Last Thursday night, the 16th of September, the Louth Filmmakers Society held their first of three fundraisers in order to bring the Louth International Film Festival back to Dundalk. Roughly 80 people attended to help bring back this amazing film festival which was sadly put on hold last year because of COVID. Huge thanks to...
Helping the Helpless: The Greatness of Angel
by Sean Hall Whatever shortcomings Joss Whedon may have as a man, in terms of television he has created some of the greatest works of art I have ever seen. A prime example of this is “Angel”, Whedon’s spin off show to his cult hit “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” So, what was the Los Angelas...
Music and Mise-en-Abime in Three Irish Films
by Martyn Brady “In a work of art, I rather like to find transposed, on the scale of the characters, the verysubject of that work. Nothing throws a clearer light upon it or more surely establishes theproportions of the whole…”- Andre Gide, journal entry, 1893. Mise-en-abime, according to film scholars such as Susan Hayward, is...
Make Time And Effort For Your Own Art
by Ryan Hayes I’m writing this at a time when I myself am not so disciplined in my craft. I’m a writer who often doesn’t find the time to be able to write his passion projects – and that’s sometimes okay. I’ve accepted the realities of your go to ideas not always paying the bills....
The Louth Film Festival; first of its kind
by Ryan Hayes But many more to come. The Louth Filmmakers Society has been working incredibly hard these past months to bring a whole new event to Dundalk. If you’ve kept up to date with our site, you know that we’ve been running a series of fundraising events (thank you, Paul ‘Wick’ Cumiskey) in order...
Night of fun at the Test Your Brain quiz night
by Ryan Hayes The Louth Filmmakers Society held our third fundraiser on the 31st of July. The Test Your Brain Table Quiz was another attempt to fund and draw attention to the Louth Film Festival which we’ll be holding this coming August 24th. It was held in the Imperial Hotel and MC’d by our very...
Reggae Reggae Docks goes down with a smash
by Ryan Hayes On July 27th, The Louth Filmmakers Society held their Reggae Reggae Docks event, offering up a quality night of classic and vintage Reggae music, played on nothing but that distinctive vinyl, on a set of technic 12 10’s. The night was another in a line of fundraisers to help pay for the...
‘Summer is Coming’ huge success
by Ryan Hayes Last Saturday, the recently formed Louth Filmmakers Society put on their ‘Summer Is Coming’ fundraiser. Marketed as a ‘Night of Film and Music’ in the Spirit Store venue, the society managed to deliver that and more, pulling in a strong and spirited crowd. Kicking off the night, a selection of films were...
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