Galway Film Fleadh Masterclass and Workshop Line-Up Announced
The 25th Galway Film Fleadh has announced this years masterclass and workshop schedule which includes an Actors Masterclass with Zachery Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes), a Directors Masterclass with Julien Temple (This is London), a Screenwriters Masterclass with Daniel Waters (Heathers, Demolition Man) and a Casting Workshop with Ros and John Hubbard (Hubbard Casting).
DIRECTORS MASTERCLASS - THURSDAY 11TH JULY AT 3.30PM - 6.30PM
Julien Temple will be the subject of this year's Directors Masterclass which is in association with Screen Training Ireland.
Born in London, England, in 1953, Julien Temple grew up with little interest in film until, when a student at Cambridge, he discovered the works of French anarchist director Jean Vigo. This, along with his interest in the early punk scene in London in 1976, led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols. It was this friendship that later resulted in the controversial documentary The Great Rock and Roll Swindle (1980), which tells the rise of the band from the viewpoint of their manager, Malcolm McLaren. Weaving together interviews, live music, animation and other spectacular footage, Swindle proved to be a critical success despite the controversy surrounding it. The documentary became a cult hit and helped launch Temple into a phenomenally successful career making music videos. He quickly became a wanted man among rock's elite and in the 1980s, helped pioneer the use of the music video, directing projects for The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, David Bowie, Neil Young and Janet Jackson among others. His early work was (and still is) considered groundbreaking.
Temple worked on a variety of projects, Jazzin' for Blue Jean (1984), The Comic Strip (1981), Absolute Beginners (1986), Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), and many others before returning to his punk roots with a new documentary about the Sex Pistols, The Filth and the Fury (2000), which was told from the band's perspective. In 2006 he returned to the punk rock scene once again with Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007), a documentary about his longtime friend and Clash frontman. One of his more recent projects came at the request of BBC Arts, which commissioned Temple to produce a documentary about the city of London. The film, This Is London (2012), reflects Temple's reverence for his home city and shows how the city has changed and adapted since the early 20th century. It concludes with the metropolis preparing to welcome the Olympic Games. The film is a part of a series of city-based music documentaries Temple is directing.
The masterclass costs €50. To apply for a place, log onto:
www.screentrainingireland.ie with your CV and register your details. Please email your contact details to masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
The closing date for applications is: 1pm Thursday the 27th of June 2013
SCREENWRITERS MASTERCLASS - THURSDAY 11TH JULY 3PM - 6PM (TBC)
Daniel Waters will be the subject of this year's Screenwriters Masterclass at the Fleadh in association with IADT.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in the wilds of Indiana, educated in Montreal, Daniel Waters came to Los Angeles in the 80's where he did the de rigueur video-store-clerk-to-screenwriter transformation and burst onto the scene with Heathers, the seminal 1989 dark comedy that re-defined the Teen Film genre, for better or worse. From there, poor Daniel got swept up into the world of big-budget action films with varying success: The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), Hudson Hawk (1991), the Catwoman-scented Batman Returns (1992), and Demolition Man (1993), which chillingly predicted Arnold Schwartzenegger's political future.
According to Daniel, he got off the studio merry-go-round to write many dazzlingly brilliant and therefore unmade scripts before embarking on a directing career (Happy Campers 2000, Sex and Death 101 2008) that has brought joy to ‘tens and tens of people around the globe'.
Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, now shooting in London, marks Daniel's entree into the supernatural-young-adult-novel-adaptation world (He likes to come to genres as they are dying) and his first collaboration with Mark Waters, his commercially more successful younger brother.
The closing date for applications is: 1pm Friday the 5th of July 2013
ACTORS MASTERCLASS - FRIDAY 12TH JULY 10AM - 1PM
Zachery Quinto will be the subject of this year's Actors Masterclass which is in association with Hubbard Casting and Screen Training Ireland.
"I have an inherent understanding to his (Spock's) nature, which is one of duality - the head versus the heart. That is certainly something I can relate to. As someone who has been considered pretty intellectual and wordy, I also have a deep well of emotional life. I understand what it means to be in constant relationship to both of those aspects of myself."
The role of Spock required an actor capable of cultivating a strong emotional life that lies just under the surface, only exploding forth at times of great duress. Feeling emotions but only rarely emoting them is something counter-intuitive to most actors but Quinto absolutely nailed the balance in his big-screen breakthrough, garnering rave reviews for his portrayal and helping the film earn over $250 million internationally, making it the most successful film of the long-running Star Trek franchise.
The prolific actor has gone on to star in such popular TV shows as 24, Heroes and American Horror Story, as well as producing and starring in Margin Call. Now, fresh from reprising his role as Mr. Spock in Star Trek into Darkness, Quinto is preparing to make his long-anticipated return to the West of Ireland for the 25th Galway Film Fleadh.
The Actors Masterclass will be hosted by John Hubbard of Hubbard Casting and will provide an intensive interactive environment in the skills, methodology and aesthetics of film acting aimed at actors working or wanting to work more in film. The masterclass will cover such topics as:
• Starting out as an actor • Dealing with casting directors • Securing an agent • Preparing for an audition • Working on set • Relationship with the director and many more.
Places are limited - please be advised that all applicants MUST be over 18 years of age and MUST submit a CV and headshot in order to be considered for a place.
To apply for a place, log onto: www.screentrainingireland.ie with your CV and register your details. Please email your headshot and contact details to masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
The closing date for applications is: 1pm Thursday the 27th of June 2013
CASTING WORKSHOP - SATURDAY 13TH JULY 2PM - 5PM (TBC)
The casting workshop in association with Hubbard Casting will be with Ros and John Hubbard.
Casting Director Ros Hubbard, who is from Dublin, set up Hubbard Casting with her husband John, who is from Norfolk, in 1976 and now works from their HQ in London and Dublin. Their children, Dan and Amy, have since joined them in the business and are very successful casters in their own right. Amy's recent work includes The Hobbit, directed by Peter Jackson, The Selfish Giant, directed by Clio Bernard and currently shooting in Ireland Our Robot Overlords, directed by Jon Wright. Dan has recently completed Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass and is currently casting Downton Abbey and Suite Francaise directed by Saul Dibb.
In a career that has spanned over 30 years, the Hubbard outfit's notable discoveries have included Orlando Bloom, whom they cast in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Kate Winslet and they currently have Aidan Turner and James Nesbitt starring in The Hobbit. In addition to presiding with Alan Parker over the epic Irish casting process for The Commitments, the many notable recent Hubbard Casting credits include Romeo and Juliet, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, Whole Lotta Sole, and Summer in February and John and Ros are currently casting Dracula for Irish director Gary Shore and NBC Universal. Ros has won many awards for her contribution to film, the last being when she and John were honoured for their work on The Commitments at the Oscar Wilde Awards in LA in 2011. Recently, in an effort to assist films getting made they have started to produce, they are currently producing The Hound Of Erin, directed by Gary Shore and One Square Mile, directed by Michael Caton-Jones but love and will continue to cast.
Place are limited - all successful applicants MUST bring an updated CV and headshot with them on the day, and have a monologue prepared and ready to perform (no longer than 1 minute). The Hubbards may choose to ‘spot pick' performers as there may not be enough time for everyone to perform. Please note there is an age restriction on this workshop - applicants must be over 17 years of age and as old as they like!
To apply for a place, please email an updated CV and headshot to masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
The closing date for applications is: 1pm Friday the 5th of July 2013
Each workshop/masterclass costs €50.
For further information on all masterclasses and workshops, please contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com