No Business like Snow Business
Well that will teach us for taking the met office as gospel. We had hoped to get some great snow shots this week for our film documentaries - Belmayne - and Pat Falvey - but sadly by Monday it was all slush and a fading memory of whiteness. We’re back in the swing of things with a bright new year 2010 and hoping to see lots of new projects come on the table. There’s been a wonderful reaction to our Joyce’s Dublin series of audio podcasts (check out www.joycesdublin.ie) and they’re currently running on RTE Choice, Digital Radio (thank you to the Sunday Business Post for a glowing review). We’re nearly finished editing our three part sport series for Newstalk 106, Field of Dreams, and we hope we can give you transmission dates soon for the series. The first in the series is ‘Count Us In’ a lovely documentary following a schools project run by Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI) which uses sport in primary schools in Dublin’s inner city to help break down barriers of race, gender and class.
We’re busy with a few tenders which have opened up for the New Year and we’re recruiting a new production assistant under the FAS work placement scheme which gives unemployed graduates a chance to get work experience. Its a sign of the times that there has been significant interest in the posting and we’re looking forward to welcome someone new to Athena Media soon. This Friday evening Anita, Barry and myself head down to Kerry to work with Pat Falvey on our biographical documentary. Pat is getting ready to take on his latest challenge and trek to the North Pole with fellow explorer Clare O Leary. Its a pity to have missed the snow……but who knows it could be back yet!
Happy New Year to all our blog readers and we hope its a bright one for all of us.