IFB Comedy Treats at Dingle Film Fest
01 Sep 2009 :
Tweet As part of the Dingle Film Festival’s comedy programme, the festival has teamed with the Irish Film Board to provide a series of events and screenings dedicated to the funnier side of filmmaking. Industry events billed for the festival include a special event entitled ‘Don’t Make Me Laugh’ which will specifically explore the art of writing comedy for the screen and a special presentation of IFB award winning comedy short films. ‘Don’t Make Me Laugh’ will be chaired by IFB Development Executive Andrew Meehan and panelists will include Emmy Award winning screenwriter Marc Flanagan (The Tracy Ullman Show) stage, radio, screen and TV writer Pearse Elliot (Man About Dog); and producer Ned Dowd (Shanghai Noon). The seminar will explore the challenges of writing comedy for the screen, various approaches to character development, the role of TV in promoting talent as well as examining what makes comedy travel. The panel will take place in the Festival Marquee, Garden Café on Friday 10th September. Following on the premise of filmic humour there will be a special screening of award winning Irish short animated and live action comedies on Sunday 13th September at 11am in The Phoenix Cinema. These will include Nicky Phelan’s ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Whatever Turns You On’ from Declan Cassidy, Conor Ferguson’s ‘The Wednesdays’, Cathal Gaffney’s ‘Ding Dong Denny’s History of Ireland’ and Melina Padua’s offering ‘Agricultural Report’. Other comedies to screen include; ‘Teeth’ directed by Ruairí O’ Brien and John Kennedy; Stephen Burke’s ‘Boris’; Michael McCudden’s ‘Maybe if You’ and ‘No, No, No’ directed by Stephen Bradley. ‘Right Now Ladies and Gentlemen’ directed by John Paul Murphy, ‘The End is Night’ directed by James Cotter and Johnny O’Reilly’s ‘3 Minute 4 Play’ will also screen. The Dingle Film Festival will run from Thursday, September 10th to Sunday the 13th. To find out more about this short programme, the ‘Don’t Make Me Laugh’ panel event and other events going on over the festival weekend, check out www.dinglefilmfestival.com/ Free Industry Newsletter Subscribe to IFTN's industry newsletter - it's free and e-mailed directly to your inbox every week. Click here to sign up.

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