GLASSLAND is released in UK and Irish Cinemas this week

Gerard Barret's multi-award winning Glassland is released in UK and Irish cinemas this week via Element Pictures Distribution. Earlier this year, the film, starring Jack Reynor, Toni Collette, Will Poulter and Michael Smiley, was selected to play as part of the World Cinema Dramatic competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where Jack Reynor's lead performance as John earned him the Special Jury Award for Acting. The film premiered at the 2014 Galway Film Fleadh, where it was also awarded Best Irish Feature Film. It also screened as part of the recent Jameson Dublin International Film Festival where it was awarded Best Irish Film and Piers McGrail (GLASSLAND's DOP) was awarded the Michael Dwyer Discovery Award.

The film was produced by Ed Guiney (‘Frank’,‘What Richard Did’) and Juliette Bonass (‘Get Up and Go’) for Element Pictures in association with Barrett’s NINE. Watch the trailer below:

Here's a list of cinemas showing the film from tomorrow, 17th April.

Full sound post on the film was carried out at Ardmore Sound and Screen Scene:

Sound Designers: Niall Brady and Steve Fanagan
Sound Re-recording Mixer: Ken Galvin

Mixed in Centre Stage 2, Screenscene

I Used to Live Here is releaseD in Irish Cinema's this week

Frank Berry's feature film, ‘I Used To Live Here’, is released in Irish cinemas on this week, on April 2nd via Wildcard Distribution. Filmed on the streets of Tallaght in West Dublin, it tells the story of Amy Keane, a thirteen-year-old trying to cope with the death of her mother and the reappearance of her father’s ex-girlfriend, who experiences the temptation of suicide after witnessing the outpouring of love for a local suicide victim.

I Used To Live Here follows Amy Keane, a 13-year-old trying to cope with the death of her mother and the reappearance of her father's ex-girlfriend, who experiences the temptation of suicide after witnessing the outpouring of love for a local suicide victim.

The film, which took home the award for Best Irish First Feature at the 2014 Galway Film Fleadh, has been hailed as “An important and timely examination of the tragic and terrifying phenomenon of cluster suicides”, with Donald Clarke of The Irish Times describing it as “excellent… the film takes on the quality of an intimate epic.”

Written, Directed, and Produced by Frank Berry (Ballymun Lullaby), the Film was Mixed by Garret Farrell here on Centre Stage 1.

Glassland Wins at JDIFF

Huge congratulations to writer/director Gerard Barret, producers  Ed Guiney, Juliette Bonass and Andrew Lowe, Element Pictures and all of the cast and crew involved in making 'GLASSLAND', which was awarded Best Irish Film at this year's Jameson Dubiln International Film Festival. Piers McGrail (GLASSLAND's DOP) was also deservedly awarded the Michael Dwyer Discovery Award.

In in a desperate bid to save his mother ( Toni Collette) from addiction and unite his broken family, a young taxi driver ( Jack Reynor) on the fringes of the criminal underworld is forced to take a job which will see him pushed further into its underbelly.

GLASSLAND was selected to play as part of the World Cinema Dramatic competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where Jack Reynor's lead performance as John earned him the Special Jury Award for Acting. The film premiered at the 2014 Galway Film Fleadh, where it was also awarded Best Irish Feature Film.

The film, which is release in Irish and UK cinemas on 17th April, tells the story of John, a young taxi driver on the fringes of the criminal underworld, who, in a desperate bid to save his mother from a crippling alcohol addiction and reunite his broken family, is forced to take a job which drives him further into Dublin’s dark underbelly.

Full sound post on the film was carried out at Ardmore Sound and Screen Scene:

Sound Designers: Niall Brady and Steve Fanagan
Sound Re-recording Mixer: Ken Galvin

Mixed in Centre Stage 2, Screenscene

Ardmore Sound at Waterford New Music Week

Ardmore Sound's Steve Fanagan will be giving a talk about our sound work on Lenny Abrahamson's 'FRANK' (Element Pictures) on Monday 23rd March at 11:30am in the Garter Lane Arts Centre as part of Waterford New Music Week. Admission is free.

You can check out the full festival programme and schedule of events, here.

Watch the new Trailer for 3D animated Feature 'Two By Two'

Entertainment One (eOne) UK have just released a new Trailer for "Two by Two" (aka "Ooops! Noah is gone...").

It's the end of the world. A flood is coming. Luckily for Finny and his dad Dave, a couple of clumsy Nestrians, an Ark has been built and all animals are welcome... well almost all. Unfortunately for them, Nestrians are not on the list!

Screen Daily recently reported that the beautiful 3D animated feature, produced by Irish Animation company Moetion Films, has been picked up for worldwide distribution: Entertainment One has the rights for the US, Canada, UK/ROI and Australia/NZ, while Eagle Pictures Spa has picked up all rights for Italy. Scanbox acquired all rights for the Scandinavian territories. Flame Node will release the film in China, 2i Film in the former Yugoslavia, Pictureworks in India and Silverbird in the African territories. Global Screen previously sold the animation to Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Barnhill Group), South Korea (Smile Entertainment), Poland (Kino Swiat), Portugal (Pris), Israel (Five Stars), Latin America (Swen), Middle East (Gulf), Turkey (Medyavizyon), Bulgaria (Art Eternal), Iran (Century 21) and Indonesia (Onevision Entertainment).

"Two by Two" is a co-production between Moetion Films, Studio Rakete, Fabrique d'Images, Skyline Animation and Ulysses Filmproduktion, and is due for release in cinemas worldwide in 2015.

Full sound post on the film was carried out at Ardmore Sound and Screen Scene:

Sound Designers: Steve Fanagan and Niall Brady
Sound Re-recording Mixers: Garret Farrell and Steve Fanagan
Foley Editor: Peter Blayney
Dialogue Editor: Michelle McCormack
Foley Mixer: Jean McGrath
Foley Artist: Caoimhe Doyle
Mixed on The Main Stage, Ardmore Sound

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival announces 2015 program

The line-up for this year's Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) has been announced. There are over 130 films playing at this years festival which will run from March 19th to March 29th.

Amongst the many feature films showing at the festival are a number of titles which Ardmore Sound have been involved in such as Gerard Barret's 'Glassland', Liv Ullman's 'Miss Julie', Conor MacMahon's 'From the Dark' and Mary McGuckian's 'The Price of Desire'.

Amongst the feature documentaries playing at this years festival we have provided the sound mix on  , Colin Offlands's 'Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang In Pyongyang', Pat Murphy's 'Tana Bana' and Viko Nikci's  'Coming Home'.

‘I Used To Live Here’ to be released in Irish cinemas on 2nd April

Wildcard Distribution have announced the release of Frank Berry's feature film, ‘I Used To Live Here’, in Irish cinemas on Good Friday, April 3rd.

I Used To Live Here follows Amy Keane, a 13-year-old trying to cope with the death of her mother and the reappearance of her father's ex-girlfriend, who experiences the temptation of suicide after witnessing the outpouring of love for a local suicide victim.

Filmed on the streets of Tallaght in West Dublin, it tells the story of Amy Keane, a thirteen-year-old trying to cope with the death of her mother and the reappearance of her father’s ex-girlfriend, who experiences the temptation of suicide after witnessing the outpouring of love for a local suicide victim.

The film, which took home the award for Best Irish First Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh last year, has been hailed as “An important and timely examination of the tragic and terrifying phenomenon of cluster suicides”, with Donald Clarke of The Irish Times describing it as “excellent… the film takes on the quality of an intimate epic.”

Written, Directed, and Produced by Frank Berry (Ballymun Lullaby), the Film was Mixed by Garret Farrell here on Centre Stage 1.

Busy with ADR on a variety of projects

The end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 has been busy for us with ADR. As ever there has been a great variety of films and television shows booking in to record. We've hosted ADR sessions on the Main Stage and in the ADR Studio, and recorded via ISDN and Source Connect

Recent television series bookings have included HBO's Game of Thrones (Series 5), Showtime's Penny Dreadful (Series 2), History's Vikings (Series 3), Sky's Strike Back (Series 5), BBC's Last Tango in Halifax (Series 3) and the Swedish crime drama 'The Hundred Code'.

Recent film Sessions have included Corin Hardy's 'The Hallow' and Justin Kurzel's 'Macbeth'.

PATRICK'S DAY RELEASED IN IRISH CINEMAS TODAY

Terry McMahon’s award winning and critically acclaimed film, Patrick’s Day is being released in Irish cinemas today.

Over the last year the film has received a number of awards and recognitions since it’s première at the prestigious SXSW Film Festival last March. The film shared the ‘Best Irish Feature Film’ at the 2014 Galway Film Fleadh, and was awarded the Screen Directors Guild ‘Finders Series’ Award at the end of last summer.

The film has received many great reviews and endorsements.

"A stunning and shattering work with a profound sense of truth to it.” — Nicolas Roeg

“Very moving. Big emotions. Brilliant acting. The film that I cried most at Edinburgh Film Festival.” — Mark Cousins

“Jaw-droppingly good.” – Paul Byrne, Movies.ie

“An incredible display of the impact a movie can truly have if you let it.” — Film Ireland

Written and Directed by McMahon, the film stars Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave), Moe Dunford (Vikings), Catherine Walker (Strike Back) and Philip Jackson (Little Voice).  The film is produced by Tim Palmer (Into the West) and Rachel Lysaght (The Pipe)

Full foley for the film was recorded at Ardmore Sound and Ken Galvin mixed it in Centre Stage 2.

Watch the trailer below:

Festival Round-up

The last few days have seen three different Ardmore Sound posted films have their international premieres. Both Glassland and The Hallow screened at this year's Sundance Festival, while Big Bang in Pyongyang was shown as part of Slamdance.

Selected as part of the World Cinema Dramatic line-up, Glassland, which was an award winner at this year's Galway Film Fleadh, was written and directed by Gerard Barrett (Pilgrim Hill) and was produced by Ed Guiney (‘Frank’, What Richard Did’, ‘The Guard’) and Juliette Bonass (‘Get Up and Go’) for Element Pictures. It tells the story of John, a young taxi driver on the fringes of the criminal underworld, who, in a desperate bid to save his mother from a crippling alcohol addiction and reunite his broken family, is forced to take a job which drives him further into Dublin’s dark underbelly.

Jack Reynor's lead performance as John earned him the Special Jury Award for Acting in the World Cinema Dramatic section at the festival.

Here are some of the reviews from Sundance: Indiewire, The Hollywood Reporter, The Seventh Row, Slug Magazine, The Guardian, The Film Experience. 

Full sound post on the film was carried out at Ardmore Sound and Screen Scene:

Sound Designers: Niall Brady and Steve Fanagan
Sound Re-recording Mixer: Ken Galvin
Mixed in Centre Stage 2, Screenscene

Premiering in the Park City at Midnight strand, The Hallow is the debut feature film from director Corin Hardy, it was written by Hardy and co-writer Felipe Marino, and produced by Joe Neurauter and Marino for Occupant Entertainment, with Fantastic Films as Irish co-producers. It tells the story of a London-based conservationist who moves to Ireland with his wife and infant child to survey an area of forest believed to be hallowed ground by superstitious locals, his actions unwittingly disturb a horde of demonic creatures who prey upon the lost. Alone and deep within the darkness of the remote wilderness, he must now fight back to protect his family against the ancient forces’ relentless attacks. Here are some of the reviews from Sundance: The Hollywood Reporter, Bloody Disgusting, Arrow in the Head, Variety, Hitfix, Comicbook.com, Shock Till You Drop

Full Sound Post on the film was completed by Ardmore Sound:

Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor: Steve Fanagan
Dialogue and ADR Editor: Niall Brady
Foley Editor: Michelle McCormack
Assistant Sound Editor: Jennie Breen
Foley Mixer: Jean McGrath
Foley Artist: Caoimhe Doyle
Sound Re-recording Mixers: Garret Farrell and Steve Fanagan
Mixed on The Main Stage, Ardmore Sound

Big Bang in Pyongyang, directed by Colin Offland, is a feature documentary that offers ‘an intimate behind the scenes look at Dennis Rodman’s unlikely friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the staging of the most controversial game of basketball the world has never seen.’ Big Bang is nominated in the category of Best Documentary Feature at this years Slamdance Festival. Here are some reviews: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Salt Lake Tribune

Full Sound Post on the film was completed by Ardmore Sound:

Supervising Sound Editor: Peter Blayney
Sound Re-recording Mixer: Ken Galvin
Mixed the film in Centre Stage 1, Screenscene

The Hallow Premieres at Sundance this Weekend

This Sunday sees the World Premiere of Corin Hardy's 'The Hallow', which screens as part of the Park City at Midnight strand of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

Full Sound Post on the film was completed by Ardmore Sound:

Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor: Steve Fanagan
Dialogue and ADR Editor: Niall Brady
Foley Editor: Michelle McCormack
Assistant Sound Editor: Jennie Breen
Foley Mixer: Jean McGrath
Foley Artist: Caoimhe Doyle
Sound Re-recording Mixers: Garret Farrell and Steve Fanagan
Mixed on The Main Stage, Ardmore Sound

Here's some information on the film from the Sundance website: "Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he must now ensure his family's survival from their relentless attacks.

With his feature debut, acclaimed visual stylist Corin Hardy displays an innate talent for the macabre, approaching the medium with a cocksure confidence in his construction of the modern horror fable. Relying upon a precise and layered technical elegance, The Hallow seethes with an uncommonly sophisticated terror that uncoils effortlessly into an atmosphere of disquieting intensity and primal dread. —L.Z."

Song of the Sea RECEIVES Oscar Nomination

The feature animation Song of the Sea, directed by Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells) and produced by the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon has just been nominated in the Best Animated Feature for this years Academy Awards. The film tells the story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the U.S in December 2014. The film has received many glowing reviews and will be released in Ireland this coming March.

Ardmore Sound had the pleasure of recording the vocal talents of many of the actors for the film including Brendan Gleeson, Pat Shortt, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flannagan and David Rawle. Cartoon Saloon have kept an extensive production blog for the film and posted some lovely pictures from the recording sessions with us here on The Main Stage.

The sessions were engineered and recorded by Garret Farrell.

Poster For U.S Release

You can watch a trailer for the film here

Watch out for these Ardmore Sound posted films and TV shows in 2015

Happy New Year!

2014 was another exciting and busy year for Ardmore Sound, which saw us complete sound post on many films and TV shows. A number of these will be released theatrically, screen at festivals and broadcast on television throughout 2015.

Sundance Film Festival, the first major film festival of the year will see two Ardmore Sound posted films screening, Gerard Barrett's 'Glassland', starring Toni Colette and Jack Reynor, which is screening in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, one of only twelve films selected from thousands of entries, and Corin Hardy's debut feature film 'The Hallow', starring Joseph Mawle and Bojana Novakovic, which is having its world premier in the Park City at Midnight strand.

Running concurrently to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah is the Slamdance Film Festival, which will take place from January 23–29. The festival runs as an alternative to Sundance and will be screening the world premier of the feature documentary 'Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang'. Directed by Colin Offland, this feature documentary is a behind-the-scenes look at Dennis Rodman’s unlikely friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the staging of the most controversial game of basketball the world has never seen. This game saw a number of former NBA players selected by Rodman travel to Pyongyang to take on a team from North Korea in an apparent effort to promote 'basketball diplomacy'.
 

First up in the New Year was the airing of the part one of 'Charlie' on RTÉ One on Sunday January 4th, which was watched by over 700,000 people.  The drama, starring Aidan Gillen, and based on real events, explores the emergence of modern Ireland charting the rise and fall of the charismatic and divisive figure of Charles J. Haughey. The drama covers the period from Haughey’s bid for power in 1979 and chronicles his attempts to maintain that power until his departure from politics in 1992. Episode Two is airing this Sunday, January 11th at 9:30pm.

Here's looking forward to another exciting and creatively challenging 2015.

RTÉ announces that 'Charlie' will screen in the new year

RTÉ has announced that its new three-part drama, ‘Charlie’ will begin at 9.30pm on Sunday 4 January, 2015 on RTÉ One and run over three consecutive Sundays.

The drama, starring Aidan Gillen and based on real events, explores the emergence of modern Ireland charting the rise and fall of the charismatic and divisive figure of Charles J. Haughey. The drama covers the period from Haughey’s bid for power in 1979 and chronicles his attempts to maintain that power until his departure from politics in 1992.

The series was written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Colin Teevan, and directed by Kenny Glenaan and Charlie McCarthy.

Full sound and picture post production was completed at Ardmore Sound and Screen Scene.

Michelle Fingleton was the sound designer and supervising sound editor for the series and Garret Farrell mixed all three feature length episodes in Centre Stage 1.

‘Charlie’ is produced for RTÉ by Touchpaper and Element Pictures and co-funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.

 A trailer for the show can be seen here

Supervising Sound Editor/ Sound Design: Michelle Fingleton
Dialogue Editor: Peter Blayney
ADR Mixers: Emma Butt, Ken Galvin, Mark Fitzpatrick
Foley Mixer: Jean McGrath
Foley Artist: Caoimhe Doyle
Sound Re-recording Mixer: Garret Farrell

Mixed in Centre Stage 1. 

Denis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang to screen at the Slamdance Film Festival

Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang will have it's World Premier at next year's Slamdance Film Festival.

Directed by Colin Offland, this feature documentary is a behind-the-scenes look at Dennis Rodman’s unlikely friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the staging of the most controversial game of basketball the world has never seen. The game saw a number of former NBA players as selected by Rodman travel to Pyongyang to take on a team from North Korea in an apparent effort to promote 'basketball diplomacy'.

The 2015 Slamdance Film Festival will take place from January 23–29, 2015, in Park City, Utah, America.

Peter Blayney completed the sound edit and Ken Galvin mixed the film in Centre Stage 1.

Frank wins at the BIFAs

The composer, Stephen Rennicks, has won a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for the music in 'Frank'.  He received the award in the Best Technical Achievement category at the awards ceremony in London last Sunday, December 7th.

The film also won an award for best script.

Complete sound post for the film was done at Ardmore Sound and Screen Scene.

Supervising Sound Editor: Niall Brady
Sound Designer: Steve Fanagan
Sound Re-recording Mixers: Ken Galvin, Steve Fanagan
Foley Mixer: Jean McGrath
Foley Artist: Caoimhe Doyle

Mixed on The Main Stage, Ardmore Sound  

Another Escape article with the Ardmore Sound Foley Team

Jean McGrath and Caoimhe Doyle are featured in the current volume of the beautifully crafted, independent magazine, "Another Escape", where they helped give "an insight into the form and function of the Haunting Soundworlds created for the crime-thriller genre". You can purchase the Volume here.

Another Escape describes itself as, "We are big fans of the printed word (and image), and wanted to create a well designed tactile object that could slot onto your bookcase, sit on the coffee table or be slung into a rucksack. We believe that the interaction and experience that printed material allows is invaluable, and we look to be a permanent fixture on your shelf. Through our ethos we have created a magazine that looks to inspire and explore. In the future we look to expand our brand, but for now we are happy telling stories." You can connect with them on Facebook here and their website here.

Glassland announced in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance

Gerard Barret's Glassland has been selected to play as part of the World Cinema Dramatic competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. This competition strand focuses on 'emerging filmmaking talents from around the world who offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles'. 

The film, starring Jack Reynor, Toni Collette, Will Poulter and Michael Smiley, is about a taxi driver struggling to protect his family.

The film was produced by Ed Guiney (‘Frank’,‘What Richard Did’) and Juliette Bonass (‘Get Up and Go’) for Element Pictures in association with Barrett’s NINE.

Full sound post on the film was carried out at Ardmore Sound and Screen Scene:

Sound Designers: Niall Brady and Steve Fanagan
Sound Re-recording Mixer: Ken Galvin

Mixed in Centre Stage 2, Screenscene

Ghost Train

Lee Cronin's wonderful horror short 'Ghost Train' continues its strong festival run this week screening at the Monster Night at the 32nd Festival Tous Courts in France. The film has played at more than 40 festivals around the world this year, including official selections for Film4 Frightfest, UK, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, Tampere Film Festival, Finland, Palm Springs International Shortfest, US, L.A Shortsfest, US, Fantasia, Canada, Razor Reel, Belgium, and Asiana International Short Film Festival, Korea. Along it's international journey it has picked up many awards including:

Best Film, Youth Jury, San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival 2014
Youth Audience Award for Best Film, Court Métrange Fantastic Film Festival 2014
Méliès D'Argent for Best European Fantastic Short Film, Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival 2014
Best Visual Effects, Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival 2014
Jury 2nd Prize, Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival 2014
Audience Award for Best Short Film, Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival 2014

The short film is an Irish/Finnish co-production and was produced by John Keville and Ulla Simonen. Ardmore Sound provided sound design, foley and final mix for the film.

Check out the Ghost Train Facebook page for updates and future screenings. Watch the trailer below:

Ardmore Sound at the HearSay Festival this weekend

The HearSay International Audio Arts Festival takes place this weekend, 21st-23rd November, in Killfinane, Co. Limerick. The festival is "a free and unique festival of sound, story, sharing & surprises taking over the mountain village of Kilfinane, Ireland for three days & nights in November 2014". The weekend's line up of events boasts contributions from award-winning Irish and international contributors from all disciplines of creative audio, radio features, film sound, sound art, theatre sound, music, drama and beyond. 

Ardmore Sound's Steve Fanagan will be giving a SoundOut talk about our sound work on Lenny Abrahamson's 'FRANK' (Element Pictures) on Saturday at 3pm in the Old Church and will participate in AMA session on Sunday morning at 11:30am.

Check out the HearSay website for the full festival programme and schedule of events.