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‘Prince of Egypt’ Director Brenda Chapman for IADT |
| 03 Feb 2012 | Annie award winning animation director Brenda Chapman (Brave, The Prince of Egypt) is to take up a visiting fellowship at the National Film School in the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dún Laoghaire from 17th-27th February. |
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'Mise Éire' Doc with Bairéad & Morrison Q&A at IFI |
| 03 Feb 2012 | ‘Lorg na gCos-Suil Siar Ar Mise Éire’, a documentary film about the making of Ireland’s most famous documentary film ‘Mise Éire’ is to be screened in the Irish Film Institute (IFI) on Sunday 12th February. |
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‘Calvin & Skye’ Coppola Screenplay Comp Semi-Finalist |
| 03 Feb 2012 | Dublin based director and writer Fergal Rock’s (Henry and Sunny, Tom Waits Made Me Cry) screenplay ‘Calvin and Skye’ has been named a semi-finalist in the Francis Ford Coppola 9th Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay competition. |
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Decision Time; CAO Courses for Future Filmmakers |
| 01 Feb 2012 | It is that time of year again where students up and down the country decide what to put on their CAO form. The CAO deadline (1 Feb) is upon us and while some students may know what they want to do and where, for others IFTN has composed a list of some of the courses available to school leavers interested in a career in the film and television industry, looking at everything from film and television production and even animation and game design. |
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'Silence' Director Pat Collins New Cork Film Centre Mentor |
| 27 Jan 2012 | IFTA award winning Irish director Pat Collins (Gabriel Byrne: Stories From Home, What We Leave in Our Wake), who has directed over 25 projects during his career and who has just finished working on his debut feature film ‘Silence’ is to be the new mentor for the Cork Film Centre for the Mentor for New Films for 2012 programme. |
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RTÉ & Filmbase Launch ‘Doc on the Box’ |
| 25 Jan 2012 | As part of RTÉ’s TV50 celebrations the broadcaster’s TV documentary unit has teamed up with Filmbase to launch the ‘Doc on the Box’ initiative, which aims to encourage fresh directorial talent to come forward for the opportunity to have their 25 minute original video documentary aired on a RTÉ prime-time slot. |
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Dingle 'Físín' Comp Offers €5,000 Short Film Prize |
| 19 Jan 2012 | The Dingle International Film Festival, which runs from the 15th-18th March 2012, has opened this year’s ‘Físín’ short filmmaking competition. |
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Toby Guidry to give Casting Masterclass at Park Studio |
| 12 Jan 2012 | Experienced Casting Director Toby Guidry is to give a Masterclass to prospective actors and actresses at Park Studios in Dublin on 4th-5th of February. |
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Vote for Buckled Cranium’s ‘Queen’ video for ‘Filmmaker of The Year’ |
| 06 Jan 2012 | ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ the winning music video created by Buckled Cranium, a collection of Irish National Film school (IADT) graduates, which was handpicked by rockers Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen to be the bands latest music video is competing for the talenthouse.com ‘Filmmaker of the Year’ award. |
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Julian Fellowes Sails Cinemagic 'Cast Away' Comp |
| 21 Dec 2011 | Oscar-winning screenwriter and ‘Downton Abbey’ creator, Julian Fellowes, will lend his support to Cinemagic’s latest competition Cast Away as a judge on the panel in spring 2012. |
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Lasair Deadline Extended, Info Session Planned |
| 01 Dec 2011 | Filmbase and TG4 have announced that the deadline for the Lasair award scheme has been extended until the 27th January 2012. Filmbase and TG4 are also organising an information session for filmmakers interested in applying to the Lasair short film award scheme. Lasair, now in its 5th round, is Filmbase and TG4’s scheme for supporting filmmakers to produce short films in the Irish language. |
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Interview with Pixar Animator Jim Capobianco |
| 24 Nov 2011 | Jim Capobianco, Pixar animator, writer and director is in Ireland this week giving guest lectures to an audience in both Ballyfermot College, talking to animation students about his work and the story processes used at Pixar. He is also doing a seminar with Screen Training Ireland on the art of short form storytelling for animation. IFTN caught up with him on his trip to discuss how he got his start and what he is currently working on. |
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beActive launch The Digital Comedy Lab |
| 24 Nov 2011 | beActive, an award-winning production company, has announced this week the launch of The Digital Comedy Lab, a project that aims to uncover and develop the very best fresh comedy talent in the UK and Ireland. |
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Sky Entertainment's Stuart Murphy for IFTA TV Lecture |
| 22 Nov 2011 | IFTA has announced that Stuart Murphy, Director of Sky 1HD and Director of Commissioning for Sky Entertainment, will deliver the Irish Academy’s inaugural Annual Television Lecture. Stuart, who joined BSkyB in May 2009, is Director of Sky1HD and Director of Commissioning, Sky Entertainment. He also runs Sky2 and Pick TV. In February of this year he launched Sky Atlantic, a channel which screens US television programmes, including Martin Scorsese’ ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and HBO's 'Game of Thrones'. There is also a commitment from the channel to commission six UK programmes for the channel per year like Paul Abbott’s ‘Hit and Miss’. |
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'New Perspectives on National Cinema' Examines Celtic Tiger Ireland |
| 15 Nov 2011 | A new book, ‘Contemporary Irish Film: New Perspectives on a National Cinema’, which was co-edited by Seán Crosson, Programme Director of the MA in Film Studies and the MA in Screenwriting at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUIG, is being released which examines the last ten years of Irish cinema during ‘The Celtic Tiger’ era. |
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IBEC Online Content Industry Seminar |
| 11 Nov 2011 | IBEC, the Irish business and employers association together with Enterprise Ireland will host a one day programme on online business models and the content industry in Ireland. |
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Interview: Composer Patrick Doyle Talks Film Scores |
| 08 Nov 2011 | Scottish musician and film score composer, Patrick Doyle, who has composed scores for such blockbuster films as ‘Planet of the Apes; Rise of the Ape’ and ‘Thor’ is currently working on the score for a new Disney/Pixar animated film called ‘Brave’. |
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Deadline for Untitled Screenwriting Competition Extended |
| 04 Nov 2011 | The Irish Film Board (IFB) and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival have announced an extension to the deadline for entries to the screenwriting competition Untitled, with the new deadline now Monday November 14th. |
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Cinemagic Festival seeks Young Film Critics |
01 Nov 2011 | The Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival is seeking applications from young people aged 10 to 18 years old to join their Festival Jury.
The chosen panel will be required to watch all of the films being screened in competition during the festival (16th November – 2nd December) and will choose the winning entries for several categories. |
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Sinéad Cusack Hosting NFS lecture |
| 26 Oct 2011 | Sinead Cusack, one of Ireland’s best known stage and screen actresses will be giving a guest lecture at the National Film School’s in the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). |
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