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Six participants and host studios announced for SSI Animation, VFX & Games Graduate Traineeship 2021 |
| 21 May 2021 | Screen Skills Ireland and Animation Skillnet has announced the Animation, VFX & Games Graduate Traineeship participants and host studios for the 2021 programme. |
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Upper limit of Section 481 tax incentive seen as “barrier" to Ireland securing large-scale international productions, new report finds |
| 29 Apr 2021 | Troy Studios and Ardmore Studios CEO Elaine Geraghty believes that the upper limit of €70 million on the Irish Section 481 tax incentive is acting as “a barrier” to Ireland securing “large-scale international productions”. |
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Oscars 2021: Wolfwalkers misses out to Pixar's Soul; Nomadland wins Best Picture |
| 26 Apr 2021 | Irish animation Wolfwalkers was pipped to the Best Animated Feature award at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night. |
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Cartoon Saloon picks up six Annie Awards; Wolfwalkers and Soul big winners |
| 19 Apr 2021 | Cartoon Saloon’s Apple Original Film Wolfwalkers has won five awards at this year’s Annie Awards in the US, with the Kilkenny based animation studio also picking another award in the Best Sponsored category. |
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Wolfwalkers leads Irish Animation Awards nominees as event goes virtual |
| 14 Apr 2021 | The biennial awards ceremony from Animation Ireland, which will take place virtually for the first time on Friday, May 21st, has announced its nominees for the 2021 Irish Animation Awards. |
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Animation Ireland appointed to lead Screen Ireland's Talent Development Academy for Animation |
| 09 Apr 2021 | Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland has appointed Animation Ireland as the lead organisation to manage the establishment of a Talent Development Academy for Animation. |
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Animation Skillnet and Screen Skills Ireland open Animation, VFX, and Games Graduate Traineeship 2021 |
| 23 Mar 2021 | Animation Skillnet and Screen Skills Ireland are currently seeking applicants for the next iteration of the hugely successful graduate Traineeship Programme for Animation, VFX and Games, which is supported by Skillnet Ireland under the Skills Connect Programme. |
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Wolfwalkers nominated for Best Animated Film at the 93rd Academy Awards |
| 15 Mar 2021 | Cartoon Saloon’s Wolfwalkers has been nominated for Best Animated Feature at this years’ upcoming Oscars ceremony, which takes place on April 25th. |
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Wolfwalkers named among three films nominated for EFA Young Audience Award 2021 |
| 10 Mar 2021 | Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s animated feature Wolfwalkers has been selected alongside Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio, and Johanne Helgeland’s The Crossing for this year’s EFA Young Audience Award. |
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Cartoon Saloon's Apple Original Film Wolfwalkers earns 10 Annie Award nominations |
| 04 Mar 2021 | Following on from its nomination at the Golden Globes, Wolfwalkers has earned 10 nominations, including Best Animated Feature – Independent, at this year’s Annie Awards. |
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Wolfwalkers' Will Collins to write new animated feature; Peter Dinklage to produce |
| 10 Feb 2021 | Irish writer Will Collins (Song of the Sea; Wolfwalkers) is to script a new animated feature called This Was Our Pact, based on a graphic novel of the same name. |
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Entries are now open for the 2021 Irish Animation Awards |
| 22 Jan 2021 | The 2021 Irish Animation Awards has been announced and Animation Ireland has called on studios to submit their entries before the deadline of Friday, January 29th. |
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Screen Skills Ireland launch Lunchtime Talk Series, ‘WolfWalkers: The Exhibition’ |
| 15 Jan 2021 | Screen Skills Ireland have announced they are supporting a series of online talks exploring the inspiration and creation of Cartoon Saloon’s latest film WolfWalkers. |
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Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart discuss Wolfwalkers |
| 21 Dec 2020 | We caught up with the directors behind Cartoon Saloon’s Wolfwalkers, Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart to find out more about the intricacies involved in developing and creating an animated feature film, their approach as co-directors, what animation can teach live-action filmmakers, and the influence of Wes Anderson on the Cartoon Saloon family. |
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Screen Ireland seeks input for Screen Industry Key Stakeholders Survey |
| 17 Dec 2020 | Screen Ireland want to hear from the people who make up the Irish film, television, and animation industry in all its forms – from directors, writers, producers, actors, crew, and industry stakeholders. |
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TV premiere of heart-warming kids' film about grief ends 2020 Winter Solstice on TG4 |
| 16 Dec 2020 | An inspiring film about a little boy’s journey through grief, Sol premieres in the UK and Republic of Ireland on the darkest night of the year, Winter Solstice, this Monday, December 21st. |
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10 brand new commissioned Christmas animations to be aired on RTÉjr and RTÉ Player |
| 14 Dec 2020 | RTÉ has revealed Shorts Yule Love, a series of 10 animated shorts from Irish animation companies all over the country, airing daily, from today, on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. |
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Minister Martin publishes the finalised General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill |
| 10 Dec 2020 | The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, T.D., has published the finalised General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill. |
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Wolfwalkers tops Irish Box Office following reopening of cinemas |
| 07 Dec 2020 | Cartoon Saloon’s animated feature Wolfwalkers has charted as the No. 1 film at the Irish box office this weekend and placed 3rd overall in UK/Ireland. |
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Irish animated co-production Two by Two: Overboard! releases in Irish cinemas from December 4th |
| 04 Dec 2020 | Entertainment One has confirmed that second instalment of Irish co-production Two by Two: Overboard! will be released only in cinemas from December 4th. |
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