APRIL 2025​​
​​A CINEMA OPENING!
Ali Schmahl's feature documentary Privileg, Executive Produced by Gerard Tierney via Projectile, had its German theatrical release on 20th March through dejavu, starting with Krokodil in Berlin and Studio Kino in Hamburg. The film can also be streamed on Amazon Prime Video (US, UK ) and TUBI (US, Mexico, Australia). ​
https://kino-krokodil.de/film/privileg/
https://www.studio-kino.de/filme/privileg-1575/​
​https://www.dejavu-film.de/
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​​​PREMIERES AND AWARD
After All - Chongyan Liu's short film, the first Octopoid project undertaken by Gerard Tierney - had its World Premiere at Seoul International Pride Film Festival, and played soon after at Beijing International Short Film Festival - where it won 'Best Film' in the Chinese section. The film received its European Premiere at MINT Chinese Film Festival, a fairly new, female-curated event in the UK. Gerard attended, soon after his return from the European Film Market at the 75th Berlinale. Another three festivals can be announced soon. Here are links to the Seoul, Beijing and MINT programme entries for the film:
https://www.bisff.co/selection/after-all
https://www.unicornscreening.com/short-after-all
​​​PREMIERE AND AWARD
Saigon, Kosovo, one half of Tin Dirdamal's The Thing About A.I. is...pair of short films, had its World Premiere at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in October, in the 'Fascinations' section - and won the section's main award. Tin is a previous award-winner at the festival with his feature Dark Light Voyage; Gerard was an Executive Producer on both. Saigon, Kosovo has now been selected for Thessaloniki and for the Ambulante festival in Mexico. Here's a link to the film's programme entry for Ji.hlava:
https://www.ji-hlava.com/filmy/saigon-kosovo​​​
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OTHER NEWS
​​​Chongyan Liu has now graduated from Le Fresnoy, the French national studio of contemporary art; her installation Dein und mein Dasein und das Dasein der Welt premiered at Le Fresnoy's Panorama showcase in September 2024 and was shown until January2025. This was the entry for the installation in the Panorama's programme:
https://www.lefresnoy.net/en/exposition/2207/oeuvre/2220/
Chongyan was selected for the 'Doc Station' in the prestigious Berlinale Talents in 2024, and attended with a feature documentary project, Niche of the Dragon. This project, renamed The Missing People, is in active development. This was Chongyan's entry in the catalogue:
https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt//talent/chongyan-liu/profile
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​Gerard is Consultant on Philippika, Sabrina Mertens' second feature film, which is her graduation film from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. The film is produced by Lorenzo Gandolfo; post-production is under way in Berlin and elsewhere. Discussions continued at the 2025 European Film Market. This link is to the film school's website:
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Deborah Phillips' short film 1014, on which Gerard was Associate Producer, had its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2024, and was later selected for FICUNAM, Kassel, Bolzano, Prisme (Nantes) and other festivals. Here's a link to the Rotterdam programme:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/a-z#search=1014
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​Gerard is an Executive Producer on a tetralogy of feature films, Light and the Beginning of Future, directed by Tin Dirdamal: Dark Light Voyage (now taken out of circulation by its maker) and the forthcoming films Beyond Eden, The White of Night and The Last Film.
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In addition to consulting on Chongyan Liu's and Thomas Moore's future work in production and distribution through their operations Another Image and Random Headache, Gerard is consulting with Ernesto Livon-Grosman on a feature-length "found footage” documentary film he is developing (Argentina – USA – Spain). and helping him place his feature music documentary Wolff On Composition. This link here leads to that film's beautiful website:
https://www.wolffoncomposition.com/
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