Flipped Podcast #8: Tomm Moore

Welcome to episode 8 of Flipped.  This month we chat to Cartoon Saloon, co-founder, creative director and Academy Award nominee Tomm Moore. Tomm talks about his inspiration, his love of comics and the up and downs of making his two features "The Secret of Kells" and "Song of the Sea".  We're also joined for part of the interview by Cartoon Saloon MD and Song of the Sea producer Ross Murray!  Enjoy

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Podcast Contents

00:00 - Intro

01:18 - Interview start - Starting out Young Irish Film Makers & Ballyfermot

05:11 - Birth of Cartoon Saloon

07:14 - Early Work - Service work and From Darkness

08:30 - Annecy - The Cannes of animation

11:05 - Short Films and directing

12:28 - Comic art, illustration, influences & inspiration

16:28 - Rebel - the beginnings of Secret of Kells

18:50 - Getting the Finance

20:37 - Directing Kells

22:47 - An international co-production

27:34 - Putting it out there - the good & the bad

34:45 - Fan art & creator art 

37:05 - Financing the difficult second feature

45:35 - The story of Song of the Sea

51:01 - Doing things differently second time round

53:23 - Outro

References

Tomm's Early Films can be viewed here on the Irish Film Board's Media Hub website.

Cartoon Saloon

The wonderful Secret of Kells - Tomm's production blog can be viewed here. 

Limited Edition prints from the film are available here.

 

The gorgeous Song of the Sea.  Read Tomm's production blog here.

We wanted to say a special thanks to Tomm and Ross for taking the time to talk to us.

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Flipped was produced by Aidan McAteer & Megan McMahon, edited by Aidan McAteer and featured music from www.royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com

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