Shooting has just concluded on a new Irish-language online poetry project, directed by Prin Duignan, Bandit's latest collaboration with Sleeping Warrior Productions. Featured artists are the singers John Spillane and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and the poets Louis de Paor (who also features in Bandit's Na Coisithe doco), Nuala Ní Dhomhnall and Cathal ÓSearcaigh. The Irish Poetry TV web-site is due for launch in late March.

Financing and Casting are advancing for a Spring shoot of The Straits, a feature film to be shot in Andalusia and Morocco with Irish-based Spanish DP Nuria Roldos. From a script by Johnny Gogan and Joe O'Byrne, The Straits will be directed by Johnny as his third feature film. The film is being co-produced by Bandit Films, Zanzibar Films (Edwina Forkin) and Sakai Productions (Dacil Perez de Guzman) are the Spanish-based producers.

The Adventures of Flannery, the feature-length documentary portrait of singer-song-writer Cathal Coughlan is now available on the new online arts channel Platform Ireland www.platformireland.ie

Brían F. O'Byrne, the star of Johnny's two previous feature films The Last Bus Home and Mapmaker has been getting great reviews for his lead appearance in the US TV Drama series Flash Forward

The Scaffolder Falls, Johnny's collaboration with animators Brian McGowan and Patrick O'Rourke (Sleeping Warrior Productions) gets its next outing at the Dublin Film Festival 21st December.

Na Coisithe, the documentary profile of Liam S. Gógan is due for broadcast in TG4s Anamnocht/The Naked Soul Series in March. Date TBC

Johnny's debut novel Ghost Writers is launched on March 2nd