“VISIONARIES” AT THE FASTNET FILM FESTIVAL!
Clap ‘n Load Studios’ inaugural documentary “Visionaries” has premiered at the 2022 Fastnet Film Festival in Schull, Country Cork. If you’re around the festival this weekend, you’ll have two more opportunities to see the film!
“VISIONARIES” (2021) poster featuring OFFICIAL SELECTION laurels from “23rd Chicago Irish Film Festival”, “St. Patrick’s Film Festival” and “Fastnet Film Festival 2022”
Clap ‘n Load Studios is delighted to announce that our film “Visionaries” premiered at the Fastnet Film Festival 2022 on Wednesday 25th at 1pm! But don’t fret, if you’re in Schull this weekend, there are two more opportunities to see the film as part of the festival; see below for times and venues!
When: Friday, 27th @ 2pm
Where: “The Carlton” AKA Nico’s Restaurant
When: Saturday, 28th @ 1pm
Where: “The Odeon” AKA Hackett’s Bar
We’re delighted for everyone at the festival to get a chance to see “Visionaries”, and we sincerely hope everyone who gets the opportunity to view our film thoroughly enjoys it.
For more information on booking tickets, please visit the Fastnet Film Festival’s booking page, and we hope you enjoy the show!
“VISIONARIES” : Selected for Fastnet Film Festival 2022!!
Clap ‘n Load Studios’ documentary Visionaries accepted for Irish premiere at Fastnet Film Festival 2022!
All of us here at Clap ‘n Load Studios are thrilled to announce our short-documentary film “Visionaries” has been accepted into Fastnet Film Festival 2022!
We’re so excited to be part of this festival, not least because it’s the third festival “Visionaries” has been selected for this year, but because it’s one of Ireland’s largest and leading independent film festivals that brings together the best of first time and established filmmakers from around the world!
We can’t tell you how proud we are of our short documentary, and once again we’d like to reiterate our sincere gratitude to Donal Haughey, Alan Duggan, Galway Film Centre / Galway Co. Council, our production crew, and our documentary subjects, Frank Kelly, Conor Maguire and Audrey Tormey who make the film as warm, insightful and engaging as they are.
WATCH Official Trailer for: “VISIONARIES”
Clap ‘n Load Studios is proud to release the Official Trailer for our premiere documentary “Visionaries”, following the story of three inspirational visually impaired musicians.
With the premiere of our short documentary film "Visionaries" due to hit the silver screen of the 23rd Chicago Irish Film Festival next month, we thought now would be a good time to share with you our official trailer for the film.
We're ever so proud of this passion project of ours about visually impaired musicians which was funded by and made in conjunction with Galway Film Centre / Galway County Council, and we'd once again like to extend our gratitude to Donal Haughey, Alan Duggan and the team at Galway Film Centre who played an integral role in the making of this movie.
Without further ado, we present to you our official trailer for "Visionaries"...
“VISIONARIES” - Selected for The 23rd Chicago Irish Film Festival!!
Clap ‘n Load Studios is kicking 2022 off with a bang, and are pleased to announce that their first documentary short “Visionaries” has been selected to screen in the 23rd Chicago Irish Film Festival this coming March. The film will have its premiere in a number of theatres across the Windy City!
Since we rang in the New Year, all of us here at Clap 'n Load Studios have been quietly working hard behind the scenes on script development, funding applications, pre-production of future projects and submissions to upcoming film festivals, and it's truly a wonderful feeling when that hard work pays off...
We're delighted to announce we received confirmation that our short documentary film "Visionaries" has been selected for the 23rd Chicago Irish Film Festival, which is due to be held in a number of theatres throughout Chicago and virtually from March 3 - 13, 2022.
It's an honour to be among such a stellar lineup of impressive Irish films and filmmakers and we're thrilled to be part of the festival for so many reasons, not least of all, our short documentary "Visionaries" was a passion project of ours about visually impaired musicians which we shot last September, and we were humbled for it to be funded by and created in conjunction with Galway Film Centre / Galway County Council. We’ll be speaking further about “Visionaries”, along with it’s origins and creation, in the coming weeks.
For now, all we can say is: 2022 has started off strong for us (as we hope yours has also!), but we feel this is only the beginning of great things to come this year ; keep on eye on our blog for further positive news, film making insights and behind the scenes information on our exciting upcoming projects!
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YOU SHOULD’VE BEEN THERE…
Derek Masterson recounts the official premiere of Clap ‘n Load Studios’ first three film productions at The Whale Theatre on November 28th.
Sunday (28th November, 2021) marked a most joyous occasion in Clap 'n Load Studios history as it was the official premiere screening of, not one, but THREE short movies in The Whale Theatre (Greystones, Co. Wicklow).
The hard work, perseverance and much perspiration of the teams behind each movie throughout the past two years culminated in a greatly anticipated event that, not only delivered on the promise of high quality films with great entertainment, but exceeded it.
Since its inception in 2019 Clap 'n Load Studios has aspired to making the most ambitious of movies that push the boundaries in terms of what is achievable on a low budget scale. Film Director of each film, Founder of Clap 'n Load Studios and MC for the evening, John Kelly, told the audience "According to Dublin City Council a micro-budget production is anything under €150,000...well we had a lot less than that!" as he effortlessly hosted the gala.
"Masquerade", a period piece set in England just before the 1916 Irish Rebellion, impressed the audience in terms of acting, narrative and costume, while "Visionaries", a short documentary about visually impaired Irish musicians (funded by Galway Film Centre), illustrated John Kelly's versatility as a film maker and was warmly received with intrigue as the audience connected with the subject matter and rapturously responded with laughter at intervals. The film’s creative visual recreation of the varying sight conditions of each of the film’s subjects was highly praised, and audience members commented again and again on how it opened their minds to a previously unexplored world and made them think about how those around them experience life. "Nevermore", the headline act of the evening, a Sci-Fi Irish drama with black Irish humour expertly sewn into the fabric of the story wowed the audience in terms of what Clap 'n Load could achieve in terms of scale and scope on even the most modest of budgets with impressive special effects, score and set design.
Each short film presented something very different to the sell-out audience and helped establish Clap 'n Load as an already prolific film production studio that's gone from strength to strength in its short existence to date and the 28th of November, 2021 will go down in the history of the company as one of great importance.
You should've been there...