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IFTA 2013 Nominations Announced: ‘Love/Hate’, ‘What Richard Did’, ‘Moone Boy’ & More |
| 09 Jan 2013 | The 2013 IFTA nominations have been announced today, with RTÉ series ‘Love/Hate’ leading the way with 11 nominations. |
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Irish Film & Television Industry Takes In More Than €100m In 2012 |
| 20 Dec 2012 | Over €100m in direct foreign investment was raised by the Irish film and television industry in 2012, the Irish Film Board has announced. |
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‘Try For Free’ Workshops At Gaiety School of Acting |
| 19 Dec 2012 | The Gaiety School of Acting is hosting a series of ‘Try For Free’ hour long workshops for adults this coming January. |
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Making the Cut: Career Advice From ‘Love/Hate’ Composer Ray Harman |
| 12 Dec 2012 | Irish composer Ray Harman almost chose the rock star path, spending the 80s and early 90s as the guitarist in Tom Dunne’s band Something Happens, who are known for their hits ‘Parachute’ and ‘Petrol’. |
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Making The Cut: Career Advice From Casting Director Louise Kiely |
| 29 Nov 2012 | Louise Kiely has built her reputation as one of Ireland’s leading casting directors. This year alone she has cast a number of up-and-coming Irish actors in successful films, including Jack Reynor in the critically acclaimed ‘What Richard Did’, as well as the upcoming BBC series ‘Quirke’, which has just added three new characters, ‘Ripper Street’ which wrapped production in Dublin last July, and ‘The Sea’ which is currently in post-production in Dublin. |
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vStream Lands Aer Lingus In-Flight Safety Video |
| 17 Oct 2012 | Irish digital content production company vStream has beaten off stiff competition from Ireland and the UK to produce Aer Lingus’s new in-flight safety video. |
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RTÉ To Run Sponsored Segments On New Daytime Show ‘Today’ |
| 01 Oct 2012 | RTÉ has made the next step in promoting its client sales campaign by striking a deal with Harvey Norman Sofas for the furniture store to sponsor its new daytime programme ‘Today’, which officially launched in Cork last week. |
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Blinder and Piranha Bar Among Kinsale Sharks Winners |
| 17 Sep 2012 | A TV commercial for the ISPCC and an animated Olympics sting for Cadbury were among the big winners at the Kinsale Sharks advertising festival over the weekend. |
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Irish Production Company Tidal To Close Down After Two Years |
| 04 Sep 2012 | Dublin-based production company Tidal has announced that it is to close down after two years in business. |
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INTERVIEW: Business Is Reelgood At Irish Production Hub |
| 30 Aug 2012 | Aidan Sheeran doesn’t sound like a managing director operating within the middle of the recession. “I suppose in a funny way we’ve been bucking the trend,” he says almost apologetically. “We’ve been terribly busy over the last while and there’s been a huge volume of work across the various areas we work in.” |
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Ian Smyth Composing Score For Irish Feature Pitch ‘The Mulbury Project’ |
| 12 Jul 2012 | Composer Ian Smyth (Rewind) is putting the finishing touches to a score for an Irish feature film pitch which has received funding from the Irish Film Board. |
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Irish-based William Armstrong Shortlisted For Cannes Young Director Award |
| 13 Jun 2012 | Young Irish-based director William Armstrong has been shortlisted for the Commercial Film Producers of Europe’s Young Director Award, the winner of which will be announced at an awards ceremony in Cannes, France, on June 21. |
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Dublin's vStream Wrap Jameson Distillery Short |
| 12 Jun 2012 | Dublin-based digital content production company vStream’s latest project has completed post-production and is available to view in the Old Jameson Distillery as part of the Distillery Tour. |
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Win Tickets to John Ford Ireland Opening Night - The Iron Horse |
06 Jun 2012 | IFTN has tickets for the Opening Night of John Ford Ireland Film Symposium to give away to lucky readers. The Irish premiere screening of John Ford’s epic masterpiece ‘The Iron Horse’ opens John Ford Ireland on Thursday 7 June. This fantastic film and music event takes place at Dublin’s National Concert Hall and features live orchestral accompaniment from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and the film’s award winning US composer Christopher Caliendo performing in Ireland for the first time.
Don’t miss your chance to see one of John Ford’s most critically acclaimed and master crafted movies on the big screen and experience the launch of John Ford Ireland festival fever!
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Competition Authority Can’t Mend RTÉ & TV3 Rift |
| 04 May 2012 | The war of words between state broadcaster RTÉ and private-owned TV3 continues after the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) released a statement yesterday urging RTÉ to reconsider its new trading scheme. RTÉ developed the new scheme as a result of an Enforcement Decision from the Competition Authority last year. |
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Competition Authority Forces End to 'Share Deals' for RTÉ |
| 12 Oct 2011 | The Competition Authority have ruled that RTÉ can no longer give discounts to television advertisers based on their total budget committed to the state broadcaster. |
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BAI Examine Food & Drink Commercial Regulations |
| 01 Sep 2011 | BAI are looking for public input as part of a review on the BAI review of the diet and nutrition rules contained in its Children’s Commercial Communications Code. All responses will be considered by the BAI and if a clear requirement emerges to amend the existing rules on diet and nutrition, the BAI will produce a draft set of revised rules. |
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David O'Reilly's 'The External World' Shortlisted for Cartoon d'Or |
| 11 Jul 2011 | David O’Reilly’s short animation ‘The External World’ has been nominated for this year’s Cartoon d’Or, which will be presented at an awards ceremony on Sept 15th during the Cartoon Forum in Sopot, Poland. |
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Lee Cronin Directs 11850 Latest Advertising Campaign |
| 02 Jun 2011 | Lee Cronin of Antidote Productions has directed 11850's advertising campaign, which is due to hit our screens today June 2nd and will be aired on TV3 and RTE over the coming months. |
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BAI to Allow Product Placement in Irish TV |
| 10 Mar 2011 | The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has announced its decision to permit paid product placement on Irish television. The change is one of a number to be included in the BAI’s revised General and Children’s Commercial Communications Codes which is planned to take effect from Monday, May 2nd 2011. |
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