Loopline Film



	Series Producer(s): Bob Collins, Martina Durac Editor: Sé Merry Doyle Research: Cathy Dillon, Oda O'Carroll, Deirdre Kearns. Presenter(s): Theo Dorgan, Liam Mackey, Joanne Hayden, Keelin Shanley Music: Ger Kiely Location: Ireland, UK and America Format: Digi Beta Running Time: 30mins Series: 3 seasons x 12 programmes Year Made: 1999-2001 Transmission: RTE, Tara TV, Celtic TV Award: IFTA Nomination, 'Best Feature'		Sales Company(s): Loopline Film, 106 Baggot Lane, Dublin 4, Ireland t: +353-1-6676498 / 6627 f: +353-1-6676604 e: info@d1079532.cp.blacknight.com/htm RTE International, Mount Errol, RTE, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 t: + 353-1-2082030 / 2978 f: + 353-1-2083428 w: www.rteinternational.ie Mary Malone - Programme Sales Manager e: mary.malone@rte.ie Edel Edwards - Programme Sales Executive e: edel.edwards@rte.ie


	Suggestions for broadcasters: The main interest for broadcasters and educational bodies would be generated from 'Imprint's' sister show 'Writers In Profile'. The catalogue from this series has 30minute long in-depth interviews with some of the best-known international writers and poets. Anchored by poet and broadcaster Theo Dorgan, the series has an intimate and timeless quality that has the feel of early Melvyn Bragg interviews. We meet writers like JG Ballard, Doris Lessing, Gore Vidal, Edward Said, Roddy Doyle, Maeve Binchy and Margaret Atwood. The list goes on! There are also a number of 10 minute director-led Mini-Films that showcase writers in unusual settings. Featured writers include Pat McCabe, Billy Roche, Oscar Wilde, Dermot Healy, Colum McCann and JM O'Neill. 'Imprint' was removed from the RTE schedule purely because of financial difficulties that the home station has undergone recently and Loopline are now actively seeking co-production partners in Ireland and abroad to re-package the show for terrestrial or web-based TV. The expertise of the design team ensures a quality programme that would sit well on any schedule.




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'Imprint' and its sister show 'Writers in Profile' screened on RTE1 has for three seasons consistently been the critics' choice in the Irish press. Hailed as an imaginative series in the arts and culture arena, 'Imprint' has offered adventurous and probing profiles of writer's lives and worlds while giving the audience a panel of presenters and reviewers who are passionate and compelling in their opinions.

'Imprint's' motto was 'Navigating The World Of Books' and to this end, with Theo Dorgan in the chair and a rotating panel of reviewers, 'Imprint' reviewed literally hundreds of both Irish and international books.

One of the other extremely successful elements of the show was the mini-films directed by cutting-edge directors like Alan Gilsenan, Donald Taylor-Black, Hilary Dully, Sé Merry Doyle and Paul Duane who took on subjects like Carlo Gebler, Boris Pasternak, Dermot Healy, Pat McCabe and Oscar Wilde.

'Imprint's' sister show 'Writers in Profile' brought onto our screen extended and in-depth interviews with some of the most powerful writers alive today and these proved to be very popular with our audience. Theo interviewed writers such as Brendan Kennelly, Jennifer Johnston, Margaret Atwood, JG Ballard, Edward Said, Colm Tobin, Roddy Doyle, Paul Durcan, Richard Ford, Maeve Binchy and Doris Lessing.

We at Loopline would like to take the opportunity to thank our all our viewers for their support over the years as well as the reviewers, writers and production crews that all helped in making this such a challenging and provocative programme.

Loopline is currently creating a reformatted book series and will be looking to negotiate with interested Television / Web broadcasters and commissioning bodies.


	Quotes: "Imprint offers Irish viewers the unusual spectacle of passionate people getting worked up on television about subjects other than inflation, gridlock or childcare..." - Liam Fay, The Sunday Times "Imprint is easily one of the better books programmes our national broadcaster has carried. Its basic brief might be clear-cut and simple... Imprint is a wholly invigorating breeze through the latest book... Equally, the short films are cogent, well structured and bereft of gristle". - Tony Clayton Lea, The Irish Times (2001) "The Poet Theo Dorgan is an ideal interviewer pursuing his subjects like a curious otter, probing when necessary, then withdrawing allowing them to talk." - Sunday Independent (1999)





JG Ballard	Edward Said	Margaret Atwood	Richard Ford	Doris Lessing

Gore Vidal	Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill	Tom Kilroy	Brendan Kennelly	Joe O'Connor

Jennifer Johnston	Michael Longley	Dermot Bolger	Paul Durcan	Leland Bardwell

Hugh Leonard	John Montague



Rita Ann Higgins	Pat McCabe	Con Houlihan	Dermot Healy	Brian Moore

Oscar Wilde	Boris Pasternak	Carlo Gebler	Remem- brance Day	Paul Durcan

Ciaran Carson	Colum McCann	Charles Dickens	Donal O'Kelly	Billy Roche