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Applications now open for the 2025 NTA First Credit Short Film Scheme and NTA Short Film Fund |
| 17 Dec 2024 | The National Talent Academy for Film & Television Drama (NTAFT) and National Talent Academy for Animation (NTAA) together with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland have announced that applications are now open for two short film funding initiatives for both live-action and animation projects, which will run from Mid 2025 to January 2026. |
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Éanna Hardwicke and Eddie Marsan to star in new Irish thriller No Ordinary Heist |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Actors Eddie Marsan (Back To Black, Happy Go Lucky) and Éanna Hardwicke (Lakelands, The Sixth Commandment) are set to lead the cast of No Ordinary Heist, a gripping new Irish thriller inspired by the largest cash heist in UK and Irish history. |
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Four short animated films funded and selected for Ireland’s pavilion in Expo 2025 Osaka |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Screen Ireland, in partnership with Animation Ireland and the National Talent Academy for Animation, has announced the four successful recipients of the Osaka Expo 2025 Short Film Fund. |
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Applications open this December for Fastnet Film Festival's €25,000 Puttnam Script Award |
| 12 Nov 2024 | This year’s Puttnam Script Award will open its application on Sunday, December 1st. |
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Channel 5 commissions crime drama The Puzzle Lady; filming underway in Northern Ireland |
| 23 Oct 2024 | The brand-new crime drama (6x60’), commissioned by Channel 5 and produced by Factual Fiction & December Films, with additional funding coming from Northern Ireland Screen. |
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RTÉ commissions The Traitors Ireland; Kite Entertainment to produce Emmy-winning format |
| 14 Oct 2024 | RTÉ has confirmed that it has commissioned Traitors Ireland, an Irish iteration of the Emmy and BAFTA-winning Dutch Reality Series that has enthralled audiences across the world including award-winning versions in the UK, US and the Netherlands. |
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Coimisiún na Meán launches new €300,000 round of Sponsorship Scheme for media sector events and activities |
| 09 Oct 2024 | Coimisiún na Méan has launched a new funding round under its Sponsorship Scheme. Up to €300,000 in total is being made available to support a range of media-related events and activities for the forthcoming year in 2025. |
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Budget 2025: Increases to Arts Council, Screen Ireland, and extension of Basic Income Scheme |
| 03 Oct 2024 | The Department for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media has outlined further details of the distribution of the €1,271,989,000 in funding allocated to the Department in Budget 2025, which is said to see increases across all areas with a total 6% rise across the Department. |
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Budget 2025: 8% uplift under Section 481 and more supports for film sector |
| 01 Oct 2024 | Minister for Finance Jack Chambers TD has announced the introduction of an 8% uplift under the section 481 film tax credit, aimed at supporting feature film production in Ireland. The Minister has also recognised the future growth potential of the Irish VFX sector. |
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Irish delegation travels to Los Angeles for trade mission promoting Ireland's VFX & Post sector |
| 25 Sep 2024 | An Irish delegation, including Minister Peter Burke (T.D.), Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, and the IDA, have partnered on a trade mission to Los Angeles. |
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Creative Europe Monthly Round-Up – September |
| 24 Sep 2024 | IFTN brings you a round-up of Creative Europe’s key updates including the five Irish companies confirmed for MEDIA Slate Funding, the DocCelerator Galway taking place this October, and the Creative Europe 2025 Annual Work Programme |
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RTÉ reports net deficit of €9.1m in 2023; declining TV Licence revenue and increases in operating costs listed as contributing factors |
| 17 Sep 2024 | RTÉ Annual Report for 2023 has confirmed a net deficit of €9.1m for the national broadcaster that named a decline in the TV Licence revenue, increase in operating costs, and the broadcast of several special events as contributing factors to a “challenging year for the organisation”. |
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Virgin Media TV accepting Entertainment and Factual proposals for Sound & Vision Fund |
| 05 Sep 2024 | Virgin Media Television are currently accepting Entertainment and Factual proposals for Round 55 of the Sound & Vision fund. |
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Kneecap crosses €1m mark at Irish Box Office |
| 30 Aug 2024 | Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap has crossed the €1 million mark at the Box Office across the island of Ireland, and is officially the top grossing Irish film of the year. |
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Screen Ireland launching new Perspectives scheme this September |
| 19 Aug 2024 | Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to announce the launch of an upcoming filmmaking scheme, Perspectives: a new pilot programme to support the development and production of lower budget Irish feature films. |
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Recipient organisations announced for Screen Ireland's 2024 Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme |
| 01 Aug 2024 | Funding worth over €1 million has been awarded to 27 organisations to deliver a wide range of high-quality skills development initiatives and activities for the Irish screen sector. |
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Tourism Ireland opens call for International Programming Ireland Fund 2024 |
| 26 Jul 2024 | Tourism Ireland has opened applications for Round 3 of its 2024 International Programming Ireland Fund, to be submitted by 3pm GMT on Tuesday 10 September 2024. |
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Minister Martin confirms Government agreement on funding of RTÉ and Public Service Media |
| 24 Jul 2024 | The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, TD, has announced that Government has agreed multi-annual public funding for RTÉ which, through a combination of an improved TV licence system and Exchequer support, will ensure that RTÉ is supported to deliver on its Statement of Strategy. |
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€725m public funding plan for RTÉ to be signed off on by Cabinet |
| 24 Jul 2024 | At its final meeting this morning before the summer recess, the Cabinet will sign off on a new funding proposal for RTÉ, which is expected to retain the TV Licence fee. |
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Government look to agree RTÉ funding deal that will be mixture of exchequer funding and TV licence fee |
| 18 Jul 2024 | RTÉ looks set to have a new blended funding model put forward by Government, which will rely on a mixture of the current TV Licence and a “multi-annual” payment provided by the exchequer, as the proposal prepares to go to Cabinet next Wednesday. |
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