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Screen Training Ireland Transfers To Irish Film Board
04 Feb 2013 : By Eva Hall
James Hickey and Paul O'Toole
FÁS Screen Training Ireland (STI), the training resource for the film, television and animation industries, is to transfer to the Irish Film Board from February 2013, it has been announced.

Following the impending closure of FÁS, which will be replaced by a new organisation called SOLAS, STI will now form part of the IFB’s development programme.

The admin budget and personnel of STI will transfer from FÁS to the IFB, following an agreement between the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The IFB already provided the budget for STI courses and bursary awards.

The core function of STI will remain in place and the unit will continue to deliver training courses and bursary awards to the audio-visual industry, according to the IFB. STI’s current staff will also remain in place.

Following the announcement that FÁS will no longer be in operation by the end of the year, Paul O’Toole, director general of FÁS, said: “The innovative training programmes developed and provided by Screen Training Ireland over the past number of years have played a key role in the development of the audio visual industry in Ireland and FÁS is proud to have played its part in this. I am delighted that this key training and development resource for the screen sectors will continue under the auspices of the Irish Film Board.”

Screen Training Ireland’s mission, in co-operation with national and international industry partners, is to provide excellence in continuing training for professionals in film, television, animation and digital media.

Last year, the training body’s work included partnering with the Galway Film Centre on its Irish TV Seminar and its Nordic Noir Masterclass, which saw ‘Game of Thrones’ screenwriter Bryan Cogman and ‘The Bridge’ creator Hans Rosenfeldt give public interviews and workshops.

James Hickey, the chief executive of the IFB, said: “The future growth of the Irish film television and animation industries is dependent upon a highly skilled workforce. We are part of a competitive global industry where technology is changing the audio visual workplace at an incredibly fast pace. It is vital for the industry to have an on-going training resource which is dedicated to assessing skills shortages in the industry and designing courses and opportunities for practitioners to fill those gaps.”



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