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Sky’s Multi-Million Film Deal May Benefit Ireland |
| 05 Apr 2012 | Sky’s announcement that they are to invest heavily in British film, news about this week’s “leaked” Cannes list and Tom Cruise’s rock star debut are amongst the international stories in today’s Daily Bite. |
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UTV’s McCann Wins Media Pioneer Award |
| 05 Apr 2012 | UTV’s John McCann has become the first person to receive the Irish Media Awards’ Media Pioneer Award. |
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BAI launches New Sectoral Learning & Development Policy |
| 05 Apr 2012 | The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) launched the new BAI Sectoral Learning and Development Policy yesterday. The policy outlines a framework by which the broadcasting authority can engage with the broadcasting sector to help indentify its various learning and development needs. |
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‘Celebrity Come Dine With Me’ Ireland returns to TV3 next week |
| 05 Apr 2012 | Celebrity Come Dine With Me Ireland makes its hotly anticipated return to our screens next Monday, 9 April. |
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Fingal Festival Sets 2013 Submission Deadline |
| 05 Apr 2012 | The Fingal Film Festival has set the deadline for submission for next year’s festival at 1 September 2012. Festival organisers are already prepping for 2013 having wrapped up a hugely successful three-day event last week. The festival held master classes for independent filmmakers with some if the industry’s leading experts, from Arthur Lappin (In America/Borstal Boy), who has over 25 years producing experience, to writer and director Aisling Walsh (Song for a Raggy Boy) to cinematographer Ciarán Tanham (Raw) and newcomer Martin McCann (Clash of the Titans). |
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Irish Director’s Debut ‘Modified’ Gets Release Date |
| 05 Apr 2012 | Irish director Paul Cotrulia’s debut feature film ‘Modified’ will be released in Ireland and the UK in September. |
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Five Minutes With… 'Saving The Titanic' Actor Conor MacNeill |
| 05 Apr 2012 | Rising 23-year-old Irish actor Conor MacNeill is set to make a splash this Bank Holiday Monday in IFTA award-winning director Maurice Sweeney’s much-anticipated Titanic film ‘Saving The Titanic’. |
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RTÉ Revisits ‘Hands’ Series, GMarsh Begin Production |
| 05 Apr 2012 | Production has got underway on a follow-up to acclaimed RTÉ craft series, ‘Hands’. GMarsh TV productions are just over one week into a seven-week shoot in various locations across Ireland on ‘In Good Hands’ which will revisit some of the crafts featured in David and Sally Shaw-Smith’s multi-award winning series of 37 documentaries for the State broadcaster. |
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‘Death of a Superhero’ Scoops Fourth International Award |
| 05 Apr 2012 | The German-Irish production ‘Death of a Superhero’ has won its fourth international award. It received the Audience Award and ‘Special Mention’ of the Jury at the Mamer-en-Mars European Film Festival last week. |
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In Memory of Stephen Gamble – RIP |
| 05 Apr 2012 | IFTN and the Irish film and television industry were saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Stephen Gamble, who was well-known in the broadcast and post production world in Ireland and passed away suddenly last month. |
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Ciaran Donnelly and Paul Myler Guests at IFTA Preview of ‘Titanic: Blood and Steel’ |
| 05 Apr 2012 | The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) will host an exclusive preview screening of ‘Titanic: Blood and Steel’ in Dublin, Tuesday 10 April. Special guests on the night, director Ciaran Donnelly and producer Paul Myler, will hold a Q&A afterwards for IFTA Members. |
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‘The Hobbit’s $2.4bn boost for New Zealand |
| 04 Apr 2012 | A look at just how much a big production like ‘The Hobbit’ can make to a small country like New Zealand ranks amongst the international stories in today’s Daily Bite. |
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‘Ripper Street’ Posting at Screen Scene VFX & Egg |
| 04 Apr 2012 | Two Dublin-based post production houses have secured work on upcoming BBC drama ‘Ripper Street’, currently filming in Dublin. |
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BBC's 'Nick Nickleby' to Film in Northern Ireland |
| 04 Apr 2012 | Northern Ireland is the current go-to filming location for international production companies as new BBC drama ‘The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby’ is due to begin filming there in June. |
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RTÉ Axes ‘Prime Time Investigates’ |
| 04 Apr 2012 | Two senior RTE executives have left their current positions with the broadcaster while ‘Prime Time Investigates’ has been axed following a report into the station’s ‘A Mission to Prey’ programme and the Fr Kevin Reynolds libel affair. |
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BAI Backs 24 TV Projects with €4.42m Funding |
| 04 Apr 2012 | The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has awarded a total of €4.42 million to 74 broadcasters and independent producers, it was announced yesterday. 24 television and 50 radio projects were chosen from 163 applications from Round 13 of the Broadcasting Funding Scheme. |
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Liam Neeson In Talks For Airline Thriller |
| 04 Apr 2012 | Irish actor Liam Neeson is reportedly in talks to star in forthcoming US thriller ‘Non-Stop’. |
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Irish feature ‘Songs for Amy’ returns to Galway for Film Fleadh |
| 04 Apr 2012 | Irish feature film ‘Songs for Amy’ has been officially selected for the Galway Film Fleadh in July this year. Making its Irish debut, the comedic love story follows musician Sean O’Malley, played by Sean Maguire (Meet the Spartans), who writes an album in the hopes of impressing the girl he loves. |
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Daily Bite: James Murdoch Resigns From BSkyB |
| 03 Apr 2012 | James Murdoch’s resignation as chairman from BSkyB, cuts to Spain’s subsidies for film production and the first-look at Aaron Sorkin’s return to TV drama are amongst the international stories in today’s Daily Bite. |
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Tyrell Holding Live U Open Day |
| 03 Apr 2012 | Live U’s new portable uplink solutions are to be launched for the first time in Ireland tomorrow with an open day at Tyrell CCT’s Dublin headquarters. |
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