Category Archives: Film

toilet

It’s World Toilet Day. But you knew this.

As you celebrate today with family and friends – perhaps gathered together in song around the bowl, or exchanging small, warm gifts – do spare a thought for the real meaning of World Toilet Day.

As this short GE Focus Film directed last year by Jessica Wu explains:

For those without access to a simple toilet, poop can be poison. Businessman-turned-sanitation-superhero Jack Sim fights this oft-neglected crisis affecting 2.6 billion people…

(Thanks UCDScienceExpression et al)

westport

John Buckley writes:

Bit of a random trailer park one for ye. My buddy Neil Brazil has a trailer out for a new “movie” called Sea2Summit. Based on the torturous adventure race in Westport last weekend. ‘This winter, get ready to race’. Bressie and Rob Heffernan did the race too….there’s no footage of them, so we think they’re still on Croagh Patrick. Will make a good sequel…

Epic.

Cornerstone-no-text1-1024x436Dublin-based filmmaking/screen-acting/training resource house The Factory, supported by the Irish Film Board, has just announced Cornerstones – a new micro-budget funding initiative whatsit.

Five successful applicant teams will EACH get €5,000, loan of equipment, access to facilities, mentoring and a screening of the completed film before an invited audience of film industry types.

Apply here (for €50).

(Thanks Muireann)

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A Photoshopping prankster recently mocked up a version of the poster for Thor: The Dark World, replacing Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster with Tom Hiddleston’s Loki.

Fine.

Somehow though, the image has apparently been mistaken for the real thing by Chinese promoters, who are using it in theatres, perhaps innocently, perhaps not.

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kidneys

Editor Alan Capriles’ cut of a chilling documentary short about the village of Hokshe, Nepal, where local residents estimate that nearly 70 people out of roughly 300 have sold their kidneys to black market organ harvesters

Lured to India by the promise of cash, villagers are tricked into thinking their kidneys will regrow “like a mango in a tree.” Years later the money is gone, and so is their means of survival.

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