Filmmaker and newly appointed Film Ireland commissioning editor, Ross Whitaker has enjoyed much recent success which includes seeing his short documentary 'Bye Bye Now' scoop the audience award at the recent Silver Docs festival and having his first issue printed for distribution on July 6th. Iftn caught up with Ross to talk American audiences, driving around Ireland in search of phone box stories and bringing attention back to Film Ireland's regular features. The fruits of Ross Whitaker's new role as Commissioning Editor will be revealed in the next issue of Film Ireland which will be available from July 6th. The filmmaker recently enjoyed success with his short documentary 'Bye, Bye Now' when it won the Audience Award at the AFI Silverdocs Festival during the last week of June. The doc, which was co-directed and co-produced by Ross and Aideen O'Sullivan, follows the planned removal of a number...
- 7/2/2010
- IFTN
When it was announced that "Men Who Swim," Dylan Williams' feature about a British man living in Sweden who joins a local men's synchronized swimming team, was the audience award's choice for best feature (Aideen O'Sullivan & Ross Whitaker's "Bye Bye Now" was the audience's choice for best short), a suspicion I had about this year's Silverdocs Film Festival was confirmed. It seemed, through talking to audience members before screenings, that ...
- 6/28/2010
- Indiewire
The Silver Docs nominees in the World Feature and Short Film categories have been announced with the latter featuring three Irish projects; Aideen O'Sullivan's 'Bye Bye Now', Ken Wardrop's 'The Herd' and Anna Rodgers' 'If These Walls Could Talk'. The Silver Docs film festival will run this year from the 21st to the 27th of June. The event's Sterling Short Competition features 40 shortlisted projects including three Irish works.
- 5/26/2010
- IFTN
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