Normal People director to give film class on RTÉs Home School Hub
His adoption of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People has got the nation talking, but now he’ll be teaching.
Lenny Abrahamson is swapping his directing cap for a teaching one on RTÉ’s Home School Hub.
The Oscar-nominee will talk to Seamus on the show about directing and film making.
The Home School Hub is celebrating Film Week and they will also be looking at animation.
This week is Film Week on #RTEHomeSchool!! @lennyabrahamson will be giving us a film class 📽️🎞️ Seamus the dog 🐶🐕auditions for a part in his next film! @CartoonSaloon give a behind the scenes look at their work...And we show some films that kids have made!! Not to be missed... pic.twitter.com/Sn04QVvDer
— RTÉjr (@RTEjr) May 17, 2020
Cartoon Saloon will be giving a behind the scenes look at what jobs people do who work in an animation studio and what goes into creating animated film and TV series.
Across the week, there will be four lessons that deal with aspects of the film industry.
Muinteoir Ray will look at critical thinking and writing movie reviews; John will be discussing music score and storyboarding; and Cliona will talk about Lotte Reiniger, a German director who was the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.
You can watch Home School Hub today from 11am on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.
