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July 21, 2012 • devious theatre

Night Of The Living Dead – The Prologue

Philip Brennan and Connie Walsh as Babs and Johnny.

In preparation for this coming weeks stage debut of Night Of The Living Dead we’ve just released a prologue for the play based on the opening scene of the movie.

The famous kick off to George A. Romero’s 1968 original, is the big omission for the stage adaptation by Connie Walsh and myself. The scene involves protagonist Barbara and her brother Johnny visiting their father’s grave on the day when the dead begin to walk. And it’s got the famous ‘They’re coming to get you, Barbara!’ line. When we decided we weren’t going to represent it on stage, we figured the best way to do it would be to make a shot for shot short movie based on it and release it as a prologue that would lead into the events of the play. So, here it is!

Myself and Connie wrote it and Devious Theatre produced it in conjunction with Mycrofilms. I did the directing (pretty much stole Romero’s shot list) with Richie Cody lining up all the shots. Connie played her role as Babs in the play with Philip Brennan playing the role of Johnny.

Bulls aren’t the only things they need to watch out for.

The idea is that if you’re going to see the play, this will give you a nice intro into the world of it. If you’re not going to see the play, maybe this can persuade you to go!

Photos by Ross Costigan.

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October 20, 2011 • Hot Water Bottle, mycrofilms

Hot Water Bottle Trailer

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.

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August 1, 2011 • film production, Hot Water Bottle, mycrofilms, short film

Hot Water Bottle

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 that Mycrofilms 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.

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