Gorilla has recently completed the sound and picture post production on “Drunk”, a brand new science-based television series for RTÉ Two that explains what happens to us when we drink.
Each 2 x 1 hour programmes is presented by Eoghan McDermott and will broadcast later this year. Mark Warren directed the series with Conor Moloney of Independent Pictures as executive producer.
Gorilla did the sound mix, grade and online editing.
Gorilla is relocating to Merrion Square with a relaunch set for October 2014!
Our new expansion will consist of multi-purpose edit suites and significant upgrades to our mixing studios and grading suites.
In the meantime our ongoing projects will be fully serviced at our current offices on Herbert Lane without disruption.
Needless to say we’re all very excited about the new move. Looking forward to seeing you all there very soon!
Barry
Gorilla has been busy mixing and grading two new feature films set to appear at the Galway Film Festival 2014.
The first, “Light Of Day”, a mocumentary set against the backdrop of horror film-making, was directed by Amy Carroll and written by Chris Brennan.
The second “Poison Pen”, written by Eoin Colfer and starring Aoibhinn Mc Ginnity (Love/Hate) and Lochlann O’Mearain (O’Briens’/King Arthur) in the leading roles is a romantic comedy set in London.
Gorilla provided the sound and picture post on both features.
We’re enjoying a busy spell here at Gorilla Post with a mixture of animations and TV projects under way.
Sound mixing on the animated series “Inis Spraoi” (Magpie6Media / Monster Entertainment) is at full tilt with both English and Irish language versions being mixed on all 26 episodes.
Voice records on our other animated series, “Puffin Rock” is progressing brilliantly with Chris O’Dowd doing a super job. We’ll be starting the sound and video post production in June. We can’t wait!
Sound and video post is also underway on Kavaleer’s “Deadly” animated short film. We had the great pleasure of recording Brenda Fricker last year as the lead voice. As you can imagine she was fantastic, and beyond lovely to work with! The other lead voice is Peter Coonan, who plays Fran in RTE’s “Love/Hate”. He was quite scary to record! We really like this film. It’s funny, touching and very sweet. Hope you all get to see it soon!
On the documentary front, Goldhawk Productions have recently expanded their offices from the UK to Ireland and we’re delighted to have taken on their 1st Irish TV series! “Cork Mega Port” is a 4 part observational documentary series for TV3 that we’re currently mixing and grading. Paul Cleary is the producer / director. Welcome to Ireland, Paul!
If you’re a fan of Mario Rosenstock the good news is that he’s bringing his “Gift Grub Live” tour on the road again soon! As I write this, post production on a variety of his sketches is underway in our studios and edit suites. The sketches will be played via giant screens on stage during Mario’s performances, interacting with his alter ego’s in the process! This is a great one to be working on. Thanks to director Damian Farrell of Caboom and of course to the man himself, Mario!
Catch you all again soon!
All the best,
Barry
Congratulations to Independent Pictures for picking up the award for Best Documentary Series with “John Lonergan’s Circus” at last week’s IFTA awards!
In the series former governor of Mount Joy prison, John Lonergan, uses a process known as ‘social circus’ where the tough challenge of performing is used to improve self-esteem, team work and discipline within a group of disadvantaged youths.
Post production began in April 2013 with Gorilla carrying out the sound mix, grade and online editing
The 4 x 40′ series was directed by Judy Kelly and produced by Anna Rogers. Executive Producer was Conor Moloney. It was broadcast on RTE One.
Gorilla is delighted that 3 TV productions it post-produced in 2013 are nominated for this year’s IFTA awards, taking place Saturday April 5th. Best of luck to “John Lonergan’s Circus” (Independent Pictures), “Bliain in Árainn Mhór” (Power Pictures), and “The Estate” (Motive Television).
Director Mark O’Connor (“Between the canals”, “King of the travelers”) is getting his 3rd feature, “Stalker”, released in cinema this week.
The Psychological thriller came 2nd for Best Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2013 and won 1st prize in the Underground Film Festival in the same year. The cast includes John O’Connor, Barry Keoghan and Peter Coonan.
We’re delighted to have mixed the film and we wish Mark and producer TJ O’Grady Peyton the very best of luck!
We’re delighted to mention that “Wildernuts” has launched on RTE Jr last week! It was a pleasure working on this series and a big thank you to our friends at Kavaleer Productions! We were almost a year recording voices, editing sound effects, mixing and finishing each episode in online. Hope everyone tunes in!
It’s that time of year again, the Christmas hangover has subsided, detox in full throes and for some, it’s time to head off to New York for Kidscreen 2014! Wishing our animator friends the very best of luck at this work hard, play hard fest! We can’t make this year but here’s hoping that some of the awesome pilots we’ve worked on get picked up!
Good news on many levels as it’s been a while since the release of the last Pro Tools console. The S6 is modular which means that users can build their own system based on their personal requirements and budget. This is also the first major “Pro Tools” console that is open-ended to other applications such as Logic and Nuendo. Sure to please many!
