Friday 19 April 2013

WE SHOULD BE MAKING A DOZEN PILGRIM HILLS EACH YEAR!

Why, oh why, oh why, did it take so bleedin' long for this movie to get made in Ireland? This stuff should have got done here back in the 1990s. The story was nothing new, it just took decades to finally get made. The whole filmmaking system in this country is designed to PREVENT films like Pilgrim Hill from getting produced. Lots of technical sh-te, adaptations, the 'right people' involved, creating jobs that don't last, interfering unions, prepublicity in the Evening Herald/Sunday World, one eye aimed badly at the box office, and actors named Gleeson. Irish cinema could have a much better reputation if we had been making several Pilgrim Hills each year over the last decade. When you see overconfident and misguided tools like Graham Cantwell thinking they have a 'voice' there is something flawed with our filmmaking and training systems.

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