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!