Happy Christmas to All and to All a Goodnight

The end of the year is upon us once again, how time flies when your having fun. I would just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone out there a Happy Christmas from us all here and have a great 2009, wow the end of the decade is nearly here too. 

So we are all off tomorrow to our various homes around the country and I cant wait for my visit from Santa. 

The Irish Film Board Launch

We had a chance recently to socialise with the industry of Galway, at the recent Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board launch of their films catalogue, which we were duly included in with "Miss Remarkable and her Career".  And Thanks to Simon Perry of the IFB for his kind words about the project.

So picture to the left is, (from right to left) Tomm Moore of The Cartoon Saloon, Director of the upcoming feature "Brendan and the Secret of Kells", in the middle is Barry O'Donaghue of Barley Films and director of the feature "Caribou" and then there is myself.

And below are two members of A Man & Ink, Mr Michael Lennon and Donal Mangan, an animator on Miss Remarkable. With behind the controls of the camera, Candice, another animator on Miss Remarkable. A great night had by all.

Great External Links

So a couple of new things have been posted to the World Wide Web recently that are worth checking out.

The official french Brendan and the Secret of Kells trailer has been posted to the ever expanding YouTube and can be found here. 

Its great to see the snowdrops in full flow, after all the people who worked on them.

And in the world of shorts, the award winning Nora Twomey has started up a blog where you can see two of her films in full. It brings back alot of memories watching From Darkness.  :)