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IFTA Focus: Northern Ireland |
| 07 Feb 2013 | In a record year for Northern Ireland productions, 17 of the 167 nominations across 41 categories are Northern Ireland Screen-funded projects. This means 17 of the nominated categories are either Northern Irish filmmakers, projects that were filmed in Northern Ireland, or had had Northern Irish cast or crew working on set. |
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Screen Training Ireland Transfers To Irish Film Board |
| 04 Feb 2013 | FÁS Screen Training Ireland (STI), the training resource for the film, television and animation industries, is to transfer to the Irish Film Board from February 2013, it has been announced. |
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Making The Cut… Career Advice From The Art Department |
| 31 Jan 2013 | Working on-set in the art department can be a gruelling and sometimes painstaking process. Productions that seek to build a sense of time or reflect historical accuracy often have extraordinary levels of detail across sets, decoration and props, which require long days and assiduous attention to every square inch of space. |
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Jim Sheridan & David Yates Taking Part In Digital Biscuit Today |
| 25 Jan 2013 | The main event of the Digital Biscuit takes place in Dublin today, with Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan, ‘Harry Potter’ direct David Yates, Brown Bag’s Darragh O’Connell and ‘Punky’ animation creator Lindsay Jane Sedgwick all taking part in events. |
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BAI Sponsors Best Drama Category For 10th IFTA Awards |
| 24 Jan 2013 | The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland will sponsor the Best Drama category at this year’s IFTA Awards, it has been announced. |
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IFTA Focus: Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney |
| 22 Jan 2013 | Martin Scorsese has done it with both Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino with Samuel L Jackson, Tim Burton with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, and Steven Spielberg with Kathleen Kennedy. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice From ‘Albert Nobbs’ Hair Stylist Lorraine Glynn |
| 17 Jan 2013 | Designing hair styles on movie sets often conjures up images of beauty, often making it glamorous work. Hair styling has long contributed to transforming well-known actors and achieving iconic, unforgettable film looks. From Princess Leia’s buns in ‘Star Wars’, to Bo Derek’s cornrows in ‘10’ to Uma Thurman’s bob in ‘Pulp Fiction’, hair styling in films is often overlooked, but is an integral part of the filmmaking process. |
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Irish Filmmakers Selected For Berlinale Co-Production Market |
| 17 Jan 2013 | Three Irish films and their producers have been selected to meet with 450 potential co-production and financing partners at this year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market. |
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National Film School Graduates Nominated For Record 25 IFTA Awards |
| 11 Jan 2013 | The National Film School of IADT has a record number of graduates nominated for IFTA Awards this year. |
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Making the Cut: Career Advice From ‘Ripper Street’ Costume Designer Lorna Marie Mugan |
| 10 Jan 2013 | Costume designer Lorna Marie Mugan is currently leading the international pack of Irish designers who have secured an international reputation on film and TV sets. |
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IFTA 2013 Nominations Announced: ‘Love/Hate’, ‘What Richard Did’, ‘Moone Boy’ & More |
| 09 Jan 2013 | The 2013 IFTA nominations have been announced today, with RTÉ series ‘Love/Hate’ leading the way with 11 nominations. |
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Irish Film & Television Industry Takes In More Than €100m In 2012 |
| 20 Dec 2012 | Over €100m in direct foreign investment was raised by the Irish film and television industry in 2012, the Irish Film Board has announced. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice From Stunt Man Donal O’Farrell |
| 20 Dec 2012 | The exhilarating thrill of overseeing dangerous, often-expensive film stunts is the day-to-day reality of Donal O’Farrell, Ireland’s most accomplished stunt co-ordinator. Having worked in the industry as a stuntman and arranger, Farrell’s CV reads like a veritable checklist of major Irish film productions in the last 20 years. Having worked on the sets of ‘Saving Private Ryan’, ‘Braveheart’, ‘Reign of Fire’ and ‘Ella Enchanted’, O’Farrell has mixed with the crème de la crème of Hollywood on a different level. |
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‘Try For Free’ Workshops At Gaiety School of Acting |
| 19 Dec 2012 | The Gaiety School of Acting is hosting a series of ‘Try For Free’ hour long workshops for adults this coming January. |
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The Production Depot Fills Up On New Stock As Stocking Fillers Become Available |
| 13 Dec 2012 | Wicklow-based equipment suppliers The Production Depot is prepping for a busy 2013 by stocking up on new equipment, and parting ways with some existing cameras. |
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Making the Cut: Career Advice From ‘Love/Hate’ Composer Ray Harman |
| 12 Dec 2012 | Irish composer Ray Harman almost chose the rock star path, spending the 80s and early 90s as the guitarist in Tom Dunne’s band Something Happens, who are known for their hits ‘Parachute’ and ‘Petrol’. |
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Short Film & Festival Round Up |
| 07 Dec 2012 | Irish filmmakers have been making waves internationally again this month, with screenings at Sundance, screenwriter awards and post production updates. Here’s a roundup of the latest Irish short film and festival news. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice From Director Of Photography Suzie Lavelle |
| 07 Dec 2012 | In what is generally regarded to be an industry profession dominated by men, Suzie Lavelle has fought her way to become one of Ireland’s most promising directors of photography. In 2010, she became the first female winner of the Director of Photography IFTA for her work on Conor Horgan’s ‘One Hundred Mornings’ and has since been nominated a second time for Rebecca Daly’s ‘The Other Side of Sleep’. |
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The Production People Wins Big At National Recruitment Federation Awards |
| 05 Dec 2012 | Ireland’s leading TV recruitment agency The Production People picked up the Best in Practice in a Specialism Award at the National Recruitment Federation Awards last week. |
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Digital Cinema World Coming Together For UK Conference In February |
| 05 Dec 2012 | Prominent figures in the digital cinema market are set to address Irish and UK filmmakers at the Digital Cinema Conference, which takes place in London in February. |
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