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Events Diary for July 2014
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Key: Awards Training Festival Deadline Event |
| 1st July - 19th August |
Filmbase - Acting for Film and TV Level 1 with Tom Hall
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This intensive film-acting course is aimed at aspiring and beginners level actors, as well as theatrically trained actors, wanting to make the transition from stage to screen. The course runs over 8 evenings and covers everything from casting, rehearsing, shooting and performance analysis.
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| 2nd July 2014 (2nd deadline) |
European Commission MEDIA Programme - Distribution Selective Scheme
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| 2nd July 2014 |
Deadline for The Next Big (Tax) BREAK - ACE Event at the Galway Film Fleadh (Screen Training Ireland)
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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
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| 4th July 2014 |
European Commission MEDIA Programme - Support for Film Festivals (activities starting between 01/11/14 and 30/04/15)
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| 4th July 2014 |
Deadline for Screen Training Ireland - Masterclass with Roger Frappier in association with Galway Film Fleadh
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An interactive masterclass in the methodology, skill and aesthetics of film producing, conducted by leading producer Roger Frappier, as an advanced training course for Ireland’s emerging professional film producers and directors in order to develop, improve and enhance the skill base in this area.
The masterclass shall take the structure of an in-depth examination of various aspects of the work and the experiences of the producer. The facilitator will probe these areas and also provoke key interactions between the subject and the participants.
Areas being examined may include:
- What is the role of the producer?
- From script to screen
- Relationship with the director
- Relationship with the writer/story editors
- Relationship with cast
- Relationship with editor
- Relationship with composer
This will be demonstrated with the aid of audio-visual support to be selected by the facilitator (director Kiero J Walsh). This will consist of DVD cues and soundtrack cues.
Date: 10/07/2014
Duration: 3.15pm - 6pm
Venue: The Radisson Hotel, Galway
Cost: €50.00
Applications for this masterclass are made throught the Galway Film Fleadh. Please contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
The closing date for applications is: 1pm Friday - the 4th of July 2014
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| 4th July 2014 |
Deadline for Screen Leaders, EAVE & The Galway Film Fleadh present The Creative Producer and the Development Process
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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
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| 5th & 6th July 2014 |
Filmbase - Producing a Low Budget Feature with Conor Barry
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Do you want to know what it takes to produce a low budget Feature Film? This course returns to Filmbase with experienced Producer, Conor Barry (Love Eternal, Savage,). Using successful low budget films as case studies, this course is theory based with some practical exercises. It is the ideal course for first-time Director and Producers of low budget feature films.
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| 5th July 2014 |
Deadline for Screen Training Ireland - Actors Masterclass with Fionnula Flanagan in association with Galway Film Fleadh
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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
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| 8th-13th July 2014 |
26th Galway Film Fleadh
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The Galway Film Fleadh – Ireland’s leading film festival, is a six day international film event held every July and welcomes a mad diversity of filmmaking from around the world. The Fleadh is very much a film lovers’ festival, and attracts directors, actors, cinematographers and artists of all generations and cultural backgrounds. Now in its 26th year, the central goal of the Galway Film Fleadh remains unchanged: to bring together audiences and filmmakers within an intimate environment, and share a common experience – the wonder of cinema. The Fleadh’s diverse audience is made up of the general cinema going public, film buffs, student filmmakers, industry professionals and invited guests.
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| 9th July – 27th August (8 Wednesday evenings) |
Filmbase - Screenwriting for Beginners
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Eight evenings devoted to exploring the ins and outs of scriptwriting, geared towards those with little or no previous experience in the field. Priority is placed on putting a lot of the scary myths of screenwriting to rest and creating a context in which the participants can develop their own project over the duration of the course. People should come along armed with a story idea they’d like to pursue, whether it’s at the “two lines on a scrap of paper” stage or even if they’ve already had a crack at a script.
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| 10th July 2014 |
Screen Training Ireland - Masterclass with Roger Frappier in association with Galway Film Fleadh
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An interactive masterclass in the methodology, skill and aesthetics of film producing, conducted by leading producer Roger Frappier, as an advanced training course for Ireland’s emerging professional film producers and directors in order to develop, improve and enhance the skill base in this area.
The masterclass shall take the structure of an in-depth examination of various aspects of the work and the experiences of the producer. The facilitator will probe these areas and also provoke key interactions between the subject and the participants.
Areas being examined may include:
- What is the role of the producer?
- From script to screen
- Relationship with the director
- Relationship with the writer/story editors
- Relationship with cast
- Relationship with editor
- Relationship with composer
This will be demonstrated with the aid of audio-visual support to be selected by the facilitator (director Kiero J Walsh). This will consist of DVD cues and soundtrack cues.
Date: 10/07/2014
Duration: 3.15pm - 6pm
Venue: The Radisson Hotel, Galway
Cost: €50.00
Applications for this masterclass are made throught the Galway Film Fleadh. Please contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
The closing date for applications is: 1pm Friday - the 4th of July 2014
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| 11th July 2014 |
European Commission MEDIA Programme - Support for Online Distribution
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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.
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| 11th July 2014 |
Screen Training Ireland - Actors Masterclass with Fionnula Flanagan in association with Galway Film Fleadh
Go »
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
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| 11th July 2014 |
The Next Big (Tax) BREAK - ACE Event at the Galway Film Fleadh (Screen Training Ireland)
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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
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| 11th July 2014 |
Screen Leaders, EAVE & The Galway Film Fleadh present The Creative Producer and the Development Process
Go »
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
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| 19th & 20th July 2014 |
Filmbase - Location Sound for TV and Film with Noel Quinn
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From mixers to microphones and cables, there is a lot to consider. Take this hands-on course in which an experienced professional takes you through the basics and guides you through common situations, errors and best practices. As part of the course you will record and review various interview set-ups and scenes. Emmy-nominated Sound Recordist Noel Quinn (Michael Collins, Reign of Fire).
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| 31st July 2014 |
European Commission MEDIA Programme - Distribution - Automatic support (Reinvestement)
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| 31st July 2014 |
ENTER - Training Financiers for the Content Industry
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ENTER Europe is a MEDIA supported training programme for lenders, investors, and financiers to deepen their understanding of lending opportunities, financing needs and risk mitigation for funding the European Creative Industries (CI), with particular attention paid to the audio-visual sectors including film and video games. he course is aimed at European film finance professionals (for example from banks, equity funds, regions, financial intermediaries, co-financiers, private investors, business angels) and it is for capacity-building for financial intermediaries and investors to better utilise the financing tools available for content financing under the new 2014-2020 Framework.
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