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28/05/2024

Tá stiúrthóir an ghearrscannáin rathúil 'Bean Feasa' 🌿 ag lorg scríbhneoirí le haghaidh comhoibriú ar thograí fadscannáin agus drámaí teilifíse.

Tugtar tús aite do dhrámaí sóisialta / scéinséir tuaithe / greann dorcha.

Ní mór achoimre gairid agus cúpla focal fá dtaobh duit féin a sheoladh chuig [email protected] roimh an 2ú lá de Lúnasa.

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The director of the Oscar-Qualifying short film Bean Feasa 🌿 is seeking writers with Irish-language feature film & TV drama projects to collaborate on.

Preference for social drama / rural thriller / dark comedy.

Please send a one page synopsis & a brief personal bio to:
[email protected] by August 2nd 2024.

28/05/2024

Tá stiúrthóir an ghearrscannáin rathúil 'Bean Feasa' 🌿 ag lorg scríbhneoirí le haghaidh comhoibriú ar thograí fadscannáin agus drámaí teilifíse.

Tugtar tús aite do dhrámaí sóisialta / scéinséir tuaithe / greann dorcha.

Ní mór achoimre gairid agus cúpla focal fá dtaobh duit féin a sheoladh chuig [email protected] roimh an 2ú lá de Lúnasa.

*****

The director of the Oscar-Qualifying short film 'Bean Feasa' 🌿 is seeking writers with Irish-language feature film & TV drama projects to collaborate on.

Preference for social drama / rural thriller / dark comedy.

Please send a one-page synopsis & a brief personal bio to:
[email protected] by August 2nd 2024.

Trailer Link: https://vimeo.com/885314168

26/03/2024

Delighted that has been selected to screen at in Limerick this April.

Thanks to all the hardworking cast and crew for helping us make such a wonderful, thrilling short film.

10/01/2024

11/12/2023

Thanks so much to London for awarding 'Community Watch' a Special Mention.

It's mad our funny Dublin story is finding audiences all over the world.

05/12/2023

Some class feedback from

20/11/2023

Delighted that the latest short Paudie directed 'The Innkeeper' has won the Young Audience Award at This is England festival in Rouen, France.

It's so amazing to know this film is connecting so well with young people from all over the world.

Thank you The Pitch Film Fund for all the support, and Denise Deegan for her funny, soulful screenplay.

22/09/2023

🎥 Our final award! Louth International Film Festival is thrilled to announce the Nominees for the Dearbhla Walsh Award for Best Director: Jamie O'Rourke, Daniel Butler, Aisling Byrne, Sinead O'Loughlin, Keith Jordan, Joe McStravick, Sean Coyle and Ovidie. Join Dearbhla at the Awards Ceremony at An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk on Oct 1st at 5:45pm! 🏆 "

12/08/2023

End of summer wrap up of some amazing festivals we've been fortunate to be part of this year. 🎉🎉🎉

Thank you so much to everyone at
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film.factory




for screening our low-budget Irish comedy film and awarding us with some amazing honours.

Film festivals like yours are the life blood of a small film like ours.

03/02/2023

LÉIRIÚ BÁC 💙// DUBLIN PREMIERE 🖤

Tá lúcháir ollmhór orainn go mbeidh léiriú ag Bean Feasa 🌿 i mBaile Átha Cliath i gceann míosa✨

Bean Feasa 🌿 will make its Dublin Premiere next month at the Dublin International Film Festival 🎬⚡

Friday 24th Feb @ 15.30
Light House Cinema 📍
https://diff23.eventive.org/schedule/6399e8beb1bf7b02e82934f6

04/01/2023

// ANNOUNCEMENT //

We're so excited and privileged to be included in this amazing group of projects.

We couldn't ask for a better announcement to start the new year with!

Well done to all the filmmaking teams who were chosen, we'll see you all at the Fleadh!

🎬🎬🎬

24/12/2022

Happy Christmas to everyone who worked with us this year.

We're overwhelmed with the love and support of all our collaborators - cast, crew, writers, directors, and funders. We've had an incredible 2022 thanks to you.

BTS photo from 'The Innkeeper' currently in post-prod.
📸 - .yogendran

08/12/2022

New work directed by Paudie for the immensely talented Diane Anglim!

It's release day wohoooo!!! The video is up and out and in the world and so is the song! Massive thanks to everyone involved who I have listed below. Very special thanks to my close family and friends for all of the support. I am so delighted to release this song. I wrote it in 2015 and it has been like a friend to me, running through my head and on my piano keys for a long time, keeping me company. I hope you enjoy it ###

Video:
Directed by Paudie Baggot Paudie Baggott
Produced by Maggie Ryan Escape Pod Media
First Assistant Director: Miles Davis Murphy
Choreographers: Janna Kemperman and Diane Anglim .kemperman
Cinematographer: Niall O Connor
First Assistant Camera: Shane Rowan Shane Rowan
Lighting: Katy Smeraldo
Runners: Sthity Padhy and Jack Fahy Sthiti Padhy
Dancers: Maura Anglim and Sibylle Dallmann
Sibylle Dallmann
Produced by Escape Pod Media

Make-up inspiration: Meg Reilly

With thanks to Eoin for the wonderful location, and Jando and for the rehearsal space.

Track:
Music and Lyrics by Diane Anglim
Recorded and produced by Micheal Sheil and Diane Anglim
Mixed by Micheal Sheil M J SHEIL
Mastered by Aidan Foley Masterlabs - Mastering Services and Vinyl Cutting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJYxlbymXDA

08/12/2022

It's release day wohoooo!!! The video is up and out and in the world and so is the song! Massive thanks to everyone involved who I have listed below. Very special thanks to my close family and friends for all of the support. I am so delighted to release this song. I wrote it in 2015 and it has been like a friend to me, running through my head and on my piano keys for a long time, keeping me company. I hope you enjoy it ###

Video:
Directed by Paudie Baggot Paudie Baggott
Produced by Maggie Ryan Escape Pod Media
First Assistant Director: Miles Davis Murphy
Choreographers: Janna Kemperman and Diane Anglim .kemperman
Cinematographer: Niall O Connor
First Assistant Camera: Shane Rowan Shane Rowan
Lighting: Katy Smeraldo
Runners: Sthity Padhy and Jack Fahy Sthiti Padhy
Dancers: Maura Anglim and Sibylle Dallmann
Sibylle Dallmann
Produced by Escape Pod Media

Make-up inspiration: Meg Reilly

With thanks to Eoin for the wonderful location, and Jando and for the rehearsal space.

Track:
Music and Lyrics by Diane Anglim
Recorded and produced by Micheal Sheil and Diane Anglim
Mixed by Micheal Sheil M J SHEIL
Mastered by Aidan Foley Masterlabs - Mastering Services and Vinyl Cutting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJYxlbymXDA

30/11/2022

DUAIS✨// AWARD🏆☘️

Tá lúcháir an domhan orainn gur bhronnadh an duais 'Gearrscannán Éireannach Is Fearr' 🇮🇪 ar Bean Feasa🌿ag Féile Scannán an Fheabhail 💫

We're absolutely over the moon that Bean Feasa🌿was awarded 'Best Irish Short Film'🏆at the Oscar Qualifying 💫

“A mesmerising and frightening work of ambiguity with a pitch perfect tone of superstition meeting reality”🧚‍♂️
👉 bit.ly/3XHSFag

Ár mbuíochas leis an fhoireann dhícheallach agus achan uile duine a thug lámh chuidigh dúinn!

A massive thanks and congratulations to the passionate cast and crew and absolutely everyone who helped!

24/11/2022

//WINNER//

Delighted to have Community Watch selected in the Top 50 of global Short Films in the Promofest Summer selection.

We're in the company of some other whopper Irish shorts from Tristan Heanue and Mia Mullarkey also.

Promofest is a unique prize in that as a winner the film will now be distributed to 50 Film Festivals which is an absolute godsend for a self-financed wee short like ours because festival submission costs can total into the hundreds and thousands once a film has finished its run.

24/11/2022

Don't forget, our film 'Community Watch' is screening in person (this weekend) and online (now) as part of ODEON Shorts 1

And Paudie's short screenplay 'Peat' is in competition for Best Screenplay. Good luck to Stephen and the Waterford Film Fest team, and to all the participants.

This year the festival is presenting 170+ short films online all week and 34 films will be presented this Saturday (26th November) and Sunday (27th November) in the ODEON Cinema, Waterford.

This will be a fantastic mix of new Irish and International short films.

Films come from across the world and are a blend of fiction and documentaries from award-winning and debut filmmakers.

There are lots of different genres and themes for festival-goers to enjoy including; animation, drama, comedy, thriller, action, scifi, human interest, environment, culture, LGBT and many more...

We are showing 12 screenings online which include Irish shorts, International shorts and U.K. films.

We are also screening a category called 'Waterford Connection' which is a collection of short films with a Waterford Connection.

These shorts were either filmed in Waterford and/or the main players involved in the production are from Waterford (filmmakers, lead cast etc).

For those who can not make it to the Odeon Cinema this weekend - films are also available online.

There is a great wealth of talent to be viewed both online and in the cinema this week!!

Whether you join us online or in person, we hope you enjoy the films!!!

To register for online screenings please go to: https://wiff.uscreen.io/

Each programme online is €6.50 or get a 'Full Access Pass' to all films for €7.50

Tickets to the ODEON cinema screenings can only be purchased online.

There are three screenings in the cinema and each screening has between 10-12 short films and runs for a duration of about 100 minutes each.

The programmes in the Cinema are called Odeon Shorts 1, 2 and 3.

To book tickets for the cinema please go to: https://www.ticketfairy.com/events/waterford-international-film-festival

Each cinema screening costs €9.50 including booking fee.

Full programme information can be found at: www.waterfordfilmfestival.net

17/11/2022

We're screening Dublin International Comedy Film Festival DICFF in December amongst our comedy peer in the 'Short 4 - Crime and Funishment' programme

Tix: https://filmfreeway.com/DublinInternationalComedyFilmFestivalDICFF/tickets

Screengrab starring the incomparable Ali Fox

21/10/2022

//SCREENING//

Dublin - 'Afterlife' our vampire comedy commissioned by the Clones Film Festival will be screening in the as part of this year's Horrorthon

It screens from on Monday 31st @ 1pm in the IFI in Temple Bar
https://ifi.ie/film/horrorthon-short-film-showcase-2/

Starring:
Ryan Corley Patricia Knight,

Directed by
Produced by
Written by Mike Heneghan

Director of Photography -
First Assistant Camera -
Music Composition -
Sound Recordist - Poe Ramon
Production Designer - .aine
Art Dept Assistant -
Make up Artist -
1st AD & Stills Photographer -
Editor -
VFX -
Sound Design by
Additional Sound Recording by

Poster Design by

07/10/2022

Ainmniúchán✨// Nomination✨

Tá ríméad orainn go bhfuil Bean Feasa 🌿 ainmnithe sa rannóg 'Best Foreign Short' ag an fhéile FilmQuest ⚡️📽️

We're thrilled to learn that Bean Feasa has been nominated 'Best Foreign Short' at FilmQuest, one of America's top genre festivals💫

Comhghairdeas leis an fhoireann iontach uilig!
// Congrats to the cast and crew and everyone who helped!

☘️

06/10/2022

//SCREENING //

Filmmaker and EPM collaborator Aoise Tutty Jackson will screen some recent work on Thursday 13th October at 7pm in Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.

"Three of my short films made in collaboration with Music Alive and Skibbereen's pioneering mental health service, 49 North Street will be shown. The importance of 'listening' rose to the forefront as I journeyed through making these films.

I will be inviting the audience into an experiential space where you will be invited to explore some of the practices which were integral to the making of these films and am excited to welcome Nóirín Ní Riain and Nick Murphy who were participants in 'Listen' to join me as we dive into this subject more. More about the event and ticket details can be found at:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/listening-film-screenings-tickets-404532626977

On Saturday 15th October a second event will be happening in Myross Wood House in Leap at 5pm and will showcase one of my most recent films 'Anua' alongside an exhibition of photographs which marked the beginning or 'threshold' of this project coming to life.

This will be the first large-scale exhibition of this kind of my photographic work and I'm really excited to showcase it as part of this immersive event which will also be infused with music, poetry, discussion, yummy nibbles and more. More info and ticket details can be found here;

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anua-screening-performance-poetry-photography-exhibition-more-tickets-402951136697?fbclid=IwAR1s3oqG_Thqcp0RYRQLqimNU5QUXOSIhWZ-j1aFbUYkiLJ9t9CYmCYme8A

Thank you for all your support along the way.

I'd be delighted to see you there. - Aoise"

05/10/2022

//SCREENING// CÉAD LÉIRIÚ 🌎 // WORLD PREMIERE⚡️

Tá muid ar bís go gheobhaidh Bean Feasa🌿a chéad léiriú domhanda ag 💀

We're beyond excited for Bean Feasa's to get its World Premiere 🥂 at this year's Screamfest in LA
https://screamfestla.com/2022/film/bean-feasa

Follow for updates on screenings, BTS photos and other good stuff.

Buíochas mór ó chroí don fhoireann uilig🙌

30/09/2022

//SCREENING//

We're super proud that 'where do all the old g**s go?' will screen as part of GAZE Film Festival Dublin

Directed by Cathy Dunne and produced by Maggie, the film is a series of really powerful conversations about the experiences of the older LGBTQIA+ Community in Ireland.

Screening - Sunday 2nd Oct // 3.15pm

29/09/2022

Here's a teaser of a documentary we're making for Dublin City Council about an important but somewhat forgotten figure - Kathleen Clarke, the first female Lord Mayor of Dublin and the creation of the first large-scale portrait for the City Council Chambers in a long time.

28/09/2022

Absolutely delighted to have my short film script 'Peat' be selected as 'Semi-Finalist' in

This is the first time a script I've written myself has been honoured with any kind of accolade so I'm counting this a big win!

More big news on 'Peat' to be announced over the next few weeks!

- Paudie

27/09/2022

Lovely bit of news to announce today. The short comedy film Paudie directed - 'Community Watch' has been selected for the Waterford Film Festival 2022.

And will be screening in ODEON CINEMA in Waterford City on Saturday 26th of November at 5 pm as part of ODEON SHORT PROGRAMME 1

Hopefully see you there.

20/09/2022

This was a very special and singular project to be part of, and we feel privileged to have been involved.
Please come see 'Echo’s Bones' on 8th & 9th October at The Light House Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin 7, including Q&A
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This is a sensory friendly screening – full accessibility and booking info at the link in bio
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Echo’s Bones is a collaborative film-making project with autistic young people in North County Dublin, taking its title from an unpublished short story by Samuel Beckett set in the area. Borrowing from a Beckett sensibility, autism is not the topic of the film but a way of sensing the world and speculating about a shared future.
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Poster design by Peter Maybury
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ID: A film poster showing a photograph of three young women, each dressed completely in a single colour (yellow, baby blue, pink). They sit on rocks by the sea and gaze out to the horizon. An old Victorian institution is in the distant background. The image is tinted in purple from the horizon that the young women are looking towards, and the title ‘Echo’s Bones’ appears as if etched in chalk

Developed with Adam Greenan, Alex Kirwan, Andrew Darcy, Aoibhe Hoey, Ashwin Maliyakal, David Tansey, Eleanor McLoughlin, Eoin Hickey, Fionn Baker, George Weldon, L. Cronly, Noah Danson, Olivia NicLochlainn

Director of Photography: Cathy Dunne
Composer: Alma Kelliher
Featuring original music by F!ONN and Eoin Hickey
Drama facilitators: Sarah Fitzgibbon, Eleanor Walsh, Mark Ball
Location sound:
Lighting:
Producer: Maggie Ryan
Executive producer: Aisling O’Brien
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Commissioned by Fingal County Council through Infrastructure 2017-2021. Funded by the Per Cent for Art Scheme
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02/09/2022

This is "Focail Baile Croi_sizzle reel" by Katie McNeice on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

17/08/2022

12/07/2022

// ANNOUNCEMENT //
FOCAIL BAILE CROÍ: is at once a cinematic love letter to the Irish language and a reimagining of grief as a privilege of love, told from the vantage point of a father writing a letter to his unborn son.
We are delighted to announce we have secured funding for our third Irish Language short film, this time collaborating with filmmaker Katie McNeice. We will be shooting in Kerry later this year. Y’up The Kingdom.
Winner | Best Pitch, Comortas Fisín Film Bursary (2020)
Winner | Best Script, Catalyst Film Festival (2021)
Winner | Best Pitch, Kerry Short Film Bursary (2022)

Jury Statement - Catalyst
“This is a beautiful meditation on language, heritage, loss and love, a moving love letter from a father to his unborn son. The script takes the idea of communication and tradition and brings it into the 21st century. It’s an original and simple idea and all the more powerful for that. This mature, well-crafted, lyrical script has great potential to travel well as a festival film. Its visual ambition is admirable as well as its sense of tone and rhythm. Congratulations Katie!”
Additional Festival Nominations:
● Wexford Film Festival, Best Screenplay Nominee
● Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, Finalist
● Newark International Film Festival, Best Short Script Nominee