All articles by Ted Sheehy – Page 5
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British directors rush to beat Irish tax deadline
Three veteran British directors are in the finalstages of pre-production on films which will commence shooting in Ireland before the end of the month. The three films aretimed to beat the 31 March deadline on the existing UK tax regime and are among a last group of productionsto utilise the ...
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Ireland revamps production tax breaks
A vociferous chorus of approval has greeted the Irishfinance minister's radical overhaul of the Section 481 tax break for filmproduction. The maximum threshold for Irish spend has been raised from 55%-66%to 80% of budget, for all productions irrespective of size. And the cap on thetotal amount that may be raised ...
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Cillian Murphy launches Dublin Festival programme
Cillian Murphy last night launchedthe programme for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) whichkicks off on February 17 with the world premiere of Paul Mercier's debutfeature, Studs.Studs will be thefirst in a strong line up of new Irish films being shown at this year's event.They include Anthony Byrne's modern ...
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Studs to kick off Dublin festival
In a preliminaryannouncement the 4th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has confirmedit will open on February 17 with the World Premiere of Paul Mercier's Studs.A debut feature written anddirected by Mercier and produced by Cúán and Fiach Mac Conghail (alsoproducers of Mercier's three short films) Studsis a feel-good action comedy ...
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Report confirms difficult times for Irish film industry
The Audiovisual Federation of Ireland's employer's lobbyIBEC has released its annual report for 2005, reviewing production andemployment statistics across the film and TV sectors in 2004 and givingestimates for 2005.Produced just as the new measures were being adopted in Britainthe foreword to the report by producer James Flynn of Octagon ...
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Long promoted to Deputy Manager BVI Ireland
Trish Long, Director of Marketing and Publicity at BVI Ireland for the lastfour years, has been appointed Deputy Manager BVI Ireland while retaining herexisting role and responsibility for the BVI Ireland campaigns for releasesfrom the Walt Disney Studios and international and Irish acquisitions. In commenting on her new position, Long ...
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Ireland nets Dragnet and Becoming Jane
Feature films due to go intoproduction in early 2006 include Dragnet,written and directed by Steve Hudson, and BecomingJane directed by Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots). Dragnet is set to star Scottish actors Robert Carlyle and Gary Lewisand will shoot for five weeks on location in Ireland on a trawler off the ...
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Irish Film Board gets 18 percent increase
The IrishMinister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, John O'Donogue,has announced an overallbudget increase of 18.5 percent for the Irish Film Boardin 2006. Within a total allocation of $20.2 (Euros17.126m) the minister hasdecided to provide a sum of $17.7 (Euros15m) to the agency as capital fundingfor production, development and training next ...
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Tony Herbert debut gets up to speed
Fourweeks of principal photography has commenced on location in Dublin for SpeedDating, the debut feature of writer/director Tony Herbert,produced by John Conroy and Adrian Devane.Thefilm tells the story of speed dating addict as he approaches his 30th birthday.When an encounter leads to his being hospitalised and amnesiac, the policestart to ...
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Galway Film Fleadh names McDermott as programmer
The Galway Film Fleadh has announced that FelimMcDermott will be the new programmer for the July event which marks itseighteenth edition in 2006.Having studied filmproduction at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design& Technology, McDermott has worked for 10 years in numerous capacities witha variety of film organisations.They include the Cork ...
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Northern Ireland enjoys a production boom
Northern Ireland is enjoying a production boom with several filmsbacked by the Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC) beginning shoots.Seven films are due to start principal photography between now andnext Spring start in Belfast and along the border with the Republic of Ireland.Alreadyshooting is 48 Angels, a low-budget feature ...
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Shooting begins on The Front Line
Principal photography has startedin Dublin on The Front Line. Directed and written byDavid Gleeson (Cowboys and Angels)and produced by Nathalie Lichtenthaeler, The Front Line has a mixed Irish and internationalcast including Eriq Ebouaney(Kingdom of Heaven), Gerard McSorley (Omagh, Veronica Guerin) and James Frain(Into the Blue, The Count of Monte Cristo).The ...
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Ogden on top for Irish Film And Television Awards
Perry Ogden and Terry George took two awards each at the annual Irish Film and Television Awards ceremony held in Dublin. Perry Ogden took the best film award and the breakthrough award for Pavee Lackeen, while Terry George picked up both best director and best script for Hotel Rwanda.The awards ...
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Perry appointed chief executive of Irish Film Board
In a widely-rumoured move, theIrish Film Board has confirmed the appointment of Simon Perry as CEO, effectiveJanuary 9 of next year.Perry, a former producer andhead of British Screen Finance between 1991 and 2000, is currently President ofAteliers du Cinema Europeen (ACE), the Paris based advanced professionaltraining initiative for European producers. ...
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Sex, Order, Lackeen head Irish award hopefuls
With theannouncement of a host, new venue and, for the first time, a live broadcast byRTE, the final elements of the programme for the Irish Film & TelevisionAwards have been put in place for November 5. Leadingthe pack with seven nominations is local low budget feature Trouble With Sexfollowed closely ...
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Irish industry bolstered by flurry of winter shoots
The Irish production sectorhas experienced its most difficult year since its resurgence in 1993 - but the hopenow is that a flurry of year-end shoots will help remove some of the tarnish.Several live-action featureprojects are set to go before the camera in the next couple of months, amongthem The Front ...
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Irish producers line up 'likely' local shoots
Aftera slow seven months it looks increasingly likely that Irish producers will pushupwards of six locally developed features into production before the year-end.That they are "likely" to start means, as many producers are carefulto say, that the films are probable rather than definite and that financingdeals in many cases are ...
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Low budget horror Nailed cranks up in Belfast
Productionhas begun in Belfast on low budget horror feature Nailed from first-timedirector Adrian O'Connell and writer Stephen McAnena. The film,which is set in Brooklyn but being shot entirely on location in Belfast, starsCharles Porter and Sam Sarpong (American History X) as two pettycriminals on the run who hide out in ...
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Irish producers lobby for RTE backing
Irishproducer lobby group Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has called on nationalbroadcaster RTE to invest more in local feature films.It told a parliamentary Committee on Communications todaythat it wants a fair deal with RTÉ on three issues: investment in indigenousfeature film, programme rights ownership; and guaranteed levels of indigenouslyproduced children's and ...
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Ogden's Traveller tale takes Galway honours
Perry Ogden's Pavee Lackeen took the bestfirst feature award at the 17th Galway Film Fleadh, promising a strong run atinternational festivals, including Toronto, over the coming months. Informed by his work as a stills photographerbased in Ireland for several years, Ogden's film is an intimate andnaturalistic story of the small ...