Here’s the skinny on the Free Your FIlm Workshop, held on Saturday 30 October at 5pm in the Grand Social, in association with Sony Ericsson.

Carmel Callen, David Freyne, Jessie Ward and Simon Maher & Anthony Fitzsimons present a show-and-tell of their finished short films that won this year’s movie making challenge Free Your Film, run in association with Sony Ericsson.

This event is free and admission is based on a first come first served basis

More information available here

Well, all the Free Your Film winners finished films have arrived in the Darklight office to various gasps of delight and wonder!  The Grand Premiere in the Grand Social (formerly Pravda) on Thursday will be an amazing event so we recommend not missing it! Drop us a mail to contact@darklight.ie to get your name on the list.

There’s also a fantastic Free Your FIlm Workshop on Saturday 30 Oct in the Grand Social. Carmel Callen, David Freyne, Jessie Ward and Simon Maher & Anthony Fitzsimons will present a show-and-tell of their finished short films that won this year’s movie making challenge run in association with Sony Ericsson.

Entry is free and on a first-come-first-serve basis

Well, I’m nearly there… with only a few days to go before the deadline I’ve entered the final stretches of the edit. This is all I’ve been looking at for the past week, and my eyeballs are starting to go square.

I quite enjoy editing, but this has been an intense process as I originally expected to spend more time on the post production and less time on production… however, as I keep saying, documentaries can be unwieldy beasts.

On a separate note. For anyone interested in a bit of lady-spotting, google street view in Dublin has made the job kinda handy. You don’t even need to leave your couch. Here’s a shot of my favorite lady house, and a link to have a poke around the neighborhood yourself!

Click here to check out Lady Street View for yourself!

We gave Damien O’ Donnell, Katie Holly and the good folks at Darklight a sneak peek at our rough cut, and just got some amazing feedback… We’re delighted that all this hard-work and tireless effort has payed off and we’re looking forward to bringing it to a wider audience at The Darklight Film Festival only days away… Oh and the name of our film has changed dramatically; was “9 Pounds, 7 ounces (and 12 stone)”, is now “9 Pounds, 7 Ounces (and 13 Stone)”… we feel our new title carries a bit more weight (ba dum bum dish)… sorry

Do you ever get the feeling of chills? Like when someone says just exactly what you were hoping to hear? No, actually when they say something even better than you imagined? Just spent a great Dublin day talking to some great Dublin people about a truly Dublin subject.

Documentary filmmaking can be an unruly business. You can do all the planning in the world and you still might not get the filmmaking result you were hoping for. Those who know me will know I was struggling with getting some of the interviews I had hoped for. After weeks of stressing and fretting I wouldn’t get THE interview, I ended up getting not one, but three interviews more brilliant than I could have hoped. So good that the mood of the entire film has shifted into something altogether different. And that’s one hell of a good surprise.