed to support the Limerick Local Heroes initiative , will also be filming the event.
Every community needs its Local Heroes!
Written by Eleanor McSherry (Limerick Journalist and Writer) for the Film Ireland Website, is an article/interview about the exciting plans for the old Theatre Royal site in Limerick City. (See Picture INSET)
If this project goes ahead this will certainly create new openings and opportuinities for both the media student and local film maker alike. Limerick has a wide variety of talent in this sector and a hub like this will cerrainly help film makers get their projects seen.
Read the Full Article HERE.
Hi all
Here is episode 10 of Limerick Insider. Nice feeling that we are now in double digits for this programme. Here’s to the next ten!!!
Watch out for our team filming in around Limerick City and County in the coming months.
A new Limerick / Clare based business who specialise in professional, quality focused, custom printing have come on board as a Media Sponsor of the 3rd Annual LIT Film Festival. Celtic Prints offer customised printing, taking any image provided by their customers and printing it on any of the items found under their products page. (SEE LINK)
They cater for corporate customers, schools, pubs, clubs and businesses. Celtic Prints also love to cater for the individual, for a memorable piece for a loved one or a fun item for a stag or hen party. And much more.
Celtic Prints, print whatever you want, on whatever you want, whenever you want it.
We are delighted to have the lads from Celtic Prints on board as Media sponsors for the Film Festival and will be working closely with them on the design of the official merchandize, which will be available during the 3 day festival from April 26th to 28th 2012.
Sony Professional and D&P Products have come onboard as main sponsors for the 3rd LIT Film Festival 2012.
For Details Check out this link
For the latest episode of Limerick Insider, your monthly online video news for Limerick City and County, check out www.limerick.ie
This was taken from this SITE
“In a nod to the obvious, CNN announced yesterday that it was cutting its corps of cameramen.
Photographers, editors and other staffers in Atlanta, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Miami are being let go. In all, at least 50 positions are being eliminated. As many as 12 staffers in the Washington, DC bureau alone, four of whom are longtime photojournalists.
CNN Senior VP Jack Womack writes in a note to staff that the cuts come after a 3-year analysis of the company’s work processes.
Said Womack:
“We looked at the impact of user-generated content and social media, CNN iReporters and of course our affiliate contributions in breaking news. Consumer and pro-sumer technologies are simpler and more accessible. Small cameras are now high broadcast quality.”
Well, this is pretty inevitable.
When everyone and their brother has a video camera now… and when pretty much all of them are both HD and point and shoot, there isn’t a whoe lot to be said for investing $40-50K in a ‘broadcast quality’ camera, (whatever that now means) and some guy to drag it around.
It’s unfortunate for those who used to earn their living doing this, but it’s the natural consequence of the intersection of technology and economics. Farriers also are highly skilled, but there isn’t a whole of work for them these days.
The good side for former cameramen is that the demand for video, per se, is escalating at a phenomenal rate – but they have to deliver a finished product, not just the pictures.”
Simon McGuire 