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Friday, March 27, 2009

LATEST NEWS STORIES

LATEST NEWS STORIES

Na Cloigne Heads Into Production


26 Mar 2009
Na Cloigne (The Heads), a new three part Irish language drama for TG4, directed by Robert Quinn (Cre na Cille) and produced by Ciaran O Cofaigh at Galway based production company ROSG, will commence filming this Monday 30th March until 8th May in various locations around Conamara. more

Filming Wraps in NI on Small Island


26 Mar 2009
Filming will wrap this week on Small Island, a new 2 x 90 minute drama produced by Ruby Films for the BBC which has been shooting in Northern Ireland since mid February. The production will move to Jamaica at the end of this week. more
Graham Linehan Up for BAFTA
26 Mar 2009
Graham Linehan's The IT Crowd has received a BAFTA Television Award nomination for Best Situation Comedy. The awards will take place at the Royal Festival Hall on Londons South Bank on Sunday April 26th. more
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 Scripts new video Talk you Down. more
Algar to Head High Point Media Group
25 Mar 2009
Irish Producer and former CEO of the Irish Film Board, Michael Algar, talks to IFTN on his recent appointment as the Director of High Point Media Group, Ireland, the Irish office of independent distribution and sales agency, High Point Media Group. more
Filmbase to Host Podcast Info Session
25 Mar 2009
Filmbase is to host a free info session on Podcasting at 10.30am on Wednesday 1st April at its offices in Temple Bar, Dublin, and will be facilitated by multimedia producer and filmmaker John Callaghan. more
Doc Series Mna na Mara Airs on TG4
24 Mar 2009
Doc series Mna na Mara (Women of the Sea), produced by Open Eye Television in Baile Bhuirne, Co. Cork, began airing last Friday on TG4 and will run for five more weeks until April 24th. more
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. more
Irish Short Film News
24 Mar 2009
Thomas Heffrons The Confession and Brian Durnins Of Best Intentions have been selected to screen in the Tribeca Film Festival. US Festivals in Cleveland and Nashville will also feature a line up of Irish short titles as well as Finsceal Phaidí being selected for Palm Beach International Film Festival. more
Irish Grand Slam and Simpsons Entice Audiences
24 Mar 2009
Irelands Grand Slam victory against Wales last Saturday was watched by an average audience of 945,000 people on RTE Two, whilst the Irish episode of The Simpsons - In the Name of the Grandfather, which premiered on Sky One, on St Patricks Day drew 957,000 viewers across the UK and Ireland. more
Kisses Wins at Miami Fest
24 Mar 2009
Kisses, written and directed by IFTA winning Lance Daly and produced by Fastnet Films, has scooped the Audience Award at Miami International Film Festival. more
TV3 Announce Staff Redundancies and Pay Cuts
23 Mar 2009
Irish broadcaster TV3 has announced cost cutting measures aiming to reduce annual costs of the independent station by 2m euro including redundancies, pay cuts and reduced contractors fees. more

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Latest news from IFTN

Tomm Moore Reveals His Secret of Kells


05 Mar 2009
Marking the second Irish feature length animation to be released in Ireland in the past year, IFTN talks with director Tomm Moore ahead of the release of his lavish debut feature The Secret of Kells. more

Galway Film Fleadh Submissions Deadline


05 Mar 2009
Entry forms for the 21st Galway Film Fleadh taking place from 7th - 12th July 2009 are now available online with the deadline for Feature Submissions on Friday 17th April and the Shorts deadline on Friday 15th May. more
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. more
Jim Sheridan to present Darby O' Gill
05 Mar 2009
Irish classic Darby O Gill and the Little People is to be introduced by Irish director Jim Sheridan (Get Rich or Die Trying, In America, My Left Foot) at the IFI as the Irish Film Archive celebrates St Patricks Day. more
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 Dublins 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. more
Egoboo Creates Theme Music for TV3 News
04 Mar 2009
The new TV3 News Theme Music, which premiered last month as part of the stations 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. more
Kisses Available On DVD
04 Mar 2009
Lance Dalys Kisses, winner of two recent IFTA awards for Best Director and Best Editing, will be available on DVD from Friday March 6th. more
Splanc! Searches for Irish Filmmakers
04 Mar 2009
With preproduction beginning on Splanc! a new documentary series and feature documentary for TG4, the makers of the series, Underground Films and Odyssey Media, are looking for Irish filmmakers to take part in the programme. more
New & Returning Series Air on Irish TV
04 Mar 2009
Factual series Not Enough Hours and Showhouse will return to RTE television this week. The second installment of travel series Welcome to My World will also air as will the episode Irish writer Cecelia Ahern penned for the Golden Globe nominated series Samantha Who? - to broadcast on TG4 this Friday. more
Valley Of Knockanure Short To Shoot in Kerry
04 Mar 2009
Pre-production of the independently produced short film The Valley Of Knockanure to be directed by Gerad Barrett has begun with shooting scheduled for mid-March across various locations in Kerry and Cork. more
Virtual Cinema Film Scheme Recipients Announced
03 Mar 2009
The Irish Film Board and Wildwave have announced the recipients for their new Virtual Cinema short film scheme, with chosen films to showcase at the Darklight Film Festival in October. more
FilmOffaly Offers 8,000 Funding
03 Mar 2009
FilmOffaly is awarding 8,000 as part of its film commission to fund a project that will be filmed on location in the county. All genres of projects are invited to apply before the deadline - Friday April 3rd at 4pm. more

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