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Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson will join sisters Kate Mara and Rooney Mara for what Werner Herzog says is the final film of a trilogy, Bucking Fastard. According to Herzog, Bucking Fastard is the third chapter following Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man. The famed filmmaker’s latest project, wrapping production in Europe this month, finds the Mara sisters appearing on screen together for the first time.

Kate and Rooney Mara play Jean and Joan Holbrooke in Bucking Fastard, focusing on “two sisters who are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. In search of an imaginary land, the Orkneys – where true love is possible – they start digging a tunnel through an entire mountain range.” Fascinating.

According to Deadline‘s exclusive report, Orlando Bloom plays Gareth Mulroney, the sisterly duo’s riotous ex-lover,...

After portraying Jesse Custer in the hit supernatural fantasy series Preacher from 2016 to 2019, English actor Dominic Cooper elevated his acting chops in the AMC+ original series That Dirty Black Bag, a must-see TV Western that debuted in 2022. A throwback Spaghetti Western with resounding violence, That Dirty Black Bag spotlights the intense rivalry between hardened bounty hunter Red Bill (Douglas Booth) and town Sheriff Arthur McCoy (Cooper) as they vie for dominance in a village overrun by bandits.

In addition to being shot on location in Spain and Italy, That Dirty Black Bag has drawn critical acclaim for its authentic performances and heartfelt homage to classic Spaghetti Westerns made by Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci. For Preacher fans, Dominic Cooper shows a much different side of his performative skills, giving another compelling leading turn that proves he is one of the most well-rounded actors of his generation. Here's why Preacher fans...

Kurdish-Irish documentary Home: Zak Moradi’s Story and Nigerian feature The Kiss Of Death are among the world premieres at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh (July 9-14).

Home: Zak Moradi’s Story, directed by Ireland’s Trevor Whelan, follows the life of one man’s journey from childhood in a Kurdish refugee camp to Irish hurler and anti-racism activist.

The Kiss Of Death is a Nigerian film from Irish director Terry McMahon, whose credits include Patrick’s Day. It follows a man sent to northern Nigeria to teach, who discovers the cultural differences may cost him his life.

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Addison Heath.s Under a Kaleidoscope and Timothy Spanos.s Sizzler .77 tied for best film at the 16th annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival.

Named as best international film was Terry McMahon.s Patrick.s Day, the chronicle of a young man with mental health issues who becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant, prompting his obsessive mother to enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them, featuring Kerry Fox, Moe Dunford, and Philip Jackson.

Under a Kaleidoscope stars Kenji Shimada, Kristen Condon, Aston Elliot, Tim Jason Wicks and Glenn Maynard in the saga of two brothers and a female neighbour who begin a voyage of discovery through the small hole in the wall that secretly joins the two apartments.

Sizzler .77 follows a crime war on Melbourne.s streets as two cops are forced to don frocks and go undercover as trannies in order to infiltrate a gang, featuring Alan King, Teri Yeboah,...

International awards won by Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore.

Tomm Moore animation Song Of The Sea has been named Best Film at the 12th Ifta Awards for Film and Drama in Dublin.

The film about a little girl who can turn into a seal was Oscar nominated earlier this year, missing out to Big Hero 6.

But the Irish Film and Television Academy chose it above nominees Frank, Glassland, I Used To Live Here, Noble and Patrick’s Day.

Comedy Frank, starring Michael Fassbender, won three awards including best director for Lenny Abrahamson, best supporting actor for Domhnall Gleeson and best director of photography for James Mather.

Family drama Patrick’s Day also scored a hat-trick, winning best actor for Moe Dunford, best script for writer-director Terry McMahon and best sound.

Biopic Noble, directed by Stephen Bradley, won best actress for Deirdre O’Kane and best supporting actress for Sarah Greene, who was also...

Exclusive: Titles include thriller The Barber starring Scott Glenn.

London/La-based outfit The Little Film Company has added a hat trick of titles to its slate on the eve of the Cannes Marche.

The first is Basel Owies’ thriller, The Barber, starring Scott Glenn and newcomer Chris Coy (Deliver Us From Evil).

They play a serial killer masquerading as a small town barber and a young man looking to get into the business of murder.

The second title is romantic drama Patrick’s Day, written and directed by first-timer Terry McMahon, starring Kerry Fox, Moe Dunford and Philip Jackson.

The film centres on a young man with mental health issues who becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant before his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.

The final title is comedy One Night In Istanbul, directed by James Marquand, starring Steve Waddington (The Imitation Game), Paul Barber, Lucien Laviscount ([link...

Other nominees include Glassland, I Used To Live Here, Noble and Song of the Sea.Scroll down for full list of nominations

The Irish Film & Television Academy has announced the nominees for the Ifta Film and Drama Awards, set to take place on May 24 at Dublin’s Mansion House.

Lenny Abrahamson’s music comedy Frank and Terry McMahon’s girtty drama Patrick’s Day lead the pack with nine nominations each.

Gerard Barrett drama Glassland, which played at Sundance in January, follows with six nominations.

Films with three nominations apiece include Frank Berry’s I Used To Live Here, Tomm Moore’s Oscar-nominated animation Song of the Sea, and Stephen Bradley’s biopic Noble.

In the best actor cateogy, Patrick’s Day’s Moe Dunford will go head to head with A-listers Colin Farrell (Miss Julie) and Michael Fassbender (Frank) as well as Transformers star Jack Reynor (Glassland).

As previously announced, the annual...

The Lesson by co-directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov was the big winner at this year’s Sofia International Film Festival in Bulgaria.

The duo’s feature debut became the second Bulgarian feature in Siff’s 19-year history to receive the international jury’s Grand Prix after Dragomir Sholev’s Shelter in 2011.

The Lesson also picked up the Audience Award, the Fipresci International Critics’ Prize and the award for the Best Bulgarian Feature Film.

Accepting the award, Valchanov pointed to the importance of the Sofia Meetings where The Lesson had originally been pitched and said that this event should be ¨an example¨ to the Bulgarian state to develop a long-term and sustainable film policy for the future.

The sentiment was echoed by international jury president Stephan Komanderev (The Judgement) when he presented the ¨Sofia City Of Film¨ Grand Prix to the young directors.

The Lesson, which is handled internationally by Wide Management, premiered last year...

As a follow-up to Charlie Casanova, his debut feature that was almost universally panned by critics, Irish director Terry McMahon brings us Patrick's Day, a raw and uncompromising look at mental illness, anchored by some unbelievably strong performance from its tightly knit cast. Patrick (Moe Dunford) is a young man suffering from schizophrenia, whose whole life is pretty much controlled by his caring, yet over protective, mother Maura (Kerry Fox). On his 26th birthday, which falls on the Irish national holiday where he gets his name, he breaks away from Maura during a trip to Dublin, and meets the older Karen (Catherine Walker), an air hostess wrestling with mental health problems of her own. Patrick feels an instant connection with her, one which Karen slowly comes around to, but Maura takes an instant dislike to the union, going to great lengths to end it. At times both uplifting and harrowing,...

With the film hitting Irish cinemas this Friday, Terry McMahon's Patrick's Day has cored quite the coup  in America, having being selected as the winner of the 2015 Manhattan Short Feature Film Project. What this means for the film is that it will screen in fifty cinemas across the United States, with audiences at each venue then voting on whether the film should return for a theatrical release later in 2015. If the majority of the votes come back as 'yes', the producers can choose for Patrick's Day to return to that venue for a series of screenings later in the year. It's a fantastic and totally deserving achievement for the film, especially with the news coming so close to the film's Irish release, opening it up to a wider audience.

This Friday, Terry McMahon's award winning Patrick's Day will finally reach Irish Cinemas, and ahead of it's release, Wildcard Distribution have released a new trailer for this beautiful and unique love story, as well as giving us another look at Moe Dunford's affecting lead performance. Check it out below. Released: February 6th Synopsis: Patrick is a warm, open, 26 year old virgin schizophrenic. Pills and his mother’s protection mean he is no threat to himself or anybody else. Until he falls in love. The object of his desire is an alcoholic, suicidal air-hostess who has no idea that the intimacy she shares with Patrick will reintroduce her to living. But Patrick’s obsessive mother doesn’t realize that her misguided love is more dangerous than hate. To pull Karen and Patrick apart she enlists the help of a dysfunctional detective who will use his position to help her.

With an Irish release date set for February, Wildcard Distribution have released the official trailer for Terry McMahon's award winning Patrick's Day. A premiere screening will take place Wednesday 4th February in Dungarvan, the hometown of lead actor Moe Dunford. It will be a charity screening in association with Pieta House, No Name Club, and Soroptimist Club in Dungarvan. Moe, who has just been named one of the Berlin Film Festival’s Shooting Stars, will be in attendance along with the writer/director Terry McMahon and other cast and crew. In the film Moe plays Patrick, a warm, open, 26 year old virgin schizophrenic. Pills and his mother’s protection mean he is no threat to himself or anybody else. Until he falls in love. The object of his desire is an alcoholic, suicidal air-hostess who has no idea that the intimacy she shares with Patrick will reintroduce her to living.

10 European actors to be celebrated by Efp in Berlin.

The UK’s Maisie Williams and Denmark’s Joachim Fjelstrup are among ten European acting talents to watch who have been selected for the line-up of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Shooting Stars showcase at the 65th Berlinale (Feb 5-15).

An international jury of film professionals comprising Slovenian producer Danijel Hocevar, Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, Swedish actress Eva Röse, UK film journalist Damon Wise, and French casting director Nathalie Cheron made its selection of six actresses and four actors from 23 nominations submitted by Efp member organisations.

The line-up for the 18th edition of Shooting Stars - with their nominated films - is as follows:

- Denmark: Joachim Fjelstrup (Itsi Bitsi)

- Finland: Emmi Parviainen (The Princess Of Egypt)

- Germany: Jannis Niewöhner (Sapphire Blue)

- Iceland: Hera Hilmer (Life In A Fishbowl)

- Ireland: Moe Dunford (Patrick’s Day)

- Lithuania: Aistė Diržiūtė (The Summer Of Sangaile)

- Spain:...

On a picture perfect fall day two days before the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival awards ceremony, I sat down with Meira Blaustein, co-founder and Executive Director of the Festival.

Meira Blaustein: “It’s very easy to meet people here at the Festival; it’s casual, and friendly, yet high quality. One can have conversations with those who can potentially buy your film, buy your next film, challenge your creativity and elevate your creativity and push the envelope. The goal of the Festival is to bring together outstanding, thought-provoking, and passionate films. This year we have twenty-two world premieres. We have filmmakers from all over the world. I’m proud we have a spotlight on women in film; eight narratives directed by women is unique -- unfortunately it is unique but it is. These women are smart, talented and strong, and their films are powerful. We have a lineup that dares to ask questions, and dares to be bold. It’s important to put together a tapestry that is reflective of the current state of filmmaking and a reflection of the current state of what is happening in film.”

The Woodstock Film Festival Award Winners

The Maverick Award for Best Feature Narrative: "Patrick's Day," directed by Terry McMahon

The Maverick Award for Best Feature Documentary: "Red Lines," directed by Andrea Kalin and Oliver Lukacs.

The Maverick Award for Best Animation: "My Kingdom," directed by Debra Solomon

The Diane Seligman Award for Best Short Narrative: "Sunday," directed by Iva Gocheva

The Diane Seligman Award for Best Student Short Film: "So You've Grown Attached,"directed by Kate Tsang

The Diane Seligman Award for Best Short Documentary: "Our Course" (Nasza Klatwa), directed by Tomasz Sliwinski

The Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography: "Patrick's Day," directed by Terry McMahon with cinematography by Michael Lavelle

James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Feature Narrative:

"Patrick's Day," directed by Terry McMahon and edited by Emer Reynolds

James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Feature Documentary:

"Killswitch," directed by Ali Akbarzadeh and edited by Prichard Smith

Ultra Indie Award "Uncertain Terms," directed by Nathan Silver

Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award For Best Female Feature Director: Caryn Waechter, director of "The Sisterhood of Night"

For more information about the Woodstock Film Festival:

http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/

Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell teaches screenwriting at Purchase College Suny, and presents international seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide.www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog...

Terry McMahon’s Patrick’s Day and Gerard Barrett’s Glassland have jointly picked up the Best Irish Feature Award at the Galway Film Fleadh, which closed last night (July 13).

The annual awards ceremony took place before the screening of the festival’s closing film An Bronntanas.

Patrick’s Day world premiered at SXSW earlier this year. It tells the story of a schizophrenic young man (Moe Dunford) who tries to build a relationship with a flight attendant. Barrett’s follow up to Pilgrim Hill stars Toni Collette, Jack Reynor and Will Poulter and centres around alcoholism.

The festival’s Galway Hooker Awards were given to Irish actor Brenda Fricker, whose latest film A Long Way From Home was screened during t festival, and to animation powerhouse Brown Bag Films in recognition of their success as Irish animators on the international stage, including such successes as Doc McStuffins and two Oscar-nominated shorts.

In other awards...

Another Galway Film Fleadh came and went over the weekend, and the festival's big award, Best Irish Film, was actually shared between two films: Gerard Barrett's Pilgrim Hill follow-up Glassland, a tale of a young man trying to save his mother from addiction, starring Jack Reynor and Will Poulter, and Terry McMahon's (Charlie Casanova) Patrick's Day, about a schizophrenic named Patrick who finds a connection with a depressed woman on St. Patrick's Day. Both films received a great reaction at the festival, and are well deserving of the award. Noble, biopic of Christina Noble (Deirdre O'Kane) whose charity work lead to the creation of an international organisation which helps oppressed and marginalised children around the world, came in second to the pair. The best documentary award was also shared between One Million Dubliners, an examination of the history of Glasnevin cemetery, and Blood Fruit, telling the story of...

The Galway Film Fleadh announced today the five nominees for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award. They are: producer, Anne Marie Naughton for "The Canal;" actor, Moe Dunford for "Patrick's Day;" director, Niall Heery for "Gold;" actor, Tara Breathnach for "A Nightingale Falling;" and actor, Dara Devaney for "An Bronntanas." The winner will be announced at the closing night awards ceremony, which takes place in the Town Hall Theatre. The new premieres announced are for "Patrick's Day," "Gold," "A Nightingale Falling" and "The Canal." - Directed by Terry McMahon, "Patrick's Day" follows the story of Patrick (Moe Dunford), a warm-hearted 26-year-old virgin schizophrenic, who falls in love with a soon-to-be alcoholic air-hostess, Karen. - A shocking journey into the unknown, Ivan Kavanagh's "The Canal" follows a family slowly growing a part due to suspected infidelity and nightmares of an evil presence that might live within their house. - Ifta-winning Niall Heery's new.

Check out this exclusive clip from upcoming SXSW entry "Patrick's Day," set to make its world premiere at the Austin fest on March 8. Written and directed by Terry McMahon ("Charlie Casanova"), the film centers on a schizophrenic young man attempting to build a relationship with a suicidal flight attendant, despite his mother's disapproval of the precarious situation. Watch below. Here's the official synopsis:Patrick is a warm, open, twenty-six year old virgin schizophrenic. Pills and his mother’s protection mean he’s no threat to himself or anybody else. Until he falls in love. The object of his love is Karen, an alcoholic, suicidal flight attendant who has no idea that the intimacy she shares with Patrick will reintroduce her to living. Maura, Patrick’s obsessive mother, doesn’t realize that her misguided love is more dangerous than hate. To pull Karen and Patrick apart Maura enlists a dysfunctional police detective...

Exclusive: Latest Irish Film Board funding round includes $1.23m (€900,000) for 13th century epic.

New projects from Whit Stillman and Brendan Muldowney are among 12 projects to receive production backing from the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding, Screen International has learnt.

Savage and Love Eternal director Muldowney’s next project Pilgrimage, written by Jamie Hannigan, will follow a group of monks who must escort a holy relic across war-torn 13th century Ireland.

The Sp Films production, due to shoot later this year, has scooped a hefty $1.23m (€900,000) commitment, one of the Ifb’s biggest grants. Conor Barry produces with John Keville.

Subotica’s Unless, to be directed by Alan Gilsenan, and Newgrange Pictures’ Seeing Chris, to be directed by Tom Cairns, both received $683,000 (€500,000) while Billy O’Brien’s I am Not a Serial Killer got $410,000 (€300,000).

Whit Stillman’s Jane Austen adaptation titled Jane Austen’s Love & Friendship, set to star Sienna Miller, received $287,000 (€250,000).

Lenny Abrahamson...

Sundance just ended, and we are already preparing for the next big film festival, South By Southwest. Not too long ago, the festival announced a few of the films premiering this year, but now they’ve announced the main slate. The midnight selections and some inevitable late-breaking additions are still to be announced, but this should be more than enough to get you excited. Along with many World Premieres, and Sundance favorites like Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2, the line up also includes an anniversary screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and an extended Q&A screening of The Grand Budapest Hotel with Wes Anderson. SXSW 2014 runs March 7 through 15 in Austin, Texas. Check out the line up after the jump.

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Narrative Feature Competition

Eight world premieres, eight unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,324 films submitted to SXSW 2014. Films screening in Narrative...

Today the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced a diverse features lineup for this year’s Festival, the 21st edition and running March 7 – 15, 2014 in Austin, Texas. The 2014 program expands on SXSW tradition of embracing a range of genres and span of budgets, featuring a wealth of vision from experienced and developing filmmakers alike.

For more information visit http://sxsw.com/film.

Listed in the announcement are 115 of the features that will screen over the course of nine days at SXSW 2014. The lineup below includes 68 films from first-time filmmakers, and consists of 76 World Premieres, 10 North American Premieres and 7 U.S. Premieres. These films were selected from a record 2,215 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,540 U.S. and 675 international feature-length films. With a record number of 6,482 submissions total, the overall increase was 14% over 2013. The Midnighters feature section and the Short Film program will be announced on February 5, with the complete...

After announcing earlier this month that Jon Favreau’s Chef and the Veronica Mars movie will be making their world debuts at SXSW this year, the festival has revealed its full line-up, including further very promising world premieres, alongside appearances from some of the year’s most high-profile films.

The Midnight programme will be announced early next month, along with the Shorts line-up, and the complete Conference slate a little later as well.

Led by Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, Nicholas Stoller’s anticipated R-rated comedy, Neighbors, will be making its world debut at the festival, notably marked out as a ‘work-in-progress’ ahead of its theatrical release in May.

David Gordon Green’s acclaimed Joe will make its Us premiere, having bowed at Venice and then Toronto last year. Early reviews have Nicolas Cage giving one of the finest performances of his career, with Tye Sheridan (Mud) excellent alongside him.

Not sure if there is a Short Term 12 equivalent in this year’s Narrative Feature Comp, but on paper SXSW programmers are serving up a mean (and the usual lean group of 8 out of a whopping 1,324 film entries) for the upcoming competitiuon of eight which includes notable entries (that we’ve been tracking for a good time now) such as Zachary Wigon’s The Heart Machine, John Magary’s The Mend, Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns and Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries. Undoubtedly one of the most anticipated docs of the year, on the non-fiction side we find Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible. Below you’ll find a breakdown of the other sections (notable world preems in We’ll Never Have Paris and Faults (see Mary Elizabeth Winstead above), some Sundance items with Texan connections and other nuggets.

Narrative Feature Competition

Eight world premieres, eight...

Headliners strand includes first screenings of the upcoming Universal comedy Neighbors (pictured) starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron and Australian time-travel thriller Predestination with Ethan Hawke.

The 21st edition of the festival in Austin, Texas, runs from March 7-15. The new Episodics programme will include new upcoming television work including Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn for his El Rey Network, HBO’s upcoming Silicon Valley and Fox’s Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey.

The first ever SXsports section will include as previously announced an on-stage conversation with Jurgen Klinsmann, the former German international striker and current Us national team coach in the run-up to the World Cup in Brazil this summer.

Among the Special Events is a screening of Berlinale opener The Grand Budapest Hotel followed by an extended Q&A with Wes Anderson.

The eight world premiere selections in the Narrative Feature Competition are:

10,000km (Spain) by Carlos Marques Marcet;Animals by Collin Schiffli;[link...

The Irish Film Board (Ifb) has announced its funding awards for the first and second quarters of 2013.

The national development agency for the Irish audio-visual industry is backing a range of projects from established names like Jim Sheridan and rising film-makers like Gerard Barrett, as well as a host of animations and feature documentaries.

Live action projects receiving Ifb backing include The Ranger, a revenge story set in 1840s Ireland to be directed by Game Of Thrones cinematographer Pj Dillon; Patrick’s Day from Charlie Casanova director Terry McMahon; and The Canal from Ivan Kavanagh, which is currently in production.

Projects in development from established names to receive funding include Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Colm Toibin’s novel Brooklyn to be directed by John Crowley (Intermission), Jim Sheridan’s The Great Storm and The Delinquent Season, written and to be directed by Mark O’Rowe.

The Ifb is also developing a number of projects from emerging...

The critically acclaimed yet controversial film, Charlie Casanova, from BrinkVision, is coming to VOD and DVD on May 21st. Why do we care, other than because of the alliterative title? Why, because it is winning awards and has a fun Two Face/Gambit like premise. The film stars Emmett Scanlon and is from director Terry McMahon. Posters and stills are in the gallery below.

It’s the story of an upper-class genius-level sociopath, Charlie Barnum. Charlie is an educated, fast-talking egotist, who refuses to be bound by the restrictions of morality, law, or even reality. When he kills a girl in a hit-and-run, he determines his fate with a deck of cards.

Order it on Amazon here. The DVD will include a Q&A, commentary from director Terry McMahon, “That Damn Script” Interview with the director, a Behind the Scenes look, a Gag Reel, and a trailer.

We’re back with the latest edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes details on Screamfest’s call for entries, release information for Charlie Casanova and The Midnight Hour, details on The Modern Monster art show, and more:

Screamfest Horror Film Festival’s Call for Entries: The Screamfest Horror Film Festival is accepting submissions in the following categories for the upcoming 2013 Festival:

Film Categories:

Feature Films

Short Films

Student Films

Animated Films

Early Deadline – June 15th Regular Deadline – July 15th Final Deadline – Aug. 1st

Submit your films here - http://screamfestla.com/entries.php

Script Categories:

Feature Scripts (75-130 pages)

Regular Deadline – March 15th Final Deadline – May 15th Winning script receives: $1,000 cash prize Movie Magic Screenwriter software Award Trophy Top 4 finalists receive: $250 cash prize Movie Magic Screenwriter software A six month free Prolific Pro Read Through membership The 2012 winning screenwriter...

The 13th annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival, held back on Aug. 24 to Sept. 1, shined an especially bright spotlight on New Irish Low Budget Cinema, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the fest gave its top awards to a film from the land of Éire.

Terry McMahon’s crime thriller Charlie Casanova won for Best Film and Best Director, and star Emmet Scanlon tied for Best Actor with Shiver‘s John Jarrat.

Despite all the love given to Ireland, this year’s Muff didn’t ignore its home countrymen, either. Local filmmaker Chris Sun’s latest, Daddy’s Little Girl, also took home multiple awards, including Best SFX, Best Actress for Allira Jacques and tied for the Special Jury Prize with Donna McRae’s Johnny Ghost.

Also, as usual, Muff gave out a wide variety of awards to multiple films. Some of the other winners include Daryl Stoneage...

To celebrate their 13th anniversary this year, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival is going green!

No, they’re not out to save the kookaburra or anything. Instead, they’re hosting a special tribute to the New Irish Low Budget Cinema, featuring two films by acclaimed filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh, plus work by Colin Downey, Gary Kenneally and Gerard Lough.

Muff will host a repeat screening of Kavanagh’s celebrated thriller Tin Can Man — it previously screened at Muff in 2008 — as well as his latest film, The Fading Light. The three other Irish films screening all fall into the horror/thriller genres, from Downey’s The Looking Glass to Kenneally’s Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman and Lough’s trilogy-ending The Shaken 3. And, in addition, the entire fest kicks off with the opening night Irish thriller Charlie Casanova by Terry McMahon.

But don’t think Muff is all Irish all the time this year,...

Check out all the images from the 24th Galway Film Fleadh, including photos from screenings of 'Grabbers', 'Citadel' and 'Songs for Amy' as well as pics of the cast and crew from Good Vibrations and a range of shots from Ifta's networking reception. Among those who attended the Fleadh included Ruth Bradley, Richard Coyle, Kevin Lehane, director Jon Wright, Ned Dennehy, Pascal Scott, Kate O'Toole, Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glen Leyburn, Bill Daly, 'Charlie Casanova' director Terry McMahon, actors Aoibheann McCall, Susan Loughnane and Natalia Kostrlewa, Sean Maguire, Ciaran Foy and Isabelle Hubbert.

Dark Shadows (12A)

(Tim Burton, 2012, Us) Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jackie Earle Haley. 113 mins

Another expensive pop-gothic fantasy (remake) for Depp and Burton's gallery – how long before either they get bored or we do? This time Johnny's an effete 18th-century vampire, reawakened in 1972 to reunite with his dysfunctional Addams-like descendants and marvel at the modern world. Expect fish-out-of-water silliness, a light shade of darkness, and the usual descent into messiness.

Café De Flore (15)

(Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011, Can) Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent. 121 mins

Music and mystery add a great deal to this well-made emotional drama, which switches between a present-day DJ and a 1970s mother (Paradis) whose child has Down's syndrome.

Beloved (15)

(Christophe Honoré, 2011, Fra/UK/Cze) Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Sagnier, Catherine Deneuve. 139 mins

Using flashbacks and musical moments, Honoré tells the story of a former prostitute, her daughter and the men in their lives.

This supposed satire about Ireland's self-pitying prosperous classes is so heavy-handed it's almost unwatchable

Terry McMahon's film looks to be intended as a dark satire of the self-pitying prosperous classes in Ireland – or anywhere. But the performances and dialogue are so heavy-handed and frankly embarrassing that it is almost unwatchable. Everyone, especially the lead character, talks like a low-iq cokehead. Charlie (Emmett Scanlan) is a motormouth businessman who has brought along a bunch of mates and their wives for a weekend at a luxury hotel. His ferocious contempt for bleeding-heart hypocrites and working-class spongers spills over into sub-Patrick Bateman violence. Charlie is unbearably and unintentionally obnoxious. I guess we are supposed to see some devilish charisma or glamour or wit, but he is just a tiresome prat.

Rating: 1/5

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★★☆☆☆ In his first feature film behind the lens, Terry McMahon's role is threefold: as writer, director and producer of Charlie Casanova (2010), he delivers a narrative rife in nihilism that is devoid of any real plot, managing to lose itself amongst the senseless ramblings of its protagonist. Unfortunately, this is all at the cost of delivering what could have potentially been an impacting piece of contemporary social commentary.

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The Irish version of the Oscar’s / Golden Globes / BAFTA’s etc. took place last night. Below is the full list of winners. Huge night for The Guard and Love/Hate, and the recognition of the immense talent of Michael Fassbender, continues. That said, no golf club jokes this time. Best Film The Guard - Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez Marengo, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe (Reprisal Films / Element Pictures) Albert Nobbs- Alan Moloney, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn and Glenn Close (Parallel Film Productions) Charlie Casanova- Terry McMahon (Source Productions) Stella Days- Jackie Larkin & Lesley McKimm (Newgrange Pictures) Director Film John Michael McDonagh - The Guard (Reprisal Films / Element Pictures ) Rebecca Daly - The Other Side of Sleep (Fastnet Films) Terry McMahon - Charlie Casanova (Source Productions) Thaddeus O’Sullivan - Stella Days (Newgrange Pictures) Script Film John Michael McDonagh - The Guard (Reprisal Films /...

The ninth annual Irish Film & Television Awards took place tonight at a Gala Awards Ceremony held at the Convention Centre Dublin.

In the field of film 'The Guard' was the big winner of the night receiving the Ifta for Best Film, with writer/director John Michael McDonagh named Best Director, Best Screenwriter and the Irish Film Board Rising Star for his feature directorial debut. Fionnula Flannagan who was honoured with a lifetime achievement award also won best supporting actress for her part in 'The Guard'.

Michael Fassbender picked up best actor for 'Shame' while Saoirse Ronan picked up best actress for her role in 'Hanna.' Ryan Gosling picked up the best international actor for 'Drive,' Chris O'Dowd picked up best supporting actor for 'Bridesmaids', and Glenn Close picked up best international actress for 'Albert Nobbs.'

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy...

Brendan Gleeson, The Guard The Guard, Glenn Close, Ryan Gosling Win: Irish Film Awards 2012 Film Categories Best Film Albert Nobbs, Alan Moloney, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn, Glenn Close Charlie Casanova, Terry McMahon Stella Days, Jackie Larkin, Leslie McKimm * The Guard, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chris Cark, Flora Fernandez Marengo Best Director Rebecca Daly, The Other Side of Sleep * John Michael McDonagh, The Guard Terry McMahon, Charlie Casanova Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Stella Days Best Screenplay John Banville, Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs * John Michael McDonagh, The Guard Terry McMahon, Charlie Casanova Antoine O'Flaherta, Stella Days Best Actor * Michael Fassbender, Shame Brendan Gleeson, The Guard Ciarán Hinds, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Martin Sheen, Stella Days Best Actress Aoife Duffin, Behold the Lamb Antonia Campbell Hughes, The Other Side of Sleep Marcella Plunkett, Stella Days * Saoirse Ronan, Hanna Best Supporting Actor Liam Cunningham, The Guard Brendan Gleeson, Albert Nobbs Ciarán Hinds, The Debt * Chris O'Dowd,...

Albert Nobbs and the other nominations for the 2012 Irish Film and Television Academy Awards have been announced. The 9th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) “sole aim is to celebrate Ireland’s notably talented film and television community. The ceremony is considered to be one of Ireland’s most prestigious awards event, and can be viewed as the Irish equivalent to the American Oscars.” The awards ceremony will be held on February 11, 2012 at the Convention Centre Dublin (Ccd).

The full listing of the 2012 Irish Film and Television Awards is below.

Film Categories

Best Film

Albert Nobbs – Alan Moloney, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn and Glenn Close (Parallel Film & TV Productions)

Charlie Casanova – Terry McMahon (Source Productions)

Stella Days – Jackie Larkin & Leslie McKimm (Newgrange Pictures)

The Guard – Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chris Larke, Flore Fernandez Marengo(Element Pictures)

Director Film

Rebecca Daly – The Other Side of Sleep (Fastnet Films)

John Michael McDonagh...

The Irish equivalent to the Oscars are fast approaching, and the nominations are out for the Feb 11th ceremony, which will be hosted by Simon Delaney. The Ifta’s cover the best in Irish Film and Television. For the full list of nominees click here. The film nom noms are below. Best Film Albert Nobbs Charlie Casanova Stella Days The Guard Best Director Rebecca Daly - The Other Side Of Sleep, Fastnet Films John Michael McDonagh - The Guard, Element Pictures Terry McMahon - Charlie Casanova, Source Productions Thaddeus O'Sullivan - Stella Days, Newgrange Pictures Script John Banville & Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs , Parallel Film and Television Productions Ltd John Michael McDonagh - The Guard, Element Pictures Terry McMahon - Charlie Casanova, Source Productions Antoine O'Flatharta -Stella Days, Newgrange Pictures Actor In A Lead Role Michael Fassbender - Shame, Momentum Pictures Brendan Gleeson - The...

London – Martin Sheen, who played the President of the United States in the TV series The West Wing and is an Irish citizen, finds himself among the nominees for this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy awards. Gallery: Best Presidents in Movies and TV Sheen is nominated for his turn as Irish priest father Daniel Barry in the Irish movie production Stella Days in the leading actor in a film category. He faces heavyweight competition from Michael Fassbender (Shame), Brendan Gleeson (The Guard) and Ciaran Hinds (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) in the category. John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard, Terry McMahon’s Charlie

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Terry McMahon's 'Charlie Casanova' has been acquired by Optimum/Studio Canal, the distributors behind 'The Hurt Locker', 'Pan's Labyrinth' and 'The Wrestler' in a deal that includes a 2012 UK and Irish cinema release. The film was written, independently produced and directed by Terry McMahon and later supported by the Irish Film Board. It tells the story of a ruling class sociopath played by Irish actor Emmett Scanlan (Hollyoaks, The Guards) who kills a working class girl in a hit and run and then uses a deck of playing cards to determine his fate...

The Brisbane Underground Film Festival is a new, scrappy little fest on the scene that will screen several underground hits for three nights on Oct. 13-15 at the Visy Theatre in Brisbane, Australia.

On the narrative film front, there’s two mind-blowing American films: Zach Clark‘s wild ’90s indie film throwback comedy Vacation!, about four women who take a disastrous beach holiday; and Usama Alshaibi‘s über-trippy Profane, a moving and powerful portrait of a Muslim sex worker trying to regain her faith in Chicago. Plus, there’s Jason Eisener‘s bloody cult flick Hobo With a Shotgun and Terry McMahon’s Charlie Casanova.

On the documentary front, the fest will open the Le Tigre tour film Who Took the Bomp? by Kerthy Fix; then screen festival circuit hits Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods by Patrick Meaney and Shut Up Little Man! by Matthew Bate.

Plus, most film screenings...

Irish acting talent Emmett J. Scanlan, Keith Duffy and Bronagh Waugh have all received nominations for this year's Inside Soap Awards. The shortlist of nominees has been cut down to four potential candidates per category, withEmmett J. Scanlan being twice nominated for Best Actor and Best Newcomer. Scanlan has already received a slew of acting awards this year, Best Newcomer at the British Soap Awards in May for his role as Brendan Brady in 'Hollyoaks' and Best Film Actor at the Ecu European Independent Film Festival in April, for his role Terry McMahon's 'Charlie Casanova'.

The Arizona Underground Film Festival keeps picking and screening the best in world extreme cinema and their fourth annual edition, which will run Sep. 16-24 in Tucson is no exception, compiling outrageous cult epics from countries such as Japan, Switzerland and Cuba; as well as some local nastiness produced in the fest’s own backyard.

The fest opens with Jack Perez’s Some Guy Who Kills People, a comedy thriller executive produced by John Landis and starring Kevin Corrigan as a loser who gets sadistic revenge on those he feels have wronged him.

While the opening night film is a big name affair, Auff is also celebrating local freaky film fare with films such as the film noir Sweet Love and Deadly, directed by Paul Clinco; and the horror comedy Dick Night, directed by Andy Viner.

From elsewhere around the U.S., there’s the fest’s annual celebration of extreme cinema,...

Irish writer/director/producer Terry McMahon returned from the Galway Film Fleadh victorious, after his debut feature 'Charlie Casanova' won Best First Feature, a prize that was shared with Darragh Byrne's 'Parked'. In his Iftn Insiders Diary McMahon documents his 'Charlie Casanova' experience at the Fleadh, from remembering the polarised responses to the film (with one reviewer calling it "intolerable") to the ultimate reward as 'Charlie Casanova' came away with festival honours.

Year: 2011

Directors: Terry McMahon

Writers: Terry McMahon

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: projectcyclops

Rating: 3 out of 10

Charlie Barnum is a property developer attending a conference at a hotel in Dublin with his wife and their four friends; two other married couples. Charlie is the kind of guy who is perfectly comfortable holding court at a dinner party, or giving opinionated advice to his friends about what they should be doing with their lives, and while he acknowledges a streak of egotism and a tendency to get in peoples faces, he sees these as strong points to his personality. After he hits a working-class girl with his car - and gets away with it - Charlie begins to believe that as a member of the ruling classes he is truly superior to those in the world who have less than him, and he starts to use a deck of cards to test fate,...

The 14th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival is, once again, packed to the gills with worldwide wonderful, weird and revelatory filmmaking. The fest runs this year on July 14-24.

The highlight of the festival is the once-in-a-lifetime live performance of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, which will be performed on July 17 at 7:15 p.m. American animator Brent Green will be traveling Down Under to provide the live musical score and narration for his emotional, live-action animated tale about undying love and creation. He will also be accompanied by band mates and foley artists, Mike McGinley, John Swartz, Donna K and Drew Henkles.

Some other films to look out for at the fest will be the Australian premiere of Zach Clark‘s terminally twisted Vacation!, a black comedy about four girls on a debauched weekend of drinking and drugging that ends horribly for all involved; Marie Losier’s acclaimed...

Since its inception in 1997, Revelation has become one of Australia's fastest growing film festivals and typically collates a line-up of highly original, compelling and independent projects - the type of films you'd rarely catch at a multiplex cinema. 2011 is no exception and Festival Program Director, Jack Sergeant, sells us on five of the must-see gems playing at this year's event. 1. Charlie Casanova directed by Terry McMahon. There seems to be a real buzz around edgy Irish cinema at the moment, with One Hundred Mornings last year and Tin Can Man a couple of years ago, and now this work.

'My Brothers' and 'The Guard' (Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle), the directorial debuts from Paul Fraser and John Michael McDonagh respectively, have been added to the list of Irish films set to screen at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (15 – 26 June). The features will join Terry McMahon's 'Charlie Casanova' and Karl Golden's 'Weekender' in screening at the world's oldest film festival with 'The Guard' selected as the prestigious festival's opening film. Irish co-production, 'Off the Beaten Track' is also to screen.

The 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed the first titles from this year’s British section of the programme, including several world premieres.

Nine British and Irish films were announced in the press release ahead of the full programme launch later this month, and represent how the Edinburgh International Film Festival will continue to be a cutting-edge platform for UK film.

James Mullighan, director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, said of the films selected:

“The Edinburgh International Film Festival has long been regarded as the ideal launch pad for important new British cinema and the place at which UK emerging talent is nurtured. The films announced today confirm that those twin traditions continue into 2011. Of the nearly 3000 films submitted to Eiff, 58 were British feature fiction films and we’re delighted to be in a position to showcase some of them to Edinburgh audiences in June.”

The titles receiving...

Follow the internet trail to socialistworld.net and you’ll find an article from 2003 entitled “Free the Bin Tax Twelve.” The article is about the arrest of 10 new protesters during a movement to resist a double tax on waste collection in Irish cities that placed its largest burden on poor residential areas. One of those protesters was the mother of a baby still being breastfed; meet the wife of Terry McMahon, director Charlie Casanova, which premiered this year at SXSW.

…I’m angry that my daughter went to prison when she was a baby to be breastfed. And I’m angry that in twenty years’ time, or thirty years’ time when she comes back to me and asks ‘Dad, what did you do?’ The least I can do is say, ‘well I tried to make a film that was about it, cause I was a eunuch and a whore and could do fuck all else.