BILL DALY

Ireland’s leading film festival, The Galway Film Fleadh kicks off this week!

Now in its 24th year, the six day international film event, running from the 10th until the 15th of July, welcomes a huge diversity of filmmaking from all across the globe, attracting swarms of industry professionals and movie lovers spanning all generations and cultural backgrounds. As mentioned in a recent article, Screen Scene has a slew of features and shorts screening across the duration of the event, which is always nice to say and hear.

As part of the festival, Screen Scene Managing Director Jim Duggan will also be hosting a Masterclass in post production with Bill Daly on Saturday the 14th July from 10am – 12pm in the Radisson Hotel, Galway.

Bill Daly served at Warner Bros. for 25 years overseeing hundreds of theatrical motion pictures including all of the Harry Potter films, Space Jam, Lethal Weapon 3 and 4, The Matrix trilogy, Batman and Robin, Batman Begins, Troy, The Corpse Bride, Steven Spielberg’s AI, Ocean’s 11, The Perfect Storm, Superman Returns, The Departed, Happy Feet, 300 and The Dark Knight.

Bill moved to Post Production as its Director in 1997; became its Vice President in 2003 and Senior Vice President in 2006. Bill departed Warner Bros. Pictures in December 2011 upon the completion of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

The Masterclass will cover a range of topics including: the challenges facing Post Production today, budget and schedule pressures, how the move from film to digital has changed the landscape, what 3-D has done to change Post Production, how the proposed increase in frame rate has come about, and how these changes can affect the future of storytelling.

This will be the second Screen Scene supported event to take place in as many months, with Mr Duggan also chairing the terrific masterclass with Academy award-winning editor Joel Cox at The Project Arts Centre in June.