LA praise boosts bid to promote Cork’s film industry

An influential LA producer praised Cork’s film industry yesterday, as the Cork Screen Commission (CSC) unveiled plans to entice projects south, away from studios in Dublin and Wicklow.

LA praise boosts bid to promote Cork’s film industry

The video message from Creative Differences’s Dave Harding, who works on some of National Geographic’s most high-profile documentaries, and who was the executive producer of the epic Dark Secrets of the Lusitania, was screened at the launch of the commission’s 2012 annual report. The documentary, which featured a major dive on the wreck, was one of the most complex documentary projects ever shot here.

Mr Harding said he was “pleasantly surprised” to find everything he needed for the shoot — technical and crew expertise — in the region, and praised the access and co-operation afforded to the team by state and local agencies.

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