A screening of ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ took place at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival, with actress Alexandra Daddario in attendance. Director Stacie Passon made her writer-director debut in 2013 with the Sundance hit “Concussion” before helming episodes of everything from “Transparent” and “Halt and Catch Fire” to “The Path” and Read More…
Broadcaster Marian Finucane in interview with John Boorman & Kieran Corrigan Industry Event Irish Film School held its business launch on Tuesday 4th September at The Lir Academy in central Dublin. The launch was attended by film and television industry professionals, directors, producers, educators as well as press, family and friends. Lessons from a life in film Read More…
Ahead of the 2018 Academy Awards, John Boorman tells the Los Angeles Times how he effectively invented the movie screener: http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-oscar-screeners-20180301-story.html
Merlin Films is one of two Irish companies to be awarded single project funding in 2017 by Creative Europe: http://www.creativeeuropeireland.eu/media/news/articles/new-creative-europe-single-projects-awards-for-irish-companies-in-2017
John Boorman tells The Guardian how he made ‘Deliverance’, “a film that would be impossible to make today”: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/29/how-we-made-deliverance-john-boorman-jon-voight
‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ films in Ireland: http://iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4289566&tpl=archnews&force=1
‘Queen and Country’ is selected for Cannes Director’s Fortnight: https://scannain.com/irish/cannes-queen-and-country/
The BFI bestows its highest honour to John Boorman with a presentation of a BFI fellowship: http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-john-boorman-awarded-bfi-fellowship-2013-03.pdf
John Boorman is honoured with the IFTA 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award: http://ifta.ie/life_time/john_boorman.php