Wesley O Duinn [producer]:
“At the time when the Croí Cruthaitheach project came up, we had been working on a number of adverts and TV segments. We’d recently done The Fleadh Cheoil TV show stories with another production company for TG4 and the Galway 2020 advert; both of which I’d produced. We were in a good workflow at the time we received the brief.”
Tomek Ciezki [director]:
“It was a week before my wedding; I was in Poland at the time and promised myself to take that week off. It all changed when I saw the brief. Together with Wes, we worked on the proposal and budget around the clock and send it off the day before I was going away to get married. The crew was pivotal to the application and we managed to lock in Burschi Wojnar for DOP and Daithi for music, which, along with our own offering, really helped the application.”