by Dan | May 9, 2009 | Announcements, Screening
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
by Dan | Apr 25, 2009 | Announcements
It’s Empire Magazine’s 20th anniversary.
Empire magazine is probably the most popular film related magazine worldwide. One which I definately cannot go the month without. On sale from today is the 20th Anniverary edition, packed fulll of features, but most amazing of all is that Steven Spielberg himself is taking it over for the special edition as a guest Editor.
I personally can’t wait to get my hands on a copy…
Dan.
by Dan | Apr 6, 2009 | Announcements, Festivals
It’s been a while since there was a Cork filmmaking event… Ever since the Kommando 24 hour contest ended, Thanks to Mutant Space and the Cork Mid Summer Festival there is one coming to town!
Details are outlined below:
Brief:
We’re inviting groups of people to get together and create their own short films.
This is not a competition but an opportunity for participants to make their own short film [10 – 15min] and show it in Cork during the Cork Midsummer Festival and in other venues around Ireland as part of our touring mutantspace.ie festival.
The showcase will have a theme which will be announced online on Saturday 13th June to ensure everyone has the same amount of time in which to produce their work. Film makers will have a week to make their short after which we will screen the shorts in various locations around the city. The work can then be changed and mutated before the next screening
All resources of mutantspace.ie can be used for shorts and we will be working hard to ensure that this project gets as much exposure as possible
If you’re interested in getting involved please email admin@mutantspace.ie for details
Deadline for inclusion in the project is Friday 29th May
Please note all participants have to provide their own equipment
Venue: TBC, Cork
Date: Monday 22nd June – Friday 26th June
Time: TBC
Tickets: TBC
by egosean | Mar 19, 2009 | Announcements, Documentary, Screening
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
by Dan | Mar 18, 2009 | Announcements
Reports around the web at the moment have rumoured that Apple is planning to release an update to their Final Cut Studio professional video editing package in late April, around the time of the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas.
Lets keep our fingers crossed then…
Final Cut Pro is a favourite amongst independent and low budget film-makers, as it takes advantage of non linear editing and capturing of Digital video and is relatively cheap. But it might interest all of us independent film-makers to know that the same exact tools we are using to edit our short films and documentaries were used to edit the following well known films…
* The Rules of Attraction (2002)
* Full Frontal (2002)
* The Ring (2002)
* Cold Mountain (2003) (Academy Award nominee for Best Editing – Walter Murch)
* Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
* Open Water (film) (2003)
* Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
* The Ladykillers (2004)
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
* Super Size Me (2004)
* Corpse Bride (2005)
* Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
* Happy Endings (2005)
* Ellie Parker (2005)
* Jarhead (2005)
* Little Manhattan (2005)
* Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
* The Ring Two (2005)
* Black Snake Moan (2006)
* Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
* Happy Feet (2006)
* Zodiac (2007)
* The Simpsons Movie (2007)
* No Country for Old Men (2007) (Academy Award nominee for Best Editing – Roderick Jaynes) (Academy Award winner – Best Picture)
* Reign Over Me (2007)
* Youth Without Youth (2007)
* Balls of Fury (2007)
* “The Tracey Fragments” (2008)
* Burn After Reading (2008)
* The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
* Karf in HD [6] (2008)
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
* Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
by Dan | Mar 16, 2009 | Announcements, Documentary
Rock with your Cork out, the feature length documentary about the Cork Rock Scene goes on sale today at Plugd Records.
Price: €15
The southern enclave of Ireland has long had the reputation for rebelliousness and when it comes to music we hate to disappoint. This happy band of rockers dedicate themselves to music with scant regard for trends, haircuts or market demographics. Despite tough times they’ve managed to create a scene where there is now a thirst for live music, an audience for diversity and, in a world where it’s all been done before, a fierce desire to hear something new, something real.
ROCK WITH YOUR CORK OUT includes live gig
footage and interviews with the people who make the scene happen including Stanley Super 800, Snowman, Exit the Street, Anacrusis, Hope is Noise, Fred, Neon Flea Circus, The Frank and Walters, Fight Like Apes and many more.
This film is a must for anyone with an interest in New Irish Music or indeed any musician with hopes of being heard. This is the story of facing insurmountable odds and doing it anyway.
For those of you about to Rock…
We Salute You!
