Blackshore, The Tourist, DIFF and more!

Welcome to the first newsletter of 2024! In this edition we reflect on and celebrate the brilliant industry-wide achievements that have shaped the beginning of this year. We also cast our gaze ahead with anticipation to the upcoming Dublin International Film Festival!

#MakingGreatStories

Blackshore Launches on RTé

Experience the gripping debut of Blackshore Season 1, which premiered on RTE Sunday, February 3rd at 9:30 PM.

We were delighted to once again team up with our friends at Treasure Entertainment for this compelling series.

The series follows DI Fia Lucey as she embarks on a haunting journey back to her hometown, entangled in a mysterious missing person case that unravels her own traumatic past and exposes the dark secrets haunting the town's history.

Director Dathaí Keane on working with us:

"Creating a new show like?Blackshore?is always a massive challenge. Throughout the post-production on this series, the team at Windmill Lane rose to the challenge and brought the world of?Blackshore?to vivid life. Tone and mood play such an important role in this show and I spent a lot of time with the sound team at Windmill, led by Fionan Higgins MPSE and Mark Henry, designing an immersive and detailed soundscape that?makes the?whole viewing experience so much more visceral and intense. Likewise, in the grade, Matt Branton worked closely with myself and our DOP JJ Rolfe to?design?the overall look and texture of the series. The VFX team at Windmill, led by John Kennedy , also worked with us from prep stage through to post-production and helped us realise a number of complex sequences to their fullest potential. Having all these departments under one roof at Windmill Lane ensured a seamless workflow, and allowed us to create a show that I am?very proud of. It was a pleasure working with them all."

Credits:

Edit Assit/ Additional Editing: Seán Maher

Audio Edit: Sol O'Carroll , Ryan Quinn , Ed Costello

Mixer: Mark Henry

Sound Supervisor: Fionan Higgins MPSE

Colourist: Matt Branton

Online Editor: Robbie O'Farrell

Post Coordinator: Nina Byrne

Post Supervisor: Aaron Carroll

Keogh's

Our collaboration with Javelin Dublin and Sweet Media on the latest ad campaign for Keogh's Farm was an absolute delight from start to finish.

If you Keogh, you know!

Credits:

Production Company: Sweet Media

Director: Luke Franklin

Producer: Emma O'Beirne

Agency: Javelin Dublin

Edit: Lee Hickey

Colour: David Hughes

Sound Mix: Mick Creedon

2D Comp: Sarah Gillick

Post Supervisor: JESS FELTON

The Tourist Season 2

We were thrilled to see the amazing reaction to the Tourist Season 2 as it aired each Sunday at 9pm on BBC One throughout January.

We are also delighted that Season 2 will soon be available for U.S. audiences to stream on Netflix , from February 29th 2024.

Click on the link above to catch a glimpse of some of our VFX work across the season!

Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire wins Kidscreen Award

It is brilliant to see Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire pick up the Best Animated Series for Tweens/Teens award at the Kidscreen awards!

We are delighted here at Windmill Lane to see this fantastic show get the recognition it deserves. It was a pleasure to work alongside the teams at Triggerfish and The Walt Disney Company.

Credits:

Post Supervisor: Aaron Carroll

Post Coordinator: Raoisa Maguire

Colourist: Matt Branton

Online Editor: Robbie O'Farrell

Re-recording Mixer/Sound Supervisor: Ed Costello

Re-recording Mixer/Sound Editor: Tom Morris

Re-recording Mixer: Mick Creedon

Sound Editor: Ryan Quinn

More Exciting News for Kin

We were excited to learn that Season 2 is being broadcast by the BBC following the well-deserved success of the first season.

Season 2 is set to premiere on BBC One and iPlayer on Tuesday, February 13th, with the initial two episodes airing at 10:40 PM and 11:30 PM, respectively.

Kin also appeared in RTE 's top shows of 2023 list, which you can read here.

LOL No.1 on Amazon Prime Ireland

LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland premiered on Friday January 19th and soon reached the number one show on Amazon Prime in Ireland.

We were delighted to collaborate on this one with Piranha Bar and Kite Entertainment .

Credits:

Sound Mix: Mick Creedon

Audio Post Producer: Renata Fitzpatrick Sheridan

DIFF

It was a pleasure to attend the Dublin International Film Festival 2024 programme launch on January 22nd at the Lighthouse Cinema.

What made it even more special was the significant involvement of Windmill Lane in a total of 14 projects this year:

Features

Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat (Dir. Tanya Doyle, Prod: Marmalade Films )

King Frankie (Dir. Dermot Malone, Prod: Banjoman )

Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s (Dir. Ciarán ó Maonaigh)

Shorts at Diff:

Documentary Shorts 27/Feb:

Down The Market (Dir. Dave Tynan)

Screen Ireland Shorts Programme 1 - 24th Feb:

The Last Set (Dir Aisling Conroy, Prod. Elk Studios )

Pediment (Dir. Derek Ugochukwu, Prod. Harp Media )

Screen Ireland Shorts Programme 2 - 24th Feb:

Callus (Dir. Ciarán Hickey, Prod. BearPrint Media)

Waiting Day?(Dir Grace Dyas, Prod. Claire Franic Byrne)

Bog (Dir.? éabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwan, Prod. RADII )

Nana Dee?(Dir Marta Sniezek, Momo Willet, Prod. Elk Studios )

From National Film School at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dublin - On Screen 2:

Sticks & Stones (Dir. Tammy McDonagh, Prod. IADT)

Falling (Dir. Neda Naeel, Prod. IADT)

Cultural Medium (Dir. Britney Madondo, Prod. IADT)

What is Freedom? (Dir. Mohadesa Shojaee, Prod. IADT)

Oscar Wilde Award Honourees

The honourees have been announced for the upcoming 18th annual Oscar Wilde Awards, organised by the US-Ireland Alliance .

Irish-American actress, best-selling author, and former SNL cast member, Molly Shannon will join native Irish actor Pierce Brosnan and we are especially delighted to see Irish VFX Supervisor Richie Baneham from Avatar: The Way of Water as honourees.

The ceremony is scheduled to be held at Bad Robot in Santa Monica, CA on March 7th and we are pleased to announce that Windmill Lane will be once again sponsoring and attending this year's event.

Celebrating Irish Success at the Oscar's 2024

As we conclude our January newsletter, we would like to extend our congratulations to Cillian Murphy for his nomination for Best Actor and to Element Pictures Group on their remarkable 11 nominations for Poor Things, including the incredible Robbie Ryan for Cinematography.

We were delighted to witness the much-deserved acclaim for Irish talent at the Oscar nominations this year, and look forward to some Irish wins in March.