Tag Archives: Vanessa Gildea

Farewell to Muintir na Mara

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Farewell MUINTIR NA MARA   On Sunday 25th March at 9.30pm, the sixth and final series of Muintir na Mara, made by Loopline Film, will return to our screens on TG4. The series, directed by Martina Durac and produced by Vanessa Gildea, is presented by Pádraig Ó Duinnín, who continues on his voyage around the [...]

Washington DC hosts ‘Jimmy Murakami – Non Alien’

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‘Jimmy Murakami – Non Alien’ screens at the Washington DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival on the 9th October. In this award winning feature documentary, the famous animator makes a pilgrimage back to Tule Lake Concentration Camp, where he was interned alongside his family for four years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

HUGO HAMILTON – CROÍ AGUS TEANGA on TG4

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Hugo Hamilton is the author of many novels as well as an acclaimed memoir, The Speckled People, described as an ‘instant classic’ and translated into twenty languages. That book told the heartbreaking story of life as a child in a household torn apart by the “language wars”. Hugo’s mother was German and she fled her  [...]

WE’LL BE WEARING GREEN IN DINGLE THIS ST PATRICK’S WEEKEND

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The weather is getting better, the evenings are getting longer and the Loopliners are really looking forward to the Dingle Film Festival this year. It’s sure to be a great event not only because it is falling on St Patrick’s weekend but also because Loopline Film have two feature documentaries in this year’s line up. [...]

Happy New Year!!

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All is well after the Christmas Holidays and everybody is settling back to business at 9 Lad Lane for a busy year ahead. We said goodbye to 2010 in style as up to 100,000 people across the country, cosy in their homes and safe from the frost and snow, tuned into RTÉ 1 on Christmas [...]