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MEDIA Film Discussion at Cork Film Fest |
| 22 Oct 2009 | The Corona Cork Film Festival, in association with MEDIA Desk Ireland, is co-ordinating a guided discussion at this year's festival which will give participants who are active in the Irish media the opportunity to discuss film production. The event will be held in University College Cork, on Friday, November 6th from 2.30pm to 5pm. |
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Foyle Film Festival Highlights Unveiled |
| 20 Oct 2009 | The 22nd Foyle Film Festival (20 – 28 November), this year celebrating ‘Art & The Cinema’, will officially launch its full programme of screenings and events today, Tuesday 20 October, in the Nerve Centre, Derry. |
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Hinds, Hubbard & Blundell For Cinemagic Masterclasses |
| 19 Oct 2009 | The Coca-Cola Cinemagic Film and Television Festival for Young People is seeking young people aged 16-25 to participate in their ‘Talent Lab’ and Masterclass series - covering topics such as screen fighting, casting, makeup, production, acting and screenwriting amongst others. |
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FAS Screen Training Ireland Questionnaire |
| 16 Oct 2009 | FSTI is seeking responses to training and upskilling issues and wider concerns regarding the economic downturn in order to identify the key short- to medium-term training needs for the sector. |
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Irish Participants at Équinoxe Screenwriting Workshop |
| 15 Oct 2009 | Irish screenwriters Brian Ó Tiomáin and Shane Grealy Perez have been chosen as part of a group of nine European writers to attend the latest Equinoxe screenwriting workshop currently being held in Elmau, Bavaria in Germany. |
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Temple, Schwizgebel & Tscherkassky for Cork Fest |
| 14 Oct 2009 | The Corona Cork Film Festival, which takes place from November 1-8, has confirmed the attendance of documentary director Julien Temple (Glastonbury, Vigo – Passion for Life), Swiss animator Georges Schwizgebel (The Man with No Shadow) and Austrian helmer Peter Tscherkassky at this year’s event. |
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Andrew Legge Selected For Cannes Cinefondation |
| 14 Oct 2009 | Irish writer/director Andrew Legge (The Chronoscope, The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish) is one of six filmmakers who have been chosen from a group of 170 applicants to participate in the 19th edition of the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation Residence. |
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TG4 Launch Irish Drama Adaptation Scheme |
| 08 Oct 2009 | TG4 has announced details of their latest development scheme, Údar, which offers talented new Irish-language writers/directors the opportunity to adapt a well-known original Irish language literary work for television. |
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FÁS & Loopline Film Announce Documentary Workshop |
| 07 Oct 2009 | Loopline Film and Fás Screen Training Ireland will be running a Feature Documentary Workshop in mid November and early December of 2009, looking at the challenges for documentary filmmakers in today’s world. Film makers from around the world are being invited to come to Dublin to give master-classes on their work and offer mentoring to the 10 Irish-based documentary maker participants of the workshop. |
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Panel for MEDIA Desk Info Session Announced |
| 06 Oct 2009 | The panel for the forthcoming MEDIA Desk Information session has been announced. The session is aimed at audiovisual professionals - emerging talent within the film, television and digital media sectors (particularly emerging producers, writers and writer/directors). |
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10th Darklight Festival Begins This Week |
| 06 Oct 2009 | The Darklight Festival returns this year on Thursday, 8 October, for a special tenth anniversary festival which will again celebrate art, film and technology in Dublin but will also feature special events to mark the festival’s tenth anniversary. |
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Final TV Training Workshop of 2009 at Bil Keating Centre |
| 06 Oct 2009 | The Bil Keating Centre is inviting applications to its course in Television Production, Direction and Presentation, taking place from November 2009. |
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MacLaverty & Johnston at Adaptation Film Weekend |
| 05 Oct 2009 | Cinema North West will present the 5th Annual Adaptation Film Weekend from 9 - 11 October in Dromohair, Co. Leitrim, with screenings of various projects adapted from the work of Bernard MacLaverty and Jennifer Johnston. Both writers will attend weekend events and discuss their work in a public interview. |
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19th Cinemagic Film Festival Launches |
| 25 Sep 2009 | IFTA winning actors Ciarán Hinds (Veronica Guerin, Munich) and Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) are two of the many award winning guests who are set to attend the 19th Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People. The festival has launched its annual programme that includes more than 100 film screenings and over 50 different workshops, competitions, masterclasses and other film related events. |
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FÁS Screen Training Ireland Bursary |
| 24 Sep 2009 | FÁS Screen Training Ireland’s bursary looks to continue Ireland’s exemplary skills in the media industry in allowing for training of professionals in film, television, animation and digital media. |
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NFS Students Victorious at ENGAGE Workshop |
| 24 Sep 2009 | The final pitching session which brought to a close the 2009 ENGAGE co-production workshop in Helsinki lead to success for former students of the National Film School at IADT in Dun Laoghaire. |
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STI Inviting Bursary and Work Placement Applications |
| 11 Sep 2009 | FÁS Screen Training Ireland is seeking applications from suitable applicants for its Bursary Award scheme and Work Placement Scheme. There is funding available to end 2009. |
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‘Dragon’s Den’ Gallagher Speaking at MEDIA Breakfast |
10 Sep 2009 | MEDIA Desk Ireland is hosting the MEDIA Industry Breakfast this month.
CEO of Smarthomes, entrepeneur and ‘Dragon’s Den’ Investor, Sean Gallagher will be the guest speaker for the inaugural Breakfast. |
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FÁS Screen Training Ireland Seeks Script Editors |
| 10 Sep 2009 | FÁS Screen Training Ireland is seeking two script editing participants for its Story Development for Film & Television course. These two participants will work with the writers on the course, under the tutelage of Valery Ryan, who has worked as a script editor on such shows as ‘Cracker’ and ‘Prime Suspect’, and leads the two courses for script editors run by BBC Training. |
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Darklight Festival Celebrates a Decade of Screening |
| 08 Sep 2009 | Darklight, the annual festival which sees the screening of Irish and international independent digital films, has once again returned. The Festival's 10th Anniversary will be marked by some special events taking place in Dublin’s Smithfield district from 8 – 11 October. |
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