Ultan Courtney writes:
Last year you kindly posted my competition entry for a full scholarship to Vancouver Film School. I thought I might send back to you my final piece from the School’s 3D, Animation & Visual Effects Programme. It took over 6 months to plan, shoot and complete, after 6 months of preliminary training. Thanks for watching and for your support!
Fair play, in fairness.
Previously: One Part Caffeine
A short film by Diarmuid Hayes, who writes
Creativity Requires Courage is a semi-autobiographical film about an aspiring screenwriter on the hunt for inspiration. It makes use of a variety of editing and filming techniques to create a dream-like world.
I made it with my girlfriend and some friends while I was living in New York for a competition in Dublin. The rules of the competition stated the film had to be made in a month, and include a specific prop, character and line of dialogue (candle, ‘Andy Connolly’ and “Say that again”)….It’s also on tonight at the Lighthouse Cinema [Market Square, Smithfield, Dublin 7] at their Shorts night (screenings start at 8.30).
Andrew Holohan writes:
I am a writer director from Dublin and I wanted to share this music video. It is about dealing with loss and how hard it can be to bounce back from it. The tone of the video is melancholy but I wanted to try and capture the prevailing moods of such a situation. We also tried to capture Dublin in a beautiful light and show an inherent polarity in the world continuing on loud and brash even during someone’s moment of deepest grief….
Starring Sharon Crowley
Music: Here With Me – Susie Suh & Robot Koch (purchase here).
Sleepover.
Frustrated by a lack of sleep, due to her boyfriend’s constant fidgeting in bed, a woman suggests a plan which puts their normal adult relationship up against the values of a more innocent time…
Yikes.
A restless short by Cork-born filmmaker Emmet O’Brien (of A Novel Approach to Dating” fame) starring Dan Coughlan and Mary Pappin.
The Very Tiny Sketch Show.
By Writer/Director/actor Mark Cantan.
Who writes:
A new sketch for you, or rather a series of short sketches that I’ve called The Very Tiny Sketch Show. If enough people like it we’ll try and make a second episode. Who knows, maybe tiny sketches could be huge!…
Anyone?
Also starring: Luke Benson,, Aoife Moore, Kieran Roche, Camille Ross.
Ciarán writes:
Our short film Coda is now available. The film tells the story of a lost soul stumbles drunkenly through Dublin city. In a park, death finds him and shows him many things. It’s directed by Alan Holly and won at SXSW 2014 and shortlisted for an Oscar earlier this year.
The Shadow In The Darkness.
Filmmaker Keith Gordon writes:
Made over the course of a year, it tells the story of Joe Bollard who lost his sight over 75 years ago after an operation at the age of two. In the mid-1970s he became one of the first people in Ireland to be matched with a guide dog, an event which transformed his life. Shot in and around Joe’s hometown of Bray, Co Wicklow this is a rare insight into this most unique friendship between man and dog…
Mmf.
Previously: The Pigeon Man of Grafton Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpKyF-q9q2I&feature=youtu.be
A 50-second teaser for a three-minute must-watch saga of how to get your own show on RTÉ starring the very funny Alison Spittle and featuring comedy ‘nuggets’ and an Irish speaking horse.
The first morsel from RTÉ’s Comedy Bites, a new series of comedy shorts available on RTÉ Player and RTÉ Player International every Monday until June 15.
Watch in full here.
The multi-award winning Titanic-based short.
Shot on a Canon 550D!
Has arrived online.
Cork-born filmmaker Shaun O’ Connor writes:
Myself and writer/actor Tadhg Hickey came across an amazing untold Irish Titanic story and made a short film about it in a weekend for a total of €300.
It went on to screen and win awards at festivals all over the world, including DC Shorts, the biggest short film festival on the East Coast of the US, where it won the “Filmmakers’ Choice” award.
After a crazy few years on the festival circuit, we have just made the film available (above)
Since the the short we were selected as one of the winners of the RTE Storyland commission and created the series ‘(R)onanism‘. Anyways, thanks for your time & hope ye enjoy the short!
Reviews welcome below.
A ten minute preview of a timely LGBT documentary
As part of the final assignment for her TV and Film Production course in Galway Technical Institute, Ali Ganley chose to make a documentary to show a more personal side to the Yes Equality campaign for the marriage referendum.
She focused on two local musicians Katie O’Connor and Steven Sharpe (top).
This ten minute preview of #VoteYes was screened at Galway’s Little Cinema night in the Roisin Dubh last month and was “met with a heart-warming and enthusiastic response.”
But don’t take their word for it.
Full UNCUT documentary here
