Whackala

Address: 48 Rathborne Place, Ashtown, Dublin 15.
Telephone: +353 (0)1 6572049
Mobile: +353 (0)87 2885410
Website: http:// www.whackala.com
Email: hello@whackala.com

Personnel:
Leticia Agudo
Paul McGrath

Company Description:

In May 2005 Paul McGrath & Leticia Agudo started Whackala to pursue their passions
in filmmaking. May the following year they registered officially to focus on After Zapatismo.
At the moment Whackala is also developing a children animation series for television
and a live-action fiction feature for film, for which Paul and Leticia have co-written the script.

Experience:
Director and editor Leticia Agudo is from Seville, Spain, born in 1974. She went to Britain at 17 to pursue an education and career in the theatre. After completing an MA in theatre directing she moved to Dublin at the end of 1997 to form Common Currency Theatre Company with two colleagues. After three years directing and producing stage plays, Leticia did another Masters in Film Production to fulfill a life long inclination to tell stories visually. She has since independently produced and directed two fiction shorts and worked as 1stAD and production manager for fiction and documentary. Following her interest in stories of women and outsiders, in 2003 she made her first documentary as director: “Chiapas Women: The Untold Story”, shown at Docusur 2006. She is a member of the European Documentary Network. She also teaches film in Coláiste Dhulaigh College in Dublin.

Producer and animator Paul McGrath (Dublin, Ireland, 1973) co-founded and run his own animation production company in Dublin, Kavaleer Productions, for which he animated, produced, did technical direction and special effects in many projects from 1999 to 2004. He has produced, directed and worked in several areas of animation for companies like Liquid Animation in Brisbane, Australia, Hyperion Films in Los Angeles, US and Sullivan Bluth/Sheperd Films in Dublin. He has also done freelance animation work for award winning Brown Bag Films and factual TV company Coco Television. He has taught animation and film production in three different colleges in Dublin.

Genre:
Documentary; animation; fiction

Languages:
English, Spanish

In Development:

Pre-school animation series "Little Witch"

Animation series for 8-12 year olds "Family Thyme"

Feature live action "Schooling"   

Current Production:

After Zapatismo (documentary 52'/80')

In co-production with Spain's Canal Sur Televisión about the aftermath of the Zapatista uprising and rebel movement in Chiapas, South of Mexico since 1994 and particularly about its effect on the indigenous women of the region. The film features current and former female members and questions real gender equality beyond the movements' grand ideals and the romantic perception of them in the rest of the world.  Delivery: October 2008. For more information and trailer visit: www.afterzapatismo.com 

For Sale:

"After Zapatismo" www.afterzapatismo.com