Transmission Films has nabbed all Australian and New Zealand rights to The Queen of Ireland.
The documentary, directed by Conor Horgan and produced by Blinder Films. Katie Holly and Ailish Bracken, tells the story of of Panti Bliss, the drag queen sensation who is credited with helping to make Ireland the first country in the world to approve gay marriage by popular vote.
The Queen of Ireland had a theatrical release in the UK and Ireland earlier this year through Universal Pictures, where it had the highest opening ever for an Irish documentary..
The film will have its Australian premiere next month at the 63rd Sydney Film Festival. Director Conor Horgan, and Rory O'Neill are official guests of the festival and will present the screenings..
.I'm thrilled to be working with Transmission Films on the release of The Queen of Ireland", producer Katie Holly said..
"They have the passion and...
The documentary, directed by Conor Horgan and produced by Blinder Films. Katie Holly and Ailish Bracken, tells the story of of Panti Bliss, the drag queen sensation who is credited with helping to make Ireland the first country in the world to approve gay marriage by popular vote.
The Queen of Ireland had a theatrical release in the UK and Ireland earlier this year through Universal Pictures, where it had the highest opening ever for an Irish documentary..
The film will have its Australian premiere next month at the 63rd Sydney Film Festival. Director Conor Horgan, and Rory O'Neill are official guests of the festival and will present the screenings..
.I'm thrilled to be working with Transmission Films on the release of The Queen of Ireland", producer Katie Holly said..
"They have the passion and...
- 5/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Documentary-maker Conor Horgan charts the progress of cheery stand-up/activist Panti Bliss as Ireland heads towards a kinder, more colourful future
Where the recent Dressed As a Girl tailed a variety of drag artists, Conor Horgan’s documentary pursues just one – stand-up/activist Rory O’Neill, Aka Panti Bliss – in order to describe a wider, often haphazard push for acceptance. As late as January 2014, O’Neill’s primetime chatshow appearance sparked a major public row that engendered Panti’s most outspoken incarnation yet.
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Where the recent Dressed As a Girl tailed a variety of drag artists, Conor Horgan’s documentary pursues just one – stand-up/activist Rory O’Neill, Aka Panti Bliss – in order to describe a wider, often haphazard push for acceptance. As late as January 2014, O’Neill’s primetime chatshow appearance sparked a major public row that engendered Panti’s most outspoken incarnation yet.
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- 10/22/2015
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
It's not every day one is granted an audience with The Queen of Ireland and so we were delighted to sit down and talk all things Panti with the film's director Conor Horgan and the man behind the woman, Rory O'Neill. Check it out below. The Queen of Ireland opens tonight October 21st with a special Premiere screening at 7.30pm at the Light House Cinema in Dublin, followed by a Q&A via satellite hosted by Brendan Courtney with special guests Antony Cotton, Pauline McLynn and Katherine Lynch which will be beamed into cinemas around Ireland. Tickets for this exclusive live event are available to purchase on www.queenofireland.ie. The film then goes on general release on October 23rd. Read our five star review, here. Synopsis: Pandora ‘Panti’ Bliss is many things: part glamorous aunt, part Jessica Rabbit, she's a wittily incisive performer with charisma to burn who is...
- 10/21/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Clare Daly)
- www.themoviebit.com
When director Conor Horgan began shooting a documentary about Irish drag queen Panti Bliss (aka Rory O’Neill) in June of 2010, who could have foretold quite the story it would become or the national treasure that would emerge like an exotic bird to stand with the politicians at Dublin Castle on May of this year as the Yes victory on gay marriage was celebrated. By topping and tailing the film with direct-to-camera addresses by Panti, the audience is invited in to share her story as it has unfolded from the very beginning. That this ‘giant cartoon woman’ found herself an accidental figurehead for Ireland’s Lgbt community is a terrific story and The Queen of Ireland shows us how the little boy from Ballinrobe, County Mayo would transform into Panti Bliss, ‘a clown, a court jester’ that would become an inspiration to so many. O’Neill’s story is wonderfully...
- 10/19/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Clare Daly)
- www.themoviebit.com
Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Rupert Evans, Steve Oram, Hannah Hoekstra, Anthony Murphy, Kelly Byrne, Anneke Blok, Calum Heath, Conor Horgan, Carl Shaaban, Sinead Watters, Alicja Ayres, Paddy Curan | Written and Directed by Ivan Kavanagh
The quiet brutality some people can suffer in everyday life is an aspect the horror genre doesn’t play up all too often. While horror films about zombies, chainsaw wielding killers and other assorted nasty folks are ten-a-penny, horror resorted in more “ordinary” troubles are rather more rare. The reason for this is fairly obvious, many audiences do not go to the cinema to be reminded of the misery which can come from real life and the more excessive the horror, the less real it can feel. The Canal is a film which seeks to bridge this gap, focusing both on a man going through some very real emotional difficulties while also delivering on horror elements we’ve seen many times before.
The quiet brutality some people can suffer in everyday life is an aspect the horror genre doesn’t play up all too often. While horror films about zombies, chainsaw wielding killers and other assorted nasty folks are ten-a-penny, horror resorted in more “ordinary” troubles are rather more rare. The reason for this is fairly obvious, many audiences do not go to the cinema to be reminded of the misery which can come from real life and the more excessive the horror, the less real it can feel. The Canal is a film which seeks to bridge this gap, focusing both on a man going through some very real emotional difficulties while also delivering on horror elements we’ve seen many times before.
- 9/13/2015
- by Ian Loring
- Nerdly
Winning projects announced for the Irish Film Board low budget dilmmaking scheme, Catalyst Project.
The Irish Film Board has revealed the final three teams of the competitive Catalyst Project initiative, selected from more than 88 applications bidding to win the opportunity to produce a fully funded feature film.
Ifb will now provide each filmmaking team with funding to produce a low-budget feature film, with access to industry experts who will offer mentorship and guidance along the way.
The successful projects are:
Kissing Candice written and to be directed by Aoife McArdle and to be produced by Andrew Freedman;
The Drummer and The Goalkeeper written and to be directed by Nick Kelly and to be produced by Kate McColgan;
Without Name written by Garret Shanley, to be directed by Lorcan Finnegan and to be produced by Brunella Cocchiglia.
Ifb chief executive James Hickey said that a “great reservoir of talent came forward” during the application stage and “the strength...
The Irish Film Board has revealed the final three teams of the competitive Catalyst Project initiative, selected from more than 88 applications bidding to win the opportunity to produce a fully funded feature film.
Ifb will now provide each filmmaking team with funding to produce a low-budget feature film, with access to industry experts who will offer mentorship and guidance along the way.
The successful projects are:
Kissing Candice written and to be directed by Aoife McArdle and to be produced by Andrew Freedman;
The Drummer and The Goalkeeper written and to be directed by Nick Kelly and to be produced by Kate McColgan;
Without Name written by Garret Shanley, to be directed by Lorcan Finnegan and to be produced by Brunella Cocchiglia.
Ifb chief executive James Hickey said that a “great reservoir of talent came forward” during the application stage and “the strength...
- 10/21/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Rupert Evans, Steve Oram, Hannah Hoekstra, Anthony Murphy, Kelly Byrne, Anneke Blok, Calum Heath, Conor Horgan, Carl Shaaban, Sinead Watters, Alicja Ayres, Paddy Curan | Written and Directed by Ivan Kavanagh
The quiet brutality some people can suffer in everyday life is an aspect the horror genre doesn’t play up all too often. While horror films about zombies, chainsaw wielding killers and other assorted nasty folks are ten-a-penny, horror resorted in more “ordinary” troubles are rather more rare. The reason for this is fairly obvious, many audiences do not go to the cinema to be reminded of the misery which can come from real life and the more excessive the horror, the less real it can feel. The Canal is a film which seeks to bridge this gap, focusing both on a man going through some very real emotional difficulties while also delivering on horror elements we’ve seen many times before.
The quiet brutality some people can suffer in everyday life is an aspect the horror genre doesn’t play up all too often. While horror films about zombies, chainsaw wielding killers and other assorted nasty folks are ten-a-penny, horror resorted in more “ordinary” troubles are rather more rare. The reason for this is fairly obvious, many audiences do not go to the cinema to be reminded of the misery which can come from real life and the more excessive the horror, the less real it can feel. The Canal is a film which seeks to bridge this gap, focusing both on a man going through some very real emotional difficulties while also delivering on horror elements we’ve seen many times before.
- 8/22/2014
- by Ian Loring
- Nerdly
In what is generally regarded to be an industry profession dominated by men, Suzie Lavelle has fought her way to become one of Ireland's most promising directors of photography. In 2010, she became the first female winner of the Director of Photography Ifta for her work on Conor Horgan's 'One Hundred Mornings' and has since been nominated a second time for Rebecca Daly's 'The Other Side of Sleep'.
- 12/7/2012
- IFTN
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? One Hundred Mornings Trailer You'll have to excuse the tardiness of bringing this gem to light as those living on the Emerald Isle had this...
- 5/13/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
The winners of the Irish Playwrights & Screenwriters Guild's ZeBBies 2011 were revealed at Dublin's Sugar Club on Thursday, 12 May 2011. The Zebbie for Television Script went to Stuart Carolan for his RTÉ crime drama 'Love/Hate'. Writer/director Conor Horgan continues his successful run with 'One Hundred Mornings' taking the prize for Feature Film, and Michael Creagh, writer/director of the Oscar nominated 'The Crush', received honours in the shorts category.
- 5/13/2011
- IFTN
Conor Horgan's apocalyptic feature, 'One Hundred Mornings' starts its limited theatrical release on Friday, May 6th. The film, produced by Bl!nder Films' Katie Holly centre around two couples hiding out following an unknown apocalyptic disaster. Iftn spoke with Katie Holly about her feature film debut, making an apocalyptic film on a Catalyst budget and how 'simple' shoots are never what they seem.
- 5/4/2011
- IFTN
Poland's Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema will introduce a new section at this year's event entitled New Irish Cinema. The titles selected to be shown include Conor Horgan's 'One Hundred Mornings'; Paul Fraser's 'My Brothers' and Carmel Winter's 'Snap'. Furthermore, Tom Hall's 'Sensation' will screen as part of the Festival's Make Way line-up.
- 4/6/2011
- IFTN
Bosnian war drama As If I Am Not There received three Ifta awards for Best Film, Director and Script for the film's Irish writer/director Juanita Wilson at tonight's Ifta awards, celebrating the Irish film and television industry.
Martin MCCann was named Best Actor for 'Swansong - Story of Occi Byrn', while Amy Huberman was got Best Actress for 'Rewind.'
Pierce Brosnan and Saorise Ronan took home the supporting honours at the awards with Brosnan winning Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'The Ghost', while Ronan's part in The Way Back earned her the supporting actress honour.
In the international categories, 'The Social Network' won the best international film, with its star Jesse Eisenberg winning Best Actor. Annette Bening took Best Actress for 'The Kids Are All Right'.
Winners Of The 8th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards:
Outstanding Contribution to Industry...
Martin MCCann was named Best Actor for 'Swansong - Story of Occi Byrn', while Amy Huberman was got Best Actress for 'Rewind.'
Pierce Brosnan and Saorise Ronan took home the supporting honours at the awards with Brosnan winning Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'The Ghost', while Ronan's part in The Way Back earned her the supporting actress honour.
In the international categories, 'The Social Network' won the best international film, with its star Jesse Eisenberg winning Best Actor. Annette Bening took Best Actress for 'The Kids Are All Right'.
Winners Of The 8th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards:
Outstanding Contribution to Industry...
- 2/12/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
Tucson and Phoenix: Prepare to be rocked, shocked and defiled. Blasting its way into its third — and biggest — year on Sept. 18-25, the Arizona Underground Film Festival is a cacophonous concoction of angry transsexuals, bumbling hit men, slacker superheroes, living dolls, aliens, dead hookers, adventure-seeking blondes and other crazies.
This year the fest is screening 30 feature films, some of which are making their U.S. and even world debuts. The opening night film is the U.S. premiere of the German hit man comedy Snowman’s Land, directed by Tomasz Thomson,while closing the fest is the controversial and violent A Serbian Film by Srdjan Spasojevic, which you have to be over-18 to get into.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of homebrewed films as well, such as Dead Hooker in a Trunk by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska; Nude Nuns With Big Guns by Joseph Guzman; 1,001 Ways to Enjoy the...
This year the fest is screening 30 feature films, some of which are making their U.S. and even world debuts. The opening night film is the U.S. premiere of the German hit man comedy Snowman’s Land, directed by Tomasz Thomson,while closing the fest is the controversial and violent A Serbian Film by Srdjan Spasojevic, which you have to be over-18 to get into.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of homebrewed films as well, such as Dead Hooker in a Trunk by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska; Nude Nuns With Big Guns by Joseph Guzman; 1,001 Ways to Enjoy the...
- 9/13/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Galway shorts screen at Fleadh, a win for 'Janey Mary', screenings for 'Polish Language' and 'Sunday Drive' begins shoot. Galway's Town Hall will play host to screenings of new Irish shorts on the mornings of July 9th, 10th and 11th as part of this year's Galway Film Fleadh. The first two mornings of the programme will showcase short Irish dramas such as Conor Horgan's 'Deep End Dance' and John Butler's 'The Ballad of Kid Kanturk' alongside 'In the Night in the Dark' from Rob Kennedy and Black Sheep Productions' 'Runners', which comes from its Ifta win this year for makers Rob and Ronan Burke.
- 7/7/2010
- IFTN
Is it a revelation or a revolution? It’s both! The Revelation Perth International Film Festival is tackling the theme of “Revolution” when its 13th annual edition begins violating Australia on July 8-18. Get set for 11 days filled French zombies, Belgian cowboys, outer space outlaws, Beat poets, cat ladies, gospel musicians and other revolutionaries.
Actually, one of the main features of the festival this year is a slew of music documentaries, mostly spotlighting both American and Australian music. On the U.S. side of things there’s Wheedle’s Groove, a look at the history of Seattle funk; Rejoice and Shout, which examines gospel music’s impact on African-American culture — and vice versa; Tom Dicillo’s Doors documentary When You’re Strange; plus The Family Jams and 72 Musicians. And, from Australia, there’s Megan Simpson-Hubberman’s classic concert film The Night of the Triffids.
There’s lots more than music docs,...
Actually, one of the main features of the festival this year is a slew of music documentaries, mostly spotlighting both American and Australian music. On the U.S. side of things there’s Wheedle’s Groove, a look at the history of Seattle funk; Rejoice and Shout, which examines gospel music’s impact on African-American culture — and vice versa; Tom Dicillo’s Doors documentary When You’re Strange; plus The Family Jams and 72 Musicians. And, from Australia, there’s Megan Simpson-Hubberman’s classic concert film The Night of the Triffids.
There’s lots more than music docs,...
- 7/2/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Year: 2009
Directors: Conor Horgan
Writers: Conor Horgan
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
We’re two months into a barely post-apocalyptic Ireland. The cause is an unexplained lack of electricity, the setting is very rural, and the plot is concerned with the quick, yet inevitable decline of the unprepared into the unimaginable. The times they are a-changin’.
Unlike the usual post-apocalyptic fare in which the hero sets off on some real or imagined quest against a backdrop of horror, in One Hundred Mornings our ineffectual characters basically sit around and wait for the shockwaves of the electrical meltdown to come to them. And come they do. And, sort of surprisingly, in pretty well the expected ways. However, it’s both the upside and the downside of 100M that we experience the physical and emotional toll of this social change not through glorious shots of urban abandonment and carnage,...
Directors: Conor Horgan
Writers: Conor Horgan
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
We’re two months into a barely post-apocalyptic Ireland. The cause is an unexplained lack of electricity, the setting is very rural, and the plot is concerned with the quick, yet inevitable decline of the unprepared into the unimaginable. The times they are a-changin’.
Unlike the usual post-apocalyptic fare in which the hero sets off on some real or imagined quest against a backdrop of horror, in One Hundred Mornings our ineffectual characters basically sit around and wait for the shockwaves of the electrical meltdown to come to them. And come they do. And, sort of surprisingly, in pretty well the expected ways. However, it’s both the upside and the downside of 100M that we experience the physical and emotional toll of this social change not through glorious shots of urban abandonment and carnage,...
- 5/18/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The Arts Council and RTÉ funded Dance on the Box projects will broadcast on RTÉ2 from May 17th to May 20th. Following a launch by Filmbase on May 13th the four short dance films chosen to be commissioned as part of this year's programme will transmit nightly and will see dancers perform in a church, under water, in a cinema and in a mother's memory. The Arts Council and RTÉ have come together again for a third season of RTÉ Dance on the Box. Four short films have been commissioned by the choreographer/director teams of John Scott and Steve Woods, David Bolger and Conor Horgan, Cindy Cummings and Oonagh Kearney and Fearghus Ó Conchuir and Dearbhla Walsh.
- 5/11/2010
- IFTN
The Irish film industry will be well represented at the upcoming 2010 Cannes International Film Festival. Alicia Duffy's 'All Good Children' will premiere as part of this year's Director's Fortnight event, 'One Hundred Mornings' producer Katie Holly participates in the 'Producer on the Move' programme, in addition to Irish screenings and marketing of dozens of new Irish projects. This year there will be a number of new Irish films selling in the market including 'The Guard', directed by John Michael McDonagh which stars Brendan Gleeson (Into the Storm) and Don Cheadle (Iron Man 2); and Colm McCarthy's chilling thriller 'Outcast', starring James Nesbitt (Five Minutes of Heaven), which received much critical acclaim when it premiered at the SXSW Festival in the Us earlier this year. Conor Horgan's apocalyptic 'One Hundred Mornings'.
- 5/10/2010
- IFTN
The Arts Council and RTÉ have announced the four films selected for the RTÉ Dance on the Box scheme. The winning films include 'Admit One'; 'Deependance'; 'Her Mother's Daughter' and 'Mo MhórChoir Féin'. This is the third round of the RTÉ Dance on the Box scheme with awards of €22,000 for each project chosen. 'Admit One' saw a win for choreographer John Scott, director Steve Woods (God Incorporated) and producer Catherine Lyons (Cruschen On); 'Deependance' clinched a win for choreographer David Bolger, director Conor Horgan (One Hundred Mornings) and producer Martha O'Neill (Ordinary Decent Criminal), whilst 'Her Mother's Daughter' comes from choreographer Cindy Cummings, director Oonagh Kearney (Underground), composer Denis Clohessy (His & Hers) and producers Rachel Lysaght (Jericho) and Steven Davenport (Tart). Finally, 'Mo MhórChoir Féin' saw victory for choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchuir, director Dearbhla Walsh (Little Dorrit), composer Iarla Ó Lionaird (Hotel Rwanda) and producer Maggie...
- 4/1/2010
- IFTN
Last week Dread Central's own Heather Wixson (aka The Horror Chick) and Brian Dreads packed up and headed off to the snow-covered hills of Park City, Utah for both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals.
On Saturday night Slamdance held its press event at the Treasure Mountain Inn, and the red carpet was packed with up and coming filmmakers and actors as well as some veterans to the genre.
While at the Slamdance event, Dread Central had the opportunity to talk with the cast and crew of the horror comedy The Scenesters, which focuses on a serial killer stalking hipsters in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood.
Also, we took some time to talk with the creators and cast of The Last Lovecraft, a cool new flick centered around the last descendant of the legendary H.P Lovecraft.
The geek out moment for yours truly came when it was time to...
On Saturday night Slamdance held its press event at the Treasure Mountain Inn, and the red carpet was packed with up and coming filmmakers and actors as well as some veterans to the genre.
While at the Slamdance event, Dread Central had the opportunity to talk with the cast and crew of the horror comedy The Scenesters, which focuses on a serial killer stalking hipsters in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood.
Also, we took some time to talk with the creators and cast of The Last Lovecraft, a cool new flick centered around the last descendant of the legendary H.P Lovecraft.
The geek out moment for yours truly came when it was time to...
- 2/3/2010
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
The 16th annual Slamdance Film Festival just wrapped up in Park City and gave out 10 awards to 12 films and 1 screenplay. There are jury awards, audience awards and two sponsored awards. Out of the 91 films that screened this year, here’s the full list of award winners:
Grand Jury Awards
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Narrative Film
Snow and Ashes, dir. Charles-Olivier Michaud
Special Jury Mention: One Hundred Mornings, dir. Conor Horgan
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Documentary Film
American Jihadist, dir. Mark Claywell
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Animated Short
Seed, dir. Ben Richardson and Daniel Bird
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Narrative Short
Prvi Dan Mira (First Day of Peace), dir. Mirko Rucnov
Special Jury Mention for a short documentary film: Bout That Bout, dir. Nico Sabenorio
Audience Awards
Audience Sparky Award for Best Narrative Film
The Wild Hunt, dir. Alexandre Franchi
Audience Sparky Award...
Grand Jury Awards
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Narrative Film
Snow and Ashes, dir. Charles-Olivier Michaud
Special Jury Mention: One Hundred Mornings, dir. Conor Horgan
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Documentary Film
American Jihadist, dir. Mark Claywell
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Animated Short
Seed, dir. Ben Richardson and Daniel Bird
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Narrative Short
Prvi Dan Mira (First Day of Peace), dir. Mirko Rucnov
Special Jury Mention for a short documentary film: Bout That Bout, dir. Nico Sabenorio
Audience Awards
Audience Sparky Award for Best Narrative Film
The Wild Hunt, dir. Alexandre Franchi
Audience Sparky Award...
- 1/30/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Slamdance, which runs concurrently with Park City’s Sundance Film Festival, has announced its 2010 line-up, and there are several choices that look to make genre fans sit up and take notice.
Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:
Narrative Competition:
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...
Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:
Narrative Competition:
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...
- 12/10/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
What's that? You can't wait to hear about the Irish post apocalyptic film One Hundred Mornings? Well you don't have to because we already have a review of it right here! Our own Alan Maxwell called it an "uncomfortably realistic vision of the breakdown of society." Yeah, it's good.
So continuing, part of the Slamdance lineup has been announced and it's got quite a few films we've featured.
Want something horrible in the forest? How about YellowBrickRoad?
Or maybe some William Burroughs? How about William S Burroughs: A Man Within?
Yup, the lineup for one of my favorite festivals is looking mighty fine as usual, and we'll be bringing you more shortly.
Partial lineup after the break!
Narrative Competition
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson...
So continuing, part of the Slamdance lineup has been announced and it's got quite a few films we've featured.
Want something horrible in the forest? How about YellowBrickRoad?
Or maybe some William Burroughs? How about William S Burroughs: A Man Within?
Yup, the lineup for one of my favorite festivals is looking mighty fine as usual, and we'll be bringing you more shortly.
Partial lineup after the break!
Narrative Competition
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson...
- 12/10/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The competitive lineup for the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival (of which Fangoria is a media sponsor) has been revealed via an announcement on Variety. "As in years past, competing films are by first-time feature directors working with limited budgets and without domestic theatrical distribution in place. Among the 18 titles, 11 are world premieres." the trade reports.
Fright fans may recall that Oren Peli's recent hit Paranormal Activity played the fest in 2008. As always, Slamdance will run side-by-side with the Sundance Film Fest in Park City Utah, January 21-28, 2010. While there's plenty of genre fare to be seen, we've got the entire list of films for you to browse below.
Narrative Competition
“Cummings Farm” (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman. “Drones” (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...
Fright fans may recall that Oren Peli's recent hit Paranormal Activity played the fest in 2008. As always, Slamdance will run side-by-side with the Sundance Film Fest in Park City Utah, January 21-28, 2010. While there's plenty of genre fare to be seen, we've got the entire list of films for you to browse below.
Narrative Competition
“Cummings Farm” (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman. “Drones” (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...
- 12/10/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
- Fangoria
Year: 2009
Directors: Conor Horgan
Writers: Conor Horgan
IMDb: link
Trailer: N/A
Review by: Alan Maxwell
Rating: 9 out of 10
At a recent screening of Richard Jobson's recession-tinged Scottish chase thriller New Town Killers, the director had to point out that since people all over the world losing their livelihoods was a bad thing, there was nothing "lucky" about the seemingly providential timing of the film's release. One suspects that if Irishman Conor Horgan's new feature gets a wide release he may have to make a similar statement as, with the recession in full swing and now accompanied by a global flu pandemic, he delivers us an uncomfortably realistic vision of the breakdown of society.
The worst seems to have already happened when the film opens. We don't know when (though it has obviously happened recently) or how but there is no doubt that this is not a pleasant future.
Directors: Conor Horgan
Writers: Conor Horgan
IMDb: link
Trailer: N/A
Review by: Alan Maxwell
Rating: 9 out of 10
At a recent screening of Richard Jobson's recession-tinged Scottish chase thriller New Town Killers, the director had to point out that since people all over the world losing their livelihoods was a bad thing, there was nothing "lucky" about the seemingly providential timing of the film's release. One suspects that if Irishman Conor Horgan's new feature gets a wide release he may have to make a similar statement as, with the recession in full swing and now accompanied by a global flu pandemic, he delivers us an uncomfortably realistic vision of the breakdown of society.
The worst seems to have already happened when the film opens. We don't know when (though it has obviously happened recently) or how but there is no doubt that this is not a pleasant future.
- 7/31/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The 21st Galway Film Fleadh, which runs from July 7-12, has announced this year's festival line up. The weeklong programme of world premieres special tributes, Irish and international features, documentaries and shorts will also see a host of prestigious actors, directors and filmmakers join the celebrations. Opening this year's festival on July 7 will be Patricia Riggen's 'Under the Same Moon' which tells the heart breaking story of nine year old Carlos who is left behind in Mexico as his mother works in the Us in order to give Carlos a better chance in life. The Festival will close on July 12 with 'Fish Tank', director Andrea Arnold's latest feature, which stars Ifta winning actor Michael Fassbender who will also be attending the screening. Eight World Premieres will be screened at this year's Fleadh including; John Carney's 'Zonad'; 'The Disturbed', an epic thriller; Irish coming...
- 6/24/2009
- IFTN
I have higher hopes for this then the similarly themed (and terrible) 9/Tenths. Written and directed by Conor Horgan and starring Rory Keenan, Ciarán McMenamin, Kelly Campbell, and Alex Reid, I don't have much on the film and the production company behind it isn't giving us anything yet, but I do know that it's having it's world premier on July 11th in Galway. Anyone going to be there?
Two couples hide out in a remote holiday home, trying to escape the consequences of a breakdown of society. Their relationships deteriorate as supplies grow scarce and they face increasing threats from hungry outsiders. In order to increase their chances of survival, they each have to make choices they never imagined would confront them.
That's all for now folks..
Two couples hide out in a remote holiday home, trying to escape the consequences of a breakdown of society. Their relationships deteriorate as supplies grow scarce and they face increasing threats from hungry outsiders. In order to increase their chances of survival, they each have to make choices they never imagined would confront them.
That's all for now folks..
- 6/22/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Directors Conor Horgan (About Beauty), Se Merry Doyle (John Henry Foley - Sculptor of the Empire) and Fergus Daly (The Art of Living), have been announced as the recipients of the Arts Council's Reel Art Awards. The documentary scheme, Reel Art is an Arts Council initiative supported by Filmbase and Jdiff which funds documentaries focusing on an artistic theme. The three projects will have their films screen theatrical at the 2010 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. 'The Beholder', to be directed by Conor Horgan and produced Martha O'Neill of Wildfire Films, explores the world of contemporary Irish portrait artists. Director Se Merry Doyle and producers Martina Durac and Vanessa Gildea are behind the doc 'Flight to Freedom' and the third film is 'Outliving Dracula: Film Versions of Carmilla' helmed by Fergus Daly and producer Katherine Waugh.
- 3/3/2009
- IFTN
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