'Shout' nominated for Hollywood Music Awards



The lovely and talented Donna Lewis whose song ‘Shout’ is in our film, has been nominated in the Pop category for a Hollywood Music Award.

Shout is our one contemporary song in the film, the minute our composer Gerry Leonard recommended it to us, we knew it was right for the end titles. Gerry had worked with Donna on her last album,
In The Pink, and thought it would be a good match.

Thought you might all enjoy the video for Shout and congrats to Donna on the song being nominated. Terrific news!

Sao Paolo, Brazil

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Okay, it’s their 32nd festival but we own their ass....

Our first screenings in South America at it’s most prestigious film festival, the
Sao Paolo International Film Festival. To say ‘Wish we were there...’ doesn’t really begin to describe how we feel about it. Still three screenings next week and we’ll be lighting the old candles back here in wintry wet Leitrim.

Got to get one of
those posters.

Letting our freak flags fly...

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Well it’s Stateside for a few weeks. We’re participating in four festivals in North America over the coming month.

First off is
Woodstock. Their festival has become something of an indie filmmaker haunt since the other two big festivals in the city got so... well... big. Marian certainly seemed to have a good time at the Q&A afterwards. The woman behind her is Martha Frankel, a founder of the Festival. In our first screening 32A played to a sold out crowd, garnering some postive blog reports instantly, including a nice review from Times Herald Record. Here’s a wee snippet-

“It’s a semi-autobiographical tale of growing up as a 13 year old girl in 1979 Ireland told simply and perfectly. There’s no bells and whistles here – just a little story told with extreme expertise and truly great performances from four first time actresses.”

Coolarooney...

There’s also
a lovely portrait of Gerry Leonard, our composer and friend, in the Poughkeepsie Journal, including an interesting video.

We’ve got another screening on Sunday in the Rosendale Theater, an old dame of a cinema, huge too. There’s only a few tickets left, so great to hear.

Dates for Cinemas in Ireland!

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We’re in the cinema in Ireland commencing August 15th. We’ve been busy cutting our trailer up with the gang in Screen Scene in Dublin, Jim Duggan has a nice crew up there, Peter, Ciara, Warren and Mark looked after us very well. We had Conor Ferguson direct it and they all did a great job. Conor has a lovely short out at the moment called Atlantic which screened in Galway this year.

So the venues: Starting AUGUST 15th

Dublin: IFI Cinemas
Booking office: 01.679.5744 Book Online

Carrick on Shannon: Cineplex
Booking office: 071.967.2000
Book Online

Sligo: Gaiety Cinema
Booking office: 071.917.4001

The Road Home...

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Oh the home turf... Nothing like it. A crack of light perhaps though in the not too distant future.

We’re going to be in the
Lights Out Festival in the IFC, with a ‘gala’ screening on Tuesday, July 15th at 6.00. There’s going to be a bit of a party and they hoping to see as much of the cast and crew there as can come, so this should be tremendous fun.

We’re working with the
IFI’s education department on developing a package for schools, particularly the transition year students so we’re looking forward to building something interesting out of that, more details to follow.

Lights Out tours to Ballinamore, Manorhamilton, Ennis, Kilkenny, Dundalk, Youghal, and Moate. When the schedule clarifies we’ll be updating here. We’re hoping to tour to at least some of these ourselves as well.

Three Continents...

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Okay... a little dizzy hopping from coast to coast... but probably no more than usual. We’ve had two screenings in Seattle at the Seattle International Film Festival there.

This weekend we’re in
Newport, Rhode Island on the other side of the States. We will have some friends attending so looking forward to hearing what they thought. There’s a screening tonight and one on Sunday afternoon....

Meanwhile back in Europe... The
Emden Film Festival in Northern Germany is run by some very nice people indeed and they invited us over for their screenings of 32A. They have a screening tonight and on Saturday 7th June.

So a busy weekend for 32A. Co-incidentally Marian’s birthday is on the 6th so great to have her feature shown in two different continents at the same time...

Following on from all of this is a screening in Quebec in Canada at the prestigious
Tremblant Film Festival. Screenings will be on Thursday June 19th and Saturday June 21st.

And last but definitely not least, we have our debut in the Southern Hemisphere... We’re in the
Melbourne Film Festival in Australia... Screening on Thursday August 7th. They used 32A for the cover of their Next Gen brochure (thanks!) and wrote a neat two line summary of 32A which I think I’m going to use... where were they during all those pitches...

Mill Valley Film Festival

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San Francisco... here we come! I get to travel over as well and finally visit a part of the world that’s always fascinated me. I’ll get to see an old College friend, John, who lives in Berkeley and Marian’s brother, Paul, will travel up from LA to meet us as well. Should be great.

Right over that there Golden Gate Bridge is Marin County and the
Mill Valley Film Festival where we’re screening no fewer than three times.

The Mill Valley people have been great to deal with and it’s kind of no surprise when you see that it originates out of the
California Film Institute. Much like our own Irish Film Institute, it does research, film curation and has a very active Education department, headed up by an Irish guy, John Morrison. Given that and the interest 32A might hold for a young audience, we’ve a screening with local film students first thing on Tuesday morning, with a Q&A with myself and Marian. We’re looking forward to it.

Then that’s followed by two screenings together with Q&As.

Tuesday 7th October, 7:15PM

Sunday 12th October, 12:45PM

Tickets can be booked at
(877) 874-MVFF or online using this ole’ link.

Festivals Update


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Our prints are rather busy this month... And we're sadly spending more time on (the admittedly wonderful...) Google Earth than on an airplane but we are very happy to see our film being screened and out in the wiid.

BRITSPOTTING, GERMANY
Starting back in Germany with Britspotting, which does a three city tour of Germany: Berlin, Stuttgart and Cologne. I guess Paddyspotting might not be quite kosher but I'm tempted to propose they use it as an alternate title every other year.

The dates and times for
Berlin are set
Tue 15 April. • 20:15 • Berlin • Hackesche Höfe FT
Sat 12 April • 20:15 • Berlin • fsk-Kino am Oranienplatz

And the screenings for
Cologne will be during 24 - 27 April and Stuttgart during 1-7 May.

KRISTIANSAND, NORWAY
Also coming up next are the good people at Kristiansand in Norway, one of the largest film festivals for young people in Scandanavia where it's still snowing apparently.... They have two screenings of 32A as follows:

Tue 22 April • 16:30
Fri 25 April • 09:45


NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA
Sunnier, I bet... somehow... Their programme is not onlne yet but their dates are 24 April - 1 May.

New York CIFF

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Photo: Steve McFarland via Flickr The New York Children's International Film Festival exists to promote 'intelligent, passionate and provocative cinema' for young people and are including 32A in their upcoming programme, which is great. We're very happy to be screening back where our first draft of the script was developed and can't wait to see some old friends again. Their full schedule is at their website. For those of you in NYC, screening dates and venues are as follows: Symphony Space, Sunday Mar 2nd at 11.00AM, Directions IFC Center, Saturday March 8th at 11:30AM. Directions Tickets are available via TicketWeb or the NYCIFF. They sell out fast according to the folks at the festival so get your skates on...

Dublin International Film Festival

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Those of you waiting for a screening in Dublin, the good news is that the Festival have announced their schedule.

We're on Friday evening on the 22nd of February.

Book tickets for 32A here

Update: Sold out first day!

Berlinale '08

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If 32A had a second home it would have to be Berlin, the home of our co-producer, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad of
Flying Moon Filmproduktion, as well as Rune Schweitzer, our editor and where we met Lars Ginzel, our sound designer and his team. It's always been a great city and festival from our point of view, we find it good to work there.

The wonderful news is that we have been selected for inclusion in the upcoming
Berlinale, one of the worlds leading film festivals, it's an honour and we're thrilled.

We've long enjoyed visiting Berlin and are looking forward to be going with one of our own features, it's a great city and the Berlinale is probably our favourite big festival... can't wait!

The IFTAs

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We decided not to submit 32A for this years
IFTAs given that we haven't had a cinema run, the only Irish screening was at the Galway Film Fleadh. But we were delighted to find out that the Academy have shortlisted Marian as a Rising Star in any case. The ceremony is on February 17th.