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SHORT ENDS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Irish Winner at Babelgum Irish filmmaker Brian Deane, graduate of NUI Galway's Huston School of Film & Digital Media, was among the winners of the first Babelgum Online Film Festival. His short film, Without Words, was awarded the Social/Environmental Award at the festival and he ...
Write Here, Write Now
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Dublin International Film Festival in association with Walt Disney Motion Pictures (Ireland) has announced Write Here, Write Now, a new International Screenwriting Award. The award will acknowledge and support the creation of original and innovative scripts through a combination of ...
The Edge Awards
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Louth, Newry & Mourne Film Commission, in association with the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and BSÉ/IFB has announced a new funding award to promote filmmaking in the border region. The Edge is a cross-border production award open to all genres, from documentaries, ...
access>CINEMA News
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... access>CINEMA and Europa Cinemas at Cannes access>CINEMA as a member of Europa Cinemas, attended the meeting of the Europa Cinemas Exhibitors in Cannes in May. 2007 was a record year for Europa Cinemas with exhibitors belonging to the Europa Cinemas network increasing the ...
Frameworks Awards Irish Animators
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Frameworks, an established scheme for the making of animated short films, has awarded projects from Barley Films, Glimpse Digital, Cel' Division, Cartoon Saloon and Raw Nerve Productions in their animated short film scheme. The scheme is open to animation in either Irish or English of no ...
Hat-Trick of Awards
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Three awards have been won by students in the first year of Ireland's only documentary post-graduate course, Masters in Documentary Practice at the University of Ulster. Ayodeji Shogbamimu, from Athy, won euro8,000 from the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge to make his dissertation film on ...
Take-2 Preview
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 1st Take-2 International Student Film Festival (3-7 November 2008, Co. Kerry) Kerry's First Student International Film Festival, the Take-2 Film Festival will take place this year from 3-7 November 2008. The Take-2 Festival will run in conjunction with the Kerry Film Festival which is ...
MEDIA Funding Awards
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Six Irish companies have received financial support to develop a range of film, TV and interactive projects following the most recent MEDIA Development funding round. Parallel Film Productions was awarded first stage slate funding for fiction while Telegael Teoranta was awarded second ...
Minicinesfest
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 2nd Minicinefest, Ranelagh Arts Festival (24-28 September 2008, Ranelagh, Co. Dublin) The Film Committee of Ranelagh Arts Festival is looking for entries for Minicinefest, a festival of short films, to be screened at the forthcoming festival in September '08. All entries should be ...
Virtual Cinema Darklight
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... BSÉ/IFB, together with the Darklight Film Festival presented the premiere of the BSÉ/IFB funded Virtual Cinema short film scheme on 27th June. The Darklight Film Festival (26-29 June, Dublin) also hosted a series of symposia to celebrate the launch of the Virtual Cinema initiative - a ...
Jameson Movies on the Square
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Jameson Movies on the Square (4th July-22nd August 2008, Dublin) Jameson Movies on the Square will begin on Friday 4th July with live music and a screening of The Commitments. The event will run for eight weeks on the big screen in the open-air setting of Meeting House Square. The only ...
Galway Film Fleadh
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 20th Galway Film Fleadh (8-13 July 2008, Galway) The 20th Galway Film Fleadh, taking place this July, will host a programme of events which includes world premieres, classic screenings, tributes, Irish and international documentaries, features and shorts. The 2008 International ...
Kinofest
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 1st Kinofest Westport Film Festival (8-11 September 2008, Westport ,Co. Mayo) Running mid-week from 8-11 September, Kinofest '08 hopes to bring the finest films of Europe's premier film festival, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, into the heart of the ...
Dingle Film Festival
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 2nd Dingle Film Festival 11-14 September 2008, Dingle, Co. Kerry) The 2nd Dingle Film Festival kicks off this September and will again feature a number of Irish premieres, documentaries and an educational programme. While there will be no short film competition, the focus of the ...
GAZE
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 16th GAZE Dublin International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (31st July-4th August 2008, Dublin) GAZE, the 16th Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, will take place in Dublin from 31st July-4th August 2008. This year the festival presents a plethora of international, European and ...
Galway African Film Festival
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 1st Galway African Film Festival (1-2 June 2008, Galway) Galway's First African Film Festival, presented by One World Centre, Galway Film Society and The Huston School of Film and Digital Media took place at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway on 1-2 June. The Festival was funded by ...
Going Places
Jul 01, 2008; Moriarty, Kevin ... KEVIN MORIARTY tells us how Irish film can find an audience. I HAVE BEEN asked many times over the years to offer my viewpoint on the Irish film industry, Irish film and the health or otherwise of the current position. I believe there are two aspects to this. The Irish film industry, as ...
Cork Youth
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 28th Cork Youth International Film Video Arts Festival (15-17 May 2008, Cork) The 28th Cork Youth International Film Video Arts Festival took place at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, Co. Cork. Film in a range of genres including documentary, fiction, animation, experimental, musical and ...
LIGHTS OUT! Preview
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 1st LIGHTS OUT! National Film Festival for Young People (12-19 July 2008, various venues) The 1st LIGHTS OUT! National Film Festival for Young People takes place from 12-19 July 2008 in Dublin, Louth, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Clare, Cork and Westmeath. LIGHTS OUT! will screen an ...
Belfast Film Festival
Jul 01, 2008; Open, Michael ... 8th Jameson Belfast Film Festival (10-19 April 2008, Belfast) The Belfast International Film Festival showed that the event has matured into a significant and well-organised part of the calendar. The opening screening was Reservation Road, Terry George's American drama about the ...