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IFTA announces third week of Online Screen Discussion Series |
| 27 May 2021 | The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) has revealed the titles for its third week of Online discussions in the lead up to this year’s IFTA Awards show. |
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RTÉ extends UEFA Champions League rights for 2021-2024 cycle |
| 27 May 2021 | The UEFA Champions League Final and Tuesday night highlights have also been added to live Tuesday night rights held by RTÉ. |
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“No one person could tell this story;” Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy, and Maeve O’Boyle discuss The 8th |
| 25 May 2021 | We spoke with the three directors behind the documentary to find out more about the origins of their collaboration, interweaving a narrative between contemporary and historical materials, and the art of verité filmmaking. |
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IFTA Screen Discussions Series: A Bend in the River – Monday, May 24th (4pm) |
| 24 May 2021 | The insightful IFTA Screen Discussions Series continues this week with Colin Broderick’s semi-autobiographical A Bend In The River kicking things off this week. |
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Reel 2 Reel acquires North American sales rights to Paddy Slattery's Broken Law |
| 24 May 2021 | Irish crime thriller Broken Law has landed a number of distribution sales across the globe according to 101 Films International, the distribution company handling international sales of Paddy Slattery’s debut feature film. |
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Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers picks up top honours at Irish Animation Awards |
| 24 May 2021 | The Oscar-nominated film Wolfwalkers, from Kilkenny studio Cartoon Saloon, was the big winner in this year’s Irish Animation Awards. |
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IFTA Screen Discussions: Wildfire – Friday, May 21st at 2pm |
| 21 May 2021 | IFTA will today, Friday May 21st, present a special online discussion on the making of Wildfire, the debut feature film of Cathy Brady, featuring the brilliant central performances of Nika McGuigan and Nora Jane Noon. |
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Docs Ireland Marketplace: Titles from Margo Harkin and Ross Whitaker among 25 selected projects |
| 21 May 2021 | Docs Ireland has announced the projects for the second edition of the festival’s Marketplace, taking place online this June 17th & 18th, as part of Doc Ireland’s online industry festival. |
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Silver Mountain Distribution launches The Edge of Chaos to the international marketplace |
| 20 May 2021 | Silver Mountain Distribution, the Irish global sales and marketing division of Carey Fitzgerald’s Silver Mountain Productions has announced the launch of Sam Uhlemann’s debut feature film The Edge of Chaos in the international marketplace. |
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Netflix docu-series Sophie: A Murder in West Cork available to stream from June 30th |
| 19 May 2021 | The three-part series is from Oscar-winning producer Simon Chinn under his company banner Lightbox, best known for Searching for Sugarman and Man on Wire. |
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Shane Meadows to make first BBC series with Element Pictures |
| 19 May 2021 | Revered writer/director Shane Meadows will tackle his first ever television drama for the BBC with Ireland’s Oscar-nominated production company Element Pictures. |
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Amazon in talks to acquire MGM Studios in $9 billion takeover |
| 18 May 2021 | Global tech giant Amazon is reported to be preparing a $9 billion (€7.37b) takeover bid of one of Hollywood’s most famous studios, MGM. |
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Virgin Media Television launches new documentary and entertainment initiative |
| 18 May 2021 | As part of Virgin Media Television’s new initiative, the broadcaster is seeking submissions for brand new factual documentary series and exciting factual entertainment formats for the 2022/2023 schedule. |
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Applications now open the 2021 Marketplace at 33rd Galway Film Fleadh |
| 14 May 2021 | Due to continuing international travel restrictions, the Fleadh’s marketplace at the this year’s Galway Film Fair will remain online for this year, after an extremely successful edition in 2020. |
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Virgin, RTÉ, and Six Nations Rugby agree joint proposal in principle for "free-to-air" coverage |
| 10 May 2021 | Six Nations Rugby has confirmed that it has agreed a joint proposal in principle with Virgin Media Television and RTÉ, and has commenced joint long form contract discussions with the Irish broadcasters. |
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Irish talent assembles for Marvel & DC blockbusters |
| 07 May 2021 | Marvel Studios welcomed fans back to the cinemas this week alongside a teaser for Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe(MCU) earlier this week. |
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Galway Film Fleadh announces new dates for Fleadh & Fair: July 20th – 25th |
| 07 May 2021 | The Galway Film Fleadh has revealed that the 33rd edition of the Fleadh & Fair will take place from July 20th – 25th in 2021. |
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Ruth Treacy of Tailored Film selected as Ireland's representative for EFP Producers On The Move |
| 06 May 2021 | Irish producer Ruth Treacy has been selected by Screen Ireland as Ireland’s representative for the latest instalment of the long-standing programme that promotes promising producers and foster international co-productions. |
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Screen Skills Ireland and Screen Skillnet announce Writing A Successful Television Series |
| 04 May 2021 | Screen Skills Ireland and Screen Skillnet are offering Irish storytellers a specially adapted version of Emmanuel Oberg’s online workshop Writing a Successful TV Series. |
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BBC Academy announces Production Unlocked, a free online production training series |
| 29 Apr 2021 | The BBC Academy’s ProductionBBC Unlocked is an exciting new series of free webinars with a focus on production starting in May, that will consist of masterclasses, panel discussions and practical sessions covering a wide range of production topics. |
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