ARCHIVE EDITING MASTERCLASS WITH MICK MAHON
EDITOR OF GAZA, MARLOWE & NOTHING COMPARES
Screen Wexford is excited to announce an upcoming workshop with renowned film & TV editor Mick Mahon. Mick has been at the forefront of editing in Ireland over the past twenty years, with a particular focus on documentaries.
He has edited a host of award winning films, and his work has been screened at festivals worldwide. He is a two time IFTA winner, in 2015 for the feature documentary Rough Rider and in 2020 for Gaza, which was Ireland’s entry for Best International Feature at the 2020 Academy Awards. Other credits include I, Dolours, The Queen of Ireland, Breaking Out and Love Yourself Today. His recent work includes Marlowe, Neil Jordan’s new feature film and Nothing Compares with Kathryn Ferguson, a feature documentary about Sinéad O’Connor which was released recently to critical acclaim.
Nothing Compares will be used as a case study for Mick’s guest lecture.
Details
Date: Saturday 4th Feb 2023
Time: 2pm – 3pm GMT
REGISTER HERE:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i-Pu-fRKTaSrPT_hB1HC4Q
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Webinar Speakers
Mick Mahon (Editor & Guest Speaker )
Mick Mahon has edited a host of award winning films, and his work has been screened at festivals worldwide. He is a two time IFTA winner, in 2015 for the feature documentary Rough Rider and in 2020 for Gaza, which was Ireland’s entry for Best International Feature at the 2020 Academy Awards. Other credits include I, Dolours, The Queen of Ireland, Breaking Out and Love Yourself Today. His recent work includes Marlowe, Neil Jordan’s new feature film and Nothing Compares with Kathryn Ferguson, a feature documentary about Sinéad O’Connor which was released recently to critical acclaim.
Dr. Ciara Chambers (Masterclass Host & Head of Film & Screen Media @UCC)
Dr Ciara Chambers is author of Ireland in the Newsreels (Irish Academic Press, 2012) and co-editor of Researching Newsreels (Palgrave, 2018) and has contributed chapters on newsreels and amateur film to various journals and edited collections. She is a member of the International Association for Media and History’s council and the Irish Screen Studies board and is associate editor for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and a member of the editorial teams of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media and Estudios Irlandeses. She has worked on a range of archival projects and digitization initiatives with the Irish Film Archive, Northern Ireland Screen, Belfast Exposed Photography, UTV, BBC, and the British Universities Film and Video Council. She was scriptwriter and associate producer of Ireland in the Newsreels, a six-part television series broadcast on TG4.
IFI / BBC / BFI & Northern Ireland Screen archive is accessed through The Make Film History research/project which was funded by UKRI-AHRC and the Irish Research Council under the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Networking Call’ (grant numbers AH/V002066/1 and IRC/V002066/1).
