Richard Baneham Wins Visual Effects Title at Oscars
08 Mar 2010
Dublin born animator Richard Baneham and his team last night took home the Oscar for their Visual Effects work on James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ whilst the ceremony’s prestigious Best Picture prize went, for the first time, to a female director - Kathryn Bigelow for ‘The Hurt Locker’. more |
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Tallaght UCI Shuts its Doors
08 Mar 2010
Tallaght’s UCI cinema is to close today, Monday, March 8th following 20 years at The Square and with the loss of over 50 jobs. more |
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BBC Looks North With ‘Amharc Aneas’
08 Mar 2010
’Amharc Aneas’ (View from the South), a four part archive documentary series for BBC Northern Ireland and TG4 starts on Monday, March 8th and takes a look at relations across the border before the time of ‘the troubles’. more |
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TV3 Sees In ‘fyi’ and Sees Out ‘Play TV’
08 Mar 2010
Monday, March 8th will see the launch of ‘fyi’, an alternative information show from TV3 that will show on channel 3e. The series will be complimented by downloads from the web and looks to bring Irish audiences top stories in showbiz and sport in Ireland and around the world. more |
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‘Hell's Pavement’ Lauded at Beloit Festival
08 Mar 2010
Oopic films’ ‘Hells Pavement’ has walked away from the 2010 Beloit International Film Festival with the Josh Burton Award of Excellence following its US premiere at the event. more |
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Kildare Council 2010 Film Bursary
08 Mar 2010
The Kildare County Council Arts Service is currently inviting applications for the Film Bursary Award 2010 from filmmakers living in or originally from County Kildare. Applications are invited from established and emerging filmmakers across all genres to support and encourage original film production. The bursary award is € 2,500 more |
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Dingle Fest Gives RED Technology the Green Light
08 Mar 2010
The Dingle Film Festival will welcome Alan Piper, Operations Director of RED Europe to the first annual Irish RED Users’ Gathering in Dingle on Saturday, March 20th in The Phoenix Cinema. Piper will be showcasing new RED technology and organisers are seeking submissions of RED material for a 4K Irish Show Reel. more |
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Waddell Media Examines ‘Health of the Nation’
08 Mar 2010
Waddell Media’s ‘Health of the Nation’ begins on Wednesday, March 10th and sees Dr Mark Hamilton and new medical expert Dr Nina Byrnes take a pop-up health clinic around Ireland, offering instant diagnoses and tackling major health issues along the way. more |
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Irish Nominees Describe Their Road to the Oscars
05 Mar 2010
In the run up to the 82nd Academy Awards the official Oscars website includes a section where nominees, including our James Flynn (The Door), Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells) and Darragh O’Connell and Nicky Phelan (Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty) have been asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding their road to being an Oscar nominee. more |
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Interview: Richard Baneham Gets Oscar Animated
04 Mar 2010
This coming Sunday many eyes will be on our many Irish Oscar nominees. One such individual is Tallaght man Richard Baneham, nominated for his work on the international box office smash ‘Avatar’. The Ballyfermot College graduate and the man who was also behind the technological breakthrough that was Gollum, recently caught up with IFTN from his LA base. more |
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