Apr 05
Another Video from Cork, I’m just gonna keep making these till someone tells me to stop!
Learning a lot in the process..
May 25
WANTED: Short Film Scripts for the SIGNATURES and REALITY BITES Schemes
The deadlines for the Irish Film Board’s flagship short film scheme SIGNATURES and the short documentary scheme REALITY BITES have been announced. Applications will now be accepted until Friday, July 17th for Signature applications while Reality Bites applications will be accepted until Friday, August 7th.
SIGNATURES is a short film scheme for the making of live-action, fiction films that act as a proving-ground for Irish creative talents which aims to encourage strong, original storytelling, visual flair, and production values appropriate to the big screen.
The first round of Signatures shorts premiered last year at the Cork Film Festival and included Rory Bresnihan’s The Man Inside which won The Best European Short Film at the European Independent Film Festival earlier this year.
The scheme is an opportunity for producers, directors and writers to work in a professional environment that will allow them to further their experience.
REALITY BITES aims to encourage experimentation and a fresh approach to short non-fiction filmmaking. We are looking for something new in the use of the documentary form, whether the projects are journalistic or creative, observational or aesthetic, objective or personal.
The successful short films will premiere at the Corona Cork Film Festival next year.
May 09
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
Mar 16
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!
Mar 10
The Irish Film Board have announced the call for submissions for the next round of the Short Shorts scheme with a new deadline of Friday, May 8th, 2009. Successful short films will premiere at the Cork Film Festival in November.
Short Shorts funds up to seven, 3-5 minute films and aims to encourage the making of ultra short films. The scheme was modified last year so that the films have to conform to a particular genre each year.
The theme for this years short films, whether live action or animated is ‘Films with No Dialogue’. Not specifically meaning silent films, films where the soundtrack can contain anything except audible dialogue such as the Mr. Bean television series is a good example of this type of genre. By packaging the shorts together under this specific genre, this will allow the IFB to market the Short Shorts more effectively internationally.
Some recent shorts to be funded by the scheme include Declan Cassidy’s ‘Whatever Turns You On’ which picked up the Best Film awards at the Florence Film Festival in Italy and Filmstock Film Festival in Britain last November; ‘Atlantic’ directed by Conor Ferguson and starring Liam Cunningham which was released in cinemas nationwide in front of the feature film ‘32A’, a
nd the short horror film ‘Shapes’ by Alan Brennan, which was officially selected for the renowned Palm Springs International Film Festival 2008.