Very pleased to announce the launch of our magnus opus 3.5 hour travel doc around Australia which is now available for broadcast and for sale on Amazon. The project was a huge undertaking and undoubtedly our most ambitious to date. To say we are pleased with the results is a mild understatement.
See it/buy it here - adelaideadventures.com
We directed two short film projects for BBC Blast NI during the summer of 2010 and had a great time with the young stars and crew.
We are making two films with Alternatives in Belfast - one promoting the Street by Street project and the other with a strong antiracism message.
Our work with Coca-Cola Ireland continues with features and interviews for their management conferences and shooting all over Ireland.
Our timelapse photography of Belfast featured heavily in the backdrop for Prime Cuts production of Owen McCafferty's Shoot the Crow at Belfast Waterfront Hall. We used the GoPro HeroCam HD and were pleased with the results.
Looking foward to workng with the good people from ADD NI and Hydebank Prison to produce a training dvd which can be used to teach about the effects ADD can have on young inmates and how they should be treated.
Our fifteen second film adventures continue with a series this year featuring the above mentioned characters - worth checking out at: www.15secondfilmfestival.com
Our quest for world media domination continues with the making of a documentary series in Australia from February until June 2010 following two motorbikers and writers as they circumnavigate the whole country from Adelaide to Adelaide on a cultural odyssey.
There will be a book, dvd, website and television series for international distribution. Sponsored by Adelaide Insurance, Triumph Motorbikes, Etihad Airlines and Wicked Campers. Follow the trip at adelaideadventures.com
Our BBC Spotlight - Stem Cell Tourists has been nominated for two Awards - an International Documentary Award in London and an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) for best Current Affairs Programme in 2009. We are very pleased. You can still see the BBC Panorama version for another few months by searching on the BBC Panorama website under 'stem cells'.
Our client base continues to grow as does our work with young people and we are pleased to have made two issues based films with Alternatives in East Belfast, they specialise in interventions with young people at risk and are great to work with. Also our work continues with the talented and enthusiastic young people of New Lodge, Belfast.
Welcome to the Odyssey, Belfast as a new client, we are looking forward to completing some timelapse work with them in early 2010 as they transform their arena into a conference venue and the results will be uploaded to our youtube page at www.youtube.com/bluebirdmedia soon.
We originated and Associate Produced a BBC Network Panorama and BBC NI Spotlight programme following two Belfast families journey to China to give their daughters controversial stem cell treatment. Both broadcast during May '09 and available on BBC iplayer for a limited period.
The Channel 4 Big Art series (we filmed in Belfast Waterworks for them) also started broadcasting on Sundays in May '09.
We will be producing two new films for Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland. One tackles the issue of racism and the other infection control.
We will be making five films for the Community Relations Council on the theme of 'Not Normal'- tackling issues of prejudice, sectarisanism and racism for an audience of 16-25yr olds.
We continue to push our cultural agenda with screenings of our work in mobile cinemas for New Lodge Arts and at Belfast Film Festival. Also promos and video installations for Prime Cut Theatre Co. and Maiden Voyage Dance . Check out our youtube page to view more.
We just wanted to share a few kind words that our client Elaine Roub from CRUSE Bereavement Care used to describe our work with them:
"I have REALLY appreciated the way you have handled this project Matt. You have a gentle and kind approach to the young people, your mellowness keeps me calm and you are a consummate professional at what you do. Thanks so much for everything." Elaine Roub
We were awarded second place from the judges at the Fifteen Second Film Festival screenings during the 2008 Belfast Film Festival at QFT for 'Any Bread', ahead of the likes of Roddy Doyle and Seamus McGarvey. We won lots of new Adobe software to play with....
Bluebird have been filming with New Lodge Arts and Carbon Media, London as part of the biggest arts television programme commission in the UK, ever - The Channel 4 Big Art Project. It's due to be broadcast this Autumn. We have also had two short docs accepted for Channel Four Fourdocs online.
After the success of the Belfast Titanic Trail we have been providing media content for the Armoy Armada and Titanic Interactive tourist trails. See www.armoyarmada.com and www.titanicisland.tv
Check out content on our youtube page at www.youtube.com/bluebirdmedia
Our series of short films on the Bill of Rights - Do the Rights Thing - with the Star Centre will be screened in Dublin as part of the very first Youth, Media and Democracy Conference.
We just completed a successful series of 12 business features and a promo film for the Passenger Transport Federation NI.
We already have several major projects lined up for 2008 including a
major commission for five films from the Community Relations Council
on cultural diversity and a film about the impending Bill of Rights
with young people from The Star Centre in the Newlodge area of Belfast.
Our short film Floating is nearing completion and will be available for public consumption from early '08. We are excited...
The latest presentation has been completed for Coca-Cola Bottlers (Ulster) for screening across Europe and the USA.
We have been filming interviews and devising sequences for a new tourist trail in Armoy, Co. Antrim remembering the late, great road racers Joey Dunlop and Co.
Bluebird produced moving visuals for use on screens in AXA Insurances
new Belfast city centre branch.
We have been busy shooting the building and development of the new
IKEA store in Belfast for Street Monkey and Genesis Advertising
'Any Bread', our recent short film has been selected to screen in
cinemas across Ireland as part of the Fifteen Second Film Festival.