Irish feature film 'A Kiss for Jed' will have a preview screening on May 1 ahead of its nationwide cinema release date on May 18. As part of Ifta's 'First Look' series of events, the screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Maurice Linnane and actor Mark O'Halloran. 'A Kiss for Jed' is fresh from a successful stint on the international festival circuit having been officially selected at Newport Beach Film Festival in 2011 and screened at the Chicago Irish Film Festival earlier this year. It recently received funding from the Irish Film Board (Ifb) for direct distribution in Ireland.
- 4/23/2012
- IFTN
Wagtale Productions are currently in production with a new six part stand up comedy series, 'Stand and Deliver'. The 6 x 26 minute series, being made for RTE2 is presented by 'Après Match' comedian Barry Murphy and will feature 17 other comics performing stand up in Galway's Roisin Dubh venue. The series is directed by Maurice Linnane (A Kiss for Jed Wood) and is produced by Deborah Pearce and Gráinne O'Carroll (Yu Ming is Ainm Dom). The director of photography, Joe Edwards (Luke Kelly: The Performer) has already captured ten of the comedians including Reginald D Hunter, Glenn Wool and Jason Byrne, doing their sets. The remaining acts will be filmed live in the Roisin Dubh on October 6th and 7th.
- 9/8/2010
- IFTN
A late entry for the 2010 Galway Film Fleadh, Maurice Linnane's 'A Kiss for Jed Wood' is to receive its first public screening at this year's Galway Film Fleadh on Friday, July 9th. The film stars Mark O'Halloran (Adam and Paul), Jayne Wisener (Sweeney Todd) and Lee Arenberg (Pirates of the Caribbean). As her task on a TV game show, Orla, a wild 19 year old from Ireland, is sent to New York to get a kiss from country superstar Jed Wood. Ray Timmons, a forty year old with a great future behind him, is dispatched as her cameraman. In New York they meet up with porn film sound recordist Mike and start the quest for the elusive Jed Wood. They are wildly unsuccessful but two events change the course of their quest whilst their odd odyssey is taken up and championed by DJ Carter on radio station Wsnx. When Ray...
- 6/30/2010
- IFTN
Sean Stokes – CEO of Screen Producers Ireland talks to Iftn on the Section 481 Panel discussion held at the week in Cannes and two new features to be shot in Ireland are announced; Octagon Film's 'The Last Furlong' and Ignition Film's 'Lend Me Your Face'. Ignition Film's 'Lend Me Your Face' to be directed by Maurice Linnane and written by Barry Devlin, is reported to commence filming this week in Dublin with Jayne Wisener (Sweeney Todd) and Mark O'Halloran (Adam and Paul) attached. French director Agnes Merlet, who shot 'Dorothy Mills', looks to direct 'The Last Furlong', written by Nick Murphy (The Running Mate). The project will be a co production with Dublin's Octagon Films and France's Fidelite. Production is likely to happen in November of this year in Dublin and Wicklow.
- 5/20/2009
- IFTN
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