Horrorthon 2009

The program for this years Horrorthon has been announced.

I'm personally very excited about seeing Romero's classic and the TRUE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE DEAD TRILOGY* Day of the Dead on the big screen. And what's more, Joseph Pilato will also be in attendance! He also had a small role in Dawn of the Dead fact fans.

Horrorthon Film Festival
22nd - 26th October 2009 at the IFI cinema, Eustace St, Dublin 2

JENNIFER'S BODY (US, 2009)
TRICK 'R TREAT (US, 2008)
THE DISTURBED (Ireland, 2009) + Q&A with director Conor McMahon
GRACE (US, 2009)
BLACK DYNAMITE (US, 2009)
THE SINFUL DWARF (Denmark, 1973)
EMANUELLE AND THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE (Italy, 1978)
DAY OF THE DEAD (US, 1985) + guest, actor Joe Pilato
ZONE OF THE DEAD (Serbia, 2009) + guest, actor Ken Foree
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (US, 2009)
CONTAMINATION (Italy, 1980)
RESURRECTING THE STREET WALKER (UK, 2009)
THE HILLS RUN RED (US, 2009)
AT MIDNIGHT I WILL TAKE YOUR SOUL (Brazil, 1964)
TONY (UK, 2009)
BLACK (France, 2008)
SURPRISE FILM
THE UNDYING (US, 2009) + guest, director Steven Peros
SAMURAI COP (US, 1989)
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (US, 1984)
NIGHTMARES IN RED, WHITE & BLUE (US, 2009)
BEYOND THE DOOR (Italy, 1974)
SALVAGE (UK, 2008)
THE HORSEMAN (Australia, 2008)
GREMLINS (70mm 25th anniversary screening) (US, 1984)
THE DESCENT 2 (US, 2009)

For information and bookings, contact the IFI Box Office at
+353 1 6793477
or visit
http://www.irishfilm.ie
http://www.horrorthon.com


*A controversial comment for some, but I don't really consider Land or Diary as part of the original series, but part of a new series.

New colour corrected version of my last music video now on Vimeo

There has only ever been a "straight outta FCP" version of this video online.

This is the colour corrected version that was used for broadcast.

I only got my hands on a copy this morning.

Direct link to Vimeo

Next screening for STFU

The Underground Cinema short film night has invited STFU to be screened there.

That is an awful bad use of the english language right there, but I'm going to leave it unedited.

Come to think of it, so is that sentence also, as is this one.

View the program here

Here's some details from the site:

Wednesday October 7, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Kingston Hotel, Adelaide Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin (map)

We're back! Last month seen Underground Cinema screen 11 fantastic short Irish Films to a full house.

For the month of October we'll be screening 13!

We're also launching our new website dedicated to Promoting Irish Cinema.

Why not log on and become a member of Underground Cinema. Members can upload their showreels & add their CV's. You will also have full access to Undergound Café a new forum for film makers. Member can also add events to the wesbite and upload videos with lots more to come.

So let's see you down in the Kingston Hotel Dun Laoghaire, Wednesday October 7th at 7pm to support Irish Short Films at their best

Long time, no blog...

Its been a while since I've posted on this here blog.

Didn't mean to neglect it, its just that my other job as a full time Dad has proven to be quite time consuming.

Nevertheless, I have been granted the visa to attend Philip Bloom's film look seminar this saturday in Dublin.

Now, it was seeing what Philip could do with a Letus35 DOF adapter that prompted me to by one, a year ago now. And an opportunity to learn from the master cannot be missed. I have struggled to get the clean crisp images I have seen Philip achieve using the EXACT SAME rig as I put together and am attending armed to the teeth with questions.

The first two being,

1. What am I doing wrong?,

the other

2. How do YOU do it?

Great opportunity. There is an afternoon session also that covers the new phenomenon of DSLR cinematography (Yes, I WANT and NEED the new Canon 7d, swoon)

Buuuuut, father duties take precedence and am unable to attend both.

There is also a Masterclass on the Sunday, which I'd love to go to, but alas its far too expensive.

Still worth it though, 12 places only, you bring your kit and get hands on tuition. Amazing.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Trailer for the short film "Shut the Fuck Up" online

direct link for vimeo

http://vimeo.com/5531018

also on IMDb

direct link for IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458991/

and youtube

direct link for youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZyt1e-IYw

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Thank you

Ian

Its the simple things

An aspect ratio calculator can be found here

Free from wideopendoors.net

There's nothing more precious in compression than preserving your aspect ratio.

I cut a 35 second promo trailer for Shut the Fuck Up for IMDb

The dimensions they requested the video be are 480:360 which is a 4:3 AR

I found this handy little app online and thought I'd share as its not the first time I've come accross this dilemma.

The answer in order to preserve your widescreen 16:9 AR is 480:270 fact fans.

1st screening for Shut the Fuck Up

One cannot help but feel that Galways Film Fleadh festival is going by the way of Dublin's International Film Festival by slowly petering out its short film content. I remember a proud moment during the 10th Dublin film festival where my animated short "Timer" was screened as part of the festival to a huge audience. Sadly Dublin slowly put an end to shorts in their program and it fills me with sadness that Galway seems to be going in the same direction.

My film Shut the Fuck Up was deliciously rejected from the Galway Film Fleadh along with what seems a LOT of rejections from short filmmakers this year. So much so that it has spawned a Fringe!

As Jeff Goldbloom said in Jurassic Park; "Life finds a way..."

The reason givin by the Fleadh was time constraints. I investigated further and got in touch with the shorts coordinator for the Fleadh and he stated; that more time has been alloted for feature length programming and therefore shorts were, well, being cut short!

Short film is such a great platform for the emerging filmmaker and for those who enjoy the freedom to experiment. To do away with the opportunity for a larger audience to see, usually more cutting edge work is appalling.

My hats off to Jason Butler and all at FilmmakersNetwork.ie for putting on this fringe and also for selecting my short Shut the Fuck Up for screening. (Ironically, their selection process was plagued with time constraints also!)

I've booked my ticket to show my support by attending, sadly I'll be taking the red eye back home straight after, such is the plight of the father/filmmaker.

In other news, post production on The Other Marty is progressing... slooooowly, but its progressing. My wife went back to work after maternity leave making me a full time stay at home dad... Its getting there though!