Director of Programming Gar O’Brien revealed the line-up this evening which includes over eighty features, including sixteen world premieres. The Fleadh also includes a robust short film line-up of almost 100 Irish shorts, as well as event screenings, panel discussions, masterclasses and more. 

FTN caught up with Gar O'Brien ahead of the 2017 Programme Launch. IFTN: The Fleadh has the cream of the crop in terms of programming the best Irish films every year; having programmed the Fleadh for 7 years, how, in your opinion, has Irish feature film and documentary changed and developed since you first started programming?
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This year’s line-up is composed of one director, two producers and two actors, including Colm Seoighe of the 2017 opening film ‘Song of Granite’. Fellow actor Dafhyd Flynn from Frank Berry’s ‘Michael Inside’ is also nominated as is Donna Eperon, the producer on the title.
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The upcoming Galway Film Fleadh will mark the first screening of these IFB funded films, under the first instalment of the Short Stories film scheme. The films will screen Saturday 15 July at 12pm in Galway’s Town Hall.
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The closing date for applications is 1pm Friday - the 7th of July 2017. The masterclass runs from 10:00-13:00 on Thursday July 13th in the Radisson Hotel, Galway and will be moderated by award winning screenwriter and script consultant Mary Kate O Flanagan.
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The title will screen 1t 6pm on Saturday July 15th, Galway Film Fleadh at 6pm in the Town Hall. ‘Limbo’ was written and directed by Barrett, who also co-produced with Grainne O’Sullivan.
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The masterclass runs from 10:00-13:00 on Friday July 14th in the Radisson Hotel, Galway and will be moderated by director and producer Brendan J. Byrne. Amir Bar-Lev is a New York based film director and Galway Film Fleadh veteran.
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The masterclass runs from 14:00-17:00 on Saturday July 15th in the Radisson Hotel, Galway. Places on the casting workshop are limited – all successful applicants MUST bring an updated CV and headshot with them on the day, and have a one-minute long monologue prepared and ready to perform live (no longer than 1 minute). 
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Maureen Hughes of Bow Street will facilitate the masterclass which runs from 10:00-13:00, Saturday July 15th at the Radisson Hotel, Galway. The closing date for applications is: 1pm Friday of July 7th 2017.
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Irish Writer/Director Liam O Mochain’s third feature film ‘Lost & Found’ will receive its world premiere at 2017 Galway Film Fleadh on Saturday 15th July. The film will screen at the Town Hall Theatre at 6.30pm.
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The Irish actors are among the 774 in the class of 2017, who are invited by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Each of them will now be eligible to vote in the upcoming Oscars, joining fellow Irish talents Emma Donoghue (Room), John Crowley Brooklyn), Benjamin Cleary (Stutterer), Lenny Abrahamson (Room), Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner) and more.
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To be scheduled in the prestigious Galway Film Fleadh is but one of many achievements to date for Muldowney’s film, which entered production with an all-star cast, premiered at Tribeca and has impressed distributors as much as festival audiences.
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The new initiative is designed to support high-end TV production in Northern Ireland, aimed at those with at least two years’ experience in their current role and who have been identified as ready to move up to the next grade on productions.
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The much-anticipated Irish title releases today to Irish audiences with a special opening night in the Light House Cinema, followed by a Q&A session with Ryan moderated by Tara Flynn.
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The annual ZeBBie awards ceremony took place in the Sugar Club, Dublin last night, acknowledging the highest quality scripts written for film, television, gaming, radio and theatre this previous year.
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The initiative run by Northern Ireland Screen and BFI Net.Work. provides an opportunity for emerging creative teams to create a short film which is tonally and thematically aligned with their feature film ambitions.

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Artistic Director Maeve McGrath talks us through her road to overseeing one of the fastest growing festivals in Ireland. From here she breaks down the format of the Kerry Film Festival team, her role and hones in on the importance of crafting good relationships in the arts.

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The intensive four-day workshop will run from July 17th-20th in Bow Street, Dublin and is aimed at filmmakers eager to further develop and nurture their creative output through gaining a greater understanding of the actors process.

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The council of Europe’s fund for co-production, distribution and exhibition of European cinema, selected the projects at its 147th meeting which ran from June 16th-23rd.

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The forty-hour intensive course runs from July 31st to August 4th in Macnas, Fisheries Field, Galway and is €650 per person.
All materials and tools are supplied but applicants are free to bring their own tools if they wish.

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Directed by Len Collin and produced by Edwina Forkin (Zanzibar) in association with the Blue Teapot Theatre Company, the film stars Kieran Coppinger and Charlen Kelly (see full cast below).

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Cardboard Gangsters' set to become the biggest Irish film of the year at the Irish box office. Following its second weekend playing in Irish cinemas, 'Cardboard Gangsters' is now on track to become the biggest Irish film of the year at the Irish box office.

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Emer Reynolds directs the award-winning documentary telling the story of NASA's iconic Voyager mission, which will be distributed in Ireland by Wildcard Distribution. John Murray and Clare Storage produce for Crossing the Line Films.

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