#Viko Nikci

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2019 Irish Film of the Day

2019 Irish Film of the Day

Movie: Cellar Door Director: Viko Nikci Writer: Viko Nikci Release: 1/25/2019

Cast: Karen Hassan, Mark O’ Halloren, Catherine Walker, Ian McElhinney

“Tackles the difficult topic of Irish institutional abuse, drawing connections in a thoughtful way and forcing the audience to think throughout.”

Reference: filmireland.net/2019/03/02/irish-films-to-look-out-for-in-2019/

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#IrishFilm: Watch the new trailer for Viko Nikci's mystery-drama Cellar Door

#IrishFilm: Watch the new trailer for Viko Nikci's mystery-drama Cellar Door. In cinemas on January 25th

The trailer has been released for Viko Nikci’s Magdalene laundry inspired mystery-drama, Cellar Door, which will be released in Irish cinemas on January 25th (Cert 15A).

Cellar Door tells the story of young love to tortured loss and back again, the story follows Aidie, a fighter inside and out – as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church. With a unique point of view on a familiar…

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#46 | Viko Nikci | Writer/Director (Cellar Door – In Cinemas Now)

http://dlvr.it/QyJsLJ

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WAVE  A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe. Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WaveShortFilm Folllow on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waveshortfilm/ WAVE - TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/214217381 Director’s Bios Benjamin Cleary is an Irish filmmaker living between London and Dublin. In 2015 he wrote, directed and edited his first short film, Stutterer, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short at the 88th Academy Awards in February 2016. Stutterer has played at more than 80 festivals worldwide and has won over 20 awards including a Cannes Young Director Award, an Irish Film & Television Award (IFTA) and a London Critic’s Circle Award. In addition to this Benjamin was selected for the esteemed Les Nuit En Or scheme in France as one of 30 award-winning directors from around the world to tour Europe presenting their work. Benjamin is represented by Anonymous Content for film & TV in the US. In the UK he is repped by Ian Benson of The Agency, London. TJ O’Grady Peyton is an Irish director who graduated from the London Film School’s prestigious graduate program in 2010. Fresh into the professional ad space, he was shortlisted for the Young Director Award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2013 and 2015, later earning a People’s Voice Award at The Webby Awards in 2016. He has created narrative-driven commercials for such top clients as BMW, Gatorade, Cadillac, Coke, Nespresso, and Conde Nast, among others. A cinephile from a young age, TJ infuses a cinematic edge and emotional through line in all of his work, no matter what length. TJ is represented by Decon in New York and he is currently studying screen acting in one of Ireland’s leading creative hubs, Bow Street. Later this year he will be acting alongside Ellen Page in zombie thriller “The Third Wave”. The Story of Wave July 2015. Ben had spent over a year making STUTTERER which had just started its festival run. After editing the film for ages and caught in the throws of festival submissions, he was in dire need of jumping into something non STUTTERER related. TJ had just returned from directing a commercial in Australia for Gatorade with NFL Quaterback Cam Newton and was very eager to direct a short while also sink his teeth into some more acting. Ben and TJ had been mates for years and have always wanted to collaborate. After chatting one night, TJ mentioned that he wanted to give acting a proper go. Ben had seen him in a small Irish indie feature a few years previously and was impressed. They decided that Ben would write something for TJ to act in and both would co direct. The rules were simple: zero budget, under five minutes, and something they can shoot on a weekend with a few mates… Cut to: nineteen months later. 14-ish shoot days. Over thirty crew members. Twelve actors. Twenty locations. Fourteen outfit changes. One made up language. One Phantom. One Alexa. One 5D. Dawn shoots. Night shoots. Storm shoots. Sleepless nights. Three post houses. 46 VFX shots. Entire vats of coffee. Sixty youtube videos from every continent. And a world premiere in Tribeca. That original plan to come up with something tiny and contained went out the window when Ben read an article about an Englishman who had suffered a severe stroke. When he recovered, the man was speaking fluent Welsh even though he hadn’t lived in Wales since he was a young boy. Ben became fascinated with the phenomenon and started to discover similar cases around the world. He wrote a script loosely based on these strange happenings – but the kicker being that the protagonist would be speaking an entirely new language. Over the course of an intense month of work, Ben and TJ started planning how they would bring WAVE from script to screen.  Excitement started to build! Enter: producer extraordinaire, Rebecca Bourke. For the first week or two Ben and TJ started rounding up a few mates and loosely planning a shoot in Ben’s flat (while they worked out how to create a made up language that would sound believable). But things really got going when they managed to convince Rebecca to join the team. Rebecca is a talented producer who runs a production company called Assembly in Dublin. Suddenly the whole thing took on a more professional feel and started to gain momentum. Over the next nineteen months, the team found themselves pulled in all directions. Everyone was busy, many of us being taken away to work outside the country. WAVE became this process where like it’s protagonist – our production had to discover its own short hand to make this passion project come to life. We would get together every few months when everyone was in Dublin to shoot a bit here, and a little bit there. And slowly but surely everything began to fall into place. We had the excellent cinematographer Burschi Wojnar on board who has his own Alexa and was immensely generous with his time. As the lead actor, TJ was on his own in many of scenes so we were able to shoot whenever we wanted. And we had Rebecca on hand to organize a watertight shoot and call in the favours whenever needed. It was tough at times and frustrating and the project went through many ups and downs, but it was actually a great way to make a film and WAVE became a passion project that everyone loved being a part of. The genre police would probably call WAVE a dramedy, and there’s probably truth to that, but from deep pain, comes great comedy, and Ben + TJ do feel deeply connected to the films tragic current. Its those moments Ben + TJ find most fascinating to explore. Alienation. Isolation. Loneliness. Empathy. At it’s heart the directors hope WAVE is successful in exploring the human condition in an interesting way. In the end, the team have (finally) made a film that they’re all very proud of. If they had to do it all again starting tomorrow, would they be crazy enough to dive back into the deep end? The answer might just be yes. Credits: CAST Gasper Rubicon - TJ O’Grady Peyton Frank - Emmet Kirwan Leaf - Tiny James Huldvar - Danny Kehoe Doctor - Daniel Reardon Speech Therapist 1 - Caoimhe O’Malley Speech Therapist 2 - Barry Kinsella Russian Doctor 1 - Conor Fleming Russian Doctor 2 - Rebecca Bourke Girl at bus stop - Sarah Flanagan Extras on Bray promenade - Pauline Curtin, Margaret Colgan, Matthew Pereira, Sandra Kurova, Casper & Bear, Owen Quigley, Bridie Horan, Neal Swaine, Andrew Kingston, Julien Torades, Jack Nother, Marguerite Collins VO Artist - TBC CREW Director - Benjamin Cleary & TJ O’Grady Peyton Writer - Benjamin Cleary Producer - Rebecca Bourke Production Company - ASSEMBLY Director of Photography - Burschi Wojnar 1st AD - Stephen Rigney Art Director - Jill Beecher Phantom Operator - Seamus Connolly Costume Designer - Sarah Flanagan Script Editor - Seamas O’Reilly Gaffer - Kevin Fox Focus Pullers - Mark Hannon, Gosia Zur, Keith Pendred Clapper Loaders - Conor Fleming, Denise McKenna Camera Assistants - Sam Whelan Sound Recordist - Frank Asencio, Dean Murray, Rob Moore Boom Operators - Anthony Assad Make Up - Orlaith Shore Assistant Art Dept - Brian Quinn Production - Dave Minogue Paramedic - Ian Fitzgerald Camera and Grip - Widescreen, Film Equipment Hire and Viko Nikci Lighting - Teach Solais and Cine Electric Studio - Replay House Post Production - Screen Scene Editor - Nathan Nugent Post Producers - Alan Collins, Peter Greene Motion Graphics - John O’Riordan VFX - Bob Corish Compositor - Zdravko Stoitchkov - Absolute Post Production Assistant - Geri Krasteva - Absolute Grade - Gary Curran - Outer Limits Caoimhe Maguire - Outer Limits Graphic Designers - Sinead Foley and Emma Grattan Sound Editor, Sound Designer and Foley Artist - James Latimer Music - Nico Casal Blogs - Dave Byran entertainment.ie, Buzzfeed Social Media - Annabel Cleary LOCATIONS Bray Head Hotel Royal City of Dublin Hospital Roma Takeaway Sandymount Strand Dublin City DART SPECIAL THANKS Jim Duggan, Jake Walshe and Hubert Montag at Screen Scene Absolute, Adam Clarke, Outer Limits YouTube Ena Cummins at Bray Head Hotel Lulu and Shay Cleary Sarah Flanagan Hannah Vickers Caoimhe Doyle Gemma Davey Donnacha Brady John Keepler Sean Sheehy Alison Callinan Ian Fitzgerald John Nally Renaldas Damijonaitis Historic Interiors DenLors Tools Geri Krasteva Amy De Bhrun Mike Donnelly Gareth Averill Roisin Scott Credits Dagmar Barr Ciaran Irwin Maria Fiorentini Emer Casey Stephen Doring Flaminia Iacoviello Hazel Lowry Jessica Massey Manuel Pombo Jake Fox YouTube Video Contributors Joe O’Grady, Teresa O’Grady-Peyton, Michael Garvey, Marco Hinojosa Patricia Cahuantzi, Carmen Tarín, Karl Moran, Spesialista Band Michael Binchy, Suhaila Binchy, Aurelia Binchy, Tess Bunworth Sheelin Conlon, Billy Clark, Mark Hayes, Flaminia Iacoviello,Fiona O’Farrell Stephanie Burchell, Marcella McLoughlin, Sheila Lynam, Don Veale Emma Fleetwood, Nykol O’Shea, Ciaran Murray, Jennifer Dunne, John McCoy Annabel Cleary, Winnie Cleary, Lulu Cleary, Shay Cleary, James Hartshorn Gosia Zur, Carmen Leuthi, Burschi Wojnar, Matt Cooper, Gemma Fitzgerald Mark Fitzgerald, Ian Fitzgerald, Michael O’Connor, Jenny Bourke, Kristof Van Marsenille, Ruth Bourke, Adrian Bourke, Hugo Bourke, Adrien Bourke Julien Bourke, Jane Bourke, Lochlainn Sweeney, Suina Sweeney, Eoin Sweeney Henry Bourke, Emily Kennedy Bourke, Beibhinn Bourke, Isabel Gargollo Nicole Hajj, Josua Gerner, Jan Gerner, Danilo, Ariandia, David Magnier Lisa Fawsitt, Keith Elliott, Caroline Elliott, Megan Campbell, Alex Moran Roderigo González-O’Brien, Pelayo Vazquez-Roderiguez, Javier RomeroCumbreras, Javier Blanco-Villarroel, Luke Arragutainaq, Eva Arragutainaq Annabelle Arragutainaq, Aaron Zaska,Todd Davis, Michael White Savannah James-Bayly, Laura Murphy, Luke Kenny, Michael Mello William Langslet, Santiago Munez, Kaori Taketani + friends, Mark Kearney Tara Kearney, Katerina Graham MUSIC Emilie Simon - Franky Knight - “Les Amants Du Même Jour” The Chantels “Sure of Love” Margaret Murray The Childrens Opera Group “Sumer is Icumen” Margaret Murray The Childrens Opera Group “Simple Simon” David Bowie “Rock n Roll Suicide”

WAVE - TRAILER

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#IrishFilm: Viko Nikci's feature debut Cellar Door to hit Irish cinemas on January 25th

Viko Nikci’s Magdalene laundry inspired mystery-drama, Cellar Door, will be released in Irish cinemas on January 25th (Cert 15A). The film won won Best First Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year.

Cellar Door tells the story of young love to tortured loss and back again, the story follows Aidie, a fighter inside and out – as she searches for her son while in the grip of the…

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#FilmFleadh: Bingham Ray New Talent Award Nominees announced for 30th Galway Film Fleadh

#FilmFleadh: Bingham Ray New Talent Award Nominees announced for 30th Galway Film Fleadh: Aislinn Clarke, Martin Beirne, Brian J. Falconer, Jordanne Jones, and Viko Nikci

The Galway Film Fleadh has announced the five nominees for the 2018 Bingham Ray New Talent Award. The award is given to nominees shortlisted for their work in the fields of Directing, Acting and Producing.

Leading American independent film executive Bingham Ray was a regular at the Fleadh throughout his career at October films, United Artists and Sidney Kimmel. During his visits he gave much of…