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‘The Guard’ Exclusively Available on Volta |
| 27 Jan 2012 | Irish Production Company and Distributors Element Pictures officially launched their video on demand service Volta yesterday with Minister for Arts Heritage and the Gealtacht Jimmy Deenihan TD at the Smock Alley Theatre. |
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‘350 South’ Series Reaches Setanta Sports |
| 27 Jan 2012 | BeActive produced interactive web series ‘350 South; an American Journey’ is to have excerpts from it shown on Setanta Sports twice weekly at various times starting this weekend. |
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Ed Bruce nominated for 'Game of Thrones' Visual Effects Socieity Award |
| 10 Jan 2012 | Screen Scene Visual Effects Supervisor Ed Bruce has been nominated for a Visual Effects Society (VES) award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects, for his work on ‘Game of Thrones’ which was filmed in Northern Ireland late last year. The VES is an organisation which represents visual effects practitioners across film, television, commercials and, music and video games internationally. |
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Tea with Jam Media, IFTN Visits 'Roy' HQ |
| 06 Jan 2012 | Jam Media produces live action and animated children series ‘Roy’, about a cartoon boy living in the real world which begins airing its second series to CBBC on Monday 9th January at 5.15pm. IFTN took a trip down to Jam Media in Kevin Street, Dublin to take a look around, see how the post production on the 25 episode new series was going and get a sneak peak at the other projects happening for the two time IFTA award winning Animation Company. |
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Vote for Buckled Cranium’s ‘Queen’ video for ‘Filmmaker of The Year’ |
| 06 Jan 2012 | ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ the winning music video created by Buckled Cranium, a collection of Irish National Film school (IADT) graduates, which was handpicked by rockers Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen to be the bands latest music video is competing for the talenthouse.com ‘Filmmaker of the Year’ award. |
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Eurotek Wins Major RTÉ Contract |
| 29 Nov 2011 | TransMedia Dynamics (TMD), a company offering solutions and services to the global media, broadcast and archive industries, has partnered with Dublin-based company Eurotek to win a major contract with RTÉ. |
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beActive launch The Digital Comedy Lab |
| 24 Nov 2011 | beActive, an award-winning production company, has announced this week the launch of The Digital Comedy Lab, a project that aims to uncover and develop the very best fresh comedy talent in the UK and Ireland. |
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Sky Entertainment's Stuart Murphy for IFTA TV Lecture |
| 22 Nov 2011 | IFTA has announced that Stuart Murphy, Director of Sky 1HD and Director of Commissioning for Sky Entertainment, will deliver the Irish Academy’s inaugural Annual Television Lecture. Stuart, who joined BSkyB in May 2009, is Director of Sky1HD and Director of Commissioning, Sky Entertainment. He also runs Sky2 and Pick TV. In February of this year he launched Sky Atlantic, a channel which screens US television programmes, including Martin Scorsese’ ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and HBO's 'Game of Thrones'. There is also a commitment from the channel to commission six UK programmes for the channel per year like Paul Abbott’s ‘Hit and Miss’. |
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'Titanic: Blood and Steel' Post Production at Windmill Lane |
| 17 Nov 2011 | Irish post house Windmill Lane have announced they have been commissioned to do picture post production and full VFX for the hugely anticipated international TV drama ‘Titanic Blood and Steel’. |
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Sideline teams up with The Rubberbandits CH4 Blaps |
| 14 Nov 2011 | Sideline has produced three shorts written and preformed by Irish comedy duo The Rubberbandits for a new online initiative for Channel 4 in the UK. |
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IBEC Online Content Industry Seminar |
| 11 Nov 2011 | IBEC, the Irish business and employers association together with Enterprise Ireland will host a one day programme on online business models and the content industry in Ireland. |
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Tyrell CCT aids EGG on ‘Sinbad’ |
| 10 Nov 2011 | Digital solutions provider Tyrell CCT today announced a deal with EGG Post Production to facilitate creative collaborations on several high profile productions including ‘Sinbad’, a joint venture between Sky1, BBC and Impossible Pictures. |
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MGM and Netflix Sign Ireland deal |
| 07 Nov 2011 | MGM Studios has agreed a multi-year licensing agreement with Netflix, to stream its feature films in Ireland and the UK. The multi-year licensing agreement will make Netflix the exclusive subscription streaming service for many first-run films from MGM. |
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TG4 Launches CÚLA4 APP |
| 04 Nov 2011 | TG4 will launch its first Irish language App for Kids at Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2011 in Killarney on Saturday, 5 November. |
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Eurotek & Harmonic to Host Two Day Open House Event |
| 26 Oct 2011 | Eurotek and Harmonic will be holding a two day open house event at the Stillorgan Park Hotel from Tuesday the 1st to Wednesday the 2nd of November. |
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CBeebies 'Baby Jake' Re-commissioned, JAM Media on Board |
| 24 Oct 2011 | CBeebies has commissioned a second series of ‘Baby Jake’, to be animated by Dublin-based JAM Media. The second 26x11 minute pre-school series will follow baby Jake and his six year old brother Isaac who translates Jake’s Baby babble about his adventures with his animal friends Pengy Quin, Sydney the Monkey, Nibbles the Rabbit and the Hamsternauts. The series mixes live action with 2D photographic animation. |
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Interview: Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey on 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' |
| 20 Oct 2011 | Adapted from Lionel Shriver’s bestselling novel, ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ focuses on the horror left with Eva (Tilda Swinton), following the mass murder committed by her psychopathic teenage son, Kevin. Touching on issues of subjectivity and the nature/nurture debate, the story is told to us through Eva’s uneasy eyes. What was written in epistolary form in Shriver’s novel is transposed into visual methods of communication in Lynne Ramsay’s bleak adaptation, removing the need for obvious dialogue. |
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Tyrell Supplies Piranha Bar & Platformireland.ie |
| 20 Oct 2011 | Tyrell CCT have provided platformireland.ie, an Irish arts and culture channel, with ViewCast’s Niagara 7500 HD streaming solution to broadcast The Irish Chamber Orchestra Concert, live to the internet in High Definition. |
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'Die Hard 5' VFX Previz at Ireland’s Screen Scene |
18 Oct 2011 | Dublin based Screen Scene currently hard at work on Previsualization for ‘Die Hard 5’.
With Irish director John Moore (Max Payne, Flight of the Phoenix) at the helm and Bruce Willis reprising his leading role as John McClane, ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ is the eagerly anticipated fifth film in the blockbuster action franchise. |
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Digital TV Switchover Date Set For October 24th 2012 |
| 17 Oct 2011 | Minister Pat Rabbitte has announced that Wednesday 24th October, 2012, is the official date when the Irish analogue TV network will be switched off. Just over one year from now, on October 24th 2012, the analogue TV network will be switched off and the full switchover to the digital TV network will be complete. |
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