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Warts & All Wins Best Midwest Short Award at RHIFF 22

Posted: November 2, 2022 in Film, Film Festival
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Simon receiving the award for Best Midwest Short Film from Mayor of Limerick, Francis Foley

The success of the short film, Warts and All’, continued on Sunday night last, with it picking up the award for Best MidWest Short Film at the Richard Harris International Film Festival. There was stiff competition in this category, namely Wednesday Child, directed by Laura O’Shea, which had three nominations in total.

Warts and all editor, Simon McGuire, was present to accept the award on behalf of director Pat Shortt, writer Michelle Lehane and producer Lee Crowley. This award comes on the back of picking up the Best International Narrative Short Film Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California the previous week. The film will be continuing to screen at various festivals around the country and abroad, so keep an eye out for it in coming schedules.

In the mean time, check out the trailer below.

Pat Shortt’s Comedy Heads

Posted: October 23, 2021 in Cameras, Editing, Filming, live Event, Live Stream, post-production, Television
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Pat Shortt’s Comedy Heads

Released on October 30th, will be the brand new online programme, Pat Shortt’s Comedy Heads.

Produced by Short Comedy Theatre Company and Funded by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Pat Shortt has collaborated with Joe Rooney and The Dublin Comedy Improv Club to create an evening of comedy sketches and general madness.

Filming took place in the Moat Theatre, Naas as well as Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS, Limerick with Simon managing both the camera and editing departments.

Tickets for this special programme can be purchased from www.PatShortt.com

Faye & Pat Shortt discussing the edit with Simon recently.
Finishing touches to Pat Shortt’s Comedy Heads.

Killinaskully to be aired on RTÉ again

Posted: April 17, 2020 in Editing, post-production, Television
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Jimmy (Jack Walsh), Dan (Pat Shortt) and Timmy (Joe Rooney)

Killinaskully is to be aired again on RTÉ One, starting this weekend on Sunday 19th at 8pm, with the pilot episode from series one.

This was a great time of my career working with the cast and crew as Assistant Editor and then Editor on the later episodes.

Something to look forward to during the lockdown.

More Info soon.

 

Avid Media Composer 2019 under test

Posted: July 11, 2019 in Editing, Film, post-production, Technology
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So am taking the plunge and using Avid MC 2019 for the edit of the short film, Blood Brothers, I shot last week.

So far I’m not disappointed. The ingest, sync and binning went off without any problems. Content was all linked without codec issues and there were also no problems when it came to using the Autosync option for the sound.

Yes a few things are gone like the edit selection and trim tools from the Timeline window as well as the option for using the Caps Lock for scrubbing, however all of these are available in the command pallet and are an option for a button on the keyboard as well as the tool menus.

All the fast “burger” menus are gone but again those options are there if you right click the mouse in the bins, timeline or monitor windows.

As I progress through this short film I’ll post more on my experience of using the new Avid 2019 but in the mean time I’m happy with the interface changes.

More soon.

Blood Brothers – In Production

Posted: June 27, 2019 in Cameras, Editing, Film, Filming, post-production
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BLOOD BROTHERS

(Short Film)

A new short film, scripted by Meara Owen-Griffiths and story by Paul Boyle, has begun production this summer. With locations around Killaloe, Co. Clare, it’s directed by actor Paul Boyle, with Simon on camera.

The film will also be edited by Simon in July 2019 and will hopefully hitting the Irish film festival circuit later this year.

More Soon.

Shannon Consortium Regional Teaching Excellence Award 2018-19

Posted: May 7, 2019 in Education
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Simon McGuire, Creative Broadcast and Film Production, LIT with Prof. Eugene Wall, President MIC pictured recently at the Shannon Consortium Regional Teaching Excellence Awards held in Mary Immaculate College.
The Shannon Consortium, a collaborative alliance between UL, MIC, and LIT, aims to showcase and champion outstanding practice in higher education teaching from across the Shannon Region through the Shannon Consortium Regional Teaching Award process.
Pic. Brian Arthur

Delighted to have received an award today, for Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education. The awards ceremony took place at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.

Word of thanks to the Shannon Consortium and the advocates who helped all six shortlisted nominees in getting us across the line. Personal thanks goes to Dr. Martin Fitzgearld who guided me to this achievement.

A press release for the event is below:

The Shannon Consortium, a collaborative alliance between UL, MIC, and LIT, aims to showcase and champion outstanding practice in higher education teaching from across the Shannon Region through the Shannon Consortium Regional Teaching Award process.

Out of interested faculty from across the Consortium, six academics were ultimately shortlisted for this award.  Being short-listed for the Regional Award is a considerable achievement, as all shortlisted candidates were required to put themselves through the very rigorous process of compiling a detailed portfolio of evidence according to the agreed Shannon Consortium guidelines.  We are delighted to acknowledge the following short-listed candidates:

  • Dr Matthew Canon, Applied Social Sciences, LIT
  • Dr Tom Comyns, Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Education and Health Sciences, UL
  • Simon McGuire, Creative Broadcast and Film Production, LSAD.
  • Dr Muireann McMahon, School of Design, Science and Engineering, UL
  • Dr AnnMarie Ryan, Management and Marketing, Kemmy Business School, UL
  • Dr Fionnuala Tynan,  Reflective Pedagogy and Early Childhood Studies, Faculty of Education, MIC

The external panel met yesterday to consider the applications and decide on an overall winner of the award. The panel comprised Dr Rachael Carkett (University of Bath), Dr Martina Crehan (RCSI) and Dr Mark Glynn (DCU) with Dr Sharon Flynn (NUIG) chairing the meeting.  The Shannon Consortium is delighted to announce that the recipient of this year’s award is Dr Fionnuala Tynan. Huge congratulations to Fionnuala on this very significant achievement.

The award ceremony to acknowledge Fionnuala’s achievement, and the achievements of all of the short-listed candidates, takes place at 12 noon on 7th May in the Halla, Foundation Building in Mary Immaculate College.

Simon and Dr. Matthew Cannon with their awards. Also pictured are the Shannon Consortium representatives for LIT.

The Picture House Screening

Posted: April 23, 2019 in Film, live Event, post-production
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Radio Appearance

Both Director, David Burns and myself will be on Limerick Today, Wednesday morning (24th April) on Limerick’s Live 95FM to chat about this project in advance of the screening on Thursday 25th April at 7:30pm at LIT’s Millennium Theatre.

Press Release 

April 12th 2019

New film documentary on the history of Limerick cinemas

A new documentary film, ‘The Picture House’, will be screened in the Millennium Theatre in LIT at 7.30pm on Thursday 25th April.

Next to sport, cinema has always been Limerick’s main cultural pursuit.  Even today, without a city centre cinema, almost a million cinema tickets are sold in Limerick every year. 

The Picture House looks back at the glory days of the single screen city centre cinema and features archival footage and photographs of 10 of Limerick City Centre cinemas and the memories of former cinema workers and cinema-goers.  

The hour long film revisits the stories of the different cinemas such as the Savoy, Lyric and Tivoli, the 1953 Cinema workers strike, the censorious attitude of the local authority and the Church, and the slow and inevitable decline of the single screen cinema. 

The film was produced and directed by Dave Burns in association with Paul Lynam, Declan McLoughlin and Joe Coleman, filmed by Paul Lynam, Keith Bogue and Jim Pidgeon, edited by Simon McGuire and presented by Mike Finn.  Dave Burns is active in the planned redevelopment of the Royal Cinema in Cecil Street and in Fresh Film Festival.   

 

Trailer

https://vimeo.com/316371307

Director Bio

Dave Burns, former lecturer in computer science at UL, has made another documentary film on local history.  After completing ‘Kemmy’ – a look at Jim Kemmy’s life and work –  in 2017, Dave wanted to place on record some of the past glories of the city centre cinemas.   He has also driven the projected  redevelopment of the old Royal cinema as a four-screen studio cinema.  Dave also chairs the board of Fresh Film Festival, which showcases the works of under-18 film makers, nationally and internationally.

 

Grandmother’s Visit remembered

Posted: September 7, 2018 in Documentary, Editing, Filming, live Event
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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.

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, Television
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Limerick Post 4th August 2018

 

Da Vinci Resolve 14 Certification

Posted: May 17, 2018 in Editing
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First cert in Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 14 Completed.

After an intense three day course on DaVinci Resolve, delivered by Telegael’s colourist Scott E Smith, I have successfully passed the assessment. Just need to test drive the new colour-correction skills on a few projects over the summer.

 

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