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Screen Ireland Announces Q2 2019 Funding Decisions |
| 01 Aug 2019 | Screen Ireland has announced the successful applicants for funding for the second quarter of 2019. |
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Ann Skelly Cast in HBO Sci-Fi Drama Series ‘The Nevers’ |
| 01 Aug 2019 | The Irish actress was one of 12 additions to the cast of the sci-fi series, which is being run by 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' creator and 'The Avengers' writer/director Joss Whedon. |
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Puffin Rock Movie Enters Production |
| 29 Jul 2019 | Co-owners Cartoon Saloon, Penguin Books and Dog Ears have announced that the acclaimed pre-school children’s brand has been greenlit to begin production on the Puffin Rock Movie. |
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Irish Western Never Grow Old Set for Irish Cinemas Release on August 23rd |
| 29 Jul 2019 | Following its Irish premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh on July 14th, Wildcard Distribution has announced that it will be handling the Irish release of Never Grow Old, on behalf of Altitude Film Distribution this summer. |
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Three Irish Delegates Named among FIN Partners 2019 Spotlight Region Line-Up |
| 26 Jul 2019 | FIN Partners, one of the world’s most established co-production/co-financing markets, has announced the line-up of producers and delegates from the spotlight regions of the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the USA. |
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Northern Ireland Documentary No Stone Unturned Receives Emmy Award Nomination |
| 26 Jul 2019 | The Loughinisland massacre documentary, No Stone Unturned has been nominated for an Emmy Award. |
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Deadline Today for Applications to Virgin Media Discovers |
| 26 Jul 2019 | Virgin Media Discovers judge Birch Hamilton has urged Irish filmmakers to seize the “opportunity of a lifetime”, as the deadline to submit entries into a competition that has already attracted huge interest looms large this Friday (July 26th). |
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Rialto to World Premiere at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival |
| 26 Jul 2019 | Irish film Rialto, based on Mark O’Halloran’s play 'Trade', has been selected for the 76th Venice International Film Festival. |
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Production Gears Up for Stephen Gaffney's fourth feature 'The Profession of Violence' |
| 24 Jul 2019 | Filming is due to begin in August on Gaffney's Irish true crime drama. |
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Northern Ireland Film ‘Ordinary Love’ to have its World Premiere at TIFF |
| 23 Jul 2019 | Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s Ordinary Love will have its world premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. |
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Screen Ireland CEO James Hickey Calls for Streaming Services Tax Levy |
| 23 Jul 2019 | Hickey has asserted that subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) companies, such as Netflix and Amazon, should pay taxes in order to fund Irish-produced screen content. |
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TG4 Canada-Ireland Co-Development Incentives 2019 |
| 23 Jul 2019 | TG4 is welcoming proposals for audio-visual projects, which the broadcaster can support for the up-coming BAI/CMF Canada-Ireland Co-Development Incentive and the Canada-Northern Ireland Co-Development Incentive. |
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Cork’s Production Sector Seeking Government Action to Redress Exclusion from Regional Tax Incentive |
| 22 Jul 2019 | Film In Cork, along with Cork City Council & Cork County Council are calling upon the Government to redress the exclusion of Cork from a new 5% Regional Uplift tax incentive available for four years in Ireland. |
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Element Pictures Appoint New Head of TV Development |
| 18 Jul 2019 | Twice Oscar-nominated production company Element Pictures (Room, The Favourite) have appointed former Channel 4 exec Jonny Richards as the new head of TV development, effective immediately. |
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Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium Secures US Deal with Saban Films |
| 15 Jul 2019 | The US rights to the Irish Sci-Fi thriller starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg have been acquired by Saban Films. |
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TG4 Development Scheme for Young Peoples' Drama Series Announced |
| 10 Jul 2019 | TG4, the BAI, Screen Ireland and the WRAP fund are on the lookout for a brand new Young Peoples’ Drama Series and they are calling on independent production companies to apply to develop and produce such a series for them. |
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Channel 4 and Waddell Media Announce New 20-Part Series |
| 08 Jul 2019 | Waddell Media has been commissioned to produce a new twenty part series, with the working title ‘Work on the Wild Side’, which is expected to air on Channel 4 in Spring 2020. |
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Irish Indie Horror 'The Perished' to World Premiere at FrightFest in London |
| 08 Jul 2019 | Celtic Badger Media, an Irish production company based between Limerick, Clare and Galway, has confirmed that their second feature film, The Perished will world premiere at FrightFest in London on Monday August 26th. |
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Element Distribution to Release 'A Bump Along The Way' on August 30th |
| 04 Jul 2019 | Element Distribution has announced that it will release Shelly Love’s debut feature comedy A Bump along the Way to Irish cinemas on 30th August. |
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GAZA to release across Ireland and UK on 9th August |
| 04 Jul 2019 | The award-winning feature documentary Gaza, directed by Garry Keane (The Deafening, The Writing in the Sky) and award-winning conflict photographer Andrew McConnell is set to be released in cinemas across Ireland and the UK on Friday, 9th August. |
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