The sun has got its hat on!

What ho! It's been a while since my last post (nothing new there) so while the sun's shining and everyone is feeling good I figured a burst of activity on the blog front would be a good idea.

Citadel will have its release in Irish cinemas from June 21st so that's very exciting news. Seeing the posters on Dublin buses is a real buzz and I'm looking forward to seeing how it will be received by reviewers and cinema goers. Here's the poster and trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7cxt3W_2cE

Kelly+Victor news

Kelly+Victor, a feature film on which I shared editing duties with Nathan Nugent, has been selected for this year's SXSW film festival. This is the third year in a row that a film I've worked on has been selected for SXSW with Charlie Casanova in 2011 and Citadel in 2012 being the previous selections. It is also being screened this Friday 22nd  February at 8pm as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival - see www.jdiff.com

Film news...

The UK & Ireland cinema release for Citadel is March 1 this year and the release in the United States on DVD, BluRay and VOD is on January 29th, only a few days away.

Kelly+Victor is being screened on February 22nd at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival - see www.jdiff.com for more details - the screening schedule is being released on January 23rd. There's a nice review of the film on the Screen Daily website which can be read by clicking here.

I have been working on another feature film project since the autumn called Standby, a romantic comedy starring Brian Gleeson (Love/Hate) and Jessica Paré (Mad Men) and directed by Rob and Ronan Burke. The producers are John Wallace (Blacksheep Productions) and David Grumbach (Juliette Films) and it is an Ireland/Luxembourg co-production. Rob & Ronan made an IFTA nominated short film called 'Runners' starring Aidan Gillen which was written by Standby's screenwriter Pierce Ryan. 

See IFTN article here.

Is it too late to say Happy New Year?!?

Here's a link to an interview with Antony Hegarty and Nabil Elderkin conducted by Pitchfork, discussing the video for 'Cut The World' by Antony & The Johnsons, directed by Nabil, that I edited last summer.

Pitchfork interview

You can watch the video here on my Vimeo feed. Careful now, it's not for the squeamish.


Antony and the Johnsons - Cut the World from Tony Kearns on Vimeo.

Stuff just keeps on happening....

I had a double header (so to speak) at the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival on the 28th of September when Citadel and Charlie Casanova were screened with directors Ciarán Foy (Citadel) and Terry McMahon (Charlie Casanova) in attendance. It's a buzz having worked on the two films that they were shown on the same night in LA. 

Previous to that Charlie Casanova won the best film, best director and best actor (Emmett Scanlan) prizes at the 13th Melbourne Underground Film Festival (aka MUFF XIII) at the end of August and is to be released on DVD on October 15th. Click here to see
 what the DVD will look like... Order yer copies now!

Citadel is being screened at the 56th BFI London Film Festival on the 19th and 21st of October - details of the film and its screenings are to be found by clicking here. I'm calling out to all my London friends to go and have a look see if they're not too busy... It will be on general release in Ireland and the UK some time soon and as soon as I have the dates I'll be posting them straight away. Citadel will be released in the US on November 9th, three days after the presidential election - take a look at http://www.citadelmovie.com/

Kelly + Victor, another film that I worked on, is also being screened at the London Film Festival on October 14th, 16th & 20th. Click here to see details about the film and its screenings during the festival.

I'll have news of the film that I'm currently cutting at home in my Cottage de Montage (aka The Shedit) in my next post.

Forward in all directions!!!!

Citadel news

It's been a busy summer for Citadel and its director Ciarán Foy. The film was very well received at the Galway Film Fleadh in mid July (where it had its Irish premiere - on Friday the 13th!!!) and shared the Best Irish First Feature award with Alan Brennan's Earthbound. The week before Galway, it received its European premiere in the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland and was awarded the H. R. Giger Award for the Best Fantastic Feature Film, the Silver Méliès award for the Best European Fantastic Feature Film and received a special mention from the Mad Movies Jury (it says here on the NIFF awards web page.). After Galway, Ciarán & co. headed to the 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival aka PiFan in South Korea for Citadel's Asian premiere where it won the best director and best actor awards - congratulations to Ciarán & Aneurin Barnard. After Puchon, it was straight to Canada where  the film was shown to full houses and received great reviews during the Montreal Fantasia International Film Festival. It has been selected to be shown in the 56th BFI London Film Festival on the 19th & 21st of October next - details here.

Finally, the film will be on general release in the US from October 19th - exciting times!

Have a look at the Citadel Facebook page for more information, photos, posters, trailers etc. at
https://www.facebook.com/citadelfilm

The trailer can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7cxt3W_2cE

The IFTAs aftermath + Citadel wows 'em in Texas

I was all excited about being nominated for the Irish Film & Television Academy Best Editing award for Charlie Casanova last time I wrote on this blog. Well, I didn't win but I had a helluva great night, meeting lots of friends and colleagues during the awards show and the after show beano. Congratulations to Isobel Stephenson who won the award for her work on Love/Hate. Here's a pic (taken by the lovely Dee Collier) of myself with Eugene McCrystal of EMC Post and Jim Duggan, MD of Screenscene at the after show shindig.

It was a massive achievement for a shoestring budget film like Charlie Casanova to be nominated in five categories at the IFTAs and it was a great honour for myself and for the director & writer Terry McMahon to have received this recognition from our colleagues in the business. Obviously, it would have been even better if we had actually won something though... The film will be in the cinemas in Ireland and the UK from May 11th this year so that's something to look forward to.

Citadel has been a great success at SxSW Film Festival in Austin Texas, with the film receiving very positive reviews, including a rave from Variety. It also won the Midnighters Audience Award at the festival so its writer/director Ciarán Foy and the producers Kate Holly and Brian Coffey are all very excited at the tremendous reaction. Hopefully this will be a huge help in getting a distribution deal to get Citadel into the cinemas. You can see the trailer here https://vimeo.com/38863915

I've created a number of portfolios of my editing work on Vimeo where you can look at music videos, films (full length shorts & trailers of feature films) and commercials until you have to get on with your lives again. Here's the link https://vimeo.com/thecolonel/portfolios

Forward in all directions!