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17 Jan 2014 ED 649

Latest Industry News on IFTN.ie

The 86th Academy Awards saw most of its nominations go to ‘American Hustle’ with seven nominations. However, German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender and Dublin rock band U2 are also up for the prestigious awards granted by the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS).

RTÉ‘s ‘Format Farm’ is looking for new cross-genre ideas from independent production sector to pilot on RTÉ One and RTÉ Two this Autumn.

The VFX association of Ireland has been formed with the objective of promoting Ireland nationally and internationally as a centre for excellence, talent and scale in the area of VFX.

Emmy Award winning Production Sound Mixer and two-time IFTA winner, Ronan Hill has received his 3rd consecutive Cinema Audio Society (CAS) nomination for outstanding achievement in sound mixing, for ‘Game of Thrones’ season 3 ‘The Rains of Castamere’.

Bord Scannán na hÉireann the Irish Film Board has announced the projects selected for the ‘Signatures short-film scheme’, now in its seventh round.

Dermot Horan will take over as Director of Production and Acquisitions while Michelle Spillane will become Director of RTÉ Global.

Director Stephen Bradley, ‘Noble’ has a talented cast including Deirdre O'Kane, Brendan Coyle, Liam Cunningham, Ruth Negga, Nhu Quynh Nguyen and Sarah Greene. ‘Noble’ is based on a true story about philanthropist Christina Noble.

The Sundance Film Festival, which takes place in Park City, Utah, will feature the world premieres of Irish films ‘Frank’ and ‘Calvary’.

The next course in Digital Filmmaking offered by Filmbase, is set to commence at the start of February and continue for twelve weeks.

The Creative Media Department in the Institute of Technology, Tralee are holding a national film competition with the Live Life Foundation to help spread Donal's wise words of “Live Life”. Closing date for submissions this year is the January 31st 2014.

The film is about the journey an Irish woman embarks on with a journalist as they search for the child she was forced to give up by a nunnery when she was young. Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star.

‘Amber’, the highly anticipated new drama which airs this Sunday on RTÉ, is directed by Irishman and 2010 IFTA winner Thaddeus O'Sullivan.

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