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02 May 2014 ED 662

Latest Industry News on IFTN.ie

Steph Green, Ailbhe Keogan & Tamara Anghie speak to IFTN.

Curtis was most recently Director of Digital Switchover with additional responsibility for RTÉ Television’s digital strategy. She was previously Deputy Director for Television Programmes, RTÉ with responsibility for commissioning and programming.

Accountancy firm Mazars and Clancy & Associates has been hired to raise €25m in Section 481 financing for the third series of ‘Vikings’, the History Channel’s hit drama which recently aired its first series on RTÉ Two.

Screentime ShinAwiL is joining forces with former ‘Dragons’ Den’ dragon Sean O’Sullivan and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)’s School of Media to launch MakersTV, a world-first TV format accelerator programme for TV professionals.

The next feature from director-writer Ben Wheatley, known for ‘Kill List’, ‘Sightseers’ and ‘A Field in England’, will shoot in Northern Ireland, including a key location in Bangor. Tom Hiddleston will star as the lead.

The film festival takes place May 21-25 in Schull, Cork.

Entries to the festival’s LIM Awards may apply from today.

‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ will be directed by J.J. Abrams.

SmithDehn Northern Ireland and Social Construct Media have announced their formation.

The symphony orchestra will record the soundtrack for Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Puffin Rock’, starring Chris O’Dowd as the voice of its leading character, and Mixed Bag Media’s new feature film ‘A Nightingale Falling’.

Brown Bag Film’s ‘Peter Rabbit’ has nabbed three wins and five nominations at the Daytime Emmy Nominations.

Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan is set to write and direct a movie about the 1988 Pan Am terrorist bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which left 270 passengers and town residents dead.

From September 11 - 14 in Dun Laoghaire.

‘Let Us Prey’, directed by Brian O’Malley, premiered last weekend at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and walked away with the Méliès d’Argent - best European Fantastic Film.

The deadline for submissions is 8th May 2014.

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