Hello Again !!

This year has certainly been a difficult one, especially for film. Recession, depression doom and gloom have dominated. In Cork however the trend was bucked and a great selection of top quality shorts were made.

The standard in the Made in Cork Section of the Cork Film Festival was very high this year, and a number of egomotion members had films screened in it. A number of filmmakers with equally good films missed out though. For that reason we decided a screening night should be held, to celebrate the quality , talent and diversity of Cork films.
That night is the 19th of December, the venue is the Pavilion (Corks oldest cinema and now an excellent night venue) the programme includes:
Mr Blue Sky Flash Mob,
Breakfast,
The Tunnel,
Kissing Rachel,
The Park,
Weekend Warriors,
and many more!
The time is 7.30. The cost is €5. The craic will be mighty and the club after is free for all who attend the screening. It has to be over 18’s though, because it’s a bar and because some of the films might not be suitable for younger viewers.

We hope to see as many of you as possible for this one, it’s Christmas, and it’s going to be a cracker. If you don’t make it though, Happy Christmas and a prosperous New year, and hopefully we’ll see you at the next one.

A British zombie film made for just £45 is to be released in cinemas across the country after finding a distributor.

Marc Price has reason to smile after signing cinema deal

The flick, entitled Colin, was recorded on a camcorder and shot in Wales and London over 18 months by amateur filmmaker Marc Price.

It has now been snapped up Kaleidoscope Entertainment and is due to hit the big screen in time for Halloween.

The 97 minute film received much praise when it was shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival which no doubt helped to land the deal.

Colin puts a different spin on the zombie genre by telling the story from the viewpoint of one of the undead.

It shows him trying to understand what has happened to him in contrast to similar films which focus on humans trying to escape from the zombies.

Price, 30, wrote, filmed and produced the horror flick by persuading actors and make-up artists to take part for free.

The filmmaker, who edited Colin while working for a courier firm in London, could not believe it got signed up.

“The whole thing is just insane, If you’d told me the film was going to get released in the cinema when we first started on the project I just wouldn’t have believed it. “I really thought it was a joke when I was told.”

“I hope that this will encourage others to go out with the video cameras and make films. It just goes to show you don’t need thousands and thousands of pounds to make a film.”

Actor Alastair Kirton plays the lead character who is bitten by a zombie, dies and is resurrected as one of the flesh-eating un-dead.

It will then be released in London and major cities across the UK but I dunno about Ireland release yet?

It’s been a long time coming but we’ve finally managed to get off our backsides and hold a screening night! With a selection of private first time screenings including…

Tom
by Fiona O’Riordan

Séan Le Sléan
By Sean Breathnach

65
By Mark cogan

Hatch
by Damien McCarthy

Bottle
By Fiona O’Riordan, Gemma McCarthy, Hayret Abdula and James Sullivan

Driving Test
By Sean Breathnach

and

Pork Pies
by  Daniel O’Connell

The Screening Takes Place at 7.30pm sharp on Tuesday 26th May at The Triskel Arts Centre Tickets can be purchased on the night for €5. Cover charge will cover cost of the room.   There should be a good crowd there and I know lots of people have projects they would like to discuss with fellow filmmakers.

Directors will be there on the night to take any questions.

UPDATE NOTE: Tickets are Limited to 90 seats and I’ve already been asked to reserve 40 so if you want to make sure you get a ticket and not be disappointed on the night you can reserve them by sending me an email to
dan@egomotion.net

On the 24th of March The Short (27min) version of Rock with your Cork Out will be screened in the Rory Gallagher theatre in CIT as part of the events that evening kicking off at 6pm

UPDATE:

For bands and musicians in Cork, we have a special screening of this acclaimed documentary, followed by a music industry discussion with some of the leading names in the business.

Presented by CIT Music Society supported by ArtsFest.

Special guests will include:

Donal Gallagher : Strange Music

Maurice Byrne : Sony BMG

Ashley Keating : The Frank and Walters

book tickets here (free):

http://www.artsfest.ie/index.cfm/page/viewEvent/id/10

For all of those budding filmmakers that applied to storyland for funding this year and got knocked back, you can now see the shorts that got through and vote.

Many egomotion members had submitted ideas to storyland, which is a pilot web-isode scheme run by RTE, some went on to the next round some got knocked back straight away.  It might be interesting to see which films did get the funding so here is a list of all the ones that did…

The ten finalist to have their episodes aired are; ‘Morbid & Sons’ (Moocow Productions); ‘Jenny Was a Friend of Mine’ (Sreenworks); ‘Hardy Bucks’ (Hardy Productions); ‘Happyslapper’ (Screenworks); ‘Sullybags’ (Vico Films); ‘Chez Spuds’ (Igloo Films); ‘Psych Ward (Blinder Films); ‘What Does Joe Know?’ (Fastnet Films); ‘Rental Boys’ (Mixed Bag Media) and ‘Running Low’ (Happy Endings Productions).

Voting opens today at :www.rte.ie/storyland/

Its great to be bitter! Why not give it a go today!