Cause & Effect

I know its not film related whatsoever but I don't care its a new Prince song!

Wow & wow

Notes of a(n indie) Update

Sorry for neglecting this blog in the last while, its been many months since I posted.

Other matters like moving house etc have taken up a lot of my time.

Post production on The Other Marty has been put on hold since dismantling my last studio for the move and am currently putting the plans together, along with trips to Ikea for the new studio in order to get a lot of work done in 2010.

In the meantime all I've really been able to do with my trusty MacBook is to write. I've a couple more shorts penned that will either hopefully be funded or made anyway. As always I write simply in a way that the shorts can be made for little or no money if funding falls through, as I did for The Other Marty.

Having said that I have my fingers crossed that funding will occur for at least one of them.

Thats all for now.

I haven't disappeared! Watch this space.

Miniature Movie Review

For those of you on Twitter, I invite you to follow my new Twitter account called
www.twitter.com/miniaturemovie
Essentially it does exactly what it says on the tin; a movie review in 160 characters or less. Its a tough job, but somebody's gotta etc etc...

I see it as an exercise in brevity and editing and (hopefully) making my point/opinion on very restrictive platform.

Fuck it, I'm not going to over intellectualize it, its a Miniature Movie Review thats all!


I'll cover everything from what I see up to date to classic's that I've re-screened for myself that day.

Do follow.

Google Wave For Filmmakers

So i've joined the trendy geek masses and signed up for Google Wave.
I've only been "on" a couple of hours and have yet to experience a fully fledged "wave". I'm working with my web designer for my new website and I see the collaborative nature of GW being useful in that capacity. We had said we would send files back and forth via email, but this certainly seems like a way to streamline the collaborative process, particularly when I schedules and geography keep us apart.

I don't usually collaborate when I'm writing, but if I ever did, I could possibly see GW becoming instrumental for that too... Possibly...

In short, I didn't really see myself using it much at all, perhaps the odd time, that is until I came across the following article from The Chandler Blog.

Google Wave for filmmakers: A concept.

As someone said in the comments section: "It’s exactly this kind of “out of the box” creative thinking that will make Google Wave a success."


I tend to agree.

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