All articles by Ted Sheehy – Page 4
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Universal Pictures International appoints Irish team
Universal Pictures International (UPI) UK & Eire has appointed an Irish team responsible for the sales, marketing and publicity of the company's products in Ireland.The move follows the ending of Universal and Paramount's joint distribution operation, UIP, in the territory.The Dublin UPI office, led by general manager David Burke, will ...
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Gabriel Byrne chairs New York Irish Cultural Centre
Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has accepted the Irish Arts Minister's invitation to chair a working group to establish a permanent Irish Cultural Centre in New York. The working group will be made up of representatives of the Irish/Irish-American business community who will also advise the Irish Government on the enhancement ...
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Dublin's art-house Light House Cinema revived
The Lighthouse Cinema, atone time Dublin's only arthouse which fell foul of the celtic tiger's appetitefor urban redvelopment, is to be re-established as a four-screen, 600-seat sitelate next year.Founder Neil Connolly,together with Maretta Dillon (Access Cinema), David Collins (Samson Films) andDavid Kavanagh (formerly of the European Script Fund) have secured ...
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Irish companies get slate development funding
The Irish Film Board hasannounced ten successful applicants for its Multiple Project Development (MPD)funding, a multi-project development initiative drawn up in September. Following on from the IFB'sCompany Development Initiative (CDI) which went through two three-year cycles,MPD funding provides support for producers who have an attractive slate ofprojects to develop. It ...
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Emma Scott joins Irish Film Board production team
Emma Scott has been named asthe new production executive the Irish Film Board (IFB). Scott has worked for morethan 15 years in the film industry, in her own company, Liquid Films, as afreelancer, as head of production with Irish Screen, and more recently with MRFilms where she commissioned feature film ...
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Humphreys joins Dublin International Film Festival
The Dublin InternationalFilm Festival has appointed Grainne Humphreys as its new programme director.Humphreys will join the festival as director designate in January, a monthbefore the 2007 edition kicks off on February 16. This will be the final eventto be programmed by the festival's founder and film journalist, Michael Dwyer,who was ...
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Irish Film Board gets 15% funding increase for 2007
The Irish Film Board is setto receive funding of $21.3m (Euros 19.659m) in 2007, it was revealed in nextyear's pre-budget spending estimates, published today by Ireland's Finance Minister, Brian Cowen. This represents a15% increase on the Board's allocation this year.The Minister for Arts, Sport& Tourism, John O'Donoghue, said, 'This increase ...
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Irish film production dropped 50% in 2005
Feature film production in Ireland in 2005 dropped 50% on the previous year, according to the Audiovisual Federation Review produced annually by Irish state and industry bodies.The loss of feature production was more than compensated for by significant growth in television production, much of it single and serial drama.Ten feature ...
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Redgrave, Staunton on board for next Binchy adaptation
Irish producer Noel Pearson, an Academy Award nominee for MyLeft Foot, willfollow his recent Maeve Binchy adaptation, Tara Road, with How About You' based on a Binchy short story. Adapted by Jean Pasley and directed by Anthony Byrne, HowAbout You' is acomic tale about a clash between the generations which ...
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Loughran to head new US Irish Film office
Following the announcementof its intention to open its first overseas office in Los Angeles (made earlier this year at Cannes) the Irish Film Board has confirmed the appointmentof Jonathan Loughran as VP Irish Film Commission, effective mid-November.The new office will becalled the Irish Film Commission US and will focus on ...
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Belfast shoot starts for Collins' Kings
Prinicipal photography hasstarted in Belfast on Kings, an adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road about a group of Irish emigrantswho reunite for the funeral of one of their friends.Leading Irish actor ColmMeaney features in an ensemble cast along with Donal O'Kelly, Brendan Conroy,Donncha Crowley, ...
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Cork Film Festival gets Death Of A President
The 51st Cork Film Festivalwill open on Oct 8 with Toronto Fipresci Critics Award winner Death Of A President, the Channel 4-financed drama which imaginesthe assasination of George W Bush."We are delighted to havesecured the European premiere of Death Of A President,' said Cork Film Festival DirectorMick Hannigan. 'This is ...
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Irish Film Board gets $3m boost
Ireland'sMinister for Arts, Sport & Tourism, John O'Donoghue,has given supplementary capital funding of $3m (Euros 2.3m) to the Irish FilmBoard. The additional money is intended to facilitate an increase in film andtelevision production in the last quarter of 2006 and the first half of 2007.The move is part of a ...
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Ireland's BCI backs Lenny Abrahamson's Garage
Garage, Lenny Abrahamson's second feature following Adam & Paul, has been awarded $833,513 (Euros 660,000) in the second round of funding from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland's (BCI) Sound & Vision fund. Garage is the only feature project to have been backed by the BCI in the second round of ...
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Small Engine Repair takes first feature prize at Galway
The 18th Galway Film Fleadh closed Sunday night with a preview presentation ofwriter/director David Gleeson's second feature The Frontline, a crime drama about vulnerable Congolese immigrantsin Dublin which will be released by BVI Ireland after itsofficial world premiere on August 25.The Frontline was one of several new Irish features premiered ...
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Irish Film Board outlines new policies
TheIrish Film Board (IFB) will encourage funding applicants to submit projectsearlier in the development process, its executives announced at a presentationyesterday evening. IFBchairman James Morris and CEO Simon Perry introduced a range of new policiesand procedures that will come into effect July 1. Inaddition to setting out some core principles ...
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Galway recruits Towne, Bates and Roeg
Writer/directorRobert Towne, actor/director Kathy Bates and directorNicolas Roeg will give this year's writing, actingand directing masterclasses at the 18th Galway Film Fleadh (July 11-16).Townewill give the screenwriting masterclass and present aspecial screening of Chinatown. Kathy Bates will give theactor's masterclass, facilitated by casting directorJohn Hubbard, and she will also be ...
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EC approves new Irish and Polish film schemes
The European Commission hasapproved new and amended national aid schemes that support film-making inIreland and Poland under EC Treaty state aid regulations.The Irish Section 481 schemeto support film production, which amends the existing scheme previouslyapproved by the Commission, allows film production companies to obtain 80% taxrelief on investments of up ...
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Hannigan appointed to European Film Academy
The director of the CorkFilm Festival, Mick Hannigan, has been invited tojoin the European Film Academy. The 50-year-old Festivalhas also been chosenas a participant in the European Film Academy PrixUIP initiative in 2006. As a voting member of theEFA, Hannigan will join a membership including LordAttenborough, Ingmar Bergman, Pedro Almodovar,Federico ...
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Byrne and O'Reilly join Irish Film Board
Byrne and O'Reilly joinIrish Film BoardThe Irish Film Board hasappointed Mark Byrne as its business & legal executive. Byrne has worked as anentertainment lawyer for the past three years and also acted on co-producer forfeature film Middletown. Byrne's role willinclude negotiating with producers and co-financiers, and acting as a liaisonwith ...