Ted Sheehy
NewsIrish Film Board appears safe from government budget cuts
The Irish film industry is understood to have escaped savage cuts to its Government funding after this week’s emergency budget.
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Leap Year jumps on Ireland's new tax deal
The US feature Leap Year staring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode has been green lit for an Irish shoot at the end of this month.
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James Morris re-appointed Irish Film Board Chair for twelve months
After a hiatus of five weeks, Ireland’s Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, has announced the appointment of a new governing board for the Irish Film Board following the end of the tenure of the previous board members.
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Inaugral 'Write Here, Write Now' awardgiven to Sonya Gildea for Faith
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in association withWaltDisneyStudios Motion Pictures (Ireland) have announced that Sonya Gildea's script Faith has won the inaugural 'Write Here, Write Now' screenwriting award.
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Hunger dominates Irish Film & Television Awards
Steve McQueen's Hunger collected six of the major film awards at last night's Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony in Dublin.
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Irish arts minister urged to end delay in appointing Irish film board
An opposition senator has today called on the Irish arts minister to end the delay in appointing members of the Irish Film Board.
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Irvine Welsh to adapt California Schemin' for the big screen
London-based Silverapples Media and Dublin-based Screenworks Film & TV have optioned feature film and documentary rights for Gavin Bain's as yet unpublished autobiographical California Schemin'.
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Hunger, Kisses, 32A, The Escapist lead Irish Awards nominees
The shortlist for the 6th Irish Film and Television Awards [IFTA] includes best feature film nominations for Marian Quinn's coming of age drama 32A; the prison-break thriller The Escapist; Lance Daly's festival favourite Kisses; the IRA hunger strike drama Hunger; and Ian Fitzgibbon's dark comedy A Film With Me In ...
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Ireland tax break to offer 28% net benefit to producers
Martin Cullen, Ireland's arts and film minister has confirmed that improvements to Ireland's Section 481 film and TV tax break are to be introduced as amendments to the country's 2009 Finance Bill.
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Irish exhibitors to receive grants for switch to digital
Ireland's Cultural Cinema Consortium has announced a scheme which will provide funding for the purchase and installation of digital projection equipment in Irish cinemas. The consortium comprises the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board (IFB),
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Irish production heats up with Happy Ever Afters, Ondine
Principal photography has commenced in Ireland on writer/director Stephen Burke's debut feature film Happy Ever Afters. Leading cast includes Sally Hawkins, Tom Riley, Deirdre Molloy and Simon Delaney.
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Lance Daly's Kisses wins Best Irish Feature at Galway
Lance Daly's Kisses took the laurels for Best Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh in a year when the category was hotly contested by an unprecedented 14 Irish dramatic features, contenders among them being Ivan Kavanagh's Our Wonderful Home, Ian Fitzgibbon's A Film With Me in It and Rick ...
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Secret Of Kells takes Ireland's Directors Finders Series Award
Tomm Moore's Irish animation feature The Secret of Kells will be given a showcase screening on Sept 19 at the DGA Theatre, Los Angeles, to an audience of American distributors and industry personnel with the aim of securing a US distribution deal for the film.
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Ireland's first fully digital cinema to open July 4
Omniplex Cinemas, part of the Ward & Anderson cinema group, will open Ireland's first fully digital cinema on Friday. The Wexford Omniplex is a $14.2m (Euros 9m), eight-screen development with a total seating capacity of 1,577.
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Ireland showing mixed box office fortunes
Traditionally one of the strongest performing territories in Europe, Ireland is experiencing a marginal decline in year-on-year box office returns, according to new figures from Carlton Screen.
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Galway celebrates 20th anniversary with O'Toole, Lange, and Pullman
The 20th Galway Film Fleadh (July 8-13) will open with a screening of Fugitive Pieces, Jeremy Podeswa's drama set in Nazi-occupied Poland and adapted from the novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels. The closing film is the unreleased Bonneville (2006), in which three women played by Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates ...
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Irish courts approve $96,540award to children shown in doc
Five young school children whose images were used without permission in the Oscar-nominated documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, about American paedophile priest Oliver O'Grady, have had settlements totalling more than $96,540 (Eu62,500) approved by the Dublin Circuit Civil Court.
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Irish Film Board appoints O'Neill and Notley to business roles
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has appointed Patrick O'Neill to the new position of industry affairs executive and Laura Notley to the role of business affairs co-ordinator.
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Irish Film Board proposes new Irish and world cinema TV channel
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has announced a proposal for a new Irish TV channel, using new digital infrastructure, which will be dedicated to broadcasting the best of Irish, European and world cinema.The proposal has been made to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for inclusion in Ireland's ...
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Garage and Kings split film honours at Irish Film & Television awards
From a fairly open field of nominees Element Films' Garage and Newgrange Films' Kings collected four awards each at the 5th Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony in Dublin last night.