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20 Nov 2008 Screen Scene Busy In Post Production
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Screen Scene has been busy this month completing post production on a number of projects including: documentary ‘Alone It Stands’, the new series of ‘The Panel’ and RTE series ‘Bertie’, as well as welcoming the recent development of Digital Vision software that now supports footage captured on the RED one camera. more
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19 Nov 2008 Tile Film’s ‘Death or Canada’ To Air On RTÉ 1
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‘Death or Canada’, a new 2 x 52 min HD docudrama produced by Tile Films and complete with lavish reconstructions and CGI technology, will see its first installment air on Tuesday 25 November on RTÉ 1 at 10.15pm with the second part airing on Tuesday 2nd December. more
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14 Nov 2008 IFTA Submissions Deadline Approaches
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The deadline for the 6th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards is fast approaching. Submissions must be received at the IFTA office or via the online submissions form by 5.30pm Monday 17th November 2008. more
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11 Nov 2008 Eurotek & Autodesk Present ‘Create Animate Integrate Tour’
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Aiming to explore the powerful new features of the Autodesk 2009, Autodesk and Eurotek are holding a Create Animate Integrate tour at The Morgan Hotel, Temple Bar on Thursday 27th November. more
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11 Nov 2008 RTÉ Airing First Live-Cross Platform Commercial
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RTÉ and 118 50 (Conduit Ireland) are to broadcast the first ever live commercial in Ireland and will be the first country in Europe to broadcast a live cross-media ad during half time of the Munster versus All Blacks match on Tuesday 18 November. more
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10 Nov 2008 Screen Scene Launches New Video Conferencing Service
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Screen Scene has launched a new video conferencing service using the latest Conferencing Technology from Market leaders Polycom. This service gives you the ability to connect to any IP enabled Conference Centre in the World. more
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10 Nov 2008 Boorman To Direct ‘Wizard of Oz’ Animation
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John Boorman (The General, The Tiger's Tail) is attached to direct the $25 million, CG-animated film ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’. more
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04 Nov 2008 UTV Hits back at BECTU Claims
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Following on from BECTU’s attack on UTV over potential redundancies, Michael Wilson, Managing Director, UTV Television gives his response. more
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03 Nov 2008 BECTU Launches Attack on UTV
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Media and entertainment union BECTU has launched a public attack on Northern Irish ITV franchise holder UTV, claiming the broadcaster is failing to negotiate over its plans to make to cut 30-35 jobs in production and would not rule out compulsory redundancies. more
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30 Oct 2008 IFTA Opens Call for Entries For 6th Awards
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The call for entries for the 6th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) is now open. Submissions are invited for categories in film, television, shorts and animation. This year sees the introduction of a new Feature Documentary category. Deadline for entires is 17 November 2008. more
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23 Oct 2008 Ardmore Studios Presents Three Restored Titles to Irish Archive
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For the 50th anniversary celebrations of Ardmore Studios, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Kevin Moriarty (Managing Director of Ardmore Studios) and Morgan O’Sullivan (Tudors Series Executive Producer) presented three films produced in the early years of the studios to the Irish Film Archive. more
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22 Oct 2008 IFB Announce ‘Virtual Cinema’ Short Film Scheme
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The Irish Film Board has announced the new deadline of their short film scheme Virtual Cinema. Applications will be accepted until Friday, November 21st. more
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20 Oct 2008 John Moore’s ‘Max Payne’ Tops US box office
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Irish director John Moore’s (Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix) film adaptation of the video game ‘Max Payne’ starring Mark Wahlberg (The Italian Job) has topped the US box office over the weekend. more
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07 Oct 2008 DEAF to host premiere screening
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The seventh Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) takes place from 23 -26 October a full day and evening of film, workshops, discussions and music at the Digital Hub, Dublin 8 on Saturday 25 October including the Irish premiere screening of ‘Totally Wired” the new doc directed by Niamh Ahern. more
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06 Oct 2008 O’Halloran To Judge New RTÉ Web Competition
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RTÉ has launched StoryLand, an innovative project, inviting aspiring and experienced programme makers to make a drama series specifically for the web, From the pitches received, a panel chaired by Irish scriptwriter and actor Mark O’Halloran (Adam & Paul, Garage, Prosperity) will decide 10 winning entries to have their pilot episode aired in March 2009. more
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01 Oct 2008 Cinema Consortium announces Cinema Digitisation Scheme
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The Cultural Cinema Consortium is launching a new scheme to provide capital funding grants towards the cost of purchasing and installing digital projection equipment. more
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24 Sep 2008 TIF Conference on Virtual Generation - A Digital Life
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The Telecommunications and Internet Federation today announced details of its upcoming conference on The Virtual Generation - A Digital Life which will be held in Dublin Castle on Tuesday, 21st October. more
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18 Sep 2008 Q&A With Steadicam Oscar Winner Garrett Browne
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Garrett Brown the Oscar-winning inventor of the Steadicam™ recently attended and gave a workshop at the Dingle Film Festival. He has worked on nearly 100 films including the ‘Rocky’ series, ‘The Shining’ and ‘Return of the Jedi’. IFTN caught up with this revolutionary of filming to discuss his move from folk singer to Oscar winner, his most challenging scene to film and what camera he would love to invent. more
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16 Sep 2008 Shark Awards Winners Announced
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Irish creative agencies Publicis QMP, Cawley Nea TBWA, DDFH&B as well as broadcasters BBC NI, RTÉ and TV3 all took home awards following the 46th Kinsale Shark Advertising Awards over the weekend. more
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11 Sep 2008 ‘Be Entertainment’ Launches in Belfast
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The team behind the original cross media series ‘Sofia’s Diary’ and ‘Aisling’s Diary’ have announced the launch of a new company, Be Entertainment, to be based in Belfast. more
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