Our next film is very much heavily in pre production, it's been cast, locations are being pondered over and first rehearsals are happening on Wednesday.
It's a modern, rural, Irish fairytale, don't want to give much away drop us a mail if your curious and would like to read the script.
Pretty much its about Connolly a desperate, broke man, who meets Mary Pearl, the local legend who is said to grant good fortune through her song.

Written and co produced by Charlene, co produced by Emmet and shot and directed by me, Bren.

A fine cast we have too, two actors we've already worked with and we're chuffed to have them in another film, playing Mary Pearl is the Aenne Barr (Scarlett from Scarlett's Bodies), playing O'Malley the barman is Barry McGettigan (Michael from The Last Minutes of Alan Winters). And joining us is Brian McHale Boyle a fine actor who is filling the role of Connolly.

Shooting happens in October, small crew, on Jessica me oul XL2.
Can't wait!

Bren

Hi everybody, really should have blogged this earlier but if you have a time machine hop back to Wednesday the 17 of June and go to the Short Film Showcase in Dinn Ri in Carlow.
The Showcase was part of the Prestigious Eigse Carlow Arts Festival, which has been runnng for 30 years, without a film program. But as we all know, film is as much a part of the arts as anything else. And Scarlett Pictures very own Charlene was both campaigner for a film program and is now the film curator of the festival. There has been film workshops, special screenings of the Kilkenny made Secret of Kells, on Monday there will be a screening of Atonement with special Oscar nominated guest Saoirse Ronan (a Carlow native) and of course there was the Short Film Showcase, which screened two of our films.

Now I know what your thinking, two films?! And Charlene was the film curator, nepotism. But don't worry they went through a panel of judges who weren't aware of any connections. Anyway I submitted three and one was rejected so if there was any nepotism all three would have being screened damnit!
One of films being the now 6 years old Shadow, it's damn old, we made it when we were just innocent college students, don't know how it feels on the net but crowds really respond to it. The other being The Last Minutes of Alan Winters, which also got good response.

The night was a great success and it was particularly good crowd. Also has to be mentioned some of the other films we saw, some of which we got to meet the makers of, Tiger Tom (Nial Michael Molloy), Deviant (Gerard Lough) and The Bet (Richard Kearney) particular stand-outs personally. You should Google them.
Saoirse Ronan was also in attendance, a very friendly young girl who seemed to like our film, so we like her.

see yis

Bren

This feckin film has been years in post but finally we have a final version.

Any previous version you may have seen omitted one of our favourite sequences and finally it's in and this is the final version, no more Ridley Scotting about. We've learned a lot from making this film. And we're sorry to people we've kept waiting. Luke, Barry and Deirdre and now Nick the talented musician you hear (apart from that hummy stuff when Alan dies that's Moby....gratis).

It's been chopped, sliced, burnt, ripped, switched, screened, posted, uploaded, downloaded, changed and screwed around with more than any other film we've made, the amount of times this has been burnt onto a DVD only for us to notice another flaw, I'm not exagerating when I say we wasted 2,4593 DVDs.
Hell this film was screened in a cinema and we still weren't finished!
The actress Deirdre was pregnant while shooting this film, the kid got married last week!

So please click on this link, watch it, ignore the flaws, then favourite it, rate it, stumble it, digg it, twitter it, blog it and  download it.

http://vimeo.com/3372488


Alan dies of a heart attack but is given the chance to go back and
change his last minutes to something more poignant than shouting "don't
forget the hoover bags" at his wife.

Everyone at Scarlett Pictures would like to wish anyone who looked at one of our films a very Merry Christmas and a Fantastic New Year.

Don't forget to watch It's a Wonderful Life.

Scarlett Pictures

For
those of you who keep watching Renegade Force over and over on Youtube
(something has to explain the 510 views) and thirst for another hot
slice of beefy hardcore action, here's Renegade Force 2.

Yep The Revue (revuecinema.ca) an independent cinema in Toronto who has shown some of our shorts wrote an article in their Newsletter a couple of weeks ago, actually it's not on their site anymore, it's a bi-weekly and I only thought of mentioning it now, but here's the article, apologies for it looking weird, it's pasted from a PDF and... ye know.

Young Irish talent on the Revue’s screen
Visiting filmmakers from Emerald Isle dropped their short at cinema’s program
BY KATE SCULLIN
Since its launch in early 2008, Drop
Your Shorts, a staple of Revue community
programming, has showcased
an eclectic mix of non-juried short
fi lms by local talent and international
guests. One of the highlights of DYS
IV was opening film Scarlett’s Bodies,
a beautifully costumed and scored
ode to the many incarnations of a
painter’s muse, created by four young
fi lmmakers from Dublin, Ireland.
Rebecca Craig, Brendan Murphy,
Charlene Lydon and Emmet Vincent
have been making fi lms together since
they met in 2002 in university. Drawn
to the film community, they came to
Toronto on work visas and happily
found a venue in DYS. “We heard about
the Revue when we first got here,” says
Lydon. “Now we keep telling people
at home about it, how the community
came together to save a cinema. It’s
Capra-esque! We’re very pleased to be
able to show our films here.”
Operating as Scarlett Pictures, the
four have made Toronto their temporary
home for almost a year. Vincent
teaches ESL; the others are temping,
which “is good, because you actually
get to meet lots of film people and
actors,” says Craig. “They’re all temping.”
She also volunteered at TIFF,
noting the number of Irish and Irishthemed
fi lms screened this year. “It’s
interesting to come abroad and fi nd
that Irish film is infl uential here.”
All four cite Toronto’s wide variety
of cinemas and good DVD rental shops
as one of the city’s selling points.
“In Dublin, there are very few
places that show old or independent
fi lms,” Murphy says. Censorship has
also been a limiting factor for the
Irish movie scene, with many fi lms
banned or edited to meet strict censor
guidelines. “We thought we had
seen Pink Flamingos,” he says with a
laugh. “And then we rented it here...
it was like a different movie.”
Film is, however, a growing industry
in Ireland, and the Emerald Isle
provides a scenic backdrop for many
Hollywood productions. “Anything set
in the old time,” says Vincent. “Anything
that requires a fi eld!” adds Murphy.
Although there is less funding for
domestic product, they say things have
improved in recent years, citing successes
by Lenny Abrahamson and Neil
Jordan, as well as John Carney’s international
phenomenon Once.
Scarlett Pictures leaves Toronto this
fall. Vincent will begin writing a feature
fi lm and apply to a graduate scriptwriting
program. Craig plans to work
in the industry and do a course in fi lm
production. Lydon and Murphy hope
to open a screening room in Dublin for
independent fi lms. (“We may have to
contact the Revue for advice,” Lydon
says.) And they will continue to make
pictures together.
DYS V will take place Thursday,
Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. Films will be
accepted at the Revue on Saturday,
Oct. 18, between noon and 1:30 p.m.
See revuecinema.ca/dropyourshorts
for guidelines.

Just in time for Halloween (actually way ahead of Halloween) Scarlett has produced her first horror. We present:

After two years of scratching our arses we finally got a cut of The Last Minutes of Alan Winters together for a screening in the Revue Cinema in Toronto, we had to cut a whole sequence out of the film to get it down to near 15 minutes for them so what we now have is a short slightly rough cut for our 3 fans to see, theres a fuzzy version on our myspace, but for a better quality version go here (Vimeo by the way, great place to put your stuff online and avoid the low quality, 10 minute limit and complete eegits of Youtube) Anyways, yes soon we'll have a smoother longer cut.

In other news we're working on a short about the past, present and future of the plague that is reality TV. Gotta go Rock of Love is on!

don't forget the hoover bags,
BREN

We recently put an ad on the Canadian Craigslist looking for some music for The Last Minutes of Alan Winters, the film has been in constant limbo regarding music and moving abroad has not helped that as well as our original musician becoming a daddy slowing down the whole process, it was forgotten for a while until we got back in film-making mindset and said feck it lets just finish this bastard film.

The response to our ad was quite big with scores of  various music artists offering to compose and let us use their music, we listened to a lot of really good stuff and so far one or two pieces of music by the talented Nick Worrall www.myspace.com/nickworrall is to be added to the film. He has some seriously nice stuff.

What's great is that we now have a huge database of talented musicians in our Gmail account and we will most likely be in contact some in the future.

For one scene wer are currently using Moby music we attained the rights to through Mobygratis.com but if any independent musicians have something they could offer thats similar we'd most likely change it.

But yeah it was amazing the amount of people who wanted us to use their music for our silly little film, thanks guys.
Happy Paddy's Day!
BREN

We're going to Toronto, Canada for a year. So any Torontonians wanna employ an Irish filmhead, drop us a line.

My camera, Jessica the Canon XL2 is tagging along too, so ye might just see a little Canadian set Scarlett Picture over the next few months, long overdue too, Scarlett's been quite constipated lately.

watch the skies

BREN