Loving ALEX (2019)
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For Dan, ALEX is more than a virtual assistant; he’s his soulmate. Love, jealousy and control all play a part in this dark comedy that was written, produced and edited in 48 Hours as part of the Little Cinema & Galway City of Film 48 Hour Film Challenge.
Dan – Emmet Byrne
ALEX – Conor Hooper (English)
ALEX – Eoin Ó Dubhghaill (Irish)
Kris – John Burke
Rich – David Burke
Directed, Written and Visual Effects by Jamie Hooper
Edited by Aisling Ní Chúláin & Emily Murray
Director of Photography – Paul D’Eath
Sound, Sound Design and Original Music by Niall Clarke
With special thanks to Kenny Gaughan, Nick Fitzgerald
Official Selection – Galway Film Fleadh 2019
Winner: Best Film – Little Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge
Winner: Audience Award – Little Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge
Winner: Best Actor (Emmet Byrne) – Little Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge
Winner: Best Editing (Aisling Ní Chúláin & Emily Murray) -Little Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge
Xo Mo – Sweat (2018)
Xo Mo‘s first music video for their debut track ‘Sweat’. The electronic duo worked with us closely in every stage of the process and were incredibly good about being chucked into a rainy forest for a day and a night.
This would not have been possible without Jane Quigley and her amazingly generous, supportive family.
Find Xo Mo on Spotify, Facebook and Instagram.
Directed by Emily Murray
Written by Jamie Hooper
Director of Photography Lakshika Serasinhe
Produced by Jane Quigley
Radiant – Heel Turn Games
A Kickstarter promotional video for table-top card game.
Visual Effects by Jamie Hooper
Edited by Emily Murray
Artwork by Heel Turn Games
Radiant achieved 50% of their funding goals within the first 24 hours and then surpassed its funding goals entirely! They’ve gone on to offer many more expansion packs for the game. You can find more information at heelturn.ie.
Bread & Roses #HomeToVote – London Irish ARC
We approached the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign with a concept for a campaign video encouraging people to come home to vote in the upcoming referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment. We had incredible filmmakers stationed across the globe (Ireland, UK, Canada, USA, France) and we all wanted to use our skills to participate in the cause.
A true team effort from some incredibly talented people, with a haunting rendition of the titular song recorded especially for this piece by the musician Emma O’Reilly, Bread & Roses is a piece that is very dear to our hearts.
Hannah O’Reilly
Niamh Kavanagh
Patrick O’Connor
Claire O’Malley
Written by Jamie Hooper
Produced by Jamie Hooper and Emily Murray
Directed by Emily Murray, Colm McElligott, Aisling Ní Chúláin, Conor Hooper, Marie LeCoq, Claire O Malley, Patrick O’Connor, Aaron ? , Robin Guiton and Matt Ashe
“Bread & Roses” performed by Emma O’Reilly
Accompanying arrangement by Dónal Kennedy
The video received a huge amount of positive feedback on social media and was covered in a number of online news sites including The Daily Edge, Lovin.ie, Stellar.ie, and The Guardian.
She Said Yes – Together For Yes (2018)
As the deadline for the Referendum fast approached and based on the success of our previous effort, the Together For Yes campaigned commissioned us to create a video encouraging people to get out and vote on the day. We decided to go for a lighter tone figuring that by this stage in the, at this point, years-long debate, people would be worn down or dispirited by something too overly serious.
The timescales were so tight that Emily had to begin editing on a flight to the US; it was completed and submitted from a hotel room in Las Vegas.
Emmet Byrne
Cáít Moloney
Pauline Shanahan
Directed and edited by Emily Murray
Director of Photography Robin Guiton
Sound by Paul D’Eath
Written by Jamie Hooper
Special Thanks to Cara Sanquest, Siobhan De Poar, Frank & Chistine Kennedy and Paula Lambert.
It was one of the best performing videos from Together For Yes on social media.
A Christmas Karen (2017)
Karen Scrooge is an utter bastard. But one Christmas night a ghost tries to bring her on some sort of lame vision quest; will Karen learn the error of her ways?
Karen Scrooge – Cáit Moloney
Christmas Past – Séan Doyle
Christmas Present – Caoimhe Mulcahy
Bob/Christmas Future – Jamie Hooper
Narrated by Conor Hooper
Directed and shot by Emily Murray
Written and Visual Effects by Jamie Hooper
Sound and Original Music by Dónal Kennedy
Costumes and Makeup by Jane Quigley
Blood of the Woods (2017)
An inept director puts the crew of his low-budget horror “Blood of the Woods” through hell on-set… but there’s something far worse waiting in the woods.
Produced as part of the OFFline 57-Hour Filmmaking Challenge.
Emmet Byrne
Cáit Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh
Caoimhe Mulcahy
Kenny Gaughan
Julia Puchovska
Sorrel Lambton
Tony Walsh
Directed by Emily Murray
Written and Visual Effects by Jamie Hooper
Director of Photography Robin Guiton
Sound and Music by Dónal Kennedy
Production Manager & Makeup – Jane Quigley
Monster Design by Dylan O’Connor and Anthony Hodder
Nominated – ICAD Young Director Award (Emily Murray)
Official Selection Kerry International Film Festival
Available to watch on Aer Lingus in-flight entertainment in July 2019
Glimmermen
Glimmermen was a web-based transmedia narrative which invited users into the world of An Roinn Anaithnid – the Department of the Unknown. The website Glimmer.men acted as an exposé and hub of information about the supernatural beasts and cryptids of Irish folklore which are revealed to actually exist, having been covered up by “Glimmermen” since their inception 1937. Users were presented with four documentary-style videos about Irish monsters, complete with cinematic flashback sequences, special effects and the ever-present Narrator character, who has purportedly created Glimmer.men to warn the public about this grand conspiracy. The site also hosted a discussion forum and “hacked” government archive, where much additional information (which adds context and depth to the primary videos) could be found. Parts of the site, including a video finale, were inaccessible without passwords which require close examination of all materials to find. In this way, Glimmermen sought to further the development of transmedia storytelling by attempting to create a self-contained narrative world across multiple formats, accessible from a single location. Glimmermen is also an experiment in the exploitation of Irish folklore for the purposes of pure entertainment and cinematic horror. Great care was taken to imbue the videos and additional materials with elements that thrill, surprise and scare.
The Narrator – Hilary Bowen-Walsh
De Selby – Gerard Byrne
Young Narrator – Elisha Stanley
Síofra – Palomi McDonald
Folklore Professor – Stephen Jack Cullen
Older Máire / Each Uisce – Karen Meenan
Young Máire – Sophia Jones
The Soldier – Aidan O’Sullivan
Conor – Conor Maloney
Eadaoin – Eadaoin Ní Dhubhghaill
Carla – Carla Coleman
Lonan – Lonan Sheppard
Maidhc – Mickey Quigley
Uncle – Peter Quigley
Jane Murray – Glenda Cimino
Soldier #2 – Steve Spada
Mr Kennedy – Leo Collins
Ms. Kennedy – Helen McGrath
This project was by
Janina Franck
Jamie Hooper
Dónal Kennedy
Harry Moylan
Jane Quigley
Dobhar Chú Design by Dylan O’Connor