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Ireland Signs Co-Production Treaty With South Africa At Cannes |
| 21 May 2012 | Ireland has signed a co-production treaty with South Africa at the Cannes Film Festival in a bid to forge closer links with each other’s film industries. |
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John Ford Ireland Film Symposium Tickets Now On Sale |
| 21 May 2012 | Tickets for the inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium officially went on sale last Friday, May 18. |
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Four Irish Films Receive MEDIA i2i Funding |
| 21 May 2012 | Three Irish production companies have been awarded funding for four films in the latest round of i2i audiovisual funding from MEDIA Europe. |
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Stephen Frears Joins Lineup To Honour Ford at Symposium |
| 17 May 2012 | Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, The Queen) has been confirmed to attend next month’s John Ford Ireland Film Symposium in Dublin at which he will discuss his work and Ford’s influence on his 1998 western, ‘The Hi-Lo Country.’ |
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Maurice Linnane and Mark O’Halloran On Making ‘A Kiss for Jed’ |
| 17 May 2012 | While one was making a name for himself scripting 'Adam and Paul', the other was pursuing a more glamorous path following a Dublin band around the world shooting their music videos. Cue almost 10 years later, and Mark O'Halloran and Maurice Linnane have joined forces for the Irish cinema release of Linnane's feature film directorial debut. |
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Irish Film Board To Change Funding Application Management |
| 16 May 2012 | The Irish Film Board is to restructure how it manages applications for development or production loans by replacing its current roles of two production executives and a development executive with three project managers by the beginning of next year. |
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Irish Film Industry Set To Descend On Cannes |
| 15 May 2012 | More than 80 Irish film companies have registered their attendance with the Irish Film Board’s Irish Pavilion stand for the Cannes International Film Festival, which gets underway in France tomorrow (May 16). |
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Irish Film Board Production Executive Alan Maher Steps Down |
| 14 May 2012 | Irish Film Board production executive Alan Maher will step down from his position after six years at the IFB. |
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Five Minutes with... BAFTA winning Irish Colourist Aidan Farrell |
10 May 2012 | Highly regarded worldwide, Irish colourist Aidan Farrell will this Sunday be honored for his craft with a BAFTA special award for his “outstanding creative contribution to the industry and his extensive work and accomplishments in this field.”
Ahead of the event in London, the Dubliner – who has worked as a colourist on acclaimed television shows such as ‘Downton Abbey’ - spends five minutes with IFTN to talk about how he went from working on animation with Don Bluth in Dublin to working on acclaimed music videos during the Britpop-era in London and on into TV drama. |
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Minister Gives RTÉ One Week for Reform Report Following Libel Scandal |
| 09 May 2012 | RTÉ has agreed to submit a report to Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte in one week's time, as well as provide a monitoring report every three months, detailing the measures it is taking to ensure it does not repeat a defamatory programme such as 'Mission to Prey'. |
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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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Dublin to Host International Celebration of John Ford |
| 03 May 2012 | Oscar-nominated directors Peter Bogdanovich, Jim Sheridan and John Boorman, as well as Oscar-winning editor Joel Cox (Unforgiven, Mystic River), are amongst the influential filmmakers who will gather in Dublin to honour and celebrate the legacy of legendary Irish-American John Ford as part of the inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium over June 7-10. |
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‘Fair City’ Reaches RTÉ Player After Deal With Union |
| 02 May 2012 | RTÉ has reached an agreement with Equity and the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters' Guild that will allow them to make ‘Fair City’ available on the RTÉ Player and RTÉ One+1. |
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Reality Bites Documentary Deadline Looms |
| 02 May 2012 | Documentary makers will have until this Friday (May 4) to submit for the next round of the Irish Film Board’s Reality Bites scheme. |
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NUI Galway Film Studies Scholarship Honours Pat Sheeran |
| 01 May 2012 | The Huston School of Film & Digital Media at NUI Galway has launched the Pat Sheeran MA in Film Studies Scholarship in honour of the late NUIG Professor. The new scholarship will see up to €2,000 awarded to masters’ students. |
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Production Company Trips To Banff Festival Supported by IFB |
| 26 Apr 2012 | The Irish Film Board (IFB) has announced it will support six Irish production companies by funding their expenses for the Banff World Media Festival, which takes place at the Rocky Mountains, Canada, over June 10-13. |
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Irish Colourist Aidan Farrell To Receive BAFTA Special Award |
| 26 Apr 2012 | Irish colourist Aidan Farrell is to receive a BAFTA special award at the organisation’s Craft Awards in London next month. Dublin-born Farrell – who has worked as a colourist on acclaimed television shows such as ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘The Shadow Line’ and Irish director John Crowley’s ‘Boy A’ – will be honoured by BAFTA on May 13 for his “outstanding creative contribution to the industry and his extensive work and accomplishments in this field.” |
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RTÉ Deadline For Irish Language Broadcast Fund Submissions Looms |
| 26 Apr 2012 | RTÉ’s deadline for programmes hoping to receive its support in advance of the next round of Irish Language Broadcast funding is tomorrow (April 27). |
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Brown Bag's Darragh O'Connell to Sit On Annecy Jury Panel |
| 25 Apr 2012 | Irish producer Darragh O’Connell of Brown Bag Films has been selected as one of 11 international jurors to sit on this year’s Annecy Animated Film Festival jury panel in what has been called a “hugely important” move for Irish animation. |
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Irish scriptwriter Paul Walker Attending Norway éQuinoxe Workshop |
| 25 Apr 2012 | Irish scriptwriter Paul Walker (The Clinic) has been chosen to attend the European éQuinoxe Writers Workshop in Bergen, Norway, after submitting his script for feature film ‘Ms. Mansfield and Me’. |
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