Project Spatula

13/10/2020

😁😁😁

12/10/2020

Delighted to have picked up three awards for our film "The Butterfly Love Song" in South Africa - including Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Editing!

The Garden Route International Film Festival is proud to announce its individual category winners and overall feature film, documentary short and short film winners.

Congratulations to all the film-makers and thank you to everyone who submitted and watched the films:

Best Feature Films and Short Films and Documentary Short Film

Best Feature Length Film Winner:
Mabata Bata (Mozambique) Dir: Sol de Carvalho

Best Documentary Feature Film Winner: Current Sea (Malaysia). Dir: Christopher Smith.

Best Short Film Winner (tie):
The Butterfly Love Song (USA) Dir: Luke Morgan.
AND
Umama (South Africa). Dir: Talia Smith

Best Documentary Short Film Winner:
Hummus: A story of appropriation (UAE). Dir: lafi Abood

Feature Films/Documentaries – Individual Award Winners:

Best Film Director Feature Length - Sol de Carvalho (Mabata Bata)
Best Cinematography Feature Length - Heran Yang (Lone Wolves)
Best Actor - Gary Green (Fried Barry)
Best Supporting Actor - Emìlio Bila (Mabata Bata)
Best Actress - Clementine Zitha (Poppie Nongena)
Best Supporting Actress - Marlee van der Merwe (Ander Mens)
Best Editor Feature Length - Layla Swart (Knuckle City)

Short Films - Individual Award Winners:

Best Film Director - Talia Smith (Umama)
Best Cinematography - Fintan Geraghty (The Butterfly Love Song)
Best Actor - Ethan Malone (as Seamus in The Butterfly Love Song)
Best Supporting Actor - Malibongwe Mdwaba (as Thabiso in Umama)
Best Actress - Connie Chiume (as Sibongile in Umama)
Best Supporting Actress - Elisa Paoluzzi Tomada (as Giulia in All World is One)
Best Editor Short Film – Ryan Keane (The Butterfly Love Song)
Best Community Short Award - The Mukuru Art Boyz - A.R. Pashayan

04/06/2020

"Peggy and the Grim" has been extended on the RTÉ Player for the next 6 months!! Thanks to the Cork Film Festival.

07/05/2020

We recognise this lad from somewhere

06/05/2020

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We plan to release a new short film online tomorrow! Keep an eye out for it and let us know what you think of it!

Beidhimid ag cur suas gearscannain nua amarach timpeall a 9 a chlog. Bigí linn, chun é a fheicáil!

04/04/2020

"The Butterfly Love Song" competes in the Belfast Film Festival today! Watch it FOR FREE at belfastfilmfestival.org

17/03/2020

Watch the Butterfly Love Song today!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone! No virus is going to stop the dedicated team at Irish Film Festival London from getting Irish cinema to screens around the world...
..and so, we are delighted to announce that, for the days of the festival (which includes TODAY people!) you can watch a host of Irish films, including our very own "The Butterfly Love Song", for free. Just click on this link:

www.irishfilmfestivallondon.com/spd-london

and when prompted, give the password: IFL2020_StPatsFF.

Happy watching!

02/03/2020

Get your tickets for "The Butterfly Love Song" this coming Friday at Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival!

https://diff.ticketsolve.com/shows/873617620

28/02/2020

BUZZING!

After its successful premiere in New York City, and ahead of it's upcoming screening at Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival next week (6th March), "the Butterfly Love Song" has been accepted into the following festivals!

France, Belfast and London...we're coming for you!

21/01/2020

Amazing news!

Our short "the Butterfly Love Song" is official selection for the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival!

AND

Our director Luke is nominated for the 2020 Discovery Award!

Woohoo! See you on the 6th, Dublin!

15/11/2019

A family affair!

Some of the cast and crew of "Peggy and the Grim" at the premiere this week at the mighty Cork Film Festival. A great honour to screen at this festival yet again, thanks to Dom and co for the great reception in Screen #1 of the The Gate Cinemas Cork.

Screen Ireland

31/10/2019

More great news!

November 9th we will premiere our new film "Peggy and the Grim" at the wonderful Cork Film Festival. Tickets for the screening can be found at corkfilmfest.org.

Screen Ireland

29/10/2019

What an amazing privilege to screen in NYC among a stellar selection of Irish short films! Thanks so much to Irish Screen America New York for choosing to screen "the Butterfly Love Song", we're delighted with how well it went down.

25/10/2019

HEEEERE WE COME, NYC!

The trailer for our film, "The Butterfly Love Song" is here! Based on the award-winning short story by Irish writer Seamus Scanlon and made by Galway filmmaking collective Project Spatula with music from Dead Horse Jive. Check it out and share, share, share! Let's get the word out!

Irish Screen America New York, Screen Ireland, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, Culture Ireland

24/10/2019

Behind the scenes on "The Butterfly Love Song".

BTS stills from Project Spatula's "The Butterfly Love Song", premiering this weekend in New York City.

The film was shot in Mervue, Galway and is produced by Yvette Picque, Seamus Scanlon, John Herbert, Gerard McAuliffe and Ryan Keane. It is directed by Luke Morgan and based on the award-winning short story by Seamus Scanlon.

24/10/2019

In today's Galway Advertiser! We're off to the big apple this weekend!

09/10/2019

We are delighted and super excited that our short film, 'The Butterfly Love Song', has been selected as one of eight short films to screen at Irish Screen America New York! 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♂️ Seamus Scanlon

07/08/2019

Listen in live!

galwaybayfm.ie

About to go on Galway Bay FM to talk about "Sooner or Later"! Have a listen live to galwaybayfm.ie!

02/08/2019

8.6 on imdb?! That's higher than Jurassic Park!!!

We are so humbled with all of these wonderful reviews. Why not add "Sooner or Later" to your watchlist and add your own? It's FREE if you have an Amazon Prime Account! (Also free if you know how to make free trials...😉)

Thank you all for the continued support and love.

22/07/2019

Give us a like if you 😍 Gus in "Sooner or Later"

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sooner-Later-Muireann-N%C3%AD-Raghallaigh/dp/B07V9XQZ75/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sooner+or+later&qid=1563613840&s=instant-video&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR32NfQPUwEQoqogoyy2TTKaWnkhbZvW6r40XlJqgiV_1qYmL2_utGVPM0s

21/07/2019

:D Jus' saying....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sooner-Later-Muireann-N%C3%AD-Raghallaigh/dp/B07V9XQZ75/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sooner+or+later&qid=1563613840&s=instant-video&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR32NfQPUwEQoqogoyy2TTKaWnkhbZvW6r40XlJqgiV_1qYmL2_utGVPM0s

21/07/2019

And how DELIGHTED we are :D

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sooner-Later-Muireann-N%C3%AD-Raghallaigh/dp/B07V9XQZ75/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sooner+or+later&qid=1563613840&s=instant-video&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR32NfQPUwEQoqogoyy2TTKaWnkhbZvW6r40XlJqgiV_1qYmL2_utGVPM0s

20/07/2019

UPDATE TO THE AMAZING NEWS!!!!

Because of the surge of traffic on the US site, Amazon has now added "Sooner or Later" to ALL of its 68 English-language speaking territories. If you have a prime account, you can watch it for FREE today!

The more ratings and reviews we get, the more our little movie will get out there. Please support Irish film - watch it and leave us a rating!

Here's the link to the Ireland/UK site:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sooner-Later-Muireann-N%C3%AD-Raghallaigh/dp/B07V9XQZ75/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sooner+or+later&qid=1563613840&s=instant-video&sr=1-1

19/07/2019

AMAZING NEWS!

"Sooner or Later" is now listed on Amazon Prime in the USA! Those of you stateside can now watch the film for FREE if you have Amazon Prime (Pity we can't watch it over here in Ireland!!!)

If anyone has any friends or family in the states, we would really appreciate you sharing this with them. All reviews and ratings are invaluable to us at this point. Just share the link below.

Support Independent filmmaking! Watch "Sooner or Later" today!

https://www.amazon.com/Sooner-Later-Muireann-N%C3%AD-Raghallaigh/dp/B07V9JW22B/ref=sr_1_17?keywords=indie+rights&qid=1563553420&s=instant-video&sr=1-17

10/06/2019

Our entry for the Little Cinema Galway/Galway City of Film 48-Hour Challenge 2019 sees a daughter and her father travel across a ruined landscape to bury a rare nitro-fruit in order to save humanity from disease.

Each team received a prop (ours was a pineapple) and needed to incorporate a line of dialogue ("If it wasn't for this stupid smartphone...") into their film.

We had a great time making this! Everything from the concept to writing the script through to post-production and scoring was completed within a 48 hour timeframe. We were especially delighted to take home the BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY award, thanks to Fintan's visionary skill in capturing the sparse and desolate beauty of our locations.

Congratulations to the Little Cinema for running what has become our favourite event of the year, and congratulations to the other filmmakers who took part in this year's challenge, especially to the crew behind the brilliant winning film "Loving Alex".

21/03/2019

Pióg éinne? Tá gearrscannán eile déanta ag Project Spatula do ...

The 'self-praising' flour is to blame in this short film by Galway collective - Project Spatula!

25/01/2019

Have you seen this yet?

This time last year, we made "Zurich", announcing our exciting partnership with Bloc TG4. Watch, or re-watch, to celebrate the special bond between a boy and his dog with a very special performance by Seosamh Duffy.

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24/01/2019

Are you in an abusive relationship with your phone?

Join us for a slightly unsettling take on tech addiction...heck, why not watch it ON YOUR PHONE? 😂

24/12/2018

"Tafann" (Bark), a film by Project Spatula.

Happy Christmas from us all!

23/12/2018

Did you like our Ad for TG4?

The Project Spatula train keeps on rollin' through the holiday season with the release of our new short film "Tafann" (Bark) tomorrow! Did any one see it at our recent shorts screening? Keep an eye on our page tomorrow to see the great Iva Gannon, Michael Irwin and Claire Ahearne at work!

22/12/2018

Breathnaigh ar seo! Scannán le Project Spatula ar TG4, Nollaig 2018.

21/12/2018

Keep an eye out on the 'auld teilifís i rith laethanta saoire na Nollaig, you might just see an ad we made, starring the bold Frances Jones...

Oh, and we've got some exciting news for you about Christmas Eve too!

07/12/2018

Saw "The Butterfly Love Song" at our screening last night? Curious as to how we made the film?

Watch this awesome video put together by Spatulites Jake Rabbitte, Larry Blazy Abraham and Fionn Beardon detailing the journey through what was without a doubt our biggest filmmaking adventure yet!

Want to see the finished product? Come down to Nun's Island Theatre this evening at 6pm to watch "Butterfly Love Song" along with some other Spatula highlights throughout our 2 year existence!

Tickets available at https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/exhibitions/237-sooner-or-later?lang=en and on the door.

07/12/2018

This evening is your FINAL CHANCE to get a ticket to our celebratory screening of our short films and our feature film at Nun's Island, 6pm and 8pm!

all round from Niall (Post-production Sound), Lakshika (Camera) and Joe (Videography).

Secure your seat: https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/exhibitions/237-sooner-or-later?lang=en