'Director Lenny Abrahamson will helm a film adaptation of ‘Room' - Dublin author Emma Donoghue's best-selling novel about a small boy and his mother living in captivity - with Element's Ed Guiney set to produce.
BAI Chairperson Bob Collins spoke of the Broadcasting Authority's role as State regulator and its willingness to adapt to future change, in a wide-ranging talk before an audience of IFTA members on Tuesday morning.
‘A Thousand Times Goodnight' - an Irish co-production by Newgrange Pictures, supported by the Irish Film Board and partly filmed in Dublin - has won the Grand Prix jury award at the Montreal Film Festival.
Ka-Boom, the Belfast-based post production facility that provides ADR services for high profile productions such as ‘Game of Thrones and ‘The Fall', has expanded its operations to full picture & sound post services for both the North and the Republic of Ireland and the wider international market.
The Junior Galway Film Fleadh are inviting submissions to their sixth annual Script Competition, open to young people between the ages of 10 - 18 years old at primary or secondary school.
‘The Wipers Times', a new World War 1 comedy drama filmed in Northern Ireland and starring former Month Python Michael Palin and actor Ben Chaplin, airs next Wednesday 11th Sep on BBC Two.
IFTN takes a look at three film festivals of Irish interest from around the world - Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Tokyo's Kinder Film Festival and Light House's 'OneTwoOneTwo' music documentary film festival.
