SYNOPSIS What if you knew where your Teddy Bear really came from? DIRECTORS BIOG Jason Butler & Brendan Butler are filmmaking brothers. Together they have won the Kinsale Sharks New Director Award 2009 and have previously won Europe's largest screenplay prize, the Oscar Moore Award. Their films have screened in international film festivals and on national television. In 2006 Jason founded FilmmakersNetwork.ie, Ireland largest filmmaking community.
JASON BUTLER CREDITS Tufty Co-Writer / Co-Director Filmbase/ RTÉ funded s16mm/hdcam 8.5 mins 2009 Screened at Galway Film Fleadh 2009 Tog Mise Leat Production Manager Filmbase/TG4 funded XDCAM 10 mins 2009 Screened at JDIFF 2009 Powerdown TV show Sketches Writer / Director DV 10 x 2 mins 2008 Produced for Cultivate, Screened on DCTV Unofficial World Record Attempt Director DV 30 secs 2008 Demo commercial 2nd place 2008 Blinder awards Sound proof Director / Co-writer HDV 9 mins 2007 National Film School Graduation short Screened on RTÉ, August 2008, LA Irish Film Festival 2009 One Sunny Morning Director DVCAM 8mins 2007 Studio based drama Screened at Belfast Film Festival, 2008 Too Good Director / Writer S16mm 30 secs 2007 Demo commercial screened at 2007 Blinder Awards Red Wire Blue Wire Director / Co-writer DigiBeta (with transfer to 35mm) / 1 min First Irish short to be shown in cinemas by buying screen time
BRENDAN BUTLER CREDITS Co-Director & Co-writer of (2009, s16mm & HDCAM, 8.5mins) screen at Galway Film Fleadh. Producer of City of Cranes segment for RTE s Capital D (DVCAM, 6mins, 2008) Producer of short film Red Wire, Blue Wire (2006, DigiBeta>35mm) Screened at Galway, Foyle and Kerry Film Festivals Producer of the Graduate production - "Heartstone" (1998,13 mins, 16mm, Colour), Dir. Deirdre Green Producer of the Graduate production - "The Art of Salesmanship" (1997,14 mins, 16mm, Colour), Dir. Nigel Bunyan Director of "Get-em" (1997, 5 mins, 16mm, Colour)
CAST & CREW Producer Dave Leahy Written & Directed by Jason Butler & Brendan Butler Director of Photography Ivan McCullough Edited by Berni Stack Róisín O Donnell Original score composed by Louise Heaney Cast Boy Luke Reilly Mother Una Kavanagh Hunter Brendan McCormack Taxidermist Brendan Conroy Puppet Design Asumpta Sweeney Puppeteers Brendan Butler Asumpta Sweeney Additional puppeteers Jason Butler Berni Stack Assistant Director 1 Anna Harrison Trainee Assistant Director Ruari McKenna Focus Puller Cormac O Maille Keith Durham Clapper Loader Deirdre O Toole Camera Assistant Mary Crowley Peter Delaney Sound Recordist Padraig Whitmore Grip Dave O Connor Assistant Grip Roman Garcia Albir Make-up Una Leila Louli Wardrobe Aoife Byrne Armourer John McKenna Special Effects Dave Roddham Gaffer Dermot Coleman Spark Arthur Mulhern Driver Tony Mulally Stills photographer Vincent Gallagher Construction Ben Warren Labs Technicolor Post Production Egg Grading Orla O Brien Online Dominic Lord Sound Design & Mix by Paul Lynch at Mutiny Recording Studios Music Supervisor Fiachra Trench Technical Supervisor Denis Clohessy Music Recorded by Brian Masterson & Richard McCullough
Assisted by Maria Fitzgerald Music Performed by RTÉ Concert Orchestra Conducted by David Brophy General Manager, RTÉ Concert Orchestra Anthony Long Operations Executive, RTÉ Concert Orchestra Patrick McLaughlin Film scoring workshop organised by RTÉ IMRO In association with Filmbase Contemporary Music Centre FÁS Screen Training Ireland Thanks to Production Depot John McKenna Egg Post Production Filmbase/RTÉ Warrior Films 2009 www.warrior-films.com For more on go to www.tuftybear.com