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| 'Small Engine Repair' Released This Week |
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'Small Engine Repair', writer/director Niall Heery’s debut feature, opens in the IFI this Friday 20 th July. IFTN caught up with the stars of the movie, Iain Glen and Steven Mackintosh, to chat about their time on set in Northern Ireland. more |
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| Irish Director Pics For Toronto Film Festival |
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‘The Brave One’ and ‘Reservation Road’, new features from Irish directors Neil Jordan and Terry George respectively, have been added to the lineup of Special Presentations at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival (6 – 15 September). more |
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| Tim Robbins & Martin Landau Join ‘City of Ember’
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Oscar winning actors Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption); Martin Landau (Ed Wood, North By Northwest); Brit actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) and newcomer Harry Treadaway (Meadowlands) round out the cast for ‘City of Ember’, the $50m feature film currently shooting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. more |
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| ‘32A’ & ‘Teeth’ Scoop Top Gongs At Galway Fest |
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The Galway Film Fleadh came to a close with seven top awards presented in feature, documentary and short categories. Marion Quinn’s ‘32A’ was named Best First Feature and ‘Teeth’, directed by John Kennedy and Ruairi O’Brien, picked up the Best Irish Shorts-Tiernan McBride Award. more |
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| John Carney Inks ‘Town House’ Deal For Fox 2000 |
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‘Once’ director John Carney is set to direct a new comedy feature, entitled ‘Town House’, for major US studio Fox 2000. The Irish helmer is scheduled to shoot the pic in the US in January 2008. more |
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Kim Cattrall Confirmed for ‘My Boy Jack’
Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City, The Tiger’s Tail) is confirmed to star opposite Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig in the ITV movie ‘My Boy Jack’, currently shooting in Ireland. more |
Latest ILBF Funding Decisions Announced
The Irish Language Broadcast Fund (ILBF) has announced its latest round of funding decisions. Children’s and Young People’s programming is a key focus for this commissioning round in addition to four major series in the factual entertainment / lifestyle genre. more |
GAA Final Marks First High-Def TV Broadcast of Sporting Event
The first ever high definition broadcast of an Irish sporting event took place on Sunday 15th July, when the Leinster GAA Final was broadcast to participants taking part in the High Definition Television trial. more |
‘Four Letter Word’ & ‘Bubble’ Bookend GAZE Fest
The 15th Dublin International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, now called GAZE, will open on 2 August with American director Casper Andreas’ ‘A Four Letter Word’, a comedy about modern life in the New York gay scene described by programmers as ‘a gay Sex and the City’. The five day film feast will close with Eytan Fox’s ‘The Bubble’. more |
Brown Bag Films Opens New Studio in Smithfield
Brown Bag Films have opened a new animation studio in Smithfield square. The state of the art studio, designed by Douglas Wallace architects, was opened on Monday 16th July by An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, and is Ireland’s first ever High Definition animation studio.
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Maeve Cooke Appointed access CINEMA Director
access CINEMA, the resource organisation for regional cultural cinema exhibition in Ireland, has appointed Maeve Cooke as its new Director. Maeve takes up her position from July 2007. more
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Wicklow Young Filmmakers Bursaries
Wicklow County Arts Office in association with County Wicklow Film Commission and Wicklow Rural Partnership are looking for young filmmakers born or residing in County Wicklow to submit short films for the Wicklow Young Filmmakers bursaries. more
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Irish Greyhound Board Seeks Tenders for TV Series
The Irish Greyhound Board is inviting tender submissions for the production of a weekly half-hour TV programme 'Greyhound View' which airs on TG4, Setanta and Sky Sports. more
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Irish Actor to Star in New Spoof Horror Movie
Dublin born actor Luke Cameron (Hill 16, A Dying Breed) has been cast in the lead role of Indywood films’ spoof horror movie ‘Invasion of the Not Quiet Dead’, alongside British actor Warwick Davis (Willow, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). more
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- Student’s Award Winning Promo to Screen at Golden Drum
- ‘Ballymun Sequence’ Screening At Galway Arts Festival
- ‘Teeth’ Begins International Film Festival Tour
- Kerry Intl. Festival Re-Brands As Dingle Film Festival
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