05 Thursday Sep 2019
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‘Miss Smith’, a short film produced and written by Gordon Ledbetter that I had the pleasure of filming and editing was recently screened as a finalist at the Charlie Chaplin Film Festival. By all accounts it was a very enjoyable event in The Kingdom.
22 Monday Jul 2019
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Wonderful to see RTE mark the recent 100th birthday of John Hemingway DFC. I had the great pleasure of interviewing him, the footage of which features in our series on the Irish who fought in WWII. The coloured photographs featured in the news report were a gift from me to John. A small gesture on my part to mark his very special birthday. A true gentleman!
Thank you John.
02 Thursday May 2019
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This has been a passion project of mine for many years. I think the video trailer speaks for itself. Here’s hoping we get to finish what we started.
03 Thursday Jan 2019
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Colourised and Restored Footage, Documentary Series on Irish War of Independence, Revolution in Colour
To everyone who enquired on how to get their hands on the series, I’m delighted to finally announce that digital copies of Revolution in Colour are now available to rent or purchase on Amazon. Click on the photo to get your copy. Enjoy!
Members of the First Dáil, Mansion House Dublin, January 1919
24 Monday Sep 2018
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I’m delighted to announce that an international distribution deal has been secured for our landmark series. It is very satisfying to know that Revolution in Colour will find a wider audience beyond these shores. More details can be found at Off the Fence.
11 Wednesday Apr 2018
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Dave with Pepper. I think it was love at first sight.
Delighted to receive the news that The Great Guide to the Future, a series I wrote and directed, has been honoured at the New York Festivals Awards.
The series was awarded a Bronze World Medal for the episode on ‘Relationships’ and a Finalist Certificate for the episode on ‘Housing’. Congratulations to Tile Films and all the team involved in making the series such a wonderful success.
Links to the two episodes.
http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2018/pieces.php?iid=524735&pid=1
http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2018/pieces.php?iid=524651&pid=1
08 Thursday Mar 2018
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Congratulations to the entire team involved in the making of The Great Guide. The series received a major thumbs up from the Accolade Global Film Competition.
It won an Excellence Award in the following categories:
Award of Excellence: Television – Programme/Series
Award of Excellence: Documentary Short
Award of Excellence: Nature/Environment/Wildlife
Award of Excellence: Direction (Martin Dwan)
Award of Excellence: On-Camera Talent (Jonathan McCrea)
16 Saturday Sep 2017
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I couldn’t let today pass without acknowledging that today marks the anniversary of the death of Ireland’s first global superstar, John Count McCormack. He made over 800 recordings and sold in excess of 200 million records. He was more than a singer of Irish ballads. To this day he is still regarded as one of the 20th century’s finest exponents of the music of Handel and Mozart. Hope you enjoy his take on Handel’s ‘Come My Beloved’ from Atalanta.
And here’s his performance of ‘Ireland, Mother Ireland’ from his film ‘Song O’ My Heart’, which he made in 1929 for Fox Pictures. He was paid the phenomenal some of $500,000 for six weeks work.
04 Tuesday Jul 2017
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Nice to see ‘The Great Guide to the Future’ being acknowledged at the Deauville Green Awards. The episode on Energy was awarded a Finalist’s Prize and the episode on Housing received a Golden Green Award. Congratulations to all the other winners.
A list of the winners can be viewed at the following link.
03 Monday Jul 2017
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The first episode of ‘The Great Guide to the Future’ will air on TV3 this coming Saturday, 8th July, at 5pm. I wrote and directed this globetrotting series for Tile Films. Over the course of six episodes the award winning journalist Jonathan McCrea explores the incredible world of science and nature, meeting remarkable people in extraordinary locations along the way. The first episode looks at the future of energy. Some argue that nuclear power needs to be embraced if we’re to minimise the impact of global warming. Jonathan goes in search of the facts. He visits Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, and a place outside Oxford, England where scientists are pursuing the holy grail of energy production – clean, cheap and limitles energy by creating minature suns on earth.
Interior of JET Tokamak, Culham Centre of Fusion Energy
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