FROM SHORTS TO FEATURES #CONF18 SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER @ 10AM – 6PM NERVE CENTRE 10AM
COFFEE & NETWORKING
10.30AM
Welcome introduction with host James Flynn
10.45AM – 12PM
BAFTA nominated director Mat Whitecross in conversation
12PM – 1PM
LUNCH
– 2PM 1PM
Screenwriting with Stuart Drennan and Christopher Myers
– 3PM 2PM
Directing for film and television with Carlo Nero,
3PM – 3.15PM
BREAK
(presented by BBC Writersroom)
Maeve Murphy and Nuala Cunningham
– 4.15PM 3.15PM
Production, Distribution and Marketing with
4.15PM – 5PM
VR and the future of filmmaking with Peter Collis from INITION
5PM – 5.15PM
BREAK
5.15PM – 6PM
FFF Moving Image Arts Student Programme
Philip Hoile, Garry Walsh, Adam H. Stewart and Colm Nicell
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JAMES FLYNN HOST JAMES FLYNN is one of Ireland’s most successful film producers winning awards for his work in both film and television. Movies produced by James include Angela's Ashes, Inside I’m Dancing, P.S. I Love You, The Secret Of Kells, and Calvary. James has worked extensively in television, as producer on The Tudors, Penny Dreadful, and Into The Badlands. James also produced the Oscar® nominated short film The Door (2008), which won the FFF LIM Award in 2008. James' latest film Greta stars Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert, and is directed by Neil Jordan.
BAFTA NOMINATED MAT WHITECROSS MAT WHITECROSS took home the Best Director prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006 for co-directing his first feature The Road to Guantanamo. His career has excelled with a string of critically-acclaimed works, including the Grierson award-winning Moving to Mars, the BAFTA nominated Ian Dury biopic Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll and the Oasis documentary Supersonic. He has just released A Head Full of Dreams, an intimate portrait of Coldplay’s rise to fame.
CHRISTOPHER MYERS CHRISTOPHER MYERS has worked in short film since 2008, more recently moving into development and production for features. In 2016, he produced the Royal Television Award-winning We Are You short films. Christopher acted as Head of Production for the award-winning feature The Dig.
STUART DRENNAN STUART DRENNAN’S debut feature The Dig premiered at Toronto Film Festival. It won Best Film at Galway Film Fleadh and was nominated at the British Independent Film Awards 2018. Stuart has written and directed award-winning short films and television dramas, including BBC’s 6 Degrees.
BBC WRITERSROOM BBC WRITERSROOM is a cross-genre department for scripted content within the BBC. Based across five locations (Belfast, London, Salford, Glasgow and Cardiff), the aim is to discover, develop and champion the best new and experienced writing talent.
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PETER COLLIS INITION PETER COLLIS is a multi-skilled innovator with INITION, a London-based experiential production house. Peter will introduce INITION’s journey into 360˚/3D film-making and showcase a selection of recent work. He will discuss the form as a new filmmaking format and the future implications for filmmakers. There will also be opportunities for delegates to experience some of INITION’s films on the Gear VR headsets. WWW.INITION.CO.UK
Garry Walsh, Adam H. Stewart, Colm Nicell are one of Ireland's most dynamic independent production companies, responsible for the award-winning documentary Older Than Ireland and new release Under the Clock. WWW.SNACKBOXFILMS.COM
GARRY WALSH
ADAM H. STEWART COLM NICELL
GARRY WALSH is an award-winning filmmaker with over 16 years’ experience in the film/theatrical industry, ten years of which was spent running one of Ireland’s most successful multiplex cinema chains. Gary is also an accomplished writer, currently working on a slate of projects for cinema and television.
ADAM H. STEWART is an awardwinning animator, director and editor. He graduated from the American Film Institute in California. He is a highly experienced production designer and visual effects artist and has worked for all the major Hollywood Studios as well as leading brand design agencies Landor and Bluemarlin in London.
COLM NICELL is an award-winning Director of Photography with over 12 years’ experience in the film and television industry. He has worked in Ireland, the UK and the Middle East for broadcasters such as RTE, BBC, ITV, CNN and Al Jazeera as a camera/lighting supervisor.
PHILIP HOILE BULLDOG FILMS PHILIP HOILE oversees theatrical and home entertainment activity at BULLDOG FILM DISTRIBUTION, an independent UK film distributor responsible for high quality titles including Margin Call and Night Train To Lisbon. Philip has over ten years’ experience across a wide range of film and entertainment product and release platforms through roles at Tartan, Icon and the award-winning marketing and publicity agency Organic. WWW.BULLDOG-FILM.COM
CARLO NERO DISSENT PROJECTS LTD CARLO NERO is an award-winning writer, director and producer. He co-wrote the screenplay for the action-crime film The Touch, and has directed the films Uninvited and The Fever, the latter starring his mother Vanessa Redgrave and Angelina Jolie. Most recently Carlo has produced the documentary Sea Sorrow. Carlo is the founder of Production Company Dissent Projects. WWW.DISSENTPROJECTSLTD.COM
MAEVE MURPHY MAEVE MURPHY is an acclaimed screenwriter and director. In addition to her shorts, she has made three award-winning, theatrically released feature films including Taking Stock, which has won eight international festival awards. She is currently developing a feature biopic based on the love story between Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke.
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NUALA CUNNINGHAM NEW DECADE NUALA CUNNINGHAM is a producer and director with New Decade Films. Nuala produced the hard-hitting feature Capital Letters (about the illegal trafficking of a young African girl in modern Dublin), starring Ruth Negga. More recently, Nuala has produced the powerful and disturbing hybrid documentary I, Dolours. WWW.NEWDECADE.IE
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FFF MOVING IMAGE ARTS STUDENT PROGRAMME IN ASSOCIATION WITH CCEA
The festival marks the 15th Anniversary of the launch of the Moving image Arts (MIA) Showcase with the introduction of the MIA Student Programme. Screening as part of this inaugural event are the following first placed winning films from the 2017 MIA Showcase at GCE Level: • Mr L’s Limbo by Fiachra Gallagher Lawson, Enniskillen Royal Grammar School (AS Film): 3mins 49secs • Dysphoria by Quinn Barnett, Limavady Grammar School (Limavady High School) (AS Animation): 4mins 7secs • The Wanderings of Oisin by Rory Fitzpatrick, Campbell College (A2 Film): 12mins 6secs • Pshycho Man by Joe Gallagher, Holy Cross College (A2 Animation, joint first): 7mins 10secs • Antoine’s Dream by Jacob Matthess, Portadown College (A2 Animation, joint first): 8mins
CONF18 SCREENING PACKAGE @ THE NERVE CENTRE
SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER @ 7.45PM SIOBHAN A man’s girlfriend, Siobhan, has been murdered. A year later he journeys to the beach where Siobhan died and sees her ghost. Ireland 2018 DIRECTOR: Maeve Murphy DURATION: 10mins
SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER @ 8PM UNDER THE CLOCK Produced by Snackbox Films, this heart-warming film explores the social history of Ireland through the moving tales of ordinary people whose relationships began under one of Dublin’s most iconic landmarks – Clery’s clock. Ireland 2018 WRITER/PRODUCER: Garry Walsh EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Adam H. Stewart DIRECTOR: Colm Nicell DURATION: 1hr 16mins CERT: U