| CREW | Luke McManus Selected for Channel 4's Coming Up Scheme | |
Irish director Luke McManus (Psych Ward) has been selected to take part in Channel 4's Coming Up scheme. The scheme offers a platform to emerging writers and directors to produce a season of original half hour dramas, which will be shown on Channel 4.
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| INTERVIEW | Producers Dominic Wright & Jacqueline Kerrin Making Ripples | |
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| PRODUCTION | Cillian Murphy & Tim Roth Star in Mark O'Rowe Scripted Feature 'Broken' Shooting 17 Oct | |
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| CASTING | 'The Voice' Ireland Coaches Unveiled - Kian Egan, Sharon Corr, Brian Kennedy & Niall Breslin | |
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| REP BODIES | Cork Screen Commission Launching Nov 11 | |
The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, will officially launch the Cork Screen Commission (CSC), Cork's one-stop film shop, on November 11th during the Cork Film Festival.
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- The Times BFI 55th London Film Festival
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- TV Production, Direction & Presentation Evening-Course at Park Studio |
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- The Three Musketeers in 3D (E1 Entertainment)
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- Gillian Reynolds Casting - Intern-Casting Assistant-Administrator
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Saturday, 15th October Sunday, 16th October 16.00 - Four Live (Daily Mon-Fri) - RTÉ One 16.50 - The Daily Show (Daily Mon-Fri) - RTÉ One 17.30 - Sing - RTÉ Two 18.00 - XposÉ - (Daily Mon-Fri) TV3 19.00 - Nationwide (Mon, Wed) - RTÉ One 19.30 - Amhráin is Ansa Liom - TG4 19.30 - RTÉ Sport on Two: MNS - RTÉ Two 20.00 - Thar Sáile - TG4 20.30 - Kitchen Hero - RTÉ One 20.30 - GAA 2011 - TG4 21.00 - The Apprentice - TV3 21.30 - Threesome - Comedy Central 21.30 - Republic Of Telly - RTÉ One 21.35 - Pension Shock: The Future is Now - RTÉ One 22.20 - Baz's Extreme Worlds - RTÉ One 22.35 - The Frontline - RTÉ One 23.00 - Tonight On Vincent Browne (Daily Mon-Fri) - TV3 23.35 - One to One - RTÉ One 23.40 - Idir Mná - TG4
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| FINANCE | Ten Projects Shortlisted for 2011 Filmbase/RTÉ Short Film Award |
| Ten projects have been shortlisted for the first round of the Filmbase/RTÉ Short Film Awards in 2011. The projects were chosen from over 300 applications battling it out for just two final funding awards. Each team will now be invited to interview at Filmbase to determine who will be awarded funding through the scheme. more |
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| CASTING | Steve McQueen & Michael Fassbender Together Again for '12 Years a Slave' |
| Irish actor Michael Fassbender is to reunite with helmer McQueen for '12 Years a Slave'. Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men, American Gangster) will join Fassbender in the feature which tells the true story of Solomon Northrup, a New York citizen who was kidnapped in Washington in 1841 and sold to a cotton plantation in Louisiana, where he was enslaved for over a decade, before being rescued in 1853. McQueen co-wrote the script for '12 Years a Slave' with John Ridley (U Turn). more |
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| TRAINING | DARE2BDRINKAWARE Launch 2012 Student Comp |
| DARE2BDRINKAWARE.ie today launched their student film and multimedia competition, with this year's theme focusing on the increase in home drinking and the impact this trend has on student life. more |
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| PRODUCTION | HeadsUp Movie Awards seeks Mental Health Shorts
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| The inaugural HeadsUp Movie Awards seek 'mini-moves' around mental health stories with €2,500 cash prize up for grabs. more |
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| LEGAL | Competition Authority Forces End to 'Share Deals' for RTÉ |
| The Competition Authority have ruled that RTÉ can no longer give discounts to television advertisers based on their total budget committed to the state broadcaster. more |
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| LEGAL | RTÉ Reject TV3 Claims as "False and Misleading" |
| RTÉ have rejected claims from commercial broadcaster TV3 as "blatantly inaccurate", saying no finding of anti-competitive behaviour has been made against RTÉ. more |
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| FESTIVALS | Irish Docs 'Broken Tail' & 'Obama' Scoop International Honours |
| Crossing the Line Films internationally acclaimed tiger documentary 'Broken Tail' has won a hat-trick of awards at the world's leading Wildlife Film Festival - Jackson Hole in Wyoming USA, including the Grand Teton Award. more |
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| FESTIVALS | Junior Fleadh Seeks Story Pitches |
| The Junior Galway Film Fleadh are inviting submissions to their fourth annual Story Pitching Competition, open to young people between the ages of 13 -18. more |
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| CASTING | Brendan Gleeson Joins Robert Redford's 'The Company You Keep' |
| Brendan Gleeson has joined the ensemble cast on Robert Redford's latest 'The Company You Keep'. The Irish actor joins an impressive and mammoth cast including Redford himself in the lead role, Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air, Twilight) & Terrence Howard (Crash, Iron Man). more |
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| FESTIVALS | Shorts Screening at Filmbase Best of the West 2011 |
| Filmbase are to screen award winning shorts from the Galway Film Fleadh at Best of the West 2011. The special screening will held in the Screen Cinema at 6.30pm on Thursday October 20th. more |
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| TRAINING | Acting Bootcamp Scheduled for Dublin |
| The Dublin Central School of Acting launch intensive weekend bootcamp 5th and 6th of November. The intensive course will begin with an audition technique workshop with Casting Director Gillian Reynolds on Saturday morning, which will be followed by a hands-on workshop with demonstrations on Script, Character, Acting for Screen and Stage and improvisation with Bern Deegan. more |
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| BROADCAST | Sixteen South's 'Pajanimals' U.S. Premiere |
| US network Sprout is to premiere Sixteen South Television's 'Pajanimals' tonight, Monday October 10th at 8.00pm ET. Co-produced by Sprout, The Jim Henson Company and Belfast's 'Sixteen South', 'Pajanimals' is a 52x11 pre-school series designed to help parents and caregivers with a bedtime routine. more |
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| BROADCAST | 5.22m Tune in for Ronan Bennett's 'Hidden' |
| Ronan Bennett's 'Hidden' attracted audiences of 5.22m on its opening slot on BBC One at 9pm on Thursday October 6th. The show was the most popular programme on 9pm slot on British Television. more |
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| - 'Getting Air' & 'Hasan Everywhere' Irish Short Film News Update - Triple Win for 'The Guard' at Dinard - TV3 Launch 3Player - Aidan McArdle Returns for 3rd Series of 'Garrow's Law' |
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