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Kerry College announces new screenwriting programme with writer-director Gerard Barrett, and the support of the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) |
| 16 Aug 2023 | Kerry College has announced an all-new Screenwriting programme entitled Content Development for Film & Television, which starts on 25th September. |
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“I wanted a killer hook, something memorable”, director Ian Hunt-Duffy discusses Double Blind |
| 02 Aug 2023 | We caught up with director Ian Hunt-Duffy following his feature film’s Irish premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh. |
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“It was very full-on, as you might expect” director Patricia Kelly and producer Paul Fitzsimons discuss Verdigris |
| 01 Aug 2023 | We caught up with director Patricia Kelly and producer Paul Fitzsimons, following their film’s premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh. |
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Screen Ireland announces Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme recipients 2023 |
| 01 Aug 2023 | Screen Ireland has announced the 21 organisations awarded funding from the fifth round of the Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme to deliver new skills development opportunities and initiatives to address priority areas for the Irish screen sector. Funding worth over €625,000 was awarded. |
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Barbenheimer: Biggest box office weekend in Ireland & the UK since 2019 |
| 27 Jul 2023 | A €21.6m (£18.5m) opening for Barbie and a €12.7m (£10.9m) opening for Oppenheimer have brought the UK-Ireland box office its biggest weekend since the release of Avengers: Endgame in 2019. |
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Poor Things to have World Premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival |
| 26 Jul 2023 | Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film will have its World Premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. The film is a co-production of Searchlight Pictures, Element Pictures, Film4, and TSG Entertainment. |
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12 finalists announced for Virgin Media Discovers 2023 |
| 26 Jul 2023 | Virgin Media Discovers, in partnership with Fís Eireann/Screen Ireland, has announced the 12 finalists for this year’s funding initiative. |
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Two Irish co-productions awarded funding in latest round of UK Global Screen Fund |
| 26 Jul 2023 | Sisters, co-produced by Ed Guiney and Lara Hickey, and Aoife Kelleher’s Justice for Magdalenes are two of the nine international co-productions that have been awarded in the latest funding round of the UK Global Screen Fund. |
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