The Irish Film Board (IFB) today released details of its fourth quarter funding decisions of 2013.
These decisions cover production and co-production loans for features, animation and documentaries; development loans and distribution loans
Following on from the success of ‘Play Next Door’, RTÉ; One intends to continue covering the arts by broadcasting arts programming and scheduling it into peak-time slots. The changes will be instigated for the channel's spring season.
UTV Media plc has today advised Ofcom that its subsidiary UTV Ltd (UTV) accepts the financial terms for the renewal of its regional Channel 3 licence in Northern Ireland for a further ten year period commencing January 1st 2015.
Over the next two weeks directors, producers and top industry names will descend on Dublin for the 12th annual Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF).
Announced at the Berlin EFM, Wildcard Distribution has acquired the UK and Ireland rights to dramas ‘Run & Jump’ and ‘Love Eternal’. It was also announced that ‘Run & Jump’ will see its Irish release on May 2nd. The Dublin premiere for the film is taking place at JDIFF.
TV3 is less than a week away from airing its brand new game show, ‘The Lie’, a co-production between 3Studios and Scottish Television Productions (STV).
‘Lads mar Dads’ is a new TG4 series, co-funded by the BAI and TG4, for Good Company Productions. Directed by Evan Chamberlain (Feirm Factor, Hector Goes), the series will air every Sunday night at 9.30 for six weeks, starting February 16th.
The second series of ‘True North’ begins on BBC One Northern Ireland tonight at 10.35pm. It is a series of fresh, revelatory and uniquely personal single documentaries from BBC Northern Ireland.
Irish director Stephen Bradley’s ‘Noble’ has won the top Jury prize, the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema, at the 29th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Saoirse Ronan (19) has long proven herself as a stand-out actress, she continues her streak of accepting challenging and compelling roles in this recent casting news.
The 16th edition of Cartoon Movie, which runs from 5-7 March in Lyon, will assess 60 feature film projects, which are to be pitched to over 700 animation professionals from 40 countries. The projects, which include four Irish features, will be pitched to 200 buyers.
Feature film ‘Sing Street’, which was announced this week in Berlin, will see Dublin-born John Carney (the director-writer of ‘Once’ and ‘Can a Song Save Your Life?’) collaborate with Bono and the Edge.
