Something Rising at the tech Mecca

THE stars kept on coming yesterday at the Web Summit. Even as your correspondent was heading for the train, for instance, Adrian Grenier, better known as Vince from Entourage, was ascending the press conference stage to field questions.

I touched base with one attendee who was looking to use a new technological approach to tell an old story. Nick Ryan of Image Now Films made The Summit, about the tragic accident in the Himalayas; now he’s crowdfunding to develop a movie about the 1916 Rising.

“It’s always been told through the leaders Pearse, McDonagh, Connolly, and so on, but I thought the actual events of the Rising itself were really fascinating in terms of what people were doing on the ground — shopping on Grafton St even as it was happening early on, or looking up from D’Olier St to see what was going on and getting hit by stray bullets. All of that.