Jordan Norris The 2021 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards nominations have been released, across 25 categories in film and drama – with Dungarvan’s Maurice ‘Moe’ Dunford nominated in the Best Lead Actor (Film) category for his performance in Knuckledust. Directed by James Kermack, the film details how...
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James Phelan receives Waterford’s PLATFORM 31 Artist Bursary
James Phelan receives Waterford’s PLATFORM 31 Artist Bursary
Waterford artist James Phelan has been announced as one of the 31 recipients of the inaugural PLATFORM 31 bursary, A nationwide artist development scheme by the 31 Local Authority Arts Offices, in collaboration with the Arts Council. James Phelan said: “’I am delighted to receive a bursary for my film project...
John Bermingham: All That Can Be
John Bermingham: All That Can Be
Jordan Norris When John Bermingham left his job in HR in 2014, little did he know that six years later – he would have achieved some of the things he has. A renowned photographer, digital visual artist and video maker, there is little that Bermingham cannot turn his hand to – in fact, some might even...
Clodagh Bowyer co-produces award-winning film
Clodagh Bowyer co-produces award-winning film
Liam Murphy Niall McKay’s short film, The Ferry, premiered last July at the Galway Film Fleadh, and went on to compete in other world festivals, and made it to the longlist of short films competing for the Academy Awards. The ferry sequences were filmed on the Passage East Car Ferry and location work was...
Merry Wives of Windsor at Garter Lane
Merry Wives of Windsor at Garter Lane
Garter Lane Theatre will showcase their stunning new digital cinema package with a live screening of The Merry Wives of Windsor, the only comedy that Shakespeare set in his native land, on Saturday next, September 28th. Drawing influences from 1930s British fashion, music and dance, this new production from...
The Japanese Film Festival at Garter Lane
The Japanese Film Festival at Garter Lane
THE line-up for this year’s Japanese Film Festival at Garter Lane from Thursday to Saturday, April 18th to 20th will feature a diverse and packed programme of films, including work of the most acclaimed filmmakers from contemporary Japanese cinema, and covering a variety of themes, genres and topics. It will all be...
Interviews ongoing for WYA Glass documentary
Interviews ongoing for WYA Glass documentary
After meeting and interviewing many of the workers from Waterford Crystal, the interviewing stage for the social history documentary is soon coming to a close. Interviews will be ongoing until the end of April, so if you would like to reminisce on your time in Waterford Crystal and tell your story on working there,...
Australian movie's standing ovation at Garter Lane
Australian movie's standing ovation at Garter Lane
The Dublin International Film Festival on Tour came to Garter Lane Arts Centre in the shape of ‘The Merger’, an Australian feel-good comedy about the rural setting of Bodgy Creek and the dwindling fortunes of its local Australian Rules Football team.Similar to many current Irish villages, the club is...
Subtitle Film Festival a Big Kilkenny Hit
Subtitle Film Festival a Big Kilkenny Hit
The Subtitle Spotlight European Film Festival ran in Kilkenny between November 19th and 25th and, in what was our third visit to the event, proved a great success. We were enthralled by the two movies that we attended. The first one from Sweden, ‘The Square’, which featured some English, dealt with an...
Black is The Colour…
Black is The Colour…
Moe Dunford on the story we’ve never seen on the big screen before “It’s the biggest Irish movie I’ve been in so far,” said Dungarvan’s Moe Dunford of ‘Black ‘47’, a film which, remarkably, portrays the Irish Famine for the first time cinematically. “I always had the feeling that film like this could be a real...
In the Fast Lane
In the Fast Lane
Derek ‘Buttsy’ Butler on his ‘Fast & Furious’ career Derek ‘Buttsy’ Butler has come a long way from the nights spent careering his motor up and down the Port Road during the Celtic Tiger/Modified Motor Enthusiast years. “It’s crazy,” the Hillview native...
Down the Town
Down the Town
There was a wonderful atmosphere in St Patrick’s Gateway where Waterford Youth Arts screened their third film in the local history of Waterford series, Down the Town. Mostly, it was the salt of the town, the ordinary people, not sociologists or academics, but Waterford people sharing memories; some sad but...
