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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 1, 2010.
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An enormous sense of well-being! - No? OK, a signed A4 (letter size) poster!
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A Sign Poster, DVD, 140 T-Shirt and one on one skype conversation with Producer Frank Kelly (that's me!)
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A Signed Poster, DVD, T-Shirt, one on one Skype conversation with Frank Kelly and a chance to be one of the segment directors for the next film in your country.
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Multi-award winning writer/director Frank Kelly was born, and lives, in Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Animation Production from Ballyfermot College Dublin (Whose alumni include many Oscar winning filmmakers)
In 2005 he set up Pale Stone Productions Limited with Thomas Kennedy. Together they co-wrote and directed 'Emily's Song' in 2006. The film went on to screen at over 30 International Film Festivals, win the 2006 Crystal Heart Award, the Unicef UK Award and received a Special Mention at the prestigious Oberhausen Short Film Festival and has has been broadcast on national television, including RTE in Ireland and Channel 4 in the UK.
Frank wrote and directed the no-budget short documentary entitled 'Bill, For Short' in 2008. It was officially selected for the 2008 Heartland Film Festival and nominated for Best Documentary at the 2009 Heart of Gold Film Festival in Australia. It was also featured on RTE’s 'Nationwide' show that year and is distributed by Network Ireland Television.
'Slan agus Beannacht’ was shot in April of 2009, and again featured on Nationwide that same year. It was broadcast on RTE last year.
Frank’s latest film, '140', a feature length experimental documentary inspired by Twitter, had its World Premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California at the end of April 2010, and has screened at Hatch Fest, Downtown Film Fest Los Angeles and the Heartland Film Festival. It had it's European premiere at the Irish Film Institute in October of 2010 and has recently won the Bronze Palm Award from the Mexico International Film Festival.
Frank continues to work on several projects, with two new short film, 'Raise My Hands' currently touring festivals.
He has recently completed production on his first dramatic feature film, Derelict and is currently editing. As well as developing his next project.
Hi Frank- Looks like you've sent out packages to all of the backers, but I still have yet to receive mine. Any chance you could look into that? Thanks!
Received my DVD on Saturday, September 18. Thank you !!! Really enjoyed it and am sharing it with many friends. Congratulations.
DC Irish Culture organization here want to get in touch with you:
we have checked out the link and 140 looks like a really interesting concept. We can't quite seem to locate an e-mail or phone number for Frank Kelly. Would you happen to have an e-mail for him or alternatively could you pass on our Film Fest contact to him: emma@solasnua.org or he can check us out at http://www.facebook.com/l/de54c;irishfilmdc.org. Thanks a million!
So the people that donate $100 or more get to direct a segment on the next project? Can I call dibs on my city (San Diego, California) now?
Thank you so much all the new backers! Almost at the half way mark - 16 days to go!!! Will we make it???
Thank you Judith de Boer, Jose Gomez, Happy Garaje, Rose from San Francisco, Paula Newman, Akos Beres, globalweave, laurie ashbourne, Graham Mac Giolla Bhride, Caroline Farrell, Farah Azalea and Kelly Kierans for your recent pledges! You guys are amazing!!!
More pledges coming in all the time! This is amazing! Thanks everyone so far - lets keep it going!
Also, I'm here, so anyone who wants feel free to ask anything about the film!
Two backers so far and we're only up and running a couple of hours!!! Thanks to Wayne and Brian! Hopefully the start of many more to come!
You'll have excuse the backward T-Shirt in the video! I don't know why Photo Booth does that! My final cut was export a HD version of the film so I could flop it... I promise if you pledge for a T-Shirt it wont be the wrong way around!!!