My first short film Hot Water Bottle has just gone online.
Produced by Mycrofilms, it was shot in Kilkenny from summer 2010 into the spring of 2011 and premiered at the 2012 Cork Film Festival. After its festival runaround, I’m finally getting around to putting it online.
I was fairly into the idea of mumblecore movies (so cheap!) at the time and Richard Linklater makes movies where people just talk seem so easy, but yeah, it’s a fairly loose quartet of scenes centred around a break up that doesn’t go according to plan. The film stars Suzanne O’Brien, David Thompson, Simone Kelly and Peter McGann. Have a looksee.
It’s great to finally debut it in our hometown, especially as part of such a fantastic festival. We all grew up on the Cat Laughs and it’s a real privilege to show some work at the festival. It’s also quite apt to debut the film in Kilkenny at our most walk of shame laden weekend. Tickets for the screenings can be bought here.
The short film Hot Water Bottle which I wrote and directed has been announced as part of the Irish Short Film Selection at this years Corona Cork Film Festival. Which is really nice.
It will mark the debut screening of the film when it plays in competition at the festival this November. All of us at Mycrofilms and the cast and crew of the film are over the moon. The film is a short comedy about a former couple who keep sleeping with each other. A series of variously awkward walks of shame then take place over four seasons in Kilkenny. It took us a long time to shoot this film (10 months) but I’m proud that the work of the team is finally going to be showcased. There’s four brilliant performances from David Thompson, Suzanne O’Brien, Simone Kelly and Peter McGann, it was beautifully shot by Sarah Dunphy and we’ve got such an amazing score from David Sheenan. The film was produced by our longtime midwives Alan Slattery and Paddy Dunne.
We’re really looking forward to finally be bringing the film to audiences and Cork is the absolute perfect place to premiere it. Baby Love, our other short film of 2012, will also be screening at the San Francisco Irish Film Festival later this month so it’s a good month for our wares hitting the festival circuit!
Here’s the Hot Water Bottle trailer anyhow if you want to get a preview.
Here’s the trailer for our new film Hot Water Bottle.
It’s taken us a long, long time to make it (and we’re still not entirely done yet) but it’s having a preview screening this coming weekend in Dublin at the 2011 Darklight Film Festival. Us film peeps at Mycrofilms are going to be exhibiting some work as part of the New Indie Voices section. We’ll also be screening a few bits and pieces from Vultures. It’s a nice way to introduce our work to a different community of filmmakers.
Hot Water Bottle is the first short film I’ve wrote and directed. I don’t know why it took me so long to get around to making a short, but it did. I’m lining up another one for late next year hopefully. With Mycrofilms, we’ve developed a plan to produce two short films a year for the next 3 years anyway. For 2011, it’s Hot Water Bottle and Baby Love, directed by Terrence White. We’ve lined up our projects for next year and we’re currently looking for funding for them. So this one is the first out of the traps, it’s not too dissimilar to Vultures, as in it’s the same team and same cast behind it. But hey, it’s a film about comfort zones anyway so I guess that’s quite apt.
Hot Water Bottle stars Suzanne O’Brien, David Thompson, Simone Kelly and Peter McGann. It was produced by Alan Slattery and Paddy Dunne. Soundtrack is by Supernova Scotia. It’s an unromantic comedy about comfort zones.
We’re currently shopping it around to various film festivals and hoping that people want to see it.
This is the poster for a film I made called Hot Water Bottle.
It was designed by Paddy Dunne, one of the producers on the film. The other producer is Alan Slattery. The three of us also made the webcom Vultures.
It’s the first non Vultures creative project thatMycrofilms have undertaken. The second is Baby Love by Terrence White which is out later this year. Two more short films will go into production for 2012 and they’re probably going to be even better because that’s how these things roll.
We got the funding to shoot Hot Water Bottle in 2009. We started shooting it in 2010. We finished shooting it in 2011. There will be a trailer for it sometime very, very soon. The film itself is currently being sent out to a variety of festivals who may or may not want to show it to people.
I will write more about it in proportion to the amount of content I have to show off.
I was fairly into the idea of mumblecore movies (so cheap!) at the time and Richard Linklater makes movies where people just talk seem so easy, but yeah, it’s a fairly loose quartet of scenes centred around a break up that doesn’t go according to plan. The film stars Suzanne O’Brien, David Thompson, Simone Kelly and Peter McGann. Have a looksee.
