All articles by Ted Sheehy – Page 11
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Spirited outing for new Irish film festival
The inaugural Dublin International Film Festival (March 6-13) has clinched a major sponsorship deal with Jameson Irish Whiskey worth Euros 100,000. The partnership is one of the largest business sponsorships of the arts in Ireland in recent years. Backing of Euros 25,000 has also come from the Arts Council, while ...
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Question mark hangs over Irish film industry
The near-demise of the Irish Film Board last year has placed a question mark over the future direction of the Irish industry.It was the nightmare before Christmas, really. During the seasonal party time it emerged that the Irish Film Board had come within a hair's breadth of abolition in a ...
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Soft Money - Ireland
IrelandWith the Section 481 tax incentive, producers can shave an average 12% from their budget by choosing Ireland for location work. Ted Sheehy reportsSteven Spielberg and Alan Parker are just two big-name directors who have made films using Ireland's Section 481 tax incentive for the film and television industry. Along ...
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14 Irish companies get MEDIA development funds
The Media Programme has confirmed Euros 1.07m in development funding for 14 Irish film and television companies. Ten of the companies have received slate funding support which will take the form of a rolling credit line over the next three years. They are Element Films, Fastnet Films, Octagon Film Productions, ...
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Irish Film Board gets reduced government funds
In line with its published spending estimates for 2003 (Screendaily, November 15) the Irish Government has reduced the Irish Film Board's allocation in its pared-back Budget for 2003. The Film Board's funding has been cut by an aggregate 12.5%, leaving it with Euros 1.6m to spend on administration and Euros ...
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Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan board new Irish Directors' Guild
Following a year's preparatory work and international research the formal setting up of the Screen Directors' Guild of Ireland (SDGI) has been announced. Following a Founder Members' meeting held at the end of November, an eight strong board - each the director of at least one feature film - was ...
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Dublin to get new international film festival
With the slogan 'DIFF - it's different' the formation of Ireland's new Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) has been announced. The first edition is set to take place from March 6 to 13 2003 at the Screen and Savoy cinemas in Dublin. According to festival Director Michael Dwyer the DIFF ...
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Tracy Geraghty appointed director of Film Makers Ireland
Film Makers Ireland (FMI) has announced the appointment of Tracy Geraghty as the new Director of the association.Until recently, Geraghty has been programme manager with North by Northwest, the Denmark-based script development programme supported by the MEDIA Programme. Prior to that she had worked with Eurimages and with the Irish ...
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The Magdalene Sisters makes a deep impression on Ireland
After just five weeks on release Peter Mullan's prize-winning The Magdalene Sisters has been seen by one in twenty of the Irish population, having passed the Euros 1m mark in the Republic.According to its Irish distributors Eclipse Pictures, "indications are that it will play in Irish cinemas right into the ...
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Two more low budget features get underway in Ireland
A further two low budget features started shooting in Dublin last week, bringing to seven the total of low budget films shot or shooting in Ireland so far this year. The two latest additions to the low budget reanimation of Ireland's production sector are Fatface Films' Halo Effect and Zanzibar ...
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Irish Film Board faces sharp budget cuts
Amid a set of sweeping public service cuts announced in pre-budget estimates for 2003, the Irish government is set to reduce the Irish Film Board's funding by an aggregate 12.5%.The Board's administration budget will be reduced by 1% to Euros 1.584m while its capital and training budget will be cut ...
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Ireland appoints veteran producer as censor
The Irish Minister for Justice has appointed film and television producer John Kelleher (pictured) as the new Irish Film Censor. Kelleher takes up his post in April 2003, succeeding Sheamus Smith who has held the position since 1986.John Kelleher is a film and television producer and a former RTE television ...
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Real Thing joins Irish low-budget craze
A six-week location shoot will begin today in Limerick city on The Real Thing, a 1.5m Euro feature that marks the fifth low-budget feature to go into production in Ireland this year.Being made as an Irish/German/UK co-production by Wide Eye Films in association with Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion, Grosvenor Park Productions ...
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Richard Harris dies, aged 72
The renowned Irish actor Richard Harris died on Friday night, aged 72. His passing was announced by his family, Harris was being treated for some months for Hodgkins Disease, a form of cancer, at University College Hospital, London where he died. He is survived by his sons, actors Jared and ...
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Magdalene Sisters to open Cork festival
In a year when Dublin, the country's capital, appears to have lost its film festival, the Cork Film Festival is consolidating its position with its 47th annual appearance from October 6 to 13.A total of 1,300 Irish and International shorts films were submitted to Cork's competitive shorts competition this year. ...
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Critical acclaim boosts Irish film industry
After languishing in the doldrums for several years, things are beginning to look up for Irish film. Several local productions are about to start shooting and a slew of Irish helmed projects are hitting the world's cinema screens.Neil Jordan's latest film, The Good Thief, is getting raves. Similarly Jim Sheridan's ...
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Distinguished Features to shoot Dead Bodies, premiere Puckoon
Dead Bodies, the debut feature from young Irish company Distinguished Features and director Robert Quinn, will start principal photography in and around Dublin on September 1.The film will be the first project to avail of the Irish Film Board's Low Budget Feature Initiative, announced at the Galway Film Fleadh in ...
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ContentFilm, Rapid Film cement Irish production partnership
ContentFilm USA and Rapid Film Ireland have announced their partnership to produce 12 low budget feature films from Ireland over the next three years. The deal, similar to those established by ContentFilm in other countries, will source and produce local film scripts for international distribution.As part of the ContentFilm/Rapid Film ...
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Ireland gets multiple low-budget production schemes
In advance of the anticipated announcement of a new Irish-American low-budget production partnership - between Ireland's Rapid Film and Ed Pressman and John Schmidt's New York-based ContentFilm, the Irish Film Board has launched two new low-budget feature film initiatives.The first, called the Low Budget Feature Initiative seeks to create production ...
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Cultural Cinema Consortium formed in Ireland
In parallel with the UK Film Council's ongoing plans to fund a so-called virtual circuit of art house cinemas around the country, and in contrast to continental European efforts to access EU support for similar purposes, the Irish Arts Council has formed a Cultural Cinema Consortium with the Arts Council ...