Gone to America

Anthony Litton (me, writing in the third person for effect) was born in Dublin on the 5th of February, 1975. He conceived an unrealistic desire to work in the film business in some capacity in around 1990. Luckily for him, the Film Board was reinstated in 1993, just as he left school. He went to the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design (now renamed the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology) and studied film. He scraped a pass, having made a really bad student film, in 1997.
He had narrowed his ambition to the field of film editing, largely due to poor social skills and a liking for small, dark rooms. He took his diploma and, with a speed and dedication that earned the undying respect of his peers, failed to get any editing work whatsoever. Luckily, once again, for him, Screen Training Ireland in association with Ardmore Sound were gearing up to provide the most ambitious and far reaching film training program this country had ever seen, in the field of Sound Editing. Anthony saw that Fas would pay him IR£90 a week (IR£90 more than he had been getting) to turn up every day at Ardmore Studios for two months, and signed up.
This was pretty cool. He was taught intensively for two months on the best equipment available by some of the top guys in the business (like, but not limited to, Phil Benson and Patrick Drummond) and then sent to LA for three months to train on movies like As Good As It Gets, Zero Effect" and My Giant. He came back and straight away (ok, after a month of almost daily pleading phone calls to the curiously web-absent Paul Moore and Doug Murray) I , sorry, he landed a job as Trainee Sound Editor on John Boorman’s The General.

Moving swiftly on, and bloodied but unbowed he has been working in this interesting and occasionally lucrative field ever since. The reasons for this move to the big apple can be found in the FAQ, and a fairly complete list of the movies Anthony has worked on can be found on the IMDb. He has taken, taught on and evaluated various other Screen Training Ireland courses over the years, and worked occasionally as a script reader. In 2000 he founded (along with James Finlan) the In The Dark Party, a Christmas gathering for freelance post production folk. He was recently decapitated in the the movie Dead Meat, directed by Conor McMahon, a fomer assistant.