The Eclipse, the supernatural drama written and directed by Conor McPherson, won the prestigious Melies D'Argent Award for Best European Motion Picture at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain, one of Europe's largest fantasy and horror film festivals.
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The Eclipse wins at Stiges
The Eclipse, the supernatural drama written and directed by Conor McPherson, won the prestigious Melies D'Argent Award for Best European Motion Picture at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain, one of Europe's largest fantasy and horror film festivals.
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Cinemagic Workshops
The Coca-Cola Cinemagic Film and Television Festival for Young People, which is taking place during from 18 November - 4th December 2009 in Belfast, is seeking young people aged 16-25 to participate in their ‘Talent Lab’ and Masterclass series - covering topics such as screen fighting, casting, makeup, production, acting and screenwriting amongst others.
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The 2009 Masterclass lineup for the Cinemagic Festival includes: ‘Fights for Stage and Screen’ with Youngblood’s fight director Tim Klotz (Shakespeare’s Globe, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Festival Hall); ‘Make-up for Film’ with Academy Award winning hair and make-up artist Christine Blundell (Topsy Turvy, Casino Royale, Sherlock Holmes); costume design guidance from Academy Award winning designer Jenny Beavan (A Room with a View, Gosford Park, Alexander); a script writing lesson with Ryan Rowe (Tapeheads, Run’s House, I’m on Fire); a film production session with Terry Bamber (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Phantom of the Opera) and David Cain (Thunderbirds, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Hannibal Rising), casting advice from casting director Ros Hubbard (The Commitments, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Bourne Ultimatum), and location management pointers with Andrew Wilson (City of Ember, Middletown, Breakfast on Pluto).
Cinemagic are running other special events in November. Amongst these is an ‘In Conversation with’ session with Muppets Potto and Hilda on November 20th who will be screening ‘Sesame Tree’, the Northern Ireland adaptation of ‘Sesame Street’. There will also be an acting masterclass with IFTA winning actor Ciaran Hinds (The Eclipse) on November 23rd where the actor will deliver a practical workshop in acting for film. Another masterclass being held on the same day is the Channel 4 Programme Making Workshop, hosted by Neil McCallum (head of music at Channel 4) and other members of the Channel 4 Production Team, which aims to expand the skills of individuals who already have gained a degree of experience in areas such as presenting, producing and directing. The Channel 4 Programme making workshop will run for two days.
Cinemagic Workshops
The Coca-Cola Cinemagic Film and Television Festival for Young People, which is taking place during from 18 November - 4th December 2009 in Belfast, is seeking young people aged 16-25 to participate in their ‘Talent Lab’ and Masterclass series - covering topics such as screen fighting, casting, makeup, production, acting and screenwriting amongst others.
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The 2009 Masterclass lineup for the Cinemagic Festival includes: ‘Fights for Stage and Screen’ with Youngblood’s fight director Tim Klotz (Shakespeare’s Globe, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Festival Hall); ‘Make-up for Film’ with Academy Award winning hair and make-up artist Christine Blundell (Topsy Turvy, Casino Royale, Sherlock Holmes); costume design guidance from Academy Award winning designer Jenny Beavan (A Room with a View, Gosford Park, Alexander); a script writing lesson with Ryan Rowe (Tapeheads, Run’s House, I’m on Fire); a film production session with Terry Bamber (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Phantom of the Opera) and David Cain (Thunderbirds, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Hannibal Rising), casting advice from casting director Ros Hubbard (The Commitments, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Bourne Ultimatum), and location management pointers with Andrew Wilson (City of Ember, Middletown, Breakfast on Pluto).
Cinemagic are running other special events in November. Amongst these is an ‘In Conversation with’ session with Muppets Potto and Hilda on November 20th who will be screening ‘Sesame Tree’, the Northern Ireland adaptation of ‘Sesame Street’. There will also be an acting masterclass with IFTA winning actor Ciaran Hinds (The Eclipse) on November 23rd where the actor will deliver a practical workshop in acting for film. Another masterclass being held on the same day is the Channel 4 Programme Making Workshop, hosted by Neil McCallum (head of music at Channel 4) and other members of the Channel 4 Production Team, which aims to expand the skills of individuals who already have gained a degree of experience in areas such as presenting, producing and directing. The Channel 4 Programme making workshop will run for two days.
DEAF 2009
Next week see the launch of the eight Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (22 - 31st October, 2009).
DEAF's focus is on the experimental, and the intersection between music, art, film and the public. It attempts to promote a genuine inclusiveness in its approach to showcasing the electronic arts to new audiences in Ireland.
The festival will be running films, workshops, gallery showings, talks and of course live gigs.
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DEAF's focus is on the experimental, and the intersection between music, art, film and the public. It attempts to promote a genuine inclusiveness in its approach to showcasing the electronic arts to new audiences in Ireland.
The festival will be running films, workshops, gallery showings, talks and of course live gigs.
DEAF 2009
Next week see the launch of the eight Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (22 - 31st October, 2009).
DEAF's focus is on the experimental, and the intersection between music, art, film and the public. It attempts to promote a genuine inclusiveness in its approach to showcasing the electronic arts to new audiences in Ireland.
The festival will be running films, workshops, gallery showings, talks and of course live gigs.
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DEAF's focus is on the experimental, and the intersection between music, art, film and the public. It attempts to promote a genuine inclusiveness in its approach to showcasing the electronic arts to new audiences in Ireland.
The festival will be running films, workshops, gallery showings, talks and of course live gigs.
Create n Innovate
Create 'n' Innovate '09 is a conference going on in Belfast from 11-12 November 2009 that will include presentations, panels and workshops highlighting and exploring ideas and good practice in creativity and innovation, and its importance for our future.Speakers and panellists from across the UK - keynote from Feargal Sharkey, CEO of UK Music, and panel discussions with creative practitioners, representatives from the business sector, educators, researchers and policy makers.
An amazing array of 12 workshop and presentation sessions where you will be stimulated and challenged – led by people such as Baba Israel, New York hip hop emcee, poet and beatboxer who now runs Contact Theatre in Manchester; Cathy Hunt from Australia who will present the development of Australian indigenous art; Stephen Feber who will be creative about the amazing new Heartlands development project in Cornwall; Marek Banczyk who has worked on a development strategy for Poznan, a "second city" in Poland; Jan Runge, one of the authors of the recent "Creativity in Europe" report; Venu Dhupa who will challenge us on our understanding of what these words mean; Sharon Taylor who will look at the relationships between creative professionals in schools; Raj Isar who will take examine some of the assumptions sometimes made about the successes and failures in this area; and Pia Alebrad from TILLT in Sweden which works on projects where artists are based in everyday workplaces.
Information on how to join the conference is available on the web site.
Create n Innovate
Create 'n' Innovate '09 is a conference going on in Belfast from 11-12 November 2009 that will include presentations, panels and workshops highlighting and exploring ideas and good practice in creativity and innovation, and its importance for our future.Speakers and panellists from across the UK - keynote from Feargal Sharkey, CEO of UK Music, and panel discussions with creative practitioners, representatives from the business sector, educators, researchers and policy makers.
An amazing array of 12 workshop and presentation sessions where you will be stimulated and challenged – led by people such as Baba Israel, New York hip hop emcee, poet and beatboxer who now runs Contact Theatre in Manchester; Cathy Hunt from Australia who will present the development of Australian indigenous art; Stephen Feber who will be creative about the amazing new Heartlands development project in Cornwall; Marek Banczyk who has worked on a development strategy for Poznan, a "second city" in Poland; Jan Runge, one of the authors of the recent "Creativity in Europe" report; Venu Dhupa who will challenge us on our understanding of what these words mean; Sharon Taylor who will look at the relationships between creative professionals in schools; Raj Isar who will take examine some of the assumptions sometimes made about the successes and failures in this area; and Pia Alebrad from TILLT in Sweden which works on projects where artists are based in everyday workplaces.
Information on how to join the conference is available on the web site.
Winter Gay Festival
The Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is running a special winter programme for the first time.From October 23rd to November 1st 2009 there will be productions from the UK, Ireland, the USA and Africa held in the city centre.
The ever popular Theatre shorts programme will run for a week in the Cobalt Cafe. Highlights include the play we had hoped to stage in May, Loupe, a production from Zimbabwe, that explores sexuality, HIV and brotherly love and Joe Steiff's storytelling Golden Corral from the USA, a play about growing up gay in deepest redneck territory. Nuala Kelly's And Then There Was Me - a lesbian coming out play, and many more. More details coming soon!
Winter Gay Festival
The Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is running a special winter programme for the first time.From October 23rd to November 1st 2009 there will be productions from the UK, Ireland, the USA and Africa held in the city centre.
The ever popular Theatre shorts programme will run for a week in the Cobalt Cafe. Highlights include the play we had hoped to stage in May, Loupe, a production from Zimbabwe, that explores sexuality, HIV and brotherly love and Joe Steiff's storytelling Golden Corral from the USA, a play about growing up gay in deepest redneck territory. Nuala Kelly's And Then There Was Me - a lesbian coming out play, and many more. More details coming soon!
Read selection
And onto further adventures!
After making that zenspeak script I got told that it'd be more useful, if you could enter a whole lot of text into it. So then it dawned on me that maybe having a Gedit plugin like that could be useful.
So, if you got the External Tools plug-in installed in Gedit, you can put this script in there somewhere, tweak it a bit to use your favorite speech generator, voice, etc., and you're all set to never read a single word again.
One drawback: it won't be easy to stop it if you've let it run, so if you make it read a lot of text, it might be troublesome.
I suppose I don't have it in me to really write stuff here today.
The code:
The code is also available at GitHub as gedit/gedit_read_selection.
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After making that zenspeak script I got told that it'd be more useful, if you could enter a whole lot of text into it. So then it dawned on me that maybe having a Gedit plugin like that could be useful.
So, if you got the External Tools plug-in installed in Gedit, you can put this script in there somewhere, tweak it a bit to use your favorite speech generator, voice, etc., and you're all set to never read a single word again.
One drawback: it won't be easy to stop it if you've let it run, so if you make it read a lot of text, it might be troublesome.
I suppose I don't have it in me to really write stuff here today.
The code:
1 #!/bin/bash
2 text=`xargs -0 echo`
3
4 SYSTEM=espeak
5
6 if [ -n "$text" ]
7 then
8 echo "Reading \"$text\" with $SYSTEM."
9
10 if [ $SYSTEM == espeak ]
11 then
12 padsp espeak "$text" -v en+f3
13 elif [ $SYSTEM == festival ]
14 then
15 echo "$text" | festival --tts
16 fi
17fi
2 text=`xargs -0 echo`
3
4 SYSTEM=espeak
5
6 if [ -n "$text" ]
7 then
8 echo "Reading \"$text\" with $SYSTEM."
9
10 if [ $SYSTEM == espeak ]
11 then
12 padsp espeak "$text" -v en+f3
13 elif [ $SYSTEM == festival ]
14 then
15 echo "$text" | festival --tts
16 fi
17fi
The code is also available at GitHub as gedit/gedit_read_selection.
Zenspeak
You can give this one to children. It makes them noisier.
This one's just a simple interface to either espeak or festival: it asks you what to say via zenity and then says it. It doesn't take any arguments, so you start it up with a simple:
In summary, it's not exactly dragon magic.
The code:
The code is also available at GitHub as bash/zenspeak.
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This one's just a simple interface to either espeak or festival: it asks you what to say via zenity and then says it. It doesn't take any arguments, so you start it up with a simple:
./zenspeak
In summary, it's not exactly dragon magic.
The code:
1 #!/bin/bash
2 #
3 # Zenspeak
4 #
5 # Provides a simple graphical (Gtk) interface to a speech production system:
6 # either espeak or festival. It's really simple too: you put in some text,
7 # the text is spoken. When you put in zero text, the program ends.
8 #
9 # Parameters:
10# None
11#
12# Depends:
13# espeak (apt:espeak)
14# festival (apt:festival)
15# zenity (apt:zenity)
16#
17# Author:
18# Konrad Siek <konrad.siek@gmail.com>
19#
20# License information:
21#
22# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
23# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
24# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
25# (at your option) any later version.
26#
27# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
28# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
29# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
30# GNU General Public License for more details.
31#
32# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
33# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
34#
35# Copyright 2009 Konrad Siek
36
37# System for production of sound is selected by the parameter,
38# or the defaut is used if none were specified.
39SYSTEM_DEFAULT=espeak
40SYSTEM=`(( $# == 0 )) && echo "$SYSTEM_DEFAULT" || echo "$1"`
41echo $SYSTEM
42
43# System dependent settings for espeak:
44espeak_speed=120 # default: 160
45espeak_pitch=60 # 0-99, default: 50
46espeak_amplitude=20 # 0-20, default: 10
47espeak_voide=english # list of voices: `espeak --voices`
48espeak_variant=f2 # m{1,6}, f{1,4}
49
50# I'm completely pants when it comes to setting up festival, so I won't
51# even attempt it here.
52
53while true
54do
55 # Show dialog and get user input.
56 something=`zenity --entry --title="Say something..." --text="Say:"`
57
58 # If no user input or cancel: bugger off (and indicate correct result).
59 if [ -z "$something" ]
60 then
61 exit 0
62 fi
63
64 # Put the input through either espeak or festival.
65 if [ "$SYSTEM" == "espeak" ]
66 then
67 # Note: the sound is padded within pulse, so that it can be
68 # played simultaneously with other sources.
69 padsp espeak \
70 -a $espeak_amplitude \
71 -p $espeak_pitch \
72 -s $espeak_speed \
73 -v $espeak_voice+$espeak_variant \
74 "$something"
75 elif [ "$SYSTEM" == "festival" ]
76 then
77 # Incidentally, that's all I know about festival.
78 echo "$something" | festival --tts
79 fi
80done
2 #
3 # Zenspeak
4 #
5 # Provides a simple graphical (Gtk) interface to a speech production system:
6 # either espeak or festival. It's really simple too: you put in some text,
7 # the text is spoken. When you put in zero text, the program ends.
8 #
9 # Parameters:
10# None
11#
12# Depends:
13# espeak (apt:espeak)
14# festival (apt:festival)
15# zenity (apt:zenity)
16#
17# Author:
18# Konrad Siek <konrad.siek@gmail.com>
19#
20# License information:
21#
22# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
23# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
24# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
25# (at your option) any later version.
26#
27# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
28# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
29# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
30# GNU General Public License for more details.
31#
32# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
33# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
34#
35# Copyright 2009 Konrad Siek
36
37# System for production of sound is selected by the parameter,
38# or the defaut is used if none were specified.
39SYSTEM_DEFAULT=espeak
40SYSTEM=`(( $# == 0 )) && echo "$SYSTEM_DEFAULT" || echo "$1"`
41echo $SYSTEM
42
43# System dependent settings for espeak:
44espeak_speed=120 # default: 160
45espeak_pitch=60 # 0-99, default: 50
46espeak_amplitude=20 # 0-20, default: 10
47espeak_voide=english # list of voices: `espeak --voices`
48espeak_variant=f2 # m{1,6}, f{1,4}
49
50# I'm completely pants when it comes to setting up festival, so I won't
51# even attempt it here.
52
53while true
54do
55 # Show dialog and get user input.
56 something=`zenity --entry --title="Say something..." --text="Say:"`
57
58 # If no user input or cancel: bugger off (and indicate correct result).
59 if [ -z "$something" ]
60 then
61 exit 0
62 fi
63
64 # Put the input through either espeak or festival.
65 if [ "$SYSTEM" == "espeak" ]
66 then
67 # Note: the sound is padded within pulse, so that it can be
68 # played simultaneously with other sources.
69 padsp espeak \
70 -a $espeak_amplitude \
71 -p $espeak_pitch \
72 -s $espeak_speed \
73 -v $espeak_voice+$espeak_variant \
74 "$something"
75 elif [ "$SYSTEM" == "festival" ]
76 then
77 # Incidentally, that's all I know about festival.
78 echo "$something" | festival --tts
79 fi
80done
The code is also available at GitHub as bash/zenspeak.
Les courts en compèt': le prix du public.
Comme nous vous le disions il y a quelques jours, cette année Quend 5 fait la place aux courts... Et ça ne se fera pas à moitié! En effet dix courts-métrages ont été sélectionnés pour le prix du meilleur court de "La place aux courts", et ce sera vous le jury! En effet à chacune des séances de courts-métrages en compétition vous pourrez déposer dans une urne (non électronique et non truqée) votre vote pour le court-métrage qui aura le plus titillé votre âme grolandaise. Vous retrouverez également au programme un grand nombre de curiosités comme Histoires pas banales de Monde de Oufs, des Films Fait à la Maison, des Pocket Films, des films d'animations etc. Vous retrouverez aussi les précédentes éditions du festival vu par le Gromadaire de Canal+, par Mouloud, par l'émission Tracks et aussi vu par "Pourquoi", le petit panda martyr de Stéphane Hubert! Venez aussi écouter en exclusivité interplanetaire Le vaisseau spécial, une fiction radio proposé par Arte Radio avec entres autres, la voix de notre Frankiki national!
Brussels festival showcases new European directors
Every year at the same time, the Brussels Film Festival competes with hot weather while hosting a selection of first and second films from European directors. This year, there are some 60 films being premiered, with free open-air screenings and concerts.
The official competition consists of:
- AWAYDAYS, Pat Holden (UK, 2009, 105')
- LA CASA SULLE NUVOLE, Claudio Giovannesi (Italy, 2008, 96')
- COUNTRY WEDDING, Valdis Oskarsdottir (Iceland, 2008, 95')
- DONNE-MOI LA MAIN, Pascal-Alex Vincent (France, 2009, 80')
- THE HIGHER FORCE, Olaf de Fleur Johannesson (Iceland, 2008, 80')
- IN YOUR VEINS, Beata Garderler (Sweden, 2009, 92')
- JOUEUSE, Caroline Bottaro (France, 2009, 101')
- KATALIN VARGA, Peter Strickland (Romania, 2009, 82')
- MACHAN, Uberto Pasolini (Italy, 2008, 105')
- NORTH, Rune Denstadt Langlo (Norway, 2009, 90')
- SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HERE AND NOW, Olivier Boonjing (Belgium, 2009, 74')
- UNMADE BEDS, Alexis Dos Santos (UK, 2009, 93')
- LA VERGUENZA, David Planell (Spain, 2009, 107')
- WRONG ROSARY, Mahmut Fazil Coskun (Turkey, 2009, 89')
Amongst the events are talks by the various directors, and Eliot Grove presenting his No-to-Lo Budget Film-making Masterclass.
Check out the full programme here.
L'Aquila movie festival to go ahead
Despite the huge damage caused by the recent earthquake there, the Italian town of L'Aquila has decided to go ahead with its annual festival. This third edition has been made possible by the support of hte festival of Salerno. The competition is open to short, medium and feature films, with a deadline on July 15, 2009.
For details, visit Idea de Cleves.
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For details, visit Idea de Cleves.
La Palme dort!
Brilliant headline from France's "Scénaristes" magazine: "La palme dort". Translated, it means "The Palm is sleeping". Sub-headline: "The world's biggest film festival continues to marginalise scriptwriters. How about a change?"
An example? It's probably worth remembering that last year the scriptwriters of France's biggest hit (by far), "Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis/Welcome to the Sticks", were not invited to attend the screening at Cannes. No room on the list, apparently. Cannes is basically a celebration of the cult of the director-as-author, to the point where the actual writers drop off the map. I'm not sure if Scénaristes can change that. But the French writers' union UGS that publish the magazine are very active at Cannes, organising a script market tied with breakfast meetings with producers and directors, as well as a "white night" - definitely worth checking at Cannes. Check here for details. Way to go.
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