Granny O’Grimm on iTunes ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’ is now also available to purchase on iTunes, so you can own it to watch whenever you feel the need for a bedtime story with a twist!
Darragh O’Connell talks to the Irish Times about his Oscar Experience
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0309/1224265875429.html
Tomm Moore says a few words on the Carson Daly Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT55NSq6-r4&feature=player_embedded
The Secret of Kells
Cartoon Saloon were delighted to accept the Best Animation IFTA on Saturday night on behalf of all the talented and dedicated artists, animators, cast and crew that worked on our first feature film. It was an extra honour for Tomm Moore to win the Rising Star award too.
Tomm Moore and the rest of the team at Cartoon Saloon are ecstatic to receive an Academy Award ® nomination for Best Animated Feature for their debut feature film THE SECRET OF KELLS. Best Animated Feature is a huge category to be in, with Cartoon Saloon sharing the nominations with major studios Pixar, Fox, Focus and Disney, and beating other major studios to the short list.
Director Tomm Moore said “The nomination for The Secret of Kells in the animated feature category of the Academy Awards ® is a huge surprise and honour. It’s a tribute to the hard work and dedication of the entire crew and all our partners in the production”. The Secret of Kells (now on DVD across Ireland) was also recently nominated in the BEST ANIMATED FEATURE category in THE ANNIE AWARDS, (Animation’s Highest Honour), along with 3 IFTA nominations.
http://theblogofkells.blogspot.com/
Granny O’Grimm’s Oscar Nomination
Award-winning Irish animation studio, Brown Bag Films has secured its second Academy Award® nomination in 8 years with its short animated film ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’. Brown Bag Films was previously nominated in 2002 for the short film ‘Give Up Yer Aul Sins®’.
The six-minute film of ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’ is directed by Nicky Phelan, produced by Darragh O’Connell for Brown Bag Films and written and performed by comedian Kathleen O’Rourke. It tells the story of a seemingly sweet old lady who terrifies her little granddaughter at bedtime with her dark version of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale.
Lorcan Finnegan has recently signed with Blinder for commercial representation, RedJam Productions for music video representation (and still makes independent things through Lovely Productions). Lorcan directed a fake infomercial for VSO Ireland, 6 x 10 sec stings for
the National Lottery’s ‘deal or no deal’ and 3 x 20 sec TV commercials for Dubliner Cheese.
www.youtube.com/lorcanfinnegan