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Creative Europe Monthly Roundup - May |
| 22 May 2024 | IFTN brings you a round-up of Creative Europe’s key updates including the Animation Ireland Meitheal summit in Galway, the Docs Ireland 2024 programme and a free webinar for producers. |
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Celtic Media Festival announce full programme, Peter McKenna among speakers |
| 22 May 2024 | Kin showrunner Peter McKenna and Director General of RTÉ Kevin Bakhurst have been announced among the speakers at Celtic Media Festival, taking place from June 4th to 6th. |
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Colm Meaney and Aidan Gillen join Jim Sheridan’s Re-creation |
| 22 May 2024 | Colm Meaney and Aidan Gillen will join Vicky Krieps in the cast of six-time Oscar nominee and IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Jim Sheridan‘s upcoming true crime drama Re-creation. |
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Signature Entertainment acquires Irish/UK rights to Bookworm starring Elijah Wood and Michael Smiley |
| 21 May 2024 | Bookworm, starring Michael Smiley and Elijah Wood, has been acquired for distribution in Ireland and the UK by Signature Entertainment. Nell Fisher, who recently starred in Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, also stars in the film. |
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Nicola Coughlan to star in Love And War, directed by IFTA Winner Lisa Mulcahy |
| 21 May 2024 | Derry Girls actor Nicola Coughlan is set to lead Love And War, a film based on a true story from IFTA-winning director Lisa Mulchay and IFTA-winning screenwriter Elisabeth Gooch. |
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Element Pictures share first clip from September Says ahead of Cannes Premiere |
| 21 May 2024 | Element Pictures have shared a first look at Ariane Labed’s September Says ahead of the film’s world premiere at the 77th Cannes fIlm Festival today, May 21st. |
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Break Out Pictures release official trailer for Mrs Robinson |
| 21 May 2024 | Break Out Pictures have launched the trailer and poster for Mrs Robinson today to celebrate Mary Robinson’s 80th birthday. The film will go on general release across Ireland on August 24th. |
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Element Pictures and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia to begin shooting this July |
| 20 May 2024 | Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos’ adaptation of South Korean film Save the Green Planet, will begin shooting this summer. The film sees Lanthimos teaming up with Element Pictures, Emma Stone, and Jesse Plemons once again. |
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Studiocanal announce Irish & UK acquisition of The Apprentice |
| 16 May 2024 | Studiocanal has today announced the acquisition for Ireland & the UK of The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi’s exploration of Donald Trump’s rise to power in 1980s America. The Apprentice will receive its world premiere in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. |
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Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother wraps filming |
| 16 May 2024 | Jim Jarmusch’s latest project Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits, has wrapped filming. The film is a triptych with the ‘Mother’ section of the film set in Dublin. Blanchett was spotted filming in Stoneybatter earlier this year. |
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Wolfland, starring Pierce Brosnan, launching sales at the Marché du Film |
| 15 May 2024 | The Exchange is launching worldwide sales for Wolfland, a thriller starring Pierce Brosnan and directed by Sean Brosnan, at Cannes’ Marché du Film. |
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Audrey Diwan to direct adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait for Element Pictures |
| 15 May 2024 | Northern Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait will be adapted into a film, marking the first Element Pictures-Wildside co-production. This follows news that Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley will star in a film adaptation of O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet. |
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MUBI acquires Ireland and UK rights to Bird, starring Barry Keoghan |
| 15 May 2024 | MUBI has acquired the Ireland/UK distribution rights to Andrea Arnold’s Bird, starring Barry Keoghan, with Volta Pictures distributing the film in Ireland. |
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First look at Giant, starring Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry |
| 15 May 2024 | A first look image of Pierce Brosnan as boxing trainer Brendan Ingle in Giant has been released. Production is currently taking place in Leeds, England. |
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Cannes 2024: Five Irish films to receive world premieres; Minister Martin to travel with Irish delegation to promote co-pro opportunities |
| 14 May 2024 | Five Irish films will receive their world premiere at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival, between May 14th – 25th, during a fortnight that also sees over 20 Irish projects selling at the festival’s marketplace and an Irish delegation of over 200 industry personnel travelling from Ireland. |
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Cinemagic Film Festival partner with aspiring youth filmmakers in Amman to film independent short, An Olive Branch |
| 13 May 2024 | Cinemagic Film Festival has just wrapped production on ‘An Olive Branch’ with youth participants in the Filmi Programme, in collaboration with filmmakers from Jordan. |
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Salt Films appoints Donal Geraghty as Head of Business Affairs |
| 13 May 2024 | Salt Films has announced the appointment of Donal Geraghty as Head of Business Affairs. Donal Geraghty has over three decades of experience in the film and television Industry. As financial controller and co-producer, he has worked on many international productions. |
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Anthony Boyle to star in Keeper Pictures’ Skintown |
| 13 May 2024 | Northern Irish actor Anthony Boyle is set to star in Skintown, produced by Keeper Pictures, and adapted from Northern Irish author Ciarán McMenamin’s novel of the same name. |
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IADT launches new Postgraduate Master of Arts in Media Narratives + Storytelling |
| 13 May 2024 | IADT have announced that they are now offering a new Postgraduate Master of Arts in Media Narratives + Storytelling from this September. |
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Top Boy, written by Ronan Bennett, wins BAFTA TV Award |
| 13 May 2024 | Top Boy, written by Northern Irish writer Ronan Bennett, won the BAFTA TV Award for Drama Series. The awards ceremony took place at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, May 12th. |
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