Smiley Monroe’s rubber cutting technology helps Northern Irish short short film achieve the desired look for a Japanese Samurai costume. ‘Yuki’, selected for the 2011 Belfast Film Festival, is showing on Saturday 9th April at QFT, Belfast, as part of the Short Film Competition. Yuki is a Northern Ireland Screen and Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation funded film. The Irish/Japanese short directed by Jonathan Beer and produced by Brain Falconer is about to commence its festival circuit.
Yuki’s world has changed. With no medical diagnosis for her mother’s mysterious illness, Yuki (Haruka Abe) knows it’s time to face her own demons if she has any chance of saving her mother. Click here to visit the Yuki Facebook page to find out more.
Just days after its premier in the short Film Competition at the Belfast Film Festival, 'Yuki' was selected for Cannes Short Film Corner. Organised by the Festival de Cannes, 11-22 May, the Short Film Corner is designed as a showcase for films and a meeting place for directors, producers and international buyers.
Following selection for Belfast Film Festival and Cannes Short Film Corner, 'Yuki' has just been selected for competition in the the forthcoming Galway Film Fleadh, from 5 -10 July 2011. The Galway Film Fleadh - Ireland’s leading film festival - is a six day international film event held every July and welcomes a mad diversity of filmmaking from around the world.
Rubber conveyor belting with 1 ply of fabric was chosen over metal or leather, due to its flexibility and strength. Also, when aged and sewn together, the rubber costume allowed the actor greater freedom of movement when performing fight scenes. A CAD drawing, supplied by the filmmakers, was imported directly into nesting software. Smiley Monroe then cut the rubber parts using the latest CNC automated cutting technology, which is capable of cutting and drilling profiles, patterns, holes and slots in a variety of materials - from 20mm rubber to less than 0.2mm foil - including PVC, PU, EPDM foam, neoprene, foamex, plastic, polystyrene, polypropylene, kevlar, carbon fibre, laminates, fibreglass, cork, cardboard and leather.
Declan McGrady, Operations Manager for Smiley Monroe says 'We produce value added, ready-to-fit parts, such as gaskets, seals, conveyor skirting rubber and washers - for a wide range of applications, including conveyor and screen encapsulation, slurry tanks, shotblast curtains, mudflaps and oil seals. We can even personalise cut parts with your company logo - all parts are pen-marked as standard, for easy identification and re-ordering, but can also be cut out, embossed or applied.'
Smiley Monroe is an ISO 9001:2008 accedited company and approved supplier to many worldclass manufacturers (OEMs) of mobile crushing, screening and recycling equipment, such as Powerscreen, Terex Finlay, Sandvik, Metso Minerals, Atlas Copco, Keestrack, Telestack and McCloskey International.
Click here to find out more about our range of gaskets and cut parts.
Click here to visit the 2011 Galway Film Festival website.
Click here to visit the 2011 Cannes Film Festival website.
Click here to visit the 2011 Belfast Film Festival website.
