The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (Sdgi) is honored to present the Foras Na Gaeilge Award to Irish director and producer Tom Collins in recognition for Outstanding Contribution in the Irish language in Film and TV. Love/Hate writer Stuart Carolan will present the award to Tom. Hailed for his Irish language films Kings (2007) and the award winning film Hush-a-Bye-Baby (1992), most recently Collins has had enormous success with the award-winning Irish noir crime drama An Bronntanas, which was adapted for a five part thriller series for TG4 that has now been picked up by French distributor Lagardère Entertainment. Directed by Collins and starring Dara Devaney (Na Cloigne), Owen McDonnell (Single Handed) and John Finn (Cold Case), An Bronntanas tells the story of the crew of a local independent lifeboat in Connemara who find over a million euro worth of drugs on an abandoned fishing boat. Speaking about the award, Tom.
- 6/24/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Actress Saoirse Ronan and director Jim Sheridan among selection committee to submit thriller based around a lifeboat crew.
The Irish Film & Television Academy (Ifta) has submitted An Bronntanas as Ireland’s submission for the Foreign Language category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Directed by Tom Collins, and produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh of Rosg and Tom Collins, An Bronntanas stars Dara Devaney, John Finn , Owen McDonnell, Michelle Beamish, Pól Ó Gríofa, Charlotte Bradley and Januscz Sheagall. The script was written by Joe O’Byrne, Paul Walker, Eoin McNamee and Tom Collins.
The film was primarily shot in Irish in Connemara, County Galway by cinematographer Cian de Buitléar. The film premiered as the closing film of the Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year.
An Bronntanas (The Gift) is a contemporary thriller set against the backdrop of a local independent lifeboat crew working off the coast of Connemara, on the west of Ireland. The rescue...
The Irish Film & Television Academy (Ifta) has submitted An Bronntanas as Ireland’s submission for the Foreign Language category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Directed by Tom Collins, and produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh of Rosg and Tom Collins, An Bronntanas stars Dara Devaney, John Finn , Owen McDonnell, Michelle Beamish, Pól Ó Gríofa, Charlotte Bradley and Januscz Sheagall. The script was written by Joe O’Byrne, Paul Walker, Eoin McNamee and Tom Collins.
The film was primarily shot in Irish in Connemara, County Galway by cinematographer Cian de Buitléar. The film premiered as the closing film of the Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year.
An Bronntanas (The Gift) is a contemporary thriller set against the backdrop of a local independent lifeboat crew working off the coast of Connemara, on the west of Ireland. The rescue...
- 10/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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Tonight’s genre reruns include The Vampire Diaries (the CW, 8 p.m., a repeat of last night’s highly-rated pilot, in case you missed it), Ghost Whisperer (“Endless Love,” CBS, 8 p.m.) and Medium (“The Talented Ms. Boddicker,” CBS, 9 p.m.). Eureka is still fielding new episodes on Syfy. Tonight’s entry (9 p.m.) is “Have an Ice Day,” with a returning Matt Frewer.
Such weekend programming as Primeval, Kings, Being Human, Merlin and Pushing Daisies have already ended their runs. BBC America offers a new beginning Saturday, 9 p.m. as Robin Hood returns for a third season premiere (“Total Eclipse,” in which mourning continues for Maid Marian, surprisingly killed off at last season’s end). Syfy counterprograms (also Saturday, 9 p.m.) with a new teleflick, Lightning Strikes. It stars Starlog favorite Kevin Sorbo.
Sunday night features two conclusions. King Of The Hill...
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Tonight’s genre reruns include The Vampire Diaries (the CW, 8 p.m., a repeat of last night’s highly-rated pilot, in case you missed it), Ghost Whisperer (“Endless Love,” CBS, 8 p.m.) and Medium (“The Talented Ms. Boddicker,” CBS, 9 p.m.). Eureka is still fielding new episodes on Syfy. Tonight’s entry (9 p.m.) is “Have an Ice Day,” with a returning Matt Frewer.
Such weekend programming as Primeval, Kings, Being Human, Merlin and Pushing Daisies have already ended their runs. BBC America offers a new beginning Saturday, 9 p.m. as Robin Hood returns for a third season premiere (“Total Eclipse,” in which mourning continues for Maid Marian, surprisingly killed off at last season’s end). Syfy counterprograms (also Saturday, 9 p.m.) with a new teleflick, Lightning Strikes. It stars Starlog favorite Kevin Sorbo.
Sunday night features two conclusions. King Of The Hill...
- 9/11/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
'Sunshower', a 13 minute short film by Irish writer/director Liam Gavin, has been selected for competition for the 2009 Raindance Film Festival. Shot in the Dublin Mountains in January 2009, 'Sunshower' was produced by Maggie Mitchell of Samson Films and was funded by the Filmbase/Rte short film scheme. The short stars Jenn Murray (Dorothy Mills, Day of the Triffids) and Ifta winning actor Brendan Conroy (Kings), and depicts a somewhat frightening but ultimately redemptive encounter between a teenage girl and an old man, after she knocks him down with a stolen car in the middle of the countryside.
- 9/1/2009
- IFTN
With two major Us productions set to film in Ni this year, Northern Ireland Screen are focusing on bringing local talent and productions to this year's Cannes Film Festival revealing five new home-grown productions in the works. The screen agency's profile is currently at an all-time high amongst the global film-making community. New titles include; 'Paddy Mayne', an action drama penned by Richard Crawford (The Abduction Club) and produced by Alistair Maclean-Clark (The War Bride, Octane, Heartbreak Hotel, Arn), 'Teenage Kicks', produced by Michael Kelly, Pete Foott is directing with Spence Wright (Red Mist) and John Cairns screenwriting; 'Jump', the creation of 'Raw' writer Lisa McGee with Brendan Byrne on board to produce and director Kieron J. Walsh (When Brendan Met Trudy); director Tom Collins (Kings) is planning the adaptation of 'Reading in the Dark' - based on Seamus Deane's award winning novel; and 'Parabellum', produced by Colin...
- 5/14/2009
- IFTN
New feature length documentary, 'The Boys of St Columb's', directed by Tom Collins (Kings) finishes editing this week. The film, which follows the return of remarkable group of boys who went to the school in Derry, is scheduled to screen at summer festivals as well as broadcasting on BBC on 15th August and then on Rte in October 5th. St Columb's College - over looking Derry's Bogside - was unusual for the crop of talented boys attending around the same time: poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney; novelist Seamus Deane; author, and political activist - Eamonn McCann; songwriters, Phil Coulter and Paul Brady and Ambassador James Sharkey. It is the only school in the world which can boast two past pupils as Nobel Prize winners: John Hume and Seamus Deane.
- 4/30/2009
- IFTN
Declan Recks' "Eden" has been selected to screen as the opening night film of the first Irish Film Festival of Los Angeles, which kicks off at the Clarity Theater in Beverly Hills on Oct. 2.
"Eden," starring Eileen Walsh and Aidan Kelly, is the portrait of a married couple that Eugene O'Brien adapted from his play of the same name.
The closing night special event on Oct. 5 will include two rare Irish silent films accompanied by a live orchestra with an original contemporary score composed by Eimear Noone, Irish film composer and conductor of the Los Angeles Ballet.
The festival will also screen Tom Collins' "Kings," the first Irish-language film ever submitted in the best foreign-language category for an Academy Award.
Other titles in the lineup include "Grandpa...Speak to Me in Russian," directed by Louis Lentin; "Shalom Ireland," directed by Valerie Lapin; "Learning Gravity" (aka "The Undertaking"), directed...
"Eden," starring Eileen Walsh and Aidan Kelly, is the portrait of a married couple that Eugene O'Brien adapted from his play of the same name.
The closing night special event on Oct. 5 will include two rare Irish silent films accompanied by a live orchestra with an original contemporary score composed by Eimear Noone, Irish film composer and conductor of the Los Angeles Ballet.
The festival will also screen Tom Collins' "Kings," the first Irish-language film ever submitted in the best foreign-language category for an Academy Award.
Other titles in the lineup include "Grandpa...Speak to Me in Russian," directed by Louis Lentin; "Shalom Ireland," directed by Valerie Lapin; "Learning Gravity" (aka "The Undertaking"), directed...
- 8/21/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Tudors reigned supreme at the fifth annual Irish Film & Television Awards in Dublin on Sunday night, walking away with seven IFTAs, the most any single TV or film title has gained in the award's five-year history.
The Showtime series about the life of King Henry VIII, won the best drama series/soap award, while actors Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Nick Dunning also won IFTA statues.
"Tudors" costume designer Joan Bergin, production designer Tom Conroy and hair and makeup team Jennifer Hegarty and Dee Corcoran also were winners on the night.
On the feature film side, a strongly contested race saw "Kings" and "Garage" emerge as the top winners, with five and four awards, respectively.
Irish-language drama "Kings" dominated the craft categories, taking nods for original score, sound and editing, among others, while "Garage" picked up the IFTAs for best film, director (Lenny Abrahamson), script (Mark O'Halloran) and actor in a lead role (Pat Shortt).
Writer/director team O'Halloran and Abrahamson also earned the top writing and directing kudos on the TV side for their urban drama series "Prosperity". Irish-language series "The Running Mate" took the best single drama award.
Mel Gibson was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award and received a standing ovation.
The Showtime series about the life of King Henry VIII, won the best drama series/soap award, while actors Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Nick Dunning also won IFTA statues.
"Tudors" costume designer Joan Bergin, production designer Tom Conroy and hair and makeup team Jennifer Hegarty and Dee Corcoran also were winners on the night.
On the feature film side, a strongly contested race saw "Kings" and "Garage" emerge as the top winners, with five and four awards, respectively.
Irish-language drama "Kings" dominated the craft categories, taking nods for original score, sound and editing, among others, while "Garage" picked up the IFTAs for best film, director (Lenny Abrahamson), script (Mark O'Halloran) and actor in a lead role (Pat Shortt).
Writer/director team O'Halloran and Abrahamson also earned the top writing and directing kudos on the TV side for their urban drama series "Prosperity". Irish-language series "The Running Mate" took the best single drama award.
Mel Gibson was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award and received a standing ovation.
- 2/19/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Palm Springs International Film Festival
PALM SPRINGS -- The faces of five middle-age Irish men are the landscape of Kings -- a terrain of craggy, ferocious beauty, much like the Connemara they left 30 years earlier and still long for.
Those faces are among the film's pleasures, as is the chance to hear the guttural music of the Irish language, a tongue rarely heard even in Eire.
But despite the fine work of its cast -- Colm Meaney among them -- the film feels increasingly constricted by its stage roots and grows less interesting as it proceeds. Kings, the first Irish-language Oscar submission, is less rewarding as a drama than as a mood piece steeped in alcohol, recriminations and sorrow. It also is an affecting group portrait of the unsettled immigrant soul and of people living disenfranchised lives in the shadows of cities they've adopted but not embraced and, in this case, helped to build.
Based on Jimmy Murphy's play "The Kings of the Kilburn High Road," the story uses the tired contrivance of a once-tight group of friends reuniting for a wake after one of the clique dies. Having made their lives, with varying degrees of success, in England, this quintet holds fast to notions of home they can neither regain nor relinquish. In a sense, they envy Jackie, the friend they've come to mourn, because he's returning to western Ireland, where his grief-stunned father (Peadar O'Treasaigh) will bury him.
Beyond his sailing championships, spotty employment history and struggles with alcohol, Jackie remains a cipher. In mourning him, the men really are mourning their youth. When they came to North London in 1977, full of energy and purpose, they were among a vast wave of Irish emigrants, many of whom entered the construction industry. Jackie died under an underground train -- in a tunnel likely built by Irish workers.
At various points in the past three decades, Jackie's friends all cut their ties to him, and all wrestle with guilt. That guilt is an overemphasized element in the film's emotional mix, especially for the most financially successful member of the group, Joe (Meaney), who can't bring himself to enter the church for the funeral. (Later, though, he snorts some cocaine in a confessional.) Joe broke away from the group many years earlier and formed his own construction company. That Jap (Donal O'Kelly, a standout in this excellent cast) still resents him for it is a good indication of how stunted some of these men are.
Jap shares a squalid flat with Git (Brendan Conroy), both devoted to the bottle. Mairtin (Barry Barnes) is trying to kick the sauce at the insistence of his dour, fed-up wife. Shay (Donncha Crowley), who owns a produce stall, is the only one to have left the "real work" of construction and seems the best adjusted.
As these men fumble through their boozy ritual, writer-director Tom Collins and cinematographer PJ Dillon draw in close, with intimate camerawork and a strong sense of working-class neighborhoods. Yet the adapted dialogues too often feel stagy and repetitive, and rather than building cumulative impact, this rue-infused film feels longer than its running time.
KINGS
High Point Films/Panorama Entertainment
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Tom Collins
Based on the play "The Kings of the Kilburn High Road" by Jimmy Murphy
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Director of photography: PJ Dillon
Production designer: David Craig
Music: Pol O'Brennan
Co-producer: Michael Casey
Costume designer: Maggie Donnelly
Editor: Dermot Diskin
Cast:
Joe Mullan: Colm Meaney
Jap: Donal O'Kelly
Git: Brendan Conroy
Mairtin: Barry Barnes
Shay: Donncha Crowley
Jackie: Sean O'Tarpaigh
Micil: Peadar O'Treasaigh
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PALM SPRINGS -- The faces of five middle-age Irish men are the landscape of Kings -- a terrain of craggy, ferocious beauty, much like the Connemara they left 30 years earlier and still long for.
Those faces are among the film's pleasures, as is the chance to hear the guttural music of the Irish language, a tongue rarely heard even in Eire.
But despite the fine work of its cast -- Colm Meaney among them -- the film feels increasingly constricted by its stage roots and grows less interesting as it proceeds. Kings, the first Irish-language Oscar submission, is less rewarding as a drama than as a mood piece steeped in alcohol, recriminations and sorrow. It also is an affecting group portrait of the unsettled immigrant soul and of people living disenfranchised lives in the shadows of cities they've adopted but not embraced and, in this case, helped to build.
Based on Jimmy Murphy's play "The Kings of the Kilburn High Road," the story uses the tired contrivance of a once-tight group of friends reuniting for a wake after one of the clique dies. Having made their lives, with varying degrees of success, in England, this quintet holds fast to notions of home they can neither regain nor relinquish. In a sense, they envy Jackie, the friend they've come to mourn, because he's returning to western Ireland, where his grief-stunned father (Peadar O'Treasaigh) will bury him.
Beyond his sailing championships, spotty employment history and struggles with alcohol, Jackie remains a cipher. In mourning him, the men really are mourning their youth. When they came to North London in 1977, full of energy and purpose, they were among a vast wave of Irish emigrants, many of whom entered the construction industry. Jackie died under an underground train -- in a tunnel likely built by Irish workers.
At various points in the past three decades, Jackie's friends all cut their ties to him, and all wrestle with guilt. That guilt is an overemphasized element in the film's emotional mix, especially for the most financially successful member of the group, Joe (Meaney), who can't bring himself to enter the church for the funeral. (Later, though, he snorts some cocaine in a confessional.) Joe broke away from the group many years earlier and formed his own construction company. That Jap (Donal O'Kelly, a standout in this excellent cast) still resents him for it is a good indication of how stunted some of these men are.
Jap shares a squalid flat with Git (Brendan Conroy), both devoted to the bottle. Mairtin (Barry Barnes) is trying to kick the sauce at the insistence of his dour, fed-up wife. Shay (Donncha Crowley), who owns a produce stall, is the only one to have left the "real work" of construction and seems the best adjusted.
As these men fumble through their boozy ritual, writer-director Tom Collins and cinematographer PJ Dillon draw in close, with intimate camerawork and a strong sense of working-class neighborhoods. Yet the adapted dialogues too often feel stagy and repetitive, and rather than building cumulative impact, this rue-infused film feels longer than its running time.
KINGS
High Point Films/Panorama Entertainment
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Tom Collins
Based on the play "The Kings of the Kilburn High Road" by Jimmy Murphy
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Director of photography: PJ Dillon
Production designer: David Craig
Music: Pol O'Brennan
Co-producer: Michael Casey
Costume designer: Maggie Donnelly
Editor: Dermot Diskin
Cast:
Joe Mullan: Colm Meaney
Jap: Donal O'Kelly
Git: Brendan Conroy
Mairtin: Barry Barnes
Shay: Donncha Crowley
Jackie: Sean O'Tarpaigh
Micil: Peadar O'Treasaigh
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/10/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- With Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit out of the foreign Oscar picture, Ioncinema.com predicts a four-way race between audience faves Persepolis, The Counterfeiters, 4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Caramel. Spain's The Orphanage has the best chance at completing the 5 pack. That said everything else is just a formality. The final five picks will be announced on Jan. 22. The Oscar ceremony takes place Feb. 24. 2008 Foreign Oscar Long ListArgentina: Xxy (Lucia Puenzo)Australia: The Home Song Stories (Tony Ayres) Austria: The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky)Azerbaijan: Caucasia (Farid Gumbatov)Bangladesh: On The Wings Of Dreams (Golam Rabbany Biblob)Belgium: Ben X (Nic Balthazar) Bosnia and Herzegovina: It's Hard To Be Nice (Srdjan Vuletic)Brazil: The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Cao Hamburger)Bulgaria: Warden of the Dead (Ilian Simeonov)Canada: The Days of Darkness (Denys Arcand)Chile: Padre nuestro (Our Father) - (Rodrigo Sepulveda)China: The Knot (Yun shui
- 10/18/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
The animated film "Persepolis", from France, Denys Arcand's "Days of Darkness" from Canada, Johnnie To's "Exiled" from Hong Kong and Cristian Mungiu's Palm d'Or winner "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" are among the 63 films that have qualified for Oscar consideration in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' foreign language film category.
The record number of 63 entries include first-time submissions from Azerbaijan (Farid Gumbatov's "Caucasia") and Ireland (Tom Collins' "Kings").
Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 22, and the Oscars will be handed out Feb. 24.
The complete list follows:
Argentina, "XXY", Lucia Puenzo, director; Australia, "The Home Song Stories", Tony Ayres; Austria, "The Counterfeiters", Stefan Ruzowitzky; Azerbaijan, "Caucasia", Farid Gumbatov; Bangladesh, "On the Wings of Dreams", Golam Rabbany, Biplob; Belgium, "Ben X", Nic Balthazar; Bosnia and Herzegovina, "It's Hard to Be Nice", Srdan Vuletic; Brazil, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation," Cao Hamburger; and Bulgaria, "Warden of the Dead", Ilian Simeonov.
Canada, "Days of Darkness", Denys Arcand; Chile, "Padre Nuestro", Rodrigo Sepulveda; China, "The Knot", Yin Li; Colombia, "Satanas", Andi Baiz; Croatia, "Armin", Ognjen Svilicic; Cuba, "The Silly Age", Pavel Giroud; Czech Republic, "I Served the King of England", Jiri Menzel, director; Denmark, "The Art of Crying", Peter Schonau Fog; Egypt, "In the Heliopolis Flat", Mohamed Khan; and Estonia, "The Class", Ilmar Raag.
The record number of 63 entries include first-time submissions from Azerbaijan (Farid Gumbatov's "Caucasia") and Ireland (Tom Collins' "Kings").
Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 22, and the Oscars will be handed out Feb. 24.
The complete list follows:
Argentina, "XXY", Lucia Puenzo, director; Australia, "The Home Song Stories", Tony Ayres; Austria, "The Counterfeiters", Stefan Ruzowitzky; Azerbaijan, "Caucasia", Farid Gumbatov; Bangladesh, "On the Wings of Dreams", Golam Rabbany, Biplob; Belgium, "Ben X", Nic Balthazar; Bosnia and Herzegovina, "It's Hard to Be Nice", Srdan Vuletic; Brazil, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation," Cao Hamburger; and Bulgaria, "Warden of the Dead", Ilian Simeonov.
Canada, "Days of Darkness", Denys Arcand; Chile, "Padre Nuestro", Rodrigo Sepulveda; China, "The Knot", Yin Li; Colombia, "Satanas", Andi Baiz; Croatia, "Armin", Ognjen Svilicic; Cuba, "The Silly Age", Pavel Giroud; Czech Republic, "I Served the King of England", Jiri Menzel, director; Denmark, "The Art of Crying", Peter Schonau Fog; Egypt, "In the Heliopolis Flat", Mohamed Khan; and Estonia, "The Class", Ilmar Raag.
- 10/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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