Big Stories on the Small Screen has kicked off its first full workshop week at the Radisson in Dublin on May 30th. Big Stories on the Small Screen is led by IFTA- and BAFTA-winner Neasa Hardiman. Click here to read more »
Sixteen South's 'Lily's Driftwood Bay', the mixed animation children's series, has won the Prix Jeunesse International Award in the 'Up to 6 Fiction' category. Click here to read more »
Screen Training Ireland are to run a Traditional Tailoring for Costume programme with Cutter and Tailor Gillian Carew and costume designer Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh, which will commence on July 9th at the Tailoring Academy, Capel St, Dublin 1. Click here to read more »
The programme guidelines for the Canada-Ireland Co-development Incentive for Audiovisual Projects between the Canada Media Fund (CMF) and the BAI, which were announced in April of this year, are now available on the BAI website. Click here to read more »
Irish talent will be at the fore at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival with 10 Irish films included in the programme which was announced this morning. Click here to read more »
An agreement has been reached to secure the exclusive free-to-air television and multi-platform broadcast rights for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Click here to read more »
Top level Irish and international visual effects practitioners will converge in Dublin next week for visual effects training programme VFX: Script to Screen 2016. Click here to read more »
With Irish film 'Love & Friendship' hitting cinemas on May 27th, IFTN catches up with writer and director Whit Stillman. ‘Love & Friendship’ made its’ premiere at Sundance earlier this year with The Guardian, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter all praising the film. Click here to read more »
Altitude Film Distribution have acquired the UK and Irish rights to Irish thriller 'Tiger Raid', co-written and directed by Simon Dixon. ‘Tiger Raid’, which made its’ premiere at Tribeca earlier this year, is a dark thriller featuring two mercenaries who journey across the desert while undertaking a kidnapping in Iraq. Click here to read more »
'Anthropoid', the new World War II thriller featuring Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy in the lead roles, has been given a US release date of August 12th by distributors Bleecker Street. Click here to read more »
It has been a hell of a year for Irish documentaries; Colm Quinn's 'Mattress Men' and Seán Ó Cualáin's 'Crash and Burn' (both cut by Murphy) are both selected for the 2016 Sheffield Doc/Fest, with 'Mattress Men' screening to extremely positive reviews at Hot Docs in Toronto. Click here to read more »
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