The Production Depot Congrats to all the IFTA 2010 Nominees & Winners ! Special mention to Suzie Lavelle who won the IFTA for best DOP and also all the productions we serviced such as ‘The Clinic’, ‘Five Minutes Of Heaven’, ‘The Take’, ‘Ondine’, ‘Father & Son’, ‘Pure mule-The last Weekend’, ‘One Hundred Mornings’, ‘His & Hers’ !

The Production Depot What a great week ! On set of the drama, ‘Slience’ with Owen McPolin shooting. Sodergerghs feature film ‘ Knockout’ started and is all sorted. We had a visit from Alan Piper who is runing RED Europe. ‘The Door’ which was shot by Tim Fleming was nominated for an Oscar. Warrior films ‘Tufty’ got into the Belfast film fe…stival….sweet !

The Production Depot Here is link to RED’s new showreel showing their new MYSTERIUM-X Sensor http://red.cachefly.net/M-X-REEL.mov

The Production Depot supplied a RED package to Domhnall Gleesons short film ‘Noreen’ recently, which was lenses by Ruairí O’Brien and starred Domhnalls father, Brendan Gleeson, as well as his brother Brian.

The Production Depot supplied and serviced TG4’s new Irish Langage Drama, ‘Na Cloigne’ which begins tonight on TG4. Directed by Robert Quinn, this 3 part Drama was produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh with Mick Walsh Line Producing. Micheál Ó Dubháin was DoP and he used a 2 Camera RED ONE Package.

The Production Depot supplied equipment on the new Meteor Phone Christmas Commercial “Carol Off”. Speers Film produced the four day Commercial and the DoP was Simon Walsh with Declan king assisting. Simon used a package of RED Cameras, COOKE S4 Primes and Grip package.

All the best to the Crew on ‘The Silence’ which starts shooting on Monday ! Directed by Dearbhla Walsh and lensed by DoP Owen Mc Polin (‘Dr Who’, ,’The Take’) with Dave Grennan on Focus, Conor Rotherham assisting, John Dunne Gripping, Chris Rooney as DIT and Sean Leonard as Trainee. Shooting on RED 4K with COOKE S4 Lenses and CANON EOS 7D.

From the BBC Website:-

A deaf girl witnesses a murder in The Silence, a new four-part drama for BBC One.

Eighteen-year-old Amelia Edwards (introducing Genevieve Barr) has recently been fitted with a cochlear implant, enabling her to hear, but she struggles to accept that she has a place in the hearing world.
Breaking free from her over-protective parents (Gina McKee and Hugh Bonneville, she goes to stay with her party-loving cousins, homicide detective uncle Jim (Douglas Henshall) and warm-hearted aunt Maggie (Dervla Kirwan). Amelia witnesses the audacious murder of a policewoman, and is reluctantly propelled further into a loud and frightening world.

Jim is assigned the case, and when she identifies a police officer on the drugs squad as one of the killers, he urgently needs to protect his niece. If his colleagues find out what she has witnessed, she will be in extreme danger from the very people he works with. But by keeping her a secret, he will jeopardise his own position in the force and put his whole family at risk…

The Silence is about an ordinary family where something extraordinary happens. The teenagers’ partying lifestyles and casual drug-taking collide with Jim’s investigation, and all their lives are hurled into a cacophony of police corruption, betrayal, drugs, and murder.

This is the first major role for severely deaf actress Genevieve Barr, who won the coveted role of Amelia while she was on the Teach First scheme, teaching in a challenging inner London secondary school. A graduate of Edinburgh University, Genevieve has filmed the sitcom pilot Comedy Showcase: The Amazing Dermot.

The Silence is the first UK project for the Australian writer Fiona Seres (who has already had acclaimed dramas on Australian television including Tangle, Dangerous, Love My Way, The Surgeon).

‘The Guard’, which is shooting in Galway and Wicklow over the next 7 weeks. written / Directed by John Michael McDonagh and stars Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle. The DoP is Larry Smith (Eyes Wide Shut) and Focus Puller is John Gamble with Owen Farrell Loading. Larry is using a package inclu…ding 2 X ARRICAM LT’s, 1 X ARRI 435, Zeiss Master Primes and Optimo Zooms.

Currently testing new Canon EOS 7D’s……..18mp…HD Video 24p….25p…30p…sweet !

Supplying the RTE Drama ‘Love-Hate’, which is a four by one hour drama directed by David Caffrey. DoP is Donal Gilligan and they are shooting on RED Cameras.