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13 Dec 2013 ED 647

Latest Industry News on IFTN.ie

The Irish Film & Television Academy is now accepting entries for the 11th annual Irish Film & Television Awards which will take place in Dublin on 5th April 2014.

Irish feature films 'Calvery' (John Michael McDonagh) and 'Frank' (Lenny Abrahamson) will have their world premieres at indie film festival Sundance in January 2014.

Children’s fantasy adventure ‘The Legend of Longwood’ – about a young girl who moves from New York to a mythical village in Ireland – is currently filming in Dublin & Wicklow, and will be the first Irish film to be converted into 3D in post-production.

British broadcaster Sky have announced their hope to commission and develop more original Irish television for Sky Ireland, in a move that will see the company's channel heads visit Ireland once a month to meet with independent Irish talent and producers.

Screen Training Ireland have announced a new programme designed to give established producers the opportunity to bring their projects to the international stage

In our latest VFX Spotlight, IFTN speak to Jim Duggan, Managing Director of Dublin-based post-production house Screen Scene.

Irish actor Michael Fassbender has been nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his turn as plantation owner Edwin Epps in Steve McQueen's upcoming '12 Year's A Slave', also featuring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Adding to a growing slate of recent overseas sales, Dublin-based Monster Entertainment have secured a string of new deals across Europe, Asia and South America with brand-new animated series 'Tiny Square Critters'.

It’s already set to be a Happy New Year for Dublin-based transmedia company beActive Media, as 2014 will see the Irish release for one feature project and the honouring of another in New York.

Entitled 'Honeycomb - Creative Works', the €4.2m programme will stimulate digital content production across the Republic of Ireland's six border counties, most of Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland.

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan sealed yet another coup for the town of Tralee and its place in the film industry this week as he officially opened the town’s new state of the art National Digital Skills Centre, the final result of €1.5 million government investment.

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