The MEDIA Sub-Programme of Creative Europe has launched a new initiative to support Online Distribution via the following mechanisms.

• Action 1: European VOD services aiming at improving the presence, the visibility and the global audience of European audiovisual works;
• Action 2: the assembling and delivering of digital packages facilitating the commercialisation of European audiovisual works on VOD services provided in countries where those works are not available;
• Action 3: projects experimenting with simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous releases of European films on a wide range of distribution platforms (festivals, cinemas, DVD, VOD services, television channels, etc.) and in a number of European territories.

The Actors Masterclass will be hosted by John Hubbard of Hubbard Casting and will provide an intensive interactive environment in the skills, methodology and aesthetics of film acting aimed at actors working or wanting to work more in film. The masterclass will cover such topics as:

• Starting out as an actor
• Dealing with casting directors
• Securing an agent
• Preparing for an audition
• Working on set
• Relationship with the director and many more

Date: 11/07/2014
Duration: 3pm-6pm
Venue: The Radisson Hotel, Glaway
Cost: €50.00

All applications for the Actors Masterclass are made through the Galway Film Fleadh. Please contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
The closing date for applications is: 1pm Friday 5th July 2014

A workshop presented by ACE (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen) and Bord Scannán na hÉireann /the Irish Film Board in association with Screen Training Ireland and the Galway Film Fleadh.

Fifteen European countries now have tax incentives, tax shelters or rebate schemes to support their film production industries, and at least five others are seriously considering introducing them. The schemes exist to provide additional support for national production; and they compete with each other – and with schemes now widely established across the rest of the world – to induce international producers with portable, high-budget film and TV productions to come and shoot locally.

Next year Ireland will launch a new incentive to replace its own Section 481, with a higher yield for producers and new features added. The design of the new scheme is in its final stages.

At this year’s Galway Film Fleadh, the producer-training organisation ACE will hold a round-table discussion which will put the new Irish scheme in its historical context, and assess its competitiveness and compatibility with other such incentives in Europe and beyond. Aimed at producers of all levels of professional experience with a serious interest in both evaluating and availing of the new incentive, this will also be a practical session that sets out how to make the most effective use of rebate schemes generally, individually and in combination.

Tax breaks for film production are nothing new: in the 1970s and 1980s tax-based provisions were devised to support film industries in Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, even the US. Some of these were later discredited and abandoned. Ireland’s incentive, inaugurated in 1993 as Section 35 and later revised as Section 481, ushered in a new wave of schemes based on the rebate-of-expenditure principle, which have been very widely adopted, modified and modernised over the past 20 years.

The round-table will be moderated by Simon Perry, President of ACE, with key contributions provided by professionals with first-hand knowledge of incentive schemes in Germany, the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, as well as by senior colleagues at the Irish Film Board.

How to Apply:
Places are limited and pre-selected please apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie. Deadline for applications: Wednesday the 2nd of July 2014. For further details contact helen.mcmahon@screentrainingireland.ie

Topics to be discussed –

• Sourcing material (original ideas, options, writers with spec scripts etc.)
• Approaching development commissioners
• How to build a slate (and manage it)
• The producer's role in script development
• The art of letting (scripts) go
• The producer’s leading role in project development
• Managing talent relationships - writer, director (and later lead cast)
• How to stay in the picture (and keep hold of the talent)

Tutors:

• Lenny Crooks, Killer Films
• Steen Bille, Film Commission, Danish Film Institute
• Helena Danielsson, Hepp Film International

Participant Profile:
Producers with industry experience.

How to Apply:
Places are limited and pre-selected please apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie. Deadline for applications: Friday 4th of July 2014. For further details contact helen.mcmahon@screentrainingireland.ie