IFB Partners with DFF
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Irish Film Board Industry Partnership with Dingle Film Festival 2009
The Dingle Film Festival are proud to announce the Irish Film Board (IFB) as the festivals industry partners at this years third edition, which is running with a comedy theme. Irish Film Board will present a seminar on writing comedy for the screen, entitled Dont Make Me Laugh chaired by Andrew Meehan, Development Executive of the Irish Film Board and a special screening of award winning comedy short films.
Panelists at the seminar will include Emmy Award winning screenwriter Marc Flanagan, (credits), stage, radio, screen and TV writer Pearse Elliot, (Man About Dog); and producer Ned Dowd, (Shanghai Noon, The Wonderboys and Speed Dating); The seminar will explore the challenges of writing comedy for the screen, different ways of developing character, the role of TV in developing talent as well as looking at what makes comedy travel. Chairman Andrew Meehan, Works directly with the Chief Executive, the Development Executive assesses development-funding applications on behalf of feature films and manages the slate of Bord Scannan na hEireann/Irish Film Board projects selected for support
The programme of short films includes such wonderful comedies as, Granny O Grimms Sleeping Beauty, where a seemingly sweet old lady loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter) and Right Now Ladies and Gentlemen, a darkly comic tale of a lonely young man who is persecuted by an over zealous pub bouncer.
Maurice Galway, Dingle Film Festival Director and founder says I am truly delighted to have built this partnership with Bord Scannan na hEireann it will help Dingle Film Festival in defining itself in an otherwise very competitive area of the film industry.
Marc Flanagan, who is specifically flying in from Los Angeles to attended the Festival, will also be giving an intimate workshop, for a limited amount of participants, entitled Writing for Comedy. Marc himself facilitated comedy workshops at Warner Brothers Studios when writing on their lot and has been Executive Producer on a number of TV programmes, including Madigan Men for ABC and Murphy Brown for CBS. He has also written and produced many of Tracey Ullmans programmes for Fox TV and HBO.
Other retrospective comedy screenings will include the hilarious Man About Dog, Withnail & I, the Big Lebowski, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and to open the Festival, Peter Blanchette will perform live his newly commissioned score to the Buster Keaton 1928 classic Steamboat Bill Jr.
For further information on Dingle Film Festivals comedy theme, their Visual Arts Programme, the music in film element, (including the worlds first ever public screening of the full Beatles Anthology), their Educational Programme and their Workshop Programme log on to www.dinglefilmfestival.com Bookings can be made at bookings@dinglefilmfestival.com or by calling the booking number on 085 7788743
Dingle Film Festival runs from 10- 13 September 2009.
Irish Film Board Industry Partnership with Dingle Film Festival 2009
The Dingle Film Festival are proud to announce the Irish Film Board (IFB) as the festivals industry partners at this years third edition, which is running with a comedy theme. Irish Film Board will present a seminar on writing comedy for the screen, entitled Dont Make Me Laugh chaired by Andrew Meehan, Development Executive of the Irish Film Board and a special screening of award winning comedy short films.
Panelists at the seminar will include Emmy Award winning screenwriter Marc Flanagan, (credits), stage, radio, screen and TV writer Pearse Elliot, (Man About Dog); and producer Ned Dowd, (Shanghai Noon, The Wonderboys and Speed Dating); The seminar will explore the challenges of writing comedy for the screen, different ways of developing character, the role of TV in developing talent as well as looking at what makes comedy travel. Chairman Andrew Meehan, Works directly with the Chief Executive, the Development Executive assesses development-funding applications on behalf of feature films and manages the slate of Bord Scannan na hEireann/Irish Film Board projects selected for support
The programme of short films includes such wonderful comedies as, Granny O Grimms Sleeping Beauty, where a seemingly sweet old lady loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter) and Right Now Ladies and Gentlemen, a darkly comic tale of a lonely young man who is persecuted by an over zealous pub bouncer.
Maurice Galway, Dingle Film Festival Director and founder says I am truly delighted to have built this partnership with Bord Scannan na hEireann it will help Dingle Film Festival in defining itself in an otherwise very competitive area of the film industry.
Marc Flanagan, who is specifically flying in from Los Angeles to attended the Festival, will also be giving an intimate workshop, for a limited amount of participants, entitled Writing for Comedy. Marc himself facilitated comedy workshops at Warner Brothers Studios when writing on their lot and has been Executive Producer on a number of TV programmes, including Madigan Men for ABC and Murphy Brown for CBS. He has also written and produced many of Tracey Ullmans programmes for Fox TV and HBO.
Other retrospective comedy screenings will include the hilarious Man About Dog, Withnail & I, the Big Lebowski, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and to open the Festival, Peter Blanchette will perform live his newly commissioned score to the Buster Keaton 1928 classic Steamboat Bill Jr.
For further information on Dingle Film Festivals comedy theme, their Visual Arts Programme, the music in film element, (including the worlds first ever public screening of the full Beatles Anthology), their Educational Programme and their Workshop Programme log on to www.dinglefilmfestival.com Bookings can be made at bookings@dinglefilmfestival.com or by calling the booking number on 085 7788743
Dingle Film Festival runs from 10- 13 September 2009.
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