The Real Deal at the Galway Film Fleadh Radisson Hotel, Thursday 8th July 2010

10.30 – 13.00 WHAT’S YOUR STORY? AND WHY?
This year the morning session of the Real Deal will follow the same format as last year – a free-for-all, round table debate among producers and anyone working in independent film – but instead of talking about the business we shall debate the films themselves, the content without which there would be no business.

As filmgoers, it’s easy enough to say why we pick one film to see rather than another, at the risk of losing two hours of our time if we choose wrong. But what informs our choices as filmmakers, when the investment at risk is vastly greater? Are we impulsive or calculating? Instinctive, innovative, or imitative? What is the audience that we – you – really want to please? Your peers and compatriots? Critics and cinephiles at film festivals? The masses at home and abroad? Do you want your work to excite and entertain people, or to move and engage them?

With the honesty of the confessional, participants in the debate will describe what works for them in terms of the films they make, and how that compares with what works in the market. We shall discuss genre, adaptation, auteurism, 3-D, edginess and happy endings – and how, perhaps, our choices are changing in the face of new realities.

Presented by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board in association with Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE) and chaired by Simon Perry

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14.30 – 16.00 ONCE UPON A TIME… CREATING ENDURING CHARACTERS
The unlikely duo of a pull-string cowboy and a heroic space ranger action figure who save the day, a striped little fish with the heart of a lion, an angry Irish granny, a spunky little monk… But how do we get to once upon a time…?
The afternoon session of the Real Deal will discuss the content of the animated films we make and will be a rare chance of a masterclass with two world-class animators who are special guests of the Fleadh: Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson of Pixar Animation, who are generously bringing their new film Toy Story 3 to the festival.

Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, worked as editor with director John Lasseter on Toy Story and A Bug’s Life. He made his own directing debut on Toy Story 2, then co-directed Monsters, Inc and Finding Nemo. Lasseter has described him as “one of the greatest talents ever to work in the medium…he’s elevated our films to a new level.”

Darla K. Anderson, producer of Toy Story 3, started out as a painter and then gravitated towards 3-D computer graphics. She joined Pixar in 1992 as executive producer in the commercials and short film divisions, then went on to produce A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc and Cars.

Presented by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board in association with Animation Ireland and chaired by Darragh O’Connell of Brown Bag Films

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