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Vote for Your Top European Film |
| 02 Sep 2010 | The European Film Academy (EFA) is currently inviting votes for its 2010 People’s Choice Award. The award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film ‘An Education’, ‘Agora’ and ‘Kick Ass’ among the shortlisted titles. |
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Radharc Documentary Deadline Approaches |
| 31 Aug 2010 | Friday, September 10th has been announced as the closing date for entries to the Radharc Awards - presented to the producers of documentaries which address national or international topics of social justice, morality or faith and honour the memory of the late Fr. Joe Dunn. |
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Molodist Film Festival Celebrates Irish Shorts |
| 30 Aug 2010 | A showcase of Irish short films is to be presented at the International Film Festival Molodist in Ukraine which runs until the 31st of August. The Irish films being shown include Steph Green’s Oscar nominated ‘New Boy’, Darren Thornton's ‘Frankie’, Ciaran Foy's ‘The Faeries of Blackheath Woods’, Ken Wardrop's ‘Useless Dog’, ‘Undressing My Mother’ and ‘The Herd’. |
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Graham Linehan ‘In Conversation with…’ IFTA |
| 26 Aug 2010 | The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) is to host an In Conversation With… event today Thursday, August 26th which will centre around the work of Irish writer, director and actor Graham Linehan. |
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Festival Roundup: Queen’s Festival Lineup & Clones Calls for Shorts |
| 26 Aug 2010 | The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s takes place from the 15th to the 30th of October and will see film events running that will look to celebrate the work of Monthy Python, John Lennon and Hong Sangsoo amongst others. Further south the Clones Film Festival is inviting applications from short filmmakers to take part in a short film competition that will run as part of this year’s event. |
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Interview: Niall McKay Talks San Fran Irish Film Fest |
| 26 Aug 2010 | Niall McKay founded the San Francisco Irish Film Festival in 2004. The festival, which takes place this year from the 23rd to the 25th of September, looks to present the best in contemporary Irish cinema, celebrating everything from features to documentaries to Irish language films. IFTN talked to the festival’s founder and filmmaker about the running of the event and the changing face of Irish film. |
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Wilson, O’Conor & Gallagher Enter Filmbase ShortSpace |
| 25 Aug 2010 | Filmbase has announced it will host a new screening night, ShortSpace, on the first Thursday of every month. ShortSpace aims to be a new place for filmmakers and film fans to get together, screen and discuss short films and short filmmaking. |
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Michael Lavelle Shoots Berlinale Campus Short |
| 25 Aug 2010 | Irish filmmaker Michael Lavelle wrapped production on his latest short film on Monday, August 23rd. The short (which is, as of yet, untitled) was chosen as one of only five projects for the final of the Berlin Today Award 2011; the Berlinale Talent Campus’ short film competition. |
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Darklight Festival Unveils Early Highlights |
| 25 Aug 2010 | Dublin’s Darklight Film Festival has announced the participants for the Heroes Edition Guest Programmers for the festival which takes place in October. Festival Director Nicky Gogan has also announced that Lance Weiler will return to the festival this year as Symposium Key Note speaker. Early bird tickets are currently available for the event and participants are being accepted for Tyrell’s ‘My Environment, My Film' workshop and competition event. |
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More Irish Titles Announced for Toronto 2010 |
| 25 Aug 2010 | The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) today announced more projects that will feature in its 2010 event. The festival’s line-up will include screenings of several Irish productions and co-productions including Tom Hall’s ‘Sensation’; Jerzy Skolimowski’s ‘Essential Killing’; Juanita Wilson's 'As If I Am Not There; Dome Karukoski's ‘Lapland Odyssey’ (which will enjoy its world premiere at the event) and the previously announced feature documentary, ‘The Pipe’ from Risteard O'Domhnall. |
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'The Tudors' Celebrate at Creative Arts Emmys |
| 23 Aug 2010 | The final series of ‘The Tudors’ saw wins for two of its four nominations at this year’s Creative Arts Emmys. Joan Bergin and Susan Cave won the prize in the category of Outstanding Costumes for a Series whilst Tom Conroy, Colman Corish and Crispian Sallis took the Outstanding Art Direction for a Single Camera Series prize. The Awards ceremony took place on Saturday, August 21st. |
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Irish Success at Rhode Island Film Festival |
| 20 Aug 2010 | This year’s Rhode Island Film Festival saw many Irish filmmakers walk away as winners: Colin McIvor’s ‘Cup Cake’ was named Best Feature whilst Fastnet Film’s ‘The Chronoscope’ won Best Experimental Film and Conor Horgan’s ‘One Hundred Mornings’ picked up the event’s Vortex Sci-fi and Fantasy Award. |
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'Pyjama Girls' Returns to IFI, Still Films in Spotlight |
| 20 Aug 2010 | ‘Pyjama Girls’, Maya Derrington’s new feature documentary will return to the IFI for an exclusive release today, August 20th. The project looks to capture the ups and downs of working class teenage life behind the enigmatic and subversive statement of wearing pyjamas in public. Still Films’ recent work will be further marked with the world premiere of Paul Rowley’s experimental feature, ‘The Rooms’ and his documentary ‘Seaview’. Finally Tuesday, August 24th will see a ‘Still Films in Conversation’ event take place where all three projects will be discussed. |
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Irish Films Screening at Scandinavian Festivals |
| 19 Aug 2010 | IFTA nominated films are receiving screening selections for events across Europe. Brendan Muldowney’s ‘Savage’ is to screen at festivals in Finland and Sweden whilst ‘His & Hers’, ‘Eamon’ and ‘Nothing Personal’ have all been officially selected to screen at the Norwegian International Film Festival. |
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NI Screen Seek Screenwriters for Fest Sponsorship |
| 16 Aug 2010 | Northern Ireland Screen is sponsoring 10 writers to attend this year’s London Screenwriters' Festival from the 29th to the 31st of October. The event is an opportunity to get access to top names attending the festival and spend a few days networking with other writers, producers and commissioners. Applications are now being received by Northern Ireland Screen for ten full festival passes. |
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‘Horses’ Shortlisted by Grierson Awards |
| 12 Aug 2010 | The feature documentary ‘Horses’, from writer/director Liz Mermin (The Beauty Academy of Kabul, Shot in Bombay), has been shortlisted for the Best Cinema Documentary award at the Grierson Awards which will take place on the 2nd November in London’s BFI Southbank. |
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Irish Screening in the ‘Pipe’-line for Toronto |
| 12 Aug 2010 | The Toronto International Film Festival will this year screen Irish feature documentary ‘The Pipe’ as part of its Real to Reel section. Directed by Risteard O'Domhnall (Shtax: A Homecoming) the doc centres around the Shell to Sea protest. The Toronto festival takes place from the 9th to the 19th of September. |
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Venice Film Festival Decides on ‘Essential Killing’ |
| 12 Aug 2010 | Director, Jerzy Skolimowski (Moonlighting) will see his latest feature, ‘Essential Killing’ compete at this year’s 67th Venice Film Festival for the event’s prestigious Golden Lion. ‘Essential Killing’, which is co-produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures, will have its world premiere screening at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, which takes place from September 1st-11th 2010. |
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‘His & Hers’ Scoops Traverse Film Festival Prize |
| 09 Aug 2010 | Ken Wardrop's IFTA winning feature ‘His & Hers’ has claimed the Best Non-fiction Foreign Jury Award at the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan, which was hosted by founding member and Academy Award winner Michael Moore over the weekend. |
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'One Hundred Mornings' Scoops Distribution Award |
| 29 Jul 2010 | Conor Horgan’s ‘One Hundred Mornings’ has won the inaugural WorkBook Project Discovery and Distribution Award which seeks to highlight an outstanding film that they feel has been overlooked in terms of US distribution. |
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