Archive for November, 2009

IRELAND ON SUNDAY PRESENTS:
HOTEL DARKLIGHT

Where: Irish Film Institute, Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin

Hotel Darklight is an exciting feat of no-budget cinematic daring created for this year’s Darklight Film Festival, a full length feature film comprising ten short pieces filmed over 6 days in one location. Inspired by Exquisite Corpse, a Victorian parlour game where random words and images are assembled to form a surreal finished product producers Declan Lynch and Alan Keane brought together ten writers and ten directors to tell a series of discrete tales of the paranormal which would all take place in an eerie Smithfield Hotel. The result is an ingenious, collaborative tour de force.

Lonely Hearts – Writer/Director: Ciaran Foy
Hotel Training – Writer: Maura McHugh/Director: Conor McMahon
Prejudice – Writer/Director: Paul Walker
St. Mary – Writers: Gerry Creehan and Paul Markey/Director: Brian O’Toole
Play Dead – Writer/Director: James Phelan
Heaven in a Wildflower: Writer: Sinead Fagan/Director: Dolores Rice
Regards to the Chef – Writer: Eilis Mernagh/Directors: Kian Petit and Ewan Petit
Noughts and Crosses – Writer: Barry McLoughlin/Director: Alan Brennan
You Beta Your Bollix -Writer: T.C/Director: Ian Whelan
Better the Derval you Know – Writer: Paul Markey/Director: Brian O’Toole

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with several of the filmmakers.

Tickets for this screening are priced at €15.

The proceeds will help offset debts incurred by filmmakers and by Darklight in the making of the film.

Info and booking HERE!

It’s official: Darklight 2009 rocked. You really had to be there. Thanks to everyone (and we mean everyone) who made the Darklight weekend such a success. And a big thank you to 2009 Guest Of Honour and Total Gentleman Mark Romanek – pictured, on the right, with filmmaker Gerard Lough. We’ll be detailing the shenanigans in earnest over the coming weeks, along with podcasts and videos aplenty In the meantime, much respect to DEAF… We’re gonna miss you.

Darklight, in association with the European Commission in Ireland, are very pleased to announce the winner of the Democracy and Dialogue competition.

The winning video was “Noise to Get Heard” by Alan Early. You can watch it here now:

Alan is now the proud owner of a very spiffy HD camera, kindly supplied by Tyrell CCT, more information on Tryell CCT can be found here.

A big thank you to all entrants, we were pleasantly surprised with the number of high quality entries we received. A super congratulations to one and all.

And of course a big thank you to the European Commission, Lovely Productions and Doris Magee Productions, to Fionn Kidney, Caroline Campbell and Eoghan Kidney for their contribution to the Viral Video Making Workshop and to Tyrell CCT for their support of the competition.

Watch this space for a similarly wonderful competition in 2010…