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Five Minutes with... BAFTA winning Irish Colourist Aidan Farrell |
10 May 2012 | Highly regarded worldwide, Irish colourist Aidan Farrell will this Sunday be honored for his craft with a BAFTA special award for his “outstanding creative contribution to the industry and his extensive work and accomplishments in this field.”
Ahead of the event in London, the Dubliner – who has worked as a colourist on acclaimed television shows such as ‘Downton Abbey’ - spends five minutes with IFTN to talk about how he went from working on animation with Don Bluth in Dublin to working on acclaimed music videos during the Britpop-era in London and on into TV drama. |
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Seamus McGarvey talks 'Avengers Assemble' |
| 25 Apr 2012 | Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey is already an IFTA Award-winner, Oscar nominee and 3D convert, but he can now add masterclass extraordinaire to his CV after wowing a packed audience at IFTA's 'In Conversation With…' event at the IFI yesterday. |
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Interview: Irish Director Stephen St. Leger on His Feature Film Debut ‘Lockout’ |
| 19 Apr 2012 | Stephen St. Leger seems oddly relaxed. Two days before the European release of his Luc Besson-produced debut feature film ‘Lockout’ – co-directed and co-written with his long-time collaborator and fellow Irishman James Mather - and the Dubliner displays none of the apprehension an outsider might expect at letting their ‘baby’ out into the world. |
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Five Minutes With... ‘The Dark Knight’ VFX Artist Ciaran Crowley |
19 Apr 2012 | Few Irish visual effects artists boast a CV as impressive as that of Dublin-native Ciaran Crowley. Over the past decade, his list of film and TV credits reads like a roll-call of some of the most visually impressive movies of the last 10 years.
From ‘Inception’ to ‘Iron Man 2’, through to ‘2012’, ‘Batman Begins’, ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’, Crowley has had a hand in ensuring that some of the biggest blockbusters of recent memory have arrived on cinema screens with visual effects that can pack a punch as equally as they seamlessly integrate into the background of a director’s overall vision.
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Tea with Jam Media, IFTN Visits 'Roy' HQ |
| 06 Jan 2012 | Jam Media produces live action and animated children series ‘Roy’, about a cartoon boy living in the real world which begins airing its second series to CBBC on Monday 9th January at 5.15pm. IFTN took a trip down to Jam Media in Kevin Street, Dublin to take a look around, see how the post production on the 25 episode new series was going and get a sneak peak at the other projects happening for the two time IFTA award winning Animation Company. |
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Egg Post Production Expands Ahead of Sky 1's 'Sinbad' Arrival |
| 27 Jul 2011 | Dublin-based post-production house Egg talks to IFTN about their recent expansion, a joint venture with Soho-based Aquarium Studios and their upcoming work on Sky’s epic 13x60minute series ‘Sinbad’. |
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Mary Curtis Talks About Ireland's Digital Television Switchover (Interview Q&A) |
| 23 May 2011 | With Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte officially launching Ireland’s SAORVIEW on Thursday, May 26th, IFTN spoke with Mary Curtis, RTÉ’s Director of Digital Switchover to find out about Ireland’s current status with regards to the upcoming 2012 Analogue Terrestrial Television switch off. Appointed to the new senior executive position in July 2010, Mary Curtis’ role gives her full responsibility for an effective transition to digital television using the new Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) system by 2012. |
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Industry Focus: Irish Distribution... Doing it Alone |
| 16 Dec 2010 | The struggles of the independent filmmaker are endless and varied. The discipline required to write a script; the patience required to pull together a cast and crew; the earnestness required to raise funding and see a film through all the way to post-production ensures that making a film is guaranteed months or years of stress and challenges. But now that the masterpiece is complete, what next? In many ways the battle is just beginning. The quality of work is of little consequence if nobody watches it. |
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