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Gorilla Post is thrilled that ‘Late Afternoon’, a short film produced and directed by Cartoon Saloon, has received an Oscar nomination !

Directed by Louise Bagnall and produced by Nuria Blanco, ‘Late Afternoon’ tells the moving story of a mother, who after a long illness, regains her memory and reconnects with her daughter, who is also her day-to-day caregiver.

Gorilla Post provided the voice records, sound design, mix and picture post on the film. We are all extremely excited for Louise and Nuria and wish them – and our friends at Cartoon Saloon – the very best at the Oscars next month!

Gorilla’s managing director, Barry Reid, was nominated for an Emmy Award for his “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for an Animated Preschool Program” on Amazon Prime’s ‘Pete The Cat’ series.

The prestigious award ceremony took place at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, California in April 2018.

‘Pete The Cat’ (28 x 11) is a co-production between Amazon Studios, Alcon Studios, Surfer Jack Productions and three-time Oscar-nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon.

Gorilla Post is delighted to be involved in some very exciting projects for this year’s Galway Film Festival.

“Aithri / Penance” (82min feature film) stars Peter Coonan as a republican priest during the 1916 Rising. 50 years later as “The Troubles” grip Co. Derry he advocates more peaceful means – much to the disapproval of his old associates. Tom Collins is producer/director with Edwina Forkin as co-producer. Gorilla provided audio post, grading, VFX, online edit and finishing.

Cartoon Saloon’s “Late Afternoon” is an animated short which centres around the topic of amnesia. As to be expected with Cartoon Saloon the art direction is beautiful and the story between mother and daughter is bound to warm the hearts of many. We were delighted to provide all audio and picture post on the film.

Alan Mulligan’s debut feature “The Limit Of” has attracted lots of interest over the last few weeks. A former banker himself “The Limit of” is a dark psychological thriller telling the story of a disillusioned bank employee whose mother falls ill due to the repossession of her home. Sound mixing, VFX and finishing were completed here at Gorilla Post

September 17th 2015

Hello there !

Can’t believe it’s almost a year since we moved into our new offices here in Merrion Square. Probably one of the fastest years we’ve had and luckily our busiest too!

During that time I’m delighted to have online editor and colourist Oleg Jitov join us, who has made a huge contribution to our team. Oleg’s credits are very impressive having spent almost 20 years working in the industry. We have him grading lots of factual, lifestyle and entertainment shows to keep him busy !

In animation we’ve yet again had the pleasure of working with our uber-talented colleagues at Cartoon Saloon on the 2nd season of Puffin Rock, which was recently acquired by Netflix! Pretty amazing year for the “Salooners” given they were also nominated for best animated feature at this years Oscars for Song Of The Sea !

We recently completed all 26 episodes of the 2nd series of Wildernuts too for our equally talented chums at Kavaleer, who go into production with their upcoming new series Kiva Can Do very soon. Can’t wait for that. Voice records, sound design, mix and online editing all happening here at Gorilla.

So far so good on the commercials front too with plenty of campaigns throughout the year for the likes of Jaguar, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank, Red Bull, Failte Ireland and Fruice, to name just a few. Most recently we completed the sound design and mix for An Post’s new TV campaign, “A Journey of Things,” which is now airing regularly on RTE and Sky. So we’ve generally had lots of creative agencies and production companies walk through our doors over the past while. Big shout out to H2 Films, Motherland, Rothco, Publicis, In The Company Of Huskies, Target Mc Connells, Caboom and Jumper Productions !

Not surprisingly for this time of year TV broadcast has really revved up a notch in the last month or two as well. As I write this we’re currently working on some great new shows such as Crumlin, A Week To My Wedding, Hardy Bucks, Nurses, Fir Bolg, and Entrepreneur Of The Year. When it rains it pours ! We look forward to another series of The Mario Rosenstock Show in December as well plus a 1 hour special of Thank GAA It’s Friday for Loosehorse. We’ll be doing the offline, online, grade and mix.

Thanks for reading this blog and we look forward to working with you all soon!

Cheers,

Barry

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