Monday, February 6, 2012

Time for the glad rags...

In a few days I will be live on Irish television accepting the Best Editing Award for Charlie Casanova at the Irish Film and Television Academy's 9th Awards Ceremony which is to be held in Dublin on the 11th of February 2012. Or alternatively, I will be escorted from the building after destroying a television camera, five seats and a plate glass door as a result of a humungous freakout after not getting the award. Either way, it'll be rivetting telly. Here's the link to the IFTA page for yiz
http://www.ifta.ie/nominees/editing.html

Seriously though, it is an amazing achievement to be nominated for my contribution to the beast of a film that is Charlie Casanova and also that it received nominations for Best Director, Best Film, Best Script and also garnered a nomination for Rising Star for its lead, Emmett J. Scanlan.

To maintain the buzz, Citadel has been selected by the wonderful SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, for its world premiere next month. That's the second notch to my SXSW bow as Charlie Casanova (him again) was screened there last year. A wonderful surprise and a huge boost for its director, Ciarán Foy. Check it out here
http://sxsw.com/node/9912


Saturday, February 4, 2012

About bloody time!

There's nothing like being up to the minute, is there? And, since I am nothing of the sort, here's a couple of advertising related things I worked on in the latter half of 2011. The first is an interactive web malarkey for the clothing mob ASOS which features amazing street dancers, body poppers, break dancers and a troupe of Morris dancers (joking about the last lot there) all doing marvelous moves while allowing the user to click away with a rich interactive experience, don't you know. You can go to ASOS Urban Tour to have your own giddy way or you can watch the linear version here




I had the pleasure of working with the lovely Alex Ogus in Paris on a commercial for Societé Géneral, produced by Stéphanie Huguenin for Irène Productions with the agency being my old friends at Fred and Farid. The advert is for a bank card that offers free music downloads and is a timely reminder to develop one's beatboxing skills in case one encounters wolves who are into deep house. Regardez-vous ici!