Sarah Carroll

Underground Cinema

Blogged by Sarah on April 14th, 2010 in Uncategorized

For a while now I’ve been meaning to write about a newish venture and great new asset to the Independent Filmmakers of Ireland, Underground Cinema, developed and co-ordinated by Dave Byrne. Dave has successfully run Bluemoon Theatre Company for many years and I came to know him when I had the pleasure of working on one of their productions in 2008.

Last year however, Dave changed course from the theatre company with the introduction of his new project, a monthly screening night in the Kingston Hotel Dun Laoghaire for Irish Short films, Underground Cinema. The idea behind Underground is to air the many wonderful independent Irish Shorts shot throughout the year that very often don’t get the screening time they deserve. Dave has opened the doors to anything which is sent to him, stating that any genre or convention is welcome. Over the months the screenings have also stretched to cover music videos and the occasional feature film. Another great aspect of Underground Cinema is that these monthly screenings will culminate into a nominations night in the Kingston Hotel, the Underground Film Festival in the IMC Dun Laoghaire and the Underground Cinema Awards (Black Tie Event) in Fitzpatricks Castle Hotel Killiney in September.

The whole project is ambitious to say the least and has so far had a well deserved great reaction, but this project has legs and is expanding all the time with Daves further introductions:
Underground TV (a live online showing of films with the director available for live chat afterwards)
Underground Cinema Roadshow (screenings held to a wider audience in venues throughout Ireland and the UK)
Underground Cinema Movie Marquee (a film tent appearing at various summer festivals)
Underground Cinema Movie Workshops (delivering valuable workshops in many aspects of film making)

I’m sure I’ll be writing more over the coming months about the exciting development of Underground Cinema but of course there’s much more to read about on the official Underground Cinema website and you can keep updated with the events by following on Facebook and Twitter.

Enjoy,

Sarah

Guerrilla

Blogged by Sarah on January 17th, 2010 in Acting, Job Update, Short Film

It would seem auditioning with no voice isn’t such a bad thing after all. I was in a bit of a panic this week with three auditions to get to and a voice that just wasn’t co-operating. But here we are with my second role secured for the week.  It’s a short film titled Guerrilla  to be shot by Dunsany Productions on location in Navan, Dublin and Dundalk. It’s a futuristic war movie and judging by the size of the gun I held in audition it’s going to be an eventful shooting experience.

I will play the female lead of Jacky. She is a soldier totally dedicated to the cause she fights. She has found herself on opposite sides to a former lover, Donelly, also the father of her young son. She’s hated him ever since he left her because she was pregnant, however when presented with the situation to let him live or die what will be the outcome? (Ohhhhh suspense!)

Should begin with costume and promo shots next week and shooting week after that. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of updates as we get closer and shooting begins so stay posted.

Sarah

Hunting Grizzly

Blogged by Sarah on January 9th, 2010 in Acting, Short Film

Hey everyone,

I worked on a short film a few weeks ago called Hunting Grizzly, a comedy written and directed by Jeff Doyle, Co-Directed by Donnacha Coffey, and produced by Cathal Nally and Babershop Triplet Productions.  I guess it falls into a strand of blue comedy, but to be honest it’s just plain Jeff Doyle humour… kinda have to know him to understand!  It was great crack to work on and I’m sure it’ll be ready for screening in the near future and perhaps do the festival rounds, but for now here’s the trailer so you can get a taste of whats to come.

Here’s a few stills from the shoot, starring Jeff Doyle, Ciaran O Grady, Gerry Shanahan and myself.

Ciaran and Jeff

Gerry

Jeff and Sarah

Crew working hard