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Set Report: Cast & Crew Of ‘Ripper Street’ Talk To IFTN |
| 19 Dec 2012 | If you had been driving down Con Colbert Road in Dublin this summer, or were a passenger on a train through Heuston Station, you would never have suspected that just a stone’s throw away, gruesome murders, arrests, and activities involving brothel madams, were taking place. |
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Making the Cut: Career Advice From ‘Love/Hate’ Composer Ray Harman |
| 12 Dec 2012 | Irish composer Ray Harman almost chose the rock star path, spending the 80s and early 90s as the guitarist in Tom Dunne’s band Something Happens, who are known for their hits ‘Parachute’ and ‘Petrol’. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice From Director Of Photography Suzie Lavelle |
| 07 Dec 2012 | In what is generally regarded to be an industry profession dominated by men, Suzie Lavelle has fought her way to become one of Ireland’s most promising directors of photography. In 2010, she became the first female winner of the Director of Photography IFTA for her work on Conor Horgan’s ‘One Hundred Mornings’ and has since been nominated a second time for Rebecca Daly’s ‘The Other Side of Sleep’. |
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Five Minutes With… Kirsten Sheridan On How She Played ‘Dollhouse’ |
| 06 Dec 2012 | Earning an Academy Award nomination for your first feature film screenplay should make your confidence in filmmaking soar so much you never endeavour to do anything else. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice From Casting Director Louise Kiely |
| 29 Nov 2012 | Louise Kiely has built her reputation as one of Ireland’s leading casting directors. This year alone she has cast a number of up-and-coming Irish actors in successful films, including Jack Reynor in the critically acclaimed ‘What Richard Did’, as well as the upcoming BBC series ‘Quirke’, which has just added three new characters, ‘Ripper Street’ which wrapped production in Dublin last July, and ‘The Sea’ which is currently in post-production in Dublin. |
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Director Ian Fitzgibbon On Bringing ‘Death of a Superhero’ To Life |
| 27 Nov 2012 | When director Ian Fitzgibbon first boarded ‘Death of a Superhero’, the film script was in “development hell” as he puts it, as so many film adaptations of successful novels are. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice from Production Designer Mark Geraghty |
| 23 Nov 2012 | From the cobbles of Dublin city to Hollywood movie sets, Mark Geraghty’s career as a production designer has taken him all over the world. |
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Foyle Film Festival Continues To Flow After 25 Years |
| 21 Nov 2012 | Being scheduled at the latter end of the Irish festival season is proving to be the silver lining for the Foyle Film Festival’s 25th anniversary celebrations. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice from ‘What Richard Did’ Editor Nathan Nugent |
| 15 Nov 2012 | IFTA-nominated editor Nathan Nugent has worked across a plethora of film and TV projects, including the IFTA Award-winning feature ‘As If I Am Not There’ and Lenny Abrahamson’s internationally acclaimed feature film ‘What Richard Did’. |
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Five Minutes With... 'Secret State' Star Gabriel Byrne |
| 07 Nov 2012 | Irish actor Gabriel Byrne discusses his political project ‘Secret State’ ahead of its air date on Channel 4 tonight at 10pm. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice From…‘Game of Thrones’ Sound Recordist Ronan Hill |
| 07 Nov 2012 | Emmy Award winner and two-time IFTA winner, Ronan Hill is one of the most in-demand production sound mixers and sound recordists working in Ireland. |
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Set Report: Gleeson & Co Are Blessed With Irish Locations for 'Calvary' |
| 31 Oct 2012 | It may be a typically dull and dreary day in north Co Dublin but the small, seaside town of Rush is alive with activity. In off the main street four or five heavy duty lorries are parked beside a number of trailers and temporary dressing rooms. |
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Masters Series Interview: ‘Skyfall’s Roger Deakins - The Man With The Golden Light |
| 25 Oct 2012 | It’s easy to see why Roger Deakins is often considered the finest cinematographer of all time. Revered in the movie industry, a glance at the nine-time Oscar nominee’s filmography reveals a master whose camera has, more often than not, been behind some of the most iconic moving images of the past 20 years. |
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Five Minutes With… ‘Stitches’ Director Conor McMahon |
| 25 Oct 2012 | Having an extreme interest in the undead may seem a little peculiar to some. But if you’re making a living out of not only creating stories surrounding the undead, but laughing at them at the same time, it’s easy to see the appeal. |
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Set Report: New Series Of ‘Love/Hate’ Filming in Dublin |
22 Oct 2012 | As ‘Love/Hate’ gets set to wrap filming on its much-anticipated third season tomorrow (May 11), IFTN visits the set of the IFTA winning RTÉ series on-location in Dublin.
Look at a full gallery of images on the set of 'Love/Hate' here. |
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Interview: Five Minutes With… Susan Jane Picken – Head of Queens Film Theatre |
| 19 Oct 2012 | From humble origins in 1961, the Belfast Festival marks its 50th festival today with a host of events getting underway until November 4. |
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Studio Spotlight: Nemeton’s HD Haven |
| 18 Oct 2012 | There’s a lot to be said for getting out of the big city. Most television producers and film-makers will tell you that. Asked earlier this month about starting work on his Brendan Gleeson-starring feature ‘Calvary’, filmmaker John Michael McDonagh could hardly contain his delight to be heading for Sligo to shoot a feature “that seeks to escape from the tiresome, rarefied confines of Dublin 4”. |
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INTERVIEW: ‘What You See On Television With Gay Byrne, Is Pretty Much Gay Byrne’ |
| 09 Oct 2012 | Having begun his career in television more than 50 years ago, first as a presenter in the UK with Granada (where he became the first person to introduce The Beatles on television), and then as the host of ‘The Late Late Show’ on RTÉ, Gay Byrne shows no sign of slowing down at the ripe age of 78. |
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Set Visit: TV3’s ‘Ireland AM’ Becomes Number One For Breakfast |
| 09 Oct 2012 | On the currently cramped set of ‘Ireland AM’, presenters Mark Cagney and Sinead Desmond’s eyes light up when they discuss the prospect of introducing new segments to the breakfast show. |
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Interview: What Lenny Abrahamson and Jack Reynor Did |
| 04 Oct 2012 | There are few Irish directors working today whose name commands the same currency as that of Lenny Abrahamson. |
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