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Filmbase presents
Press Play: Exploring New Opportunities where Movies, Music and Video Games Converge
6.30pm Thursday 17th November 2011
Filmbase is delighted to announce a special panel discussion open to the public entitled Press Play: Exploring New Opportunities where Movies, Music and Video Games Converge at 6.30pm on Thursday November 17th.
Filmbase, supported by PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual video games, and IMRO the Irish Music Rights Organisation, have assembled a panel of industry experts from the film, music and video games industries to explore the exciting prospect of increased collaboration between the sectors and the opportunities arising from this. Each of the experts has real-world experience in collaborating across the three industries and collectively have been involved with successful ventures such as Bejeweled, Prince of Persia, Mission Impossible and Massive Attack to name a few.
The panel contains Andrew S. Walsh (Screenwriter/Director), Paul Breslin (PopCap Games), Damien Farrell (Caboom and Animation Ireland CEO Forum), Steve Lindsey (elevate Music / IMRO Board Member) and Gregory Magee (Composer). Well known music and games journalist Joe Griffin will MC the panel.
Please note this session is now fully booked A waiting list has been drawn up, to have your name added to the waiting list please email Clare Creely of Filmbase on clare@filmbase.ie. Make sure to include your full name, a contact number and which industry you are involved in.
There will also be a special address from Forfás who wrote a report entitled; THE GAMES SECTOR IN IRELAND: AN ACTION PLAN FOR GROWTH.
Alan Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of Filmbase said: "Ireland has seen an explosion of growth in the media and gaming sectors in recent years. Advances in technology keep bringing these relatively new industries closer and closer to the traditional film, animation and music sectors. Filmbase felt it was the right time to bring representatives of each industry together to discuss the opportunities that are beginning to emerge as a result of this rapid convergence. We hope that Press Play will stimulate a valuable discussion about the current state of the creative industries in Ireland and where the real opportunities for growth and collaboration for the future can be developed."
PANEL BIOGS
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JOE GRIFFIN - Journalist Film & Games
Joe Griffin is a freelance journalist based in Dublin. He writes videogame reviews and a videogame column for The Irish Times and regular features for the paper on the subjects of film, gaming, music and pop culture. He frequently contributes to Arena on RTE Radio 1, providing reviews and features on film and gaming. Additionally, his work has appeared in The Guardian, Total Film, gamesTM, The Irish Independent and Film Ireland among other publications.
Panel Members:
PAUL BRESLIN - General Manager, PopCap Games International
Promoted to General Manager of PopCap Europe in early 2010, Paul oversees the strategy implementation, business development and operational management of the company throughout Europe. Paul has over 15 years of global technology experience and since joining PopCap as director of EMEA operations beginning in 2005. Since that time he has been largely responsible for establishing and expanding PopCap's European headquarters, which has now grown to more than 50 fulltime employees.
Before joining PopCap, Paul worked at Pulse Entertainment in San Francisco. Previously he served at the European Union and held technical positions in the United Kingdom, as well as working in the UK financial sector. Paul holds a BSc from London Metropolitan University and a post-graduate Information Science diploma from Thames Valley University.
STEVE LINDSEY - Elevate Music / IMRO Board Member
Steve's introduction to the music industry came in 1975 whilst studying at Liverpool College of Art when, as a member of the band Deaf School, he signed with Warner Bros Records. After graduating he became a professional songwriter and musician, touring and recording three albums with Deaf School, followed by two albums and a couple of minor hit singles with The Planets.
He entered the world of music publishing in 1985 as Professional Manager with Warner Chappell Music in London and was appointed General Manager of Go! Discs Music in 1988. There he worked with The La's and Norman Cook's Beats International. He joined Island Music as General Manager in 1990 and was associated with The Beautiful South, Massive Attack, Shakespeare's Sister, U2 and Pulp.
In 1995 he branched into movie music supervision working on many international films including Mission Impossible and Twin Town and TV productions such as The Young Persons Guide To Becoming A Rock Star. Parallel to this he set-up publishing companies for Robbie Williams' management company and for Massive Attack.
Steve established Elevate Music in 2004 and the company currently represents an array of Irish composers such as Mundy, Cathy Davey, Aslan and score composer Niall Byrne.
He continues to act as music supervisor and has worked on recent film productions including The Flying Machine and Parked. Steve also maintains his musician status as bass player with the reformed Deaf School and has toured extensively throughout the UK and Japan in 2011.
Steve sits on the boards of the Irish Music Rights Organisation and MCPS Ireland.
DAMIEN FARRELL - Caboom & Chairman of the Animation Ireland CEO Forum
Caboom is based in Ireland with an office in LA and produces live-action and animated content for tv and online working with broadcasters and brands. The company's work varies from a tv and web puppet series for the BBC called 'Special 1 Tv', to a series of animated content for California's power utility company 'Southern California Edison' for cinema, tv and online. Caboom is currently in development on a primetime show with the Jim Henson Company.
The Animation Ireland CEO Forum is a collective of the CEOs from the Irish animation sector that works together with Enterprise Ireland to promote the industry as a whole internationally.
ANDREW S. WALSH - Screenwriter / Director
Andrew S. Walsh is a writer/director with credits across television, radio, animation, theatre, film and videogames. His diverse experience ranges from script editor on Granada Television's Emmerdale, motion capture director on Electronic Art's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, English language writer on the animated feature Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, to voice director on Creative Assembly's Medieval II: Total War.
He has worked on almost 50 videogames titles and won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Videogames writing for Prince of Persia in 2009.
GREGORY MAGEE - Composer
Gregory Magee won Best Score in the 2005 Irish Film & TV Awards for his music for the feature Winters End, directed by Patrick Kenny and produced by Damien Donnelly. He composed and produced all the music for The Fairytaler, a 26 part multi-award winning animation series, based on the stories of Hans Christian Anderson. Produced by Magma/A-Films/Super - RTL, the series is broadcast in more than 90 countries. More recently, the short animated film Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty received much attention in the form of an Oscar nomination in 2010.
Other tv credits include the upcoming 52 part animated series Fleabag Monkeyface (Impossible Kids/Firestep), I'm a Monster (Monster Entertainment), the 26 part series Zombie Hotel (BBC/Telegael/France 3); Under The Hawthorn Tree (RTE/Channel 4); the title music for RTE's Rose of Tralee and the reality based tv series Cabin Fever (Coco TV/RTE). He has scored a multitude of shorts including An Evil Cradling, based on the book by Brian Keenan (Kavaleer Productions); The Cat & The Moon, an adaptation of the Yeats play produced by Patrick Bergin for Crimson Films; The Milliner (Kavaleer); The Angelic Organ and The Nest, both for Rocket Animation; Limbo (Zanzibar); Ocras (TG4); The Longest Ditch (Espresso Films/TG4); A Lonely Sky (Zanita) and more. His documentaries include Blaire Maine for Rapid Films.
Frequently in demand as a lecturer, he has taught on Music, Film Scoring, Music Production Technology and Sound for Picture for FAS Screen Training Ireland, Pulse Recording College and Limerick Institute of Technology. He also writes concert and theatre music and his works have been performed widely across the US and China on a recent tour by the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra. In the past he has also contributed to a variety of music publications in the form of piano and vocal arrangements. He works from his own digital recording studio in Dublin as well as in London.
Please note this session is now fully booked A waiting list has been drawn up, to have your name added to the waiting list please email Clare Creely of Filmbase on clare@filmbase.ie. Make sure to include your full name, a contact number and which industry you are involved in.
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