Rita-Marie Photography
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Filmmaker & Photographer |
| Location | Dublin, Leinster, Ireland |
| Introduction | An award winning filmmaker who recently wrote, produced and directed her first feature film Apollo Music Club, which had its premier at the Sugar Club Dublin on August 19th 2008. She has entered it into various film festivals and it will also be screened on Irish channel BuzzTV channel 131 on NTL digital. Rita-Marie is also a professional photographer covering bands, fashion, portraits, rugby union and martial arts - since she achieved a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do and plans to achieve a 1st dan black belt. She holds a Guildhall diploma in theatre and has certificates in distinctions from Victoria College of Music, London and also Ronanstown music studies Dublin, where she studied guitar, piano and drums. B TEC HND Film Production - Dublin. Royal Photographic Society accredited. She currently works as a freelance photographer for the North County Dublin Leader and is working on a new Irish feature film as locations scout and stills photographer. |
| Interests | Photography filmmaking rugby union Gaelic football music vegetarianism cooking martial arts - Tae Kwon Do, Kickboxing. Yoga - Iyengar, Hatha and Ashtanga general keep fit. Psychology forenzic psychology reading biographies playing guitar. |
| Favorite movies | A Room For Romeo Brass Withnail & I Shawshank Redemption Thelma & Louise Gladiator Stir Crazy Blazing Sadals Spinal Tap La Ceremonie Fargo Misery Taxi Driver Trainspotting Sideways Willy Wonka (Original) Silence of The Lambs Godfather Italian Job (Original) Educating Rita Abigail's Party Crying Game Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Deliverance Midnight Cowboy - plus tons more low budget films. Still Crazy/Strange Fruit Take It Or Leave It - the real life story about Madness the band.Wallace & Grommit Murial's Wedding Shirley Valentine The Lost Highway Blue Velvet Twin Peaks Metropolis Gas Food Lodging Annie Hall 35 Aside The Breakfast Club (Original) This Years Love Girl Interrupted Dog Day Afternoon The Young Frankenstein What's Eating Gilbert Grape The Snapper Dual Various 'Dogma' films Twenty Four Seven Oliver Twist Cape Fear The Last Waltz. Directors: Claude Chabrol and many other French directors. David Lynch The Coen Brothers Jim Jarmusch Mike Leigh Takeshi Kitano Krysztof Kieslowski Ken Loach Woody Allen Aki Kaurismaki Martin Scorsese Stanley Kubrick Oliver Stone. |
| Favorite music | Janis Joplin Pink Floyd Jimi Hendrix Led Zeppelin Captain Beefheart Paul Simon Enya The Kinks UB40 Red Hot Chillie Peppers Crowded House The Stone Roses Air The Undertones The Boomtown Rats The Pretenders Tom Petty INXS Portishead Goldfrapp Neil Young Antony & The Johnson's The Smiths Stereo MC's Garbage Primal Scream Supergrass Oasis Sleeper Radiohead The Cure Manic Street Preachers Depeche Mode Texas Ian Dury & The Blockheads Bic Runga Deacon Blue Prefab Sprout The Cranberries Rory Gallagher Jeff Buckley Fleetwood Mac Bob Dylan The Beatles Jefferson Airplane U2 Thin Lizzy The Specials Madness The Selector Kate Bush Aimee Mann Alicia Keys Ami Winehouse Eva Cassidy Beyonce Mary J Blige Van Morrisson Bjork Cocteau Twins Eric Clapton Jazz/funk Sixties French pop/psychedelic - depending on the mood!! Spill & Ambience Blondie The Doors Nora Jones KT Tunstall Lily Allen Squeeze The Eagles Jack Johnson The Cardigans Paul Wellar The Style Council The Jam The Police Leftfield Catatonia/Cerys Mathews Carly Simon Carol King Nina Simone Talking Heads Suede Blur Ocean Colour Scene Average White Band Kirsty McCall Ewan McCall Jamiroquai Bob Marley Aretha Franklin Erma Franklin Stevie Wonder OMD REM The Band Diana Ross John Lennon Paul McCartney & Wings George Harrison The Pogues Madonna David Bowie Big Country Kiki Dee Billy Joel Kaiser Chiefs Terence Trent D'Arby Alison Moyet Moby George Micheal Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac Dusty Springfield The Animals The Rolling Stones Clannad Luke Kelly Gavin Friday The Grateful Dead Procol Harum Santana Siouxsie & The Banshees Toyah Steely Dan The Stranglers Bonnie Raitt. To name but a few. |
| Favorite books | Lots of biographies - Dylan Thomas Spike Milligan Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix Maeve Brennan Enjoy reading about music and life in the 60's and 70's. Photography books for those top tips. In sport Martin Johnson and various martial arts books. Sigmund Freud - psycology and the human mind - and 'An Interpretation of Dreams' Pamela Ball - dream analysing Rob Magreggor - dreams and their meaning. Screenplays - how to write for TV and Film and one I'm reading at the moment 'Psychology for Screenwriters - how to build conflict in your script' by William Indick Ph.D. I'd recommend it to all scriptwriters out there! |