The Irish Film Board has announced the successful applicants for development, production and distribution funding for the first quarter of this year, with a total of just over €4.2M allocated. The most significant sum of this round goes to writer/director Carmel Winters under the production loan category in the form of €600,000.
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One of the events being held in the lead up to the festival gave children aged 8-12 the chance to take part in a masterclass in TV presenting.
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The new service will be launched before the end of the year and will serve as RTÉ's multi-channel television and video platform, designed to accommodate the behaviour of Irish audiences, regarding both televised and online content.
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Production Coordinator Sinéad Barry is set to tutor the two-day course beginning Saturday May 13th 2017 in Troy Studios, Limerick, which is priced at €80. Screen Training Ireland are running the training initiative which is aimed at for trainees, assistant co-ordinators, PA's to creatives, or those seeking an entry level role in film production.
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Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University is inviting short film submissions ranging from twelve to fifteen minutes in length on the topic of the Irish famine for young audiences, aged between ten and thirteen.
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The 23 year old Irish actress from Carlow has been cast to play the historical role of Mary Stuart in the upcoming 'Mary Queen of Scots' film to be directed by Josie Rourke (Much Ado About Nothing) with Irish award winning cinematographer Seamus Mc Garvey (Nocturnal Animals) also on board.
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The young talent who was cast in the role last year leads the cast as Anne Shirley, the little orphaned girl whose big personality takes centre stage in the 1890s drama. Anne injects life into the lives of aging siblings Marilla and Matthew Cubert, to whom she is accidentally sent.
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HBO the American premium cable and satellite television network owned by Time Warner is partnering up with European pay TV operator Sky to launch a $250m co-production scheme to develop high-end drama.
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The 13th century epic filmed in the West of Ireland stars Tom Holland, Richard Armitage (Brain on Fire) and Jon Bernthal, and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last Sunday, April 23rd to a fantastic response.
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Beginning today, Monday April 24th, the second season of IFTA award winning Irish drama 'An Klondike' (aka Dominion Creek) by Abú Media will be available to U.S. audiences on Emmy® nominated streaming service Acorn TV.
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Element Pictures Distribution will release the second feature project from the Irish talent this coming Friday, which stars Julia Garner, Jake Weary, Nick Roux and Anna Friel.
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The feature length project deals with the 1882 murder of a family in Mám Trasna, followed by the wrongful hanging and conviction of those accused. It is based on the Seán Ó Cuirreáin publication, 'Éagóir'.
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The event runs as part of the MoJoCon mobile journalism conference taking place in Galway and running from May 4th-6th. Smartphone Filmmakers is one of six MoJoCon fringe events and will look at the possibilities for filmmakers to create content solely on a smartphone.

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The BBC this week announced the launch of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967. Dublin actor Andrew Scott familiar to fans of mystery drama 'Sherlock' is one of the Irish names noted to feature within the line up of new content and programmes scheduled.
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A new Irish language programme 'Turas Bóthair', is bringing together all those chit-chat car conversations to the camera. Viewers of the new 6-part series produced by Waddell Media Teo for TG4 will get an insight into the everyday conversations which take place in various car journeys.
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Sarah Hone will tutor the eight-evening course, with fifteen years experience in acting and casting which has taken her from touring Japan for Disney to working as a casting assistant on 'Mad Max: Fury Road' in Australia.
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The seminar is offered free of charge with the support of the BAI Sectoral Learning and Development Fund, and runs on Monday May 29th in Galway. Bernfeld will speak on how rights holders can maximize revenues and negotiate with the plethora of platforms that now exist, with particular focus on opportunities that exist beyond the "usual suspects".
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The thirtieth edition of the festival which is set to run from November 17th-26th with the Light In Motion competition open to filmmakers, in the categories of Best Irish Short, Best International Short and Best Animation.
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