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Grand Prize in Korea!

WoooWooo! We just got word that The Secret of Kells won -



Grand prize
in Feature Film Category

at the SICAF2009 Animated Film Festival which was held from July 22 to July 26, 2009.

Melbourne animation festival

http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/content/341/film_id/13133.html

Looks like we are having a few screenings in festivals down under.
I know there are advanced talks with a distributor down there under way also.

NY screening reporta nd review on Twitch!

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/brendan-and-the-secret-of-kells-review1/

Great report and review.
The feedback from the first screening has been great.
My wifes cousin attended and said we had a full house on Saturday with plenty of
kids and a round of applause.

New York times

Wow, so today some folks will go to see our film in the Big Apple.
Its a good feeling.

Thanks to Eric at the NY Childrens Film festival,Celluloid Dreams and everyone at Empire Films for making it happen.

Heres a review from the New York Times too, which is quite exciting for us as well!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/arts/17kids.html?_r=1

Ain't it cool

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41724

Larger US Release

There will indeed be a release in the US in most major cities , I hope its this side of Christmas but we are still waiting on dates from our distributor.

showreel saloon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaHtWTvKFmY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnora-twomey.com%2F2009%2F07%2F03%2F155%2F&feature=player_embedded

nora edited this nifty number together the other day.

Buy tickets for NY premiere here!

https://www.movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp

Thanks to Todd Brown of Twitch and Fred Seibert of Frederator for the shout outs!

Us Premiere and Looking Good for Down Under

Hey,

Don't forget to go to the Ny premiere on Saturday or the second screening on Sunday!
I wanna hear how it goes from some of you American readers!

Things are looking positive for an Australian release too and I will let you all know if and when that happens.
I heard Kells screened in Auckland recently too at a festival, hopefully a wider release will follow there too.

We had possibly the last big screen screening prior to the DVd release here in Ireland at the Galway film Fleadh on Sunday, it was great to see a nice crowd there and everyone seemed to have enjoyed it!

Onwards.....

Win Tickets to the US Premiere !

Cool competition on Twitch!


http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/free-tickets-for-the-us-premiere-of-brendan-and-the-secret-of-kells/

Canadian Distribution confirmed

Hi ,

We are happy to say we have confirmation of distribution in Canada now too.
We are with Empire in US and Mongrel in Canada.
Hopefully all our Canadian friends will help help spread the good word there too.

As soon as I have details of release dates and cities I will post them here!

Happy Canada day!!!!!!!!

Edinburgh Film festival Audience Award!

Wow! The first animated film to win it!
When I think of previous winners such as Amelie , Man on Wire , Billy Elliot and The Full Monty , it really feels like a great validation for cartoons in general!
We are all really proud.
Paul "Hollywood" Young jetted into Edinburgh to attend the ceremony this morning and ended up with Sir Sean Connery presenting him the last award announced!
Fingers crossed we get UK distribution signed soon so more people can discover The Secret of Kells....
Photos of Paul and Sean on the way.....

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/2009/06/and-the-winners

See some photos of the event here, Featuring Sean Connery!

Galway Film Fleadh

Missed Kells on General release in Ireland? Galway Film Fleadh 12.00 Sun 12th July - Another chance to catch it!!;)

http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/pr_2009.php?p=sunday/the_secret_of_kells

On Saturday you can go to the Town Hall Theatre to see our new short film OLD FANGS directed by Adrien Merigeau!!!!

(apologies for my error in reading the program yesterday ! - you can enjoy both Cartoon Saloon offerings after all! As the Frameworks plays a whole day before Kells! Hooray!)

nail biting drama!

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/2009/06/standard-life-audience-award-update

Will we hold on or will we lose out to one of todays screenings???!???

Edinburgh Audience scoreboard

Hey - this is not the final tally - there is a whole week worth of great movies to come, so its fairly likely we will be moved down a notch or three by then but sure its nice to be at the top of the list today!

US Premiere

http://www.gkids.tv/intheaters.cfm

Ok, New Yorkers it looks like this is your chance to see it before everyone else!

Annecy interview on 4mations

http://www.4mations.tv/2009/06/interview-with-tomm-moore-director-of-the-secret-of-kells/

Don't forget if you are in Edinburgh , you can catch the movie again today and Paul young will be there to answer any questions you have afterwards!!

Uk Premiere

Was a success I think.
I was happy my Aunty Carole could be there ;)
Allessandro from Celluloid Dreams is hoping to tie down some Uk distribution very soon.
So fingers crossed.

Anyway after the screening of Kells there was a special screening of Doctor No and Sean Connery walked right past me. This is it I guess. The big time.

Kecskemet animation film festival awards :)

Kecskemet City Jury Prize and Audience Prize! Thats so great! Wish I had been there !
But Fabian has brought the beautiful clockwork trophy and the Ceramic cat we won for the audience award home!
We are very happy...we got something in Zagreb , Annecy and Kecskemet now!

http://kecskemetitv.hu/hun/sa_tv/i_kaff_kecskemeti_animacios_film_fesztival_63/i_veget_ert_a_kaff_16629/t_KAFF%20Kecskem%C3%A9ti%20Anim%C3%A1ci%C3%B3s%20Film%20Fesztiv%C3%A1l%20-%20V%C3%A9get%20%C3%A9rt%20a%20KAFF%20/index.html