They left Ireland for England as young men… and never returned. As a film documents their homecoming 40 years later, Jon McGregor meets the exiles
I went to a film premiere last year. It was in the garden of a large house, on the eastern outskirts of Nottingham, that provides supported accommodation for older homeless men. There was quite a crowd when I got there; a mixture of local artists and film-makers, professionals from the worlds of care and housing support, and men living in the house. Someone had made a pot of stew and we stood around eating it and making small talk while we waited for dusk to fall so the screening could begin. It took a while to get everyone seated, and a while longer for everyone to be quiet, and then the film opened with a shot of one of the men I'd just seen talking in the garden.
I went to a film premiere last year. It was in the garden of a large house, on the eastern outskirts of Nottingham, that provides supported accommodation for older homeless men. There was quite a crowd when I got there; a mixture of local artists and film-makers, professionals from the worlds of care and housing support, and men living in the house. Someone had made a pot of stew and we stood around eating it and making small talk while we waited for dusk to fall so the screening could begin. It took a while to get everyone seated, and a while longer for everyone to be quiet, and then the film opened with a shot of one of the men I'd just seen talking in the garden.
- 4/29/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
With the upcoming DVD release of Slime City Massacre right around the corner, I thought now would be an excellent time to look back at Greg Lamberson’s 1988 flick that started it all – Slime City. Put on your raincoats, my friends, because things are about to get messy.
Jason Bene: Although Slime City is a low budget film, it is quite ambitious. Where did you find the funding to make this cult classic?
Greg Lamberson: My producing partners (Marc Makowski and Peter Clark) and I put up about one third of the $50,000 budget ourselves; we bugged friends and family for another third, and a foreign sales rep named Alexander Beck put up the remainder. It was a different time when we started, because video was huge and no-budget films sold well. But by the time we finished, the bottom had dropped out of that market. So in one sense,...
Jason Bene: Although Slime City is a low budget film, it is quite ambitious. Where did you find the funding to make this cult classic?
Greg Lamberson: My producing partners (Marc Makowski and Peter Clark) and I put up about one third of the $50,000 budget ourselves; we bugged friends and family for another third, and a foreign sales rep named Alexander Beck put up the remainder. It was a different time when we started, because video was huge and no-budget films sold well. But by the time we finished, the bottom had dropped out of that market. So in one sense,...
- 4/29/2011
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
MONTREAL -- Digital media group Red Herring Inc. on Wednesday unveiled plans for a major Canadian technology conference next year designed to match domestic digital media players with investors.
"Canada is the leader right now in R&D among the G8. A lot of people don't know that," Tom Sweeney, head of Garage Technology Ventures Canada and an advisor to Red Herring, said at a Montreal press conference.
The Red Herring Canada conference is scheduled for June 13-15 in Montreal and will be modeled on the company's European Technology Roundtable Exhibition, according to Red Herring vp Farley Duvall.
The conference is expected to host about 700 players in digital technology and venture capital markets.
In addition to a thriving video game industry in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal also are home to long-standing special effects hardware and software producers.
Duvall described the company's foray into Canada as part of an effort to globalize the magazine in content and readership.
The aim is a "pan-Canadian" readership and content, he added.
"Canada is the leader right now in R&D among the G8. A lot of people don't know that," Tom Sweeney, head of Garage Technology Ventures Canada and an advisor to Red Herring, said at a Montreal press conference.
The Red Herring Canada conference is scheduled for June 13-15 in Montreal and will be modeled on the company's European Technology Roundtable Exhibition, according to Red Herring vp Farley Duvall.
The conference is expected to host about 700 players in digital technology and venture capital markets.
In addition to a thriving video game industry in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal also are home to long-standing special effects hardware and software producers.
Duvall described the company's foray into Canada as part of an effort to globalize the magazine in content and readership.
The aim is a "pan-Canadian" readership and content, he added.
- 12/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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