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IFTA to host panel event - Working in Development – Skills in Focus |
| 19 Feb 2021 | The event takes place 2pm-3:30 pm online on Thursday, February 25th and is presented in association with Screen Skills Ireland. |
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Colin Farrell added to Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival line-up |
| 19 Feb 2021 | Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival has announced a host of new additions to the programme, including an intimate conversation with award winning actor and global star Colin Farrell and Festival Director Gráinne Humphreys. |
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Netflix's original series Fate: The Winx Saga will return to Ireland for a second season |
| 19 Feb 2021 | Netflix has renewed Fate: The Winx Saga for season two with production set to begin later this year in Ireland. |
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Treasa O'Brien's Town Of Strangers to open exclusively on IFI@Home on March 19th |
| 19 Feb 2021 | Town of Strangers by award-winning Irish filmmaker Treasa O’Brien will open exclusively on IFI@Home platform from March 19th, 2021. |
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Northern Irish drama Bloodlands airs on BBC One from Sunday 21st February |
| 18 Feb 2021 | The new BBC One series, which is set in Northern Ireland and supported by Northern Ireland Screen, is Executive Produced by Jed Mercurio, the mastermind behind ‘Line of Duty’ and ‘Bodyguard’. |
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TV accounts for 13% of Irish language content new BAI Report finds |
| 18 Feb 2021 | In a recent report, which studied programme data and recordings from broadcasters for a specific week in October 2019, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) found that from a total of 718.93 hours of Irish / bilingual programming broadcast, only 13% of the total minutage featured on TV, with radio accounting for the remaining 87%. |
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EFP opens applications for this year's Producers on the Move |
| 18 Feb 2021 | Each year, 20 promising, up-and-coming producers from throughout Europe are selected to participate in Producers on the Move; 444 producers in total over its 21 years. |
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Lenny Abrahamson to direct Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends adaptation; Irish newcomer Alison Oliver named among cast |
| 17 Feb 2021 | Element Pictures (The Favourite, Room, The Lobster) has revealed the highly anticipated casting for the BBC Three and Hulu TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut literary sensation, Conversations With Friends. |
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Apple TV reveals autumn launch date for flagship original series, Foundation |
| 17 Feb 2021 | Apple TV+ has revealed that their adaptation of Foundation, Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-fi novels, which stars Jared Harris will release in autumn 2021. |
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New multi-annual output deals and a spring commissioning round announced by TG4 |
| 17 Feb 2021 | At its annual producers information day, the Irish language Broadcaster announced that it is looking for submissions from the independent production sector for new multi-annual output deals. |
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"Filmmaking is always a step into the unknown. The stakes are just a little higher now;" Conor McMahon & Ruth Treacy discuss Let the Wrong One In |
| 16 Feb 2021 | We caught up with writer/director Conor McMahon and producer Ruth Treacy to find out more about the journey of their comedy-horror, Let The Wrong One In, which navigated its way through COVID to film in September, and is currently in post with ambitions for a theatrical release later this year. |
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Ridley Scott’s Life In a Day 2020 features first Irish submission from director Ann-Marie Brennan |
| 16 Feb 2021 | An Irish director has been selected to be part of the Ridley Scott produced documentary film, Life in a Day 2020. |
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Sruth, a new series about Traditional Music, is set to air on TG4 and BBC Alba |
| 15 Feb 2021 | Sruth is a definitive four-part series about traditional music in the here and now, which is set to air on Sunday, 21st February at 9.30pm on TG4 and BBC Alba. |
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Atlantic Formats rolls out original Irish formats across the globe; deals struck for National Treasures |
| 15 Feb 2021 | Newly established specialist distributor Atlantic Formats have secured multi-territory deals for Irish TV formats National Treasures (RTÉ) and Revealing Recipes (TG4). |
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Dundalk Institute of Technology reveals Training Partnership with Blackmagic Design |
| 15 Feb 2021 | The Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) has announced a new Training Partnership with Blackmagic Design. |
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Short film submissions open ahead of 33rd Galway Film Fleadh |
| 12 Feb 2021 | The Galway Film Fleadh is now accepting short film submissions for its 2021 edition. |
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Northern Irish feature film ‘Here Before’ selected for 28th SXSW Film Festival |
| 12 Feb 2021 | The feature debut from Northern Ireland writer/director Stacey Gregg, ‘Here Before’ has been selected to screen as part of the Narrative Feature Competition at the online edition of the SXSW Film Festival which runs from 16-21st March. |
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BAI allocates €646,000 through Sectoral Learning & Development and Sponsorship programmes for 2021 |
| 12 Feb 2021 | The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has announced details of 2021 funding allocations under its Sectoral Learning & Development programme and its Sponsorship Scheme. |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on The Run now available to watch on Netflix ‘as Gaeilge’ |
| 11 Feb 2021 | ‘Spongebob an Scannán: Rith, Spúinse, Rith’ created by Macalla Teo, with the support of TG4 and Paramount Pictures, is the first Irish language version of a movie on the international streaming giant. |
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"I believe that if you have a chance to make a film... you must take it as it may not come around again"; IFTA Best Film winner Brian J. Falconer talks to IFTN |
| 10 Feb 2021 | We spoke to IFTA and BAFTA-winning producer Brian J. Falconer who topped off 2020 with the IFTA Best Film award for Northern Irish drama, Ordinary Love. |
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