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European Co-Production Award – Prix EURIMAGES for Ed Guiney |
17 Nov 2014 | This year’s European Co-Production Award – Prix EURIMAGES, an award acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry, goes to Irish producer Ed Guiney. |
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IADT Host Television Drama and Crime Fiction Symposium this November |
17 Nov 2014 | The Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) Television Drama and Crime Fiction Symposium presented by National Film School & Department of Humanities & Arts Management will bring academics, practitioners and policy-makers together to provide a forum for an engaged and timely debate from diverse perspectives on television drama in Ireland in the 21st century. |
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59th Cork Film Festival Draws to a Close |
17 Nov 2014 | The winning films of the Grand Prix Irish Award and Grand Prix International Award at the Cork Film Festival will be eligible for consideration in the Live Action Short Film or Animated Short Film categories of the Academy Awards. The news was announced last night at the closing gala, as the festival has this very week achieved the status of Academy Awards qualifying festival. |
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'Standby's Brian Gleeson |
14 Nov 2014 | Brian Gleeson is the leading man, opposite Jessica Paré, in Rob and Ronan Burke's 'Standby', out this weekend. |
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Ardmore Studios Calls on Government To Provide €15m Infrastructure Fund to Support Growth in Audio-visual Industry |
14 Nov 2014 | Siún Ní Raghallaigh, Chief Executive of Ardmore Studios, has stated that while Ireland’s film and TV production industry are poised to gain substantially from the benefits of the newly enhanced film tax credit scheme (Section 481), desired growth is hindered by the lack of sufficient studio space and facilities to enable these benefits to materialise. |
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'Standby' Interview |
14 Nov 2014 | ‘Standby’ follows the story of down-on-his-luck Alan (Brian Gleeson), who lives with his bartender dad and works with his mother as a part-time tourist advisor at Dublin Airport. One fateful day at work, he comes face to face with first love Alice (Jessica Paré), who is stuck on standby for a flight home to New York. Seizing his chance, Alan convinces a reluctant Alice to stay one more night in Dublin. They spend an unforgettable evening together in Ireland’s city capital. |
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Interview with Aisling Franciosi – Star of ‘The Fall’ |
14 Nov 2014 | Best known for playing babysitter Katie - teenage temptress to suburban serial killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) in the Belfast-set drama ‘The Fall’ – actress Aisling Franciosi has indelibly started her career off on a high. |
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The Lowe Down - Andrew Lowe talks Ripper Street |
14 Nov 2014 | Brought back from the dead by Amazon, Ripper Street’s third series debuts tonight. Here, producer Andrew Lowe talks to IFTN's Paul Byrne about the rescue, the reasons, and the road ahead... |
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Ripper Street Streams on Amazon from Today |
14 Nov 2014 | The new series of Tiger Aspect and Lookout Point’s period crime drama ‘Ripper Street’ will stream on Amazon Prime Instant Video from tonight, launching with an exciting double bill. |
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‘All Black Na hEireann’ (Ireland’s All Black) airs at 9.30pm on the 16th of November on TG4 |
14 Nov 2014 | Filmed in Ireland and New Zealand 'All Black na hEireann' (Ireland’s All Black) airs at 9.30pm on the 16th of November on TG4. |
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59th Cork Film Festival Concludes on November 16th |
14 Nov 2014 | Cork Film Festival will conclude on Sunday, November 16th with screenings of films such as 'Jimi: All Is by My Side', 'The Homesman' and an exclusive screening of Disney's latest film 'Big Hero 6'. |
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Theme of Foyle Film Festival’s Industry Conference is ‘from Shorts to Features’ |
14 Nov 2014 | Northern Ireland’s only Oscar-affiliated film festival, the Foyle Film Festival's first industry conference, in association with Honeycomb - Creative Works, will allow filmmakers who have made short films to learn how to go about making that first feature film and how to get it shown. |
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‘Let Us Prey’ Wins More Awards |
14 Nov 2014 | Irish horror film ‘Let Us Prey’ has won the Audience Award at the Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei in Barcelona, Spain. In recent weeks, the feature also won the Audience Choice Award for Best Music at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival for Steve Lynch's music. |
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New RTÉ Current Affairs Television Series ‘Claire Byrne Live’ To Air in January |
13 Nov 2014 | RTÉ have announced that ‘Claire Byrne Live’, a brand new hour-long current affairs programme, will broadcast on Monday nights at 10.30pm from January on RTÉ One and RTÉ News Now. |
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UTV Ireland appoints Mary Regan as Political Editor |
13 Nov 2014 | UTV Ireland has announced the appointment of Mary Regan as Political Editor. She joins UTV Ireland from the Irish Examiner, where she spent eight years reporting on the front line of Irish and international politics. |
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ITV Commissions Irish Company Big Mountain Productions Travel Series |
13 Nov 2014 | Northern Irish presenter Christine Bleakley is to front a six-part travel series for ITV from Irish production company Big Mountain Productions. |
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‘The Man Who Shot The Great War’ To Air On BBC One NI On November 17th |
13 Nov 2014 | A new BBC Northern Ireland film, ‘The Man Who Shot The Great War’, will air on BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday, November 17th at 9pm. |
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IFTN Speaks to John Kelleher – Producer of ‘The Guarantee’ |
12 Nov 2014 | A producer could be forgiven for passing on the potential powder-keg project of ‘The Guarantee’, with memories of that fateful night in 2008 still in the minds of many people still feeling the effects in Ireland. |
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Curzon’s On-Demand Service To Present Season Of Irish Films From November 14th |
12 Nov 2014 | Curzon’s on demand service will present a season of acclaimed Irish films including the award winning titles ‘Parked’ and ‘Waveriders’, starting from Friday, November 14th in partnership with Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB). |
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Live Music Show ‘Other Voices’ Returns to Dingle Next Month For 13th Year |
12 Nov 2014 | Back for its 13th season, the Church of St. James’ will open its doors to ‘Other Voices’ on Friday 12th, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December. Presented by actor Aiden Gillen (‘Love/Hate, ‘Game Of Thrones’), ‘Other Voices’ every year attracts an expanding array of artists from across the musical spectrum to perform at this intimate musical event which is transmitted worldwide online and as a television series. |
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