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PJ Gallagher’s ‘Trojan Donkey’ Commissioned by Channel 4 |
| 08 May 2013 | PJ Gallagher’s IFTA winning ‘Naked Camera’ has been resurrected by Channel 4 for a UK version of the show - under the new name of ‘Trojan Donkey’ - with five half hour episodes to screen this summer. |
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‘GAA USA’ in Pre-Production with Filming to Start in June |
| 03 May 2013 | ‘GAA USA’ - a new four part series offering a fresh insight into Irish American history and the untold story of the GAA in the US – will starting filming this June, to be aired on TG4 in autumn 2014. |
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Q&A with Malcolm Campbell, IFTA-Winning Writer of ‘What Richard Did’ |
| 03 May 2013 | IFTA-winning screenwriter Malcolm Campbell - honoured at this year’s ceremony with the award for Best Film Script for ‘What Richard Did’ – spoke to IFTN this week about his successful career, past and current projects, and his advice to up-and-coming writers. |
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‘Jack and Ralph Plan a Murder’ in Post Production |
| 02 May 2013 | ‘Jack and Ralph Plan a Murder’ - a new dark comedy set in Dublin in which a bullied office worker joins forces with his imaginary friend to plot revenge against his tormentor - is now in post-production. |
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Creatives in Animation Network Meeting at Filmbase, this 13th May |
| 02 May 2013 | Budding writers and animators are invited to attend the Creatives in Animation Network meeting on Monday 13th May at 7pm in Filmbase, for a networking event aimed at creating collaborative partnerships for future film projects. |
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Jim Sheridan to Direct WWII Baseball Drama ‘Playing with the Enemy’ |
| 02 May 2013 | Jim Sheridan has signed on to direct World War II baseball drama ‘Playing with the Enemy’, based on the true story of an American baseball player, Gene Moore, who taught German prisoners of war in Louisiana to play the beloved US sport during their imprisonment. |
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‘The Street’, Starring Steve Collins, to Start Shooting in Galway this September |
| 01 May 2013 | Former ‘Celtic Warrior’ and Irish boxing champion Steve Collins will return to the public eye to star in new low-budget crime thriller ‘The Street’, which starts filming in Galway this September. |
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‘Scéal na Gaeilge’ Wins Best Factual Entertainment at Celtic Media Festival |
| 01 May 2013 | ‘Scéal na Gaeilge’ - the Story of Irish - the two part IFTA nominated documentary series tracing the journey of the Irish language from biblical times to the present day was named Best Factual Entertainment at this year’s Celtic Media Festival in Swansea. |
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‘Get Up and Go’ with Peter Coonan and Killian Scott to Start Filming this June |
| 01 May 2013 | Following the end of filming of season 4 of Love/Hate next month, two of its biggest stars Peter Coonan and Killian Scott will reunite on the big screen for Fastnet Films’ ‘Get up and Go’. |
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TG4 Commissioning Editor Outlines New Programming |
| 30 Apr 2013 | The announcement of the BAI Sound and Vision II funding marked a major success for TG4 in being awarded the highest sum of €530,000 for new comedy drama series ‘Barney Bunion’. |
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BAI Releases Successful Applicants for Round 17 of Sound and Vision II |
| 30 Apr 2013 | The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has released its latest funding list of successful applicants to the Sound and Vision II scheme – with 23 TV productions awarded funding across RTE, TV3, TG4, UTV, DCTV and CCTV. |
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Ken Loach to film ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ in Leitrim this summer |
| 29 Apr 2013 | The only Irishman ever to be deported by the Irish Government - Jim Gralton, the famous Leitrim socialist - will form the subject of Ken Loach’s new film, set to start filming in Leitrim this summer, with funding by the Irish Film Board. |
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Making the Cut....Career Advice from VFX-artist Keith Brett |
| 26 Apr 2013 | Working on visual effects in the Irish film and TV industry is a competitive world, which requires self-discipline, passion, education and much creativity. However as the digital compositor at one of Dublin’s leading post- production houses Screen Scene Keith Brett outlines below, there is no one way to break into this sector. The company has worked on some of the biggest film and TV titles of the last few years including Ripper Street, Game of Thrones and upcoming sci-fi release Last Days on Mars, starring Liev Schreiber. In another IFTN exclusive, Keith reveals how he came to effects from a science background and the key software needed in becoming a vfx master! |
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Cecelia Ahern’s ‘Love, Rosie’ to shoot in Dublin from May to July |
| 26 Apr 2013 | Irish romantic comedy ‘Love, Rosie’ – based on Cecelia Ahern’s 2004 novel ‘Where Rainbows End’ – will start shooting in Dublin from May to July, with extras wanted aged 17-25 years and older. |
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Director Ciarán Foy’s Horror ‘Citadel’ Wins Best Feature at the Imagine Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival |
| 23 Apr 2013 | Winner of Best Debut at last year’s Galway Film Fleadh, ‘Citadel’ – directed by National Film School of Ireland graduate Ciarán Foy - has been awarded the MovieZone award for best feature at the Imagine Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival. |
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Irish Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Dark By Noon’ Selected for Closing Film of London Sci-Fi Festival |
| 22 Apr 2013 | Time travel science-fiction adventure ‘Dark By Noon’ – filmed in North Dublin on a shoestring budget – has been selected to have its world premiere as the closing film at the International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, Sci-Fi-London, on 6 May. |
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Q&A with ‘Broken Song’ Cinematographer Richard Kendrick |
| 22 Apr 2013 | A beautifully shot black-and-white portrait of three hip-hop artists and street poets, Irish documentary ‘Broken Song’ - directed by Claire Dix - stands as a testament to the power of rap, poetry and song as methods of self-expression.
Cinematographer Richard Kendrick talks to IFTN about his experiences shooting the documentary - balancing darkness and light on the streets of North Dublin. |
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Irish Horror ‘Night People’ to Start Filming this June |
| 19 Apr 2013 | Director and producer Gerard Lough will begin principal photography on new horror feature ‘Night People’ this June, based on his own screenplay about high-tech thieves who fall foul of a building with a dark past. |
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Irish Folklore Adaptations to Air on TG4 from 24 April |
| 19 Apr 2013 | TG4’s 'Scéal' development scheme has granted six Irish-speaking writers and directors the opportunity to each adapt a well-known story from Irish language literature or folklore into a contemporary setting with a series of half hour short films, set to screen this April and May. |
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Q&A with UTV’s ‘The Ice Cream Girls’ Art Director Francis Taaffe |
17 Apr 2013 | Art Director Francis Taaffe has enjoyed a long and varied career in the Irish film and TV industry having worked on such productions as Irish sci-fi comedy ‘Earthbound’; partly-animated children’s programme ‘Roy’; and crime drama ‘Corp & Anam’.
Ahead of the first episode of his latest project ‘The Ice Cream Girls’ on UTV this Friday 19 April – an adaptation of author Dorothy Koomson's best-selling novel about teenage friends accused of murdering their schoolteacher - Mr Taaffe spoke to IFTN about his work experiences to date. |
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