Filed under: Radio | Tags: Belfast, Cranes, Film, Independent Filmmkaing, Michael MacBroom, Queen's University Belfast, Redevelopment, Stuart Sloan
Michael MacBroom
It’s all about local independent filmmaking this week, with conversations with two young filmmakers, Michael MacBroom & Stuart Sloan. Michael wrote and directed a feature film, finished earlier this year, called I Wanted To Talk To You Last Night, and is now working on a second feature to begin shortly.
Stuart Sloan
Stuart worked on the feature too, and has completed his own film recently, a short documentary on cranes and redevelopment in the city.
You can see Stuart’s crane film, Counterweight, at his YouTube site, http://www.youtube.com/ user/sloanowski, and there you can also find a short documentary with Michael MacBroom about the making of his first feature.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Acting, Adventures, Age, Ambition, Architecture, Artists, Australia, Being Fine, Belfast, Car Parks, Catoan, Change, Characters, Children's Books, Cities, Comedy, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Communication, Conservativism, Construction Work, Credit Cards, Damien Dempsey, Damien Rice, Digital Technology, Directors, Documentaries, Dr Seuss, Duke Special, East Belfast, Education, Ethnic Minorities, Failure, Family, Feature Films, Film, Filmmakers, Gigs, Graphic Novels, Guitar, I Wanted to Talk to You Last Night, Identity, Immigration, Indie Films, Intimacy, Ireland, Irish-Americans, Jared Longlands, Jobs, Joyful Subjects, Julia Atkinson, Jumping Fish, Land, London, Magic Rats, Michael MacBroom, Mischief, Models, Money, Music, New York, Northern Ireland, Northern Irish Accent, Nutsy The Office Squirrel, Office Work, Paddy McKeown, Parties, Paul McParland, People Who Sit in Rooms and Talk, Philosophy, Photography, Poland, Polish Architects, Presents, Property Development, Protestants, QFT, Record Contracts, Religion, Rent, Risk-taking, Screenplays, Selling Out, Serious Literature, Sinead O'Connor, Singer Songwriters, Skeleton Boss, Skill, Space, Squirrels, Subcultures, The Empire, Thespians, Titanic Quarter, Travel, Urban Alienation, Vulgarity, Work, Writing, Young People
Jared Longlands (for more: smartturkey@hotmail.com)
Julia Atkinson
Paddy McKeown (for more: http://www.myspace.com/patrickmckeown)
Michael MacBroom
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Belfast, Cigarettes, Film, ghosts, Jared Longlands, loners, Megalomaniacs, Mental Illness, Northern Ireland, Projectionist, QFT, The Lives of Others, The Sixth Sense
for more from Jared: http://anotherworldradio.com/2007/12/04/episode-4/
and to see some of Jared’s writings, drawings, comics, and other creations, contact him via email, at smartturkey@hotmail.com.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Adidas, Architecture, Ardoyne, Battle of the Bone, Belfast, BMX, Cave Hill, David Belle, Extreme Sports, Film, Fire Service, Football, Free Running, Gary Whelan, George Clarke, Graffiti, Hollywood, Hooliganism, Jump London, Parkour, Peace Walls, PSNI, Queen's University Belfast, Sculpture, Skateboarding, Stuntmen, Supercriminals, Superheroes, Team Bacteria, Traceurs, Victoria Square, Waterfront Hall, Yellow Fever Productions, YouTube, Zombies
Gary at City Hall
Parkour Jumps & Vaults
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Alison Millar, Belfast, Bill of Rights, Catholic Church, Family, Film, Human Rights, Human Rights Commission, Lost Boys, Louis Walsh, Michael Cleary, Monica McWilliams, Northern Ireland, Performer, Priests, River Phoenix, Ross Hamilton Cleary, Scandal, Secret, Singing Priest, Tabloids, The Troubles, Underage drinking
Ross Hamilton Cleary, the son of The Singing Priest of Ireland, Father Michael Cleary, speaks alongside filmmaker Alison Millar about the new documentary ‘At Home With the Clearys’. Ross and Alison discuss the scandal that arose when Fr Cleary’s secret relationships were revealed, what life has been like for the family since, and how the film has been received in Ireland.
In the second half of the show, the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Dr Monica McWilliams, talks about the upcoming Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland — how the process has developed, why it is necessary, and what the future holds for it.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Activism, Belfast, Carribean, CIA, Citizenship, Colonialism, Cults, Decolonization, Ethnic Minorities, Family, Film, Global South, Globalization, Guyana, India, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Michael Mahadeo, Migration, National Geographic, Northern Ireland, Ormeau Avenue, Pakistan, Politics, Radicalism, Social Problems, Socialism, Southern Command, Student Protest, Teaching, Television, The Troubles, USA
Michael Mahadeo
Michael Mahadeo has lived in Northern Ireland since the mid 1980s, when he moved here from British Guyana. He speaks about growing up in Guyana during its decolonization, and about the most notorious part of the country’s recent history — the Jonestown massacre, in which hundreds of American citizens killed themselves on a compound in rural Guyana. Michael also discusses being an ethnic minority in Northern Ireland, adjusting to the Troubles, and whether it’s ever possible to become a local here.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Bacon, BBC, Belfast, Cabbage, Cereal, Champ, Curry, Film, John Vance, Queen's University Belfast, Restaurant, Spuds, Stephen Bleakney, Students, The Troubles
Spuds
Episode 13 goes to Spuds to talk with its owner John Vance about the restaurant’s place in Belfast. The second half features an interview with Stephen Blakeney, the head of Queen’s Movie Society, about the society’s short films and the state of film-making in Northern Ireland today.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Art, Belfast, BT, Call Centres, Chicken factory, County Down, Dance, Dizziness, Film, Hygiene, Immigration, Islam, Jared Longlands, Kemal Yilmaz, Konya, Law, Life plans, Litter, Menial labor, Northern Ireland, Pantomime, Portugese, Projectionisht, QFT, Religion, Students, Turkey, Waterfront, Whirling Dervish, Writing
Whirling Dervishes in action
This week the program features an interview with Kemal Yilmaz, a whirling dervish who recently travelled from Turkey to perform in Belfast. He’s been a dervish since his early teens, now he’s studying law and whirling in the meantime.
Then Jared Longlands talks about authoring anti-litter pantomimes, living the creative life, and surviving menial labor. To see some of Jared’s writings, drawings, comics, and other creations, contact him via email, at smartturkey@hotmail.com.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Buster Keaton, Death, ETA, Exchanges, Film, Fire, Michigan, Politics, Projectionist, QFT, Queen's University Belfast, Santander, Spain, Stereotypes, Terorrism, Ugly Americans, USA
This week’s program goes to Michigan for an interview with David Sandahl about his time studying in Santander, Spain this summer. He discusses whether he and his fellow students fulfilled the Ugly American stereotypes, and what happened when ETA called off its ceasefire and launched attacks in the city they were staying. Then we return to Belfast for a tour of the Queen’s Film Theatre’s Box 1 with projectionist Jonathan Greer. He names his ten favorite films in under fifteen seconds, explains why life in the projection box is not so miserable, and the fatalities & headless chicken moments possible in the job.
