News

27.07.08
Johnny's Illustration for '100 pieces of Havana' exhibition at the Truman Brewery, curated by Intercity. A limited run of five A1 posters were screenprinted by UnitTwentyFive.



23.05.08
Procrastination won an award for postgraduate animation at the Royal Television Society student awards last Friday. Along with a short interview the film will be shown on The Culture Show Uncut on BBC2, at 11.35pm on Friday June 6th. It will also be screened as part of Prét Á Porter Paris at "Explosion De Modes".

09.04.08
After the success of the Dublin Bicycle Festival in 2006, Michael is getting stuck-in down in his new home in the Kingdom. Clowns, films, music, and the first ever Irish performance of Godfried-Willem Raes' 2nd Symphony for Singing Bicycles
For more info go to http://www.kerrybicyclefestival.org

07.03.08
Johnny was one of three winners of the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Award, for his work on Procrastination. For more information visit the website's news page. The exhbition continues in their exhibition space in Southwark, London until March 20th.



10.02.08
Mike Wyeld is nominated in the The Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards for his sound editing work on Procrastination.

Also you can watch and/or vote for the film here, as its a finalist in the Jerwood Moving Image Awards and will be included in a month long exhibition in their Jerwood Space gallery in Southwark London, from the 20th of February to the 20th of March.

At the Premier Plans film festival in Anger, France, the film was nominated for the European Film Academy Short Film 2007– Prix UIP.

13.01.08


11.01.08
Procrastination won best 2nd prize at the VX Auteur Theory screening at the London Short Film Festival. The film is also shortlisted for the Jerwood Moving Image Award.

13.12.07
Some of Johnny's work features in the YCN Book 0708, which has just been published.



01.11.07
Procrastination won best film in the International section at the Exground film festival in Weisbaden, Germany.

01.11.07
Procrastination is featured in the new issue of shots and the accompanying DVD. Shots have also included the film on the their New Directors Reel 2007, which is just published.

04.10.07
Michael has two films in the upcoming Kerry Film Festival, Under The Stairs and Psychadelic Spaceman, his music video for The Lung Donors. Johnny's film Shelly is also being screened.

28.09.07
Good news - Johnny is now represented by Nexus Productions.

09.09.07
Johnny won Best New Irish Director at the Shark Awards.

06.09.07
Johnny's September 2007 showreel, featuring music by The Redneck Manifesto.

04.09.07
Johnny is shortlisted in the Best New Irish Director category at the Shark Awards, held in Kinsale, Co. Cork in Ireland.

04.09.07
Procrastination is featured on the cover the September issue of Creative Review magazine. Download a PDF of the article here.



31.08.07
Johnny is speaking in the Sweetness & Light tent at Electric Picnic music festival in Laois, Ireland. Come along and throw bottles at him.