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Magnolia Takes Rights for ‘The Eclipse’ |
| 05 May 2009 | Having agreed a sales deal with agent Submarine last week at the Tribeca Film Festival, Conor McPherson’s ‘The Eclipse’ has been picked up by distributor Magnolia Pictures. |
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Piranha Bar ‘Designs for Life’ |
| 30 Apr 2009 | Piranha Bar have finished work on the last programme in Stopwatch Television's new architectural series ‘Designs for Life’, which aired on Monday last. The design process for the programme was aided with state of the art computer visualisations created in the Piranha Bar 3D studio. |
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BobbyC TV Posts ‘Model Agent’ |
| 30 Apr 2009 | After the recent success of ‘Masters Apprentice’ (Series 2), with Tyrone Productions, the BobbyC TV team are currently finishing post on Sideline’s 'The Model Agent'. |
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‘Boys of St Columb’s’ Doc Finishes Post |
| 30 Apr 2009 | New feature length documentary, ‘The Boys of St Columb’s’, directed by Tom Collins (Kings) finishes editing this week. The film, which follows the return of remarkable group of boys who went to the school in Derry, is scheduled to screen at summer festivals as well as broadcasting on BBC on 15th August and then on RTÉ in October 5th. |
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The Element Post Gets ‘Arty’ |
| 28 Apr 2009 | The Element Post-Production have recently onlined in HD ‘Arty Farty’ – a 10 x 1 minute animation series produced by Coco Television and animated by Boulder Media, as well as the upcoming New Decade documentary centering on billionaire Chuck Feeney. |
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Production Depot Sees RED |
| 27 Apr 2009 | The Production Depot supplier of Equipment and Services to the Film, Television and Media industry has this week received delivery of yet another RED Camera, bringing the ‘Depot’s fleet of RED Packages up to eight. |
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Boxer Withdraws from DTT Multiplex Contracts |
| 20 Apr 2009 | The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has confirmed the decision of Boxer DTT Limited (‘Boxer’) to withdraw its applications for the three DTT Multiplex Contracts. |
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De Buitléar Sheds Light on Teach Solais |
| 09 Apr 2009 | Irish Cinematographer Cian de Buitléar, talks to IFTN about his lighting facility Teach Solais (Lighthouse), the company’s recent work on Neil Jordan’s ‘Ondine’ and on the big scale production of ‘Leap Year’ currently shooting in Ireland. |
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EGG Goes RED |
| 02 Apr 2009 | With more and more productions adapting with the latest technology, post house EGG has integrated the new Red One Camera into daily life at their facility. |
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Screen Scene Posts Recent Broadcasts |
| 26 Mar 2009 | It has been an eventful past few weeks for post house Screen Scene and outside broadcast Observe team between covering all the St Patrick Day Festivities supplying production and post production services to the to the ‘Meteor Ireland Music Awards’ and creating graphics for The Script’s new video ‘Talk you Down’. |
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Belfast Company Behind Greenest World Premiere |
| 24 Mar 2009 | NI company Switch New Media, a live video streaming company based at Northern Ireland Science Park in Belfast, is celebrating a double success after it helped to set a new world record for the biggest and greenest-ever live simultaneous premiere for new documentary ‘Age of Stupid’ this month. |
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TV3 Announce Staff Redundancies & Pay Cuts |
| 23 Mar 2009 | Irish broadcaster TV3 has announced “cost cutting measures” aiming to reduce annual costs of the independent station by €2m including redundancies, pay cuts and reduced contractors’ fees. |
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Section 481 Cap Increases to €50 million |
| 23 Mar 2009 | Amendments to the Irish film taxation, Section 481, have been approved following the signing of a Commencement Order by Irish Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan. Proposed in the Finance Act 2008 and the Finance (No2) Act 2008, the Commencement Orders were issued after approval had been obtained for the amendments from the European Commission. |
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Windmill Lane Adds Second Baselight System |
| 11 Mar 2009 | A year on from acquiring their first Baselight FOUR system, Dublin post house Windmill Lane has purchased a second Baselight colour grading system. Upcoming features currently being edited at the facility include Neil Jordan’s ‘Ondine’, Conor McPherson’s ‘The Eclipse’ and Ian Fitzgibbon’s ‘Perriers Bounty’. |
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Eurotek Introduces New Editshare System to Design for Life |
| 06 Mar 2009 | Eurotek, supplier of television and film editing equipment, has introduced the new Editshare Central Storage system to video design house, Design for Life. |
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RTÉ Faces €68m Deficit for 2009 |
| 06 Mar 2009 | RTÉ’s director General Cathal Goan has stated that the broadcaster is facing a €68 million shortfall or 15% loss in the total amount of revenue for 2009 which is to result in staff cost cutting measures. |
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Production Depot Launches Camera Workshops |
| 05 Mar 2009 | The Production Depot is running a range of weekend Camera workshops running from April to June. These workshops aim to allow participants to improve their skills base and ensure that the Crew working within the Irish Industry is kept up to date with all the latest formats, cameras, accessories, workflows and practices. |
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Piranha Bar Gets Creative In 2009 |
| 04 Mar 2009 | Having come off an extremely busy year, IFTN catches up with Dave Burke and Marc Long from Dublin's post and graphic boutique, Piranha Bar, to talk recent projects, getting creative with budgets and the challenges that are facing post houses in the current economic climate. |
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Egoboo Creates Theme Music for TV3 News |
| 04 Mar 2009 | The new TV3 News Theme Music, which premièred last month as part of the station’s re-branding, is the latest composition from music composition studio – Egoboo. Greg Malocca from the audio house talks about the Vienna Symphony Library software that was helped create the track. |
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Top Productions Post At Screen Scene |
| 19 Feb 2009 | Three Irish feature films showing at JDIFF, upcoming dramas ‘George Gently’ ‘The Take’ and ‘Rásaí Na Gaillimhe’ as well as news series ‘Dragon’s Den’ are all among some of the high profile projects which have been completed or near completion at Screen Scene’s post production facility. |
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