Appendix 2: Submissions made to the Review Group and Reports
Commissioned

SUBMISSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
The Review Group gratefully acknowledges the submissions and contributions to its deliberations made by the following organisations and individuals.

Film Makers of Ireland
Ed Guiney, James Flynn, Anna Devlin, Alan Maloney, Robert Walpole

Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board
Rod Stoneman, Louis Marcus, Ann O’Connell, Nuala Moiselle

Enterprise Ireland
Declan Murphy & Michael Cantwell
International Services, Enterprise Ireland

Radio Telefís Éireann
David Blakeknox - Director of TV Productions
Clare Duignan - Commissioning Director

Screen Training Ireland
Mary Lyons, John Cummins, Laura Magahy

MEDIA Desk Ireland
Siobhan O’Donoghue & Eibhlín Ní Mhungaile of MEDIA Antenna

IBEC
Eamonn Lawless & Aidan Hickey
Animation Committee, Audio-visual Federation, IBEC

Teilifís na Gaeilge
Cathal Goan & Siún Ní Raghallaigh

INDECON Economic Consultants
Alan Gray

Cleary & Associates
Pat Cleary, Managing Director, Cleary & Associates
Taxation Consultants

IBEC
Tommy McCabe, John Cummins, Eamonn Griffin

DV4
Kieran O’Hea, Chairman

Iconic Advisors
David McWilliams, Economist

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Marian Coy, Head, Dept. Humanities, Art & Design, Patsy Murphy, Lecturer and Course Co-ordinator, National Diploma in Video Production, supported by Lelia Doolan and Celine Curtin

Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin
Dr. Geraldine Meaney, Director,

Irish Congress of Trade Unions Tom Wall
Irish Congress of Trade Unions,

Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Róisín Hogan, Director
Aileen McKeogh, Head of School of Art, Design & Media
Patrick Molloy, Head of Department of Design & Communications
Anne O’Leary, Co-ordinator of Diploma & Degree Film Courses

Senior College Ballyfermot
Denis Keegan

Screen Commission of Ireland Mary Leonard, Chairperson

TV3 Television Network Limited
Rick Hetherington, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Northern Ireland Film Commission
Richard Taylor, Chief Executive

THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED THE REVIEW GROUP ON THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF FILM:

Declan Kiberd
Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature
University College Dublin

Fintan O’Toole,
Journalist and cultural critic

Sheila Pratschke

Chief Executive
Film Institute of Ireland

Alan Gilsenan
Producer, Yellow Asylum Films

MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PANEL CONSULTED BY THE REVIEW GROUP:

Michael Corrigan
Distribution Consultant, Los Angeles

Peter McCann
President of Commonwealth Media Corporation, USA

Robert Nador
Dune (French production/distribution company)

Barry Smith
Media Lawyer, Richards Butler Solicitors, London

Douglas Wilson
Head of Acquisitions, Locafilms International, Spain

Robert Leger
Mutual Film Co., USA

The Group would also like to acknowledge the assistance provided by Brian McIvor, Brian McIvor & Associates, in the initial phase of the deliberations.

REPORTS COMMISSIONED

INDECON, International Economic Development Consultants, Supporting the Effective Continued Development of the Irish Film Sector, November, 1998. (Commissioned by the Minister of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands on behalf of the Review Group).

Oldsberg/SPI, Cost Comparison of Film Production in the UK and Ireland

© Department of Arts Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands