Comedy in Dingle
Marc Flanagan Winner of two Emmy's and a Writers Guild Award will give a comedy writing workshop at this year's Dingle Film Festival.
Marc gave Comedy workshops at Warner Brothers Studios when he was
writing and producing on their lot for The Warner's Writers
Programme. Marc was Executive Producer on a number of TV programs
including Madigan Men for the ABC Network starring Gabriel Byrne,
Exec Prod. of Murphy Brown, a CBS Network show starring Candace
Bergen and written and produced Tracey Ullman's programs many times,
for Fox TV and for HBO. His dream is to produce and write for a half
hour comedy in Ireland also working on a comedy film script that is
set in The Emerald Isle.
Composer and performer Peter Blanchette will perform live a complete
musical score to Buster Keaton's 1928 silent film masterpiece
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (71 minutes). Blanchette will employ his genre-
striding and multi-instrumental skills to create the illusion of a
versatile "pit band" that sounds one minute like Glenn Gould playing
hard rock and the next like a vintage Beale Street trio. Blanchette
will use cutting edge computer laptop-based technology to create
previously mixed sound, synced to the projection of the film. At this
live multi-instrumental performances, Blanchette will play electric
guitar, banjo, electric dulcimer, mandolin, electric baritone guitar
and piano, and will sing along with his trademark archguitar.
Blanchette will also present a master class entitled "Moving Images
and Music,"
Peter Blanchette is the inventor of the 11-string archguitar. His
repertoire of unusual and internationally acclaimed arrangements and
compositions spans from medieval to contemporary to ethnic, played in
solo recital or with selected other instrumentalists to form the
Virtual Consort. In 2009, he was a WFCR Foundation nominee as one of
the region's most valuable artists. As a composer, he has contributed
to such television programs as HBO's "Sex and the City" and PBS'
"Inside the Tuscan Hills." In the late 1990's, the Massachusetts
International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) commissioned Peter
Blanchette to compose scores to the Buster Keaton silent comedies The
General and The Navigator which resulted in sell-out performances.
Among other film work, Blanchette worked extensively with Pulitzer
Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and director John Turturro on
Turturro’s film Illuminata. He is also the founder and Artistic
Director of the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra and holds a Masters
Degree in Music Composition from Smith College.
CALL FOR COMEDY
As part of the Dingle Film Festival’s 3rd Edition we are having a comedy theme and we want to screen your comedy film. Both features and shorts welcome. If you are interested please send us a screening DVD, PAL format, by May 30th 2009. Please send DVD (PAL) to Dingle Film Festival, First Floor, Garden Café, Green Street, Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
DFF can screen your film on 35mm, Digi-beta, Beta SP, DVD.
The festival will also be screening a number of comedy classics during the festival in the unique Phoenix Cinema and will also be screening comedy in some more unusual venues. The Cohen brother’s hilarious comedy ‘The Big Lebowski’ will be screened in the appropriate Dingle Bowling Alley, while the unforgettable ‘Withnail & I’ will receive a screening in The Dingle Cattle Mart.
Dingle Film Festival is set in the beautiful setting that is An Daingean; home to many film makers, one of Ireland’s only independent cinemas, a known film location and a major tourist destination. Dingle Film Festival offers feature screenings from Ireland and around the globe, covering all genres; a workshop programme for film professionals and film enthusiasts; a visual arts programme (Pictures); and educational and Irish language programmes. DFF also hosts The Gregory Peck Award: For Excellence in the Art of Film.
Gabriel Byrne received the Gregory Peck Award in 2008. Gregory Peck’s family including his wife Veronique, son Anthony and daughter Cecilia attended the festival.
DFF attracted high profile names to the festival such as: inventor of the stedicam and Oscar winner, Garrett Brown; 2 time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple; director Cecilia Peck and Anthony Wall of BBC Arena. (Year 1 attracted Sir Alan Parker and actress Sarah Miles.)
Festival Dates: September 10th – 13th 2009
Further information, please contact, Festival Director, Maurice Galway on 087 9139962 or email maurice@dinglefilmfestival.com
Festival Information at www.dinglefilmfestival.com
Glaoch Coiméide
Beidh an greann mar théama ar an tríú ‘Féile Scannán an Daingin’. Má tá scannán coiméide fada nó gearr agat seol ar aghaidh chugainn é ar DVD i bhformáid PAL agus taispeánfar é le linn na Féile. Ní mór é a bheith againn roimh 30 Bealtaine 2009.
Seol ar aghaidh an DVD (PAL) led thoil go dtí: Féile Scannán an Daingin, An Chéad Urlár, Garden Café, Sráid an Doirín, An Daingean, Co. Chiarraí, Éire.
Is féidir le FSD na scannáin a thaispeáint ar 35mm, Digi-beta, Beta SP nó DVD.
Le linn na Féile taispeánfar roinnt scannán claisiceacha coiméide i bpictiúrlann An Phoenix agus in áiteanna eile timpeall an bhaile chomh maith. Orthu san beidh ‘The Big Lebowski’ leis na deartháireacha Cohen le feiscint sa Chúirt Babhlála agus an scannán dodhearmadta ‘Withnail & I’ i Marglann an Daingin.
Beidh an Fhéile lonnaithe i mbaile aoibhinn an Daingin, áit a maireann mórán de lucht déanta scannán. Tá pictiúrlann neamhspleách Éireannach ar an mbaile chomh maith. Is láthair cháiliúil scannánaíochta í An Daingean agus tá a hainm in airde mar suíomh turasóireachta i gcéin is i gcongar. Ag an bhFéile beidh gach genre scannán le feiscint, mar shampla, scannáin lánfhada Éireannacha agus idirnáisiúnta. Beidh clár ceardlainne do lucht scannánaíochta agus do lucht leanta scannán; beidh clár amharcealaíon (pictiúirí) ar fáil chomh maith le scannáin teagaisc agus clár Gaeilge. Ag an bhFéile bronnfar ‘Duais Gregory Peck: don aisteoireacht is fearr i scannán’.
Bronnadh duais Gregory Peck ar Gabriel Byrne i 2008. Bhí Clann Gregory Peck i láthair – a bhean Veronique, a mhac Anthony agus a iníon Cecilia.
Bhí daoine eile mór le rá i láthair ag an bhFéile chomh maith: Garrett Brow, cruthadóir an stedicam agus buaiteoir Oscar; Barbara Kopple a bhuaigh Oscar dhá bhabhta; Cecilia Pick, stiúrthóir agus Anthony Wall ó BBC Arena. (Bhí an Ridire Alan Parker agus an t-aisteoir Sarah Miles i láthair sa chéad bhliain).
Dátaí na Féile: 10 – 13 Meán Fómhair 2009
Breis eolais ó Maurice Galway, Stiúrthóir na Féile ag 087 – 9139962 nó
r-phost: maurice@dinglefilmfestival.com
Gach eolas ar an bhFéile: www.dinglefilmfestival.com
Críoch
What people had to say about Dingle Film Festival 2008.
Thank you for being such a generous and thoughtful host to myself and
Anna. We had a wonderful time in Dingle. We were only sorry about one
thing. That we had to leave. !!! The festival was heartfelt and
unpretentious. And I met some lovely people. Gabriel Byrne
Thank you for your lovely email, and for the imagination and hard
work that created such a wonderful festival. I looked back through
all of our emails and it really was a journey. Even so, we didn't
know what it would be like, and our whole family had a fantastic
experience. It was such a thrill to see the theatre full of people
for our screenings, to have that sense of the audience wanting to
gather to watch the films together. Cecilia Peck
" The people of Dingle, we feel with you and of you, we feel home
here, we see ourselves in you and we hope you feel the same and we
love you very much and we look forward to our next visit soon".
Anthony Peck
This was the greatest festival this year! And I have been to some
wonderful ones, including three years at Cannes. The intimacy and
quality reminded me of years ago at Galway or Mill Valley in
California. It's rare when a film festival is so open and
intimate. Lori Kearney
"We have loved every second of the Dingle Film Festival". Cecilia Peck
It was a pleasure to be able to help in any way, I am 110% behind
this wonderful Festival & would love to see it grow & grow each year.
Grainne Kavanagh, Emlagh House
I don't know how you'll follow it, because whatever happened this
year was special. Francis O Sullivan Phoenix Cinema
One last cyber-hurrah from here to congratulate you and your DFF
colIeagues on what by all accounts seems to have been an unqualified
success. I have been hearing nothing but raves of satisfaction from
those in the know - Veronique, Cecilia, Anthony and even the
grandchildren. Needless to say - but I will - I am not in the least
bit surprised. Again, my compliments to Chef Maurice! Monroe
Freidman, LA
I wanted to write and thank you for inviting me to the Dingle Film
Festival. I had such a wonderful time. Everyone was so great and
generous, and the audiences were receptive to the films.
I love Dingle and hope to be asked back again. I'm hooked! Barbara
Kopple
Thinking back with pleasure on our sojourn with you in Dingle.
Garrett Brown
I just wanted to thank you and your team of volunteers for looking
after us all so well - we had a fantastic time.
The Festival was a triumph - a varied and interesting programme of
films and talks and everything seemed to go like clockwork (Dingle
time clockwork sometimes)! And the cottage you put us up in was
beautiful.
Please pass on my special thanks to Mike - he went above and beyond
the call of duty yesterday and took us on an amazing trip around the
peninsula and on to Tralee to take us to Castle Street to experience
the madness there for ourselves!
We made the flight with minutes to spare but it was all worth it.
I will remember the trip forever and will definitely spread the word
on the Dingle Film Festival to everyone I meet.
Say hello to Mike, Tom, Nigel, Sheila, Annette, Mags and anyone else
I've missed and tell them the London Arena crowd loved the whole
experience and will hopefully be back next year. Andrew Wright BBC
