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