Jameson and Empire are once again asking all super-talented film fans and director-hopefuls-of-the-future to enter the annual amateur filmmaking competition, Done in 60 Seconds, where the winner will get to attend the glittering, A-list extravaganza, otherwise known as the Jameson Empire Awards 2012 in London on 25 March 2012 to collect their prize. In no more than 60 seconds, film buffs are required to recreate their favourite, iconic movie from any genre by creating a one minute masterpiece.
One Irish entry will be chosen by an expert panel of judges including director Jim Sheridan and the gorgeous Merlin actor Eoin Macken, to represent Ireland at the International Done in 60 Seconds Awards in London. To take part in this year’s Done in 60 Seconds competition, grab some mates, blag a camera from somewhere, get shooting and upload your masterpiece to www.jamesonempirediss.com before January 20th 2012.
Whatever it is and however fans choose to make it, it has to be no more than 60 seconds long. In a mere minute you can defeat the bad guy, get the girl and ride off into the sunset, so what are you waiting for? Grab your mates, get your camera and start shooting the shortest of short films!
Film fans from all over the world can enter to pit their 60 second home-movie-masterpieces against the best of the rest from over 19 countries across the globe. Once the necessary prepping, shooting and editing is completed, wannabe directors can upload their work via jamesonempirediss.com. This year entries will also go live on the Done in 60 Seconds You Tube channel (youtube.com/jamesonempirediss), where the public can view entries from all over the world and cast a vote for their favourite.
Once the shortlisted nominees from each country have been chosen they will be flown to London to compete in a live global final on 23 March, where an international panel of celebrity judges will decide the five best entries. The five finalists will get to attend the glamorous Jameson Empire Awards two days later, where the ultimate winner will be unveiled and handed their very own Jameson Empire Award whilst sharing the stage with legends of the silver screen.
The short-list in 2011 came from as far afield as Kazakhstan, Turkey, Chile, Sweden and the Netherlands. Movie choices were diverse and the 2011 list included box-office successes like Oscar®-nominated The Social Network, Inception and 127 Hours as well as classics like Aliens, Jaws, Psycho and The Exorcist.
The Jameson Empire Awards celebrate the film industry’s success stories of the year with Empire Magazine readers voting for the winners. The awards ceremony is deemed by many in the industry as the most fun awards in the British movie calendar, making it the perfect match for Jameson.
For more information on Done in 60 Seconds or to enter the competition, go to jamesonempirediss.com. Closing date for entries is 20 January 2012.
The gorgeous Eoin Macken who will be on the judging panel for Done in 60 seconds joined me at the 98FM studios to tell us a bit about the competition. Eoin has been acting for the last 5 years and currently portrays the legendary character of the Knight of the round table ‘Sir Gwaine’ for the last two seasons on the hugely popular BBC series ‘Merlin’, which screens in over 183 countries worldwide.
He was Director of Photography on Terry McMahon’s critically acclaimed feature ‘Charlie Casanova’ which has garnered awards internationally this year including Best Debut Feature at this year’s Galway Film Festival (Eoin’s fourth year running having a film in the festival) as well as best feature in Washington and Paris. Charlie Casanova will be released in Irish cinema’s in January next year.
Eoin has Previously worked on the Lionsgate horror thriller ‘Siren’ with the Descent’s Anna Skellern, Paul Mercier’s ‘Studs’ opposite Brendan Gleason, RTE’s RAW and Fair City, Brendan Muldowney’s ‘Savage’, BBC’s “Small Island’, Neil Marshall’s ‘Centurion’ with Micheal Fassbender, Lee Cronin’s internationally acclaimed short ‘Through the Night’ with Nora Jayne Noone and The Tudors. Eoin is currently working on developing his next feature to shoot next year.
Gorgeous Eoin has also modelled for Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie & Fitch, GQ and Braun amongst others in New York and Los Angeles.
Check out Eoin’s interview below, I’m telling ya we expect big things for Eoin. Watch the space Colin Farrell !!….
xoxo Siobhan
