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Hello all,
We have been in production of a new local media video covering the events and festivals in Limerick City and County. The first of these videos (March 2011) has been recently uploaded to the website LIMERICK.ie and we would like to get some feed back from you.
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LIT Film Festival Logo
Best Camera – Forgiven
Best Lighting – Dear Air
Best Sound – Walsh
Best Editor – Alfred
Best Acting – Freebound
Best Script – He Waits
Best Director – Police Cops
Best Factual – Leslie Carter, Irish Muslim
Best Artistic – once upon a time in Siberia
Best Drama – Starstruck
Adjudicators Award – Tost Dorcha An Gheimhridh
Best Overall Film – In the Open
Well done to all film makers who entered the competition. Details of next years LIT Film Festival will be release soon.
Thank you to everyone who attended or helped out over the weeks events.
Simon.
Monday 11th – Belltable Arts Centre
Today saw the launch of events of the LIT Film Festival 2011 at the Belltable Arts Centre on O’Connell Street.
The Limerick Film Forum took place with a script reading of Dermott Petty’s (Dir) film, ‘Time Travel and the Leaving Cert’. With multiple cast members present, the audience were given an insight to how a script is rehearsed by a director and his cast. Dermott answered questions afterwards and stated that he hoped to get funding for the project and start production some time later this year.
Make sure you get to the Exhibition Day (Tuesday). Promises to be a great opportunity for budding film and video makers alike with workshops from Rory Gavin of Reelgood Facilities, Dublin and a Sony Workshop on HDV and XDCAM EX Cameras with also some brand new cameras direct from Sony HQ in London.
The programme of events was launch yesterday and there has been hugh interest in the festival. Out of 70 application forms, 45 films made it in. We would like to say a big thankyou to everyone who entered. The films are currently being judged and sorted in to the catagories:
Best Camera, Best Lighting, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Story, Best Acting, Best Director, Best Factual, Best Artistic, Best Drama, Special Adjudicators Award and Best Overall Film.
While we hope everyone gets a nomination in at least one catagory, some films may not reach the standard every category.
Screenings of the Films will be on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th April at the Millennium Theatre.
As for the awards night… its going to be a big one with the glammour and glitz and red carpet. We have set up a special ticketing system for the Friday night event (15th April) and you can avail of that here.
Here is a link to an episode of the Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM. The topic for this was the state of Irish Film making.
Production on the short film ‘Scumbag Millionaire’ has finished in the last week. A big thank you to all who were involved in either the acting, crew, setup or striking.
Post Production has been well underway with the original score for the film being composed by the team at Sarmar Studios in Co.Limerick.
The premiere viewing of the film will be on Thursday night, the 14th April at the Millennium Theatre, as part of the LIT Film Festival 2011.
More info soon.
The award winning film, The Pipe, will be showing on Tuesday 12th at the Millennium Theatre at the LIT Film Festival. (Time of Showing to be announced shortly)
Synopsis:
In a remote corner of the West of Ireland sits Broadhaven Bay. It is
the perfect picture postcard, where the high cliffs of Erris Head and
the Stags of Broadhaven stand sentry at the mouth of the bay against
the mighty Atlantic, as if protecting the delicate golden sands of
Glengad beach and the tiny village of Rossport, which nestles behind
the dunes. However, this peaceful tranquility belies the turmoil that
lies beneath, and the unique nature of the coastline which has
sustained generations of farmers and fishermen, has also delivered to
Shell Oil the perfect landfall for the Corrib Gas Pipeline.
In the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland, the rights
of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing
grounds, has come in direct conflict with one of the worlds most
powerful oil companies. When the citizens look to their state to
protect their rights, they find that the state has put Shell’s right
to lay a pipeline over their own.
The Pipe is a story of a community tragically divided, and how they
deal with a pipe that could bring economic prosperity or destruction
of a way of life shared for generations.
List of screenings (including Washington, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco):
http://www.thepipethefilm.com/main-sect/cinema-showings/
Simon McGuire 