Dingle Film Festival will welcome RED to the first annual Irish Red Users Gathering in Dingle on Saturday March 20th in The Phoenix Cinema.

Dingle is certainly competing to be different as it welcomes Alan Piper, Operations Director of RED Europe, who will be showcasing the newly upgraded RED One Camera, with Mysterium-X Sensor, as well as premiering RED's 4K M-X Show Reel on JVC's new 4K Projector, supplied by HoloVis UK. Again a first for Ireland!

The festival are also delighted to welcome Laura Castelli from ASSIMILATE showing their real-time 4K grading solution SCRATCH.

To compliment this unique event the DFF are compiling an Irish 4k Show Reel and are looking for suitable RED material, preferably 4K, to be included in the Show Reel.
If you would like to submit footage for consideration, please contact brian.nolan@fas.ie.
for more information as soon as possible.

In keeping with the RED theme the festival is also delighted to welcome Apple to Dingle where they will be presenting Final Cut Studio - RED workflow seminar. This two-hour seminar will guide you through the basic workflow of using RED footage with Final Cut Studio. Footage will be taken into Final Cut Pro, passed through to Color and back to Final Cut Pro again as advantages of Pro Res and RED raw footage are discussed. The presenter will be on-hand with a Euphonix MC Color Control to show the advantages of working on Color with this control surface.

Continuing with this amazing line-up DFF will also present The Power of Sound with double Oscar winner, Tom Johnson and Easy DCP with Heiko Sparenberg.

Brendan Tuohy will chair a discussion on 'The Future of Film in Ireland'. The Irish Film Board has recently set up a group to look at developing a strategy for the future of the Irish Film and Audiovisual Industry. This group is drawn from the industry itself and the relevant Government Departments and agencies. It is hoped that the group will chart a strategy to double the size of the sector over a period of about five years with an increased emphasis on exports.

DFF would also like to give a special welcome to the many Irish Apple Authorized Training Centers and Trainers that will visit Dingle for their 2010 AATC/e Irish conference.

These seminars have been organized by the Dingle Film Festival, in conjunction with
The FAS: TV & Video Production Unit, Tralee.

For further information Contact:

Brian Nolan, FAS: Tralee TV & Video Production Unit brian.nolan@fas.ie 066-7149679

Or

Maurice Galway, CEO/Artistic Director Dingle Film Festival Maurice@dinglefilmfestival.com 087 9139962

Just had a great 1 hour interview with Weeshie Fogerty, on radio Kerry, a lovely evening a lovely gentleman!!!!!!

Brian Nolan and his crew were there capturing footage for Geoff Wonfor's Documentary on the Dingle Film Festival

Weeshie and myself photographed

The IFTAs last night was a wonderful event with a lovely warm atmosphere and had a host of Irish and International talent present. 5 winners last night will be represented at this year's Dingle Film Festival in March. Rob Walpole and Rebecca O Flanagan took home the IFTA for best film, The Eclipse. Rob will be in Dingle with Paddy Breathnach along with a retrospective screening of their film, I Went Down. The Secret of Kells picked up 2 IFTAs, Tom Moore for both Rising Star and Best Animation, The Secret of Kells will play as part of our educational programme. Tom Johnson who will be in Dingle giving a talk on The Power of Sound picked up Best Sound Award for Ondine and Suzie Lavelle picked up The Best Director of Photography Award for One Hundred Mornings which will be screened following our RED Seminar .

The stars certainly came out with John Boorman, receiving a life time achievement award, also present were Saoirse Ronan, Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, Michael Fassbender, Sir Alan Parker (Alan opened the first Dingle Film Festival in 2007), Jon Voight, Matt Dillon, Juliette Binoche, Josh Hartnett, Aidan Quinn and many more.

For full details of the awards go to http://www.iftn.ie/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4282883&tpl=archnewshome&force=1

The GALLERY Siamsa and Dingle Film Festival are delighted to bring you Wisdom
http://www.siamsagallery.ie/wisdom-comes-to-the-gallery-siamsa-tire/

Opening March 12th at 6pm All Welcome

The Dingle Film Festival are delighted to announce some of its festival programme for its 4th edition. The festival will open on the 18th March and close on the 21st March 2010.

The Dingle Film Festival is in a unique position to be able to hold an exhibition of images from photographer Andrew Zuckermans Wisdom project at the GALLERY, Siamsa Tire in Tralee from 12th March, and will be showing Zuckermans Wisdom documentary in Dingle as part of this years Festival.

Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts a generation can pass on is the wisdom it has gained from experience, Zuckermans Wisdom project, produced with cooperation from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is an index of extraordinary perspectives from people who have made their own unique mark on the world.

Contributors include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Clint Eastwood, Madeleine Albright, Buzz Aldrin, Burt Bacharach, Dave Brubeck, Billy Connolly, Judi Dench, Vaclav Havel, Denis Healey, John Hume, Ted Kennedy, Billie Jean King, Henry Kissinger, Kris Kristofferson, Nelson Mandela, Willie Nelson, Mary Quant, Robert Redford, Vanessa Redgrave and Bill Withers.

The festival will also be screening Still Bill an amazing documentary on the singer Bill Withers. Known for such R&B classics as Just the two of us, Aint no Sunshine and Lean on me, this documentary was several years in the making. It is a truly terrific film.

A Mobters & Molls evening at the festival will begin with a screening of James Cagneys A Public Enemy and move on to Dick Macs for a 1920/30s Club featuring music from the period and a very special guest. Everyone is asked to join in and dress up as Gangsters and Molls on the night.

Also on the Gangster theme there will be a special family screening of Alan Parkers Bugsy Malone. Sir Alan Parker opened the first festival in 2007.

Another great documentary for the festival is Mugabe And The White African, winner of the BIFTA 09. Based on the story of Michael Campbell one of the few hundred white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent Land Reform programme in 2000. Since then the country has descended into chaos. The Daily Mail gives it 5 stars and says, Splendidly and often lyrically shot, with a marvelously sympathetic, dread-inducing score by Jonny Pilcher, this is one of the most powerful documentaries I have ever seen.

The festival will be screening CRUDE. Three years in the making, feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger, director of Metallica, Some Kind of Monster, is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. Rolling Stone said, A powerhouse of a documentary! This one means to shake you. And in Berlingers hands, it does.

Our educational programme will screen Merchant of Vience Starring Oscar winners Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons with Joeseph Fiennes, comes this enthralling tale of greed, corruption, love and betrayal. The festival is also proud to present Inside Im Dancing a wonderful feature from Irish director Damien O Donnell for our local secondary schools.

More details will be announced soon

Maurice Galway will be in conversation with Weeshie Fogerty on Radio Kerry on the 24th February at 6pm.

Geoff Wonfor, Director of The Beatles Anthology will be filming a feature film on the Dingle Film Festival this year.

Further details please contact email Maurice@dinglefilmfestival.com

You got to love the talent coming out of this country in film. Congratulations also to Peter J Devlin for his nomination in Sound Mixing for Star Track and also to Richard Baneham who is nominated for Visual Effects for his work on Avatar. That is a total of 5 Oscar nominations for the Irish Film Industry. A real reason to celebrate being Irish and being in film.

Note on Sound: The wonderful artist, one of the best in the world when it comes to sound, Tom Johnson will be in Dingle for the festival this year and will do a talk on The Power of Sound in Film.............if you love film, you just cant miss this.......more later!

The 82nd Academy Award Nominees were announced earlier today, and Irish films have received 3 nods for Cartoon Saloons The Secret of Kells in the Best Animated Feature Film category, Juanita Wilson and James Flynns The Door in the Short Film (Live Action) group and Brown Bag Films Granny O Grimms Sleeping Beauty in the category of Short Film (Animated). Both Shorts I am proud to say were screened at the Dingle Film Festival. You can find more details on the IFTN website - www.iftn.ie. we wish them each the best of luck in March.