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AirSpeed Telecom’s AirStream Service Flourishes |
| 13 May 2014 | AirSpeed Telecom is a leading provider of high performance telecommunications products and services to enterprise, public sector and SME business. Founded in 2003, the business has built a carrier class network with extensive reach across Ireland and with peering and interconnect arrangements internationally. The firm is dedicated to customer service quality and has expertise in in integrated fibre and licensed wireless (microwave) networking. They provide a full suite of premium quality telecommunications services to businesses in all industry sectors. |
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Emberlight Produces Graphics for ‘The Fear’, ‘The Lie’ and ‘Showrunners’ |
| 13 May 2014 | Emberlight is a post-production company based on Grantham Street in Dublin 8 that specialises in high-end motion graphics for television, film, web and other digital platforms. The firm creates and delivers inventive and attractive visual solutions for corporate and commercial projects, broadcast or online. Emberlight utilises fourteen years of experience and expertise and strives to bring innovation to every project. |
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Adrian Lynch Appointed Channel Controller RTÉ One |
| 12 May 2014 | Adrian Lynch has been appointed Channel Controller of RTÉ One. For the past 11 years, Adrian Lynch has been the Managing Director of one of Ireland’s most successful independent television production companies, Animo Television. The company has produced some of RTÉ One’s most loved and high-profile shows, such as’ Celebrity Bainisteoir’, ‘Secret Millionaire’, ‘Feargal Quinn’s Retail Therapy’ and ‘Ireland’s Fittest Family’. Animo Television has also produced numerous blue chip documentary series such as the IFTA award-winning series on the banking crisis, ‘Freefall – The Night the Banks Failed.’ |
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Media Law Firm and Film Production Company Moves into Derry |
| 29 Apr 2014 | SmithDehn Northern Ireland and Social Construct Media NI, two new international companies, have announced their formation and offices on Artillery Street in Derry. At a launch party in Derry attended by HBO executives, Derry City officials, filmmakers, production companies, and hundreds of other supporters from across the UK, the US, and Ireland, the new companies laid out bold plans for film and television development, financing, production, sales, and legal services. The local hiring process for these companies is already underway in both Northern Ireland and across the border. |
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Big Mountain Productions Shoot in DKIT TV Studio |
| 28 Apr 2014 | Big Mountain Productions, the production company behind successful formats such as ‘Craft Master’ and ‘The Genealogy Roadshow’, recently collaborated with staff and students in the Section of Creative Media in DKIT, shooting a room run for a new entertainment show in the multi-cam HD TV Studio on the DKIT campus. |
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Darklight Festival 2014 to take place April 24-27 |
| 16 Apr 2014 | Darklight is a festival dedicated to independent creativity in Ireland. The four day festival demonstrates new cinematic practises and creative technology, celebrating and encouraging new work and giving a platform to emerging filmmakers and artists. It will take place in Smithfield, Dublin, from April 24th to 27th. |
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Galway Film Centre offers Short Film Script Award |
| 08 Apr 2014 | The Galway Film Centre, in association with RTÉ, has announced its annual competition for the best film script, which will grant two awards of €9500 for the two winners to fund their short films. The competition is now open for 2014, with a few extra conditions added this year. |
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London VFX Firm Nvizible to open Studio in Belfast |
| 02 Apr 2014 | Nvizible, a London visual effects company, intends to expand by launching Nvizible Belfast, to be headed by Victoria Farley. Former Head of Production Kris Wright has been promoted to Managing Director, with Nic Hatch as Chairman, as part of the expansion. Hatch drove the move to Belfast as he “recognised it as an area of growth in the film industry with a shortage of VFX.” |
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Sony Pictures TV launches Production Company in Northern Ireland |
| 20 Mar 2014 | Sony Pictures Television is teaming up with Irish media execs Kieran Doherty and Matt Worthy in the launch of new production company Stellify Media, to be set up in Northern Ireland. The joint venture sees Sony Picture TV’s first move into production in Northern Ireland. Stellify Media is to be based in Belfast, where Doherty and Worthy themselves hail from. |
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Catering North Dublin Offer Flexible, Fresh Dishes to the Irish Film & TV Industry |
| 10 Mar 2014 | Catering North Dublin is a versatile catering company that offers self-service and full service catering, party platters, bar service, dinner menus and desserts. With a range of menus that include barbeques, hot food, cold food, seafood, salads and a lunch menu, Catering North Dublin produces home-made, quality meals using seasonal and local ingredients that can also be adapted for special dietary requirements. |
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Funding Cuts Are ‘Stolen’ Opportunities for Current and Future Filmmakers |
| 04 Mar 2014 | The Cork Film Centre, which is the closing credit in Yvonne Keane’s debut short film ‘Stolen’, is set to face a fatal blow to funding and is expected to cease filmmaking services towards the end of this year. |
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Observe Hosts the 6 Nations in Rome |
| 03 Mar 2014 | Observe Outside Broadcasting has been appointed host broadcaster for Italy's home fixtures in Rome during this seasons RBS 6 Nations Championship. The host broadcaster contract means that the company covered both the Italy VS Scotland match on Saturday 22 February and the Italy VS England match on Saturday 15 March in Rome. |
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‘Game of Thrones’ Sound Mixer Ronan Hill Nominated for CAS Award |
| 15 Jan 2014 | The highly anticipated series returns April 7th on Sky Atlantic HD |
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Cork Institute of Technology Add To Media Programme |
| 16 Dec 2013 | Cork Institute of Technology's Department of Media Communications will launch a new masters course in e-learning, beginning this January 2014. |
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Movecrew completes first European booking |
| 13 Dec 2013 | The newly formed camera & transport company Movecrew, based in Dundalk, completes first European booking |
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ARRI Group Launch AMIRA Camera At Digital Biscuit |
| 12 Dec 2013 | ARRI will launch their latest documentary camera the ARRI AMIRA at Digital Biscuit. |
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National Digital Skills Centre Opens in Tralee |
| 06 Dec 2013 | The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan sealed yet another coup for the town of Tralee and its place in the film industry this week as he officially opened the town’s new state of the art National Digital Skills Centre, the final result of €1.5 million government investment. |
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Industry In Focus: Film Equipment Hire Ireland |
| 03 Dec 2013 | Film Equipment Hire - leading suppliers of cameras and audio gear to the Irish film industry - are in the spotlight this week with a partnership role in ‘Turn It On’, in conjunction with Aerial Filming Ireland. |
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The Factory, Dublin, Launch Cornerstone Initiative |
| 13 Nov 2013 | Dublin-based training institution The Factory will offer five filmmakers the chance to shoot a professional-standard promo for a proposed micro-budget feature film, IFTN has learned. |
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Egg Post Production Announces New Audio Appointments |
| 07 Nov 2013 | Dublin-based Egg Post Production – whose recent credits include ‘Damo & Ivor’ and ‘Earthbound’ – has announced the appointment of two new additions to its audio post production team, IFTA winners Patrick Drummond and Aza Hand. |
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