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Neeson & Brosnan Cast in Cinemagic Christmas Feature Film
24 Mar 2014 : Aisling Newton
Cinemagic patrons Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan are set to feature in ‘A Christmas Star’, a Northern Ireland production, the first of its kind, made by Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People.

Lord Julian Fellowes, Oscar-winning screenwriter and creator of the ITV period drama, ‘Downton Abbey’, made the announcement last week, marking the beginning of a year of Cinemagic’s 25th Anniversary celebrations. The festival was established to motivate, educate, inspire and young people, and create opportunities through the medium of film and television.

Neeson and Brosnan will lend their support to the ground-breaking film production that will be filmed in Belfast and will engage with hundreds of young people from across Northern Ireland. ‘A Christmas Star’ marks the first Northern Ireland film project that Neeson has been involved in since 2008, when he shot ‘Five Minutes Of Heaven’ with James Nesbitt. Neeson and Brosnan previously worked together in the 2006 movie ‘Seraphim Falls’.

Others involved in the feature include Oscar winning film producer, Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech), award winning film composer Patrick Doyle (Brave, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Music Supervisor Maggie Rodford (The King’s Speech, Anna Karenina), actress Paula Malcolmson (Deadwood, Ray Donovan), casting director and Cinemagic patron Ros Hubbard (The Commitments), camera operator Ian Fox (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man), producer Iain Smith (Children of Men, Mad Max), and production manager Terry Bamber (The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Skyfall).

The industry professionals will mentor young people throughout the film production process from script to screen, giving invaluable insights to the world of filmmaking and sharing their wealth of experience to help develop young people’s skills across various film disciplines ranging from directing, acting and production to script editing, film composition, and costume/makeup. BBC, UTV and Panavision will work in partnership with Cinemagic to help produce and premiere the film.

Cinemagic Chief Executive, Joan Burney Keatings, MBE said: "Our Christmas feature film, a first for Northern Ireland, will bring young people from different cultural backgrounds together, and representatives from the worlds of film, television, music and sport will collaborate to celebrate creativity and highlight the importance of developing young people’s skills and offering young people unique film and television related opportunities.”

The call-out for young people to participate in the film production will be announced in May and filming will take place in October 2014.

Brosnan is currently starring in ‘The Love Punch’ alongside Emma Thompson. The ‘It’s Complicated’ style movie is set to be released in Irish cinemas on April 18.

Watch the trailer below:





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