Despite having the kind of faces you usually see on a WANTED poster, we're happy enough to share our mugs with you. Now that you know where we're going in this business (to the top, obviously) here's some brief info on where we're comin' from.
EDWINA
FORKIN - ProducerEdwina Forkin is without doubt Ireland's most prolific Shorts producer with 15 films to her credit over the last three years.
Featured recently in Screen Internationals 'Rising Stars' she has also produced Commercials, Documentaries, Corporates, and Pop Promos, as well as the opening title sequence for the longest running show on Irish Television 'The Late Late Show'.
After graduating from Trinity College where she was Entertainments Officer, Edwina lived in San Francisco for five years working in the Music business. Returning with a new ambition to work in film she quickly graduated from the Eave Media Business School.
Edwina is currently in sales mode with her debut Feature 'Headrush' that shot in 2003 while preparing a raft of other Features for Production in late 2004 / Spring 2005.
SHIMMY
MARCUS - Writer / Director / ProducerRecently tipped by the Sunday Times as 'a star film-maker for the future', Shimmy Marcus discovered his love of movies snogging in the back row of the old Green Cinema on Stephen's Green.
After graduating from the College of Marketing and the College of Commerce in Dublin he set about working in a variety of jobs around the world.
Returning in the early '90s to work as Stage and Lighting Designer with a variety of local bands he began his film-making career with the short '7th Heaven' which went on to win a variety of awards.
His feature Documentary 'Aidan Walsh - Master of the Universe' was the first Irish Doc made on Video to receive Theatrical and Video Distribution and was recently voted into the top 10 films screened at the IFC over the last 10 years. His debut feature 'Headrush' is currently winning a variety of awards on the festival circuit while he preps his latest feature 'Souled out'.
He has also directed Music Promo's for a variety of bands including the Fun Lovin' Criminals, and Republic of Loose.
TAMARA
ANGHIE - Producer
Tamara Anghie has been working in the film and new media industries for
the past 14 years after completing a Degree in Film & Media Studies in
Melbourne, Australia. She has worked as a production assistant for several
film companies which have taken her all around Australia and South-East
Asia working on television commercials, corporate videos and promotional
travel documentaries.
After spending 6 successful years working in the new media and computer games industries producing award-winning projects, Tamara returned to film making when she moved to Ireland in 2000. Since then she has been involved with documentary, short film and television commercial production. She has produced several short films in the past year including the multi-award winning short, A Dublin Story for Zanzibar Films and Celtic Mouse productions ltd and the acclaimed Push Hands. She worked as production manager on the 'Short Shorts', Martin as well as the award winning film The Last.
Her most recent project is Luka produced as one of the 'Short Shorts' for the Irish Film Board. Tamara is participating in the prestigious EAVE Media Business School programme 2004, has recently joined Zanzibar Films as a producer and is in development on Lamping and Clan her first feature films for the company.
EVE
OLNEY - Script Development Executive
Having obtained an honours degree in Film and Photography, Eve specialised
in producing work that combined experimental film practices with theoretical
research. Eg. Knowing Child a multi media installation/short film examining
conflicting attitudes regarding the representation of children in the
visual media, exhibited Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh 2001. Most of her
work involves creating/discovering alternative historical narratives for
subjects that are usually misrepresented or under represented in the visual
media.
She is currently beginning a Phd in DIT Media Dept. entitled Music and
Migration: an examination of the relationship between ethnomimesis and
stereotype, which follows the trail of a murder ballad through 400 years
of Irish/American history. This too involves combining film practices
with ethnographic research in order to create a cultural historical artefact.
Also trained in film practice and editing she has been involved in numerous short films and documentaries as both production designer and editor, and as production coordinator in the last four projects. Since joining Zanzibar she has been working in film production and script development and is currently script reader/head of development for the company.
THE
GODFATHER - Creative DirectorQuality control is an integral part of the Zanzibar Films process and nothing gets made until it gets the seal of approval from our Creative Director.
