The Irish Film Board has announced the successful applicants for development, production and distribution funding for the final quarter of last year. The largest sum of funding goes to the production of Writer/Director Trish McAdam's 'End of Romance' produced by Fleming Creative
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IFTN caught up with the young Donegal actor Art Parkinson, 'Kubo and the Two Strings', 'Game of Thrones' just before he jetted off to LA for the Annie Awards ceremony on the 4th February.
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The information evening on funding opportunities for short filmmakers in Ireland will take place at Filmbase on Monday 13th from 19:00-20:30 on the significant number of schemes and funds available.
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This company development programme designed for company leaders working in film, television, animation, games, post-production, VFX, facilities, sales, distribution and exhibition. It is suitable for leaders whose companies are going through a period of change or growth, whose company vision and scope needs to be reconsidered or those who are intending to internationalise.
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The call has been issued as part of 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage managed by the European Commission, to keep a database of organisations in the sector informed on activities of the initiative at national and international level. In addition it will work toward identifying a group of thirty participants to take part in a series of meetings.
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The one-day workshop will enable participants to effectively and persuasively pitch film projects. The training will be facilitated by Writer/Director David Keating and will show how to deliver a pitch which is clear, memorable and most likely to generate interest.
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The Irish Film and Television Academy is accepting submissions to its annual ceremony which celebrates the best of Feature Film, Television Drama, Feature Documentary, Live Action Short and Animation projects.
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Creative Europe is gathering public perspectives on the objectives of the programme, the effectiveness of measures taken to achieve them and the efficiency of their implementation in a mid-term evaluation. It also aims to establish the added value of the Programme in relation to the challenges and opportunities of cultural and AV sectors.
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With the return of the IFTA award winning Irish goldrush drama to TG4 on February 1st, IFTN speaks to composer Steve Lynch of Stellar Sound about his experiencing scoring for 'An Klondike'.
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The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has published the most recent broadcasting complaints decisions on Tuesday 31st January 2017. Rejected complaints relating to TV broadcasts include complaints regarding RTÉ One's 'The Rose of Tralee' programme.
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IADT announces the closing date for applications to its new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master of Art in Cinematography is 19th February 2017. The MA is called Viewfinder and brings together three established film schools to offer a joint practice-based programme delivered over two years in three cities.
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Four week-long Summer camps are running in July 2017 from 9:00-17:00 weekdays at St. Joseph's Studios, Waterford Rd, Co. Kilkenny. Applications are welcome for both junior and senior camps, with children grouped from nine to twelve and thirteen to sixteen years old respectively.
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Element Pictures Distribution has announced the feature debut from Darren Thornton will become available from Friday, February 3rd. 'A Date for Mad Mary' also stars Tara Lee (The Fall) and Charleigh Bailey (Genius) and is produced by Juliette Bonass and Ed Guiney.
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The seasoned locations scout received the FilmOffaly bursary award in October 2016 for his short script focusing on the filming of Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' in Ireland in the 1970s. We catch up with the Writer/Director who has recently completed filming the project in the midlands.
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The UK broadcaster Channel 5 has commissioned a second series of ''Wissper' a CGI children's animated comedy drama for 4-7 year olds about animals and their environments. Co-produced by Telegael (Ireland), Absolutely Cuckoo, Discreet Art Productions and M4E.
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