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Special Feature: Industry Discusses Irish Language TV |
| 02 Sep 2010 | With the launch of Irish broadcasters’ Autumn schedules IFTN spoke with broadcasters and producers of Irish language programmes to get their (often varying) take on the current issues facing programming in our native tongue. |
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Abrahamson, O'Conor & Gildea Teaching at Filmbase |
| 02 Sep 2010 | Filmbase Training is planning its busiest autumn ever: launching several brand new courses and hosting talks and seminars with industry experts from home and abroad. After building on six years of success as an Apple Training Centre, Filmbase has also recently added several Adobe Certified Courses to their range of professional industry training. The upcoming speakers and tutors include make up artist Terri Pinnell (Portrait of a Zombie), actor Hugh O’Conor (My Left Foot), casting director Thyrza Ging (Savage) and directors Lenny Abrahamson (Adam and Paul) and Sonya Gildea (Bua). |
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TV3's 'Road to Dublin' Lead to Europa Final |
| 02 Sep 2010 | Motive Television has reportedly signed a €1.1m live sports production contract with TV3 to co-produce coverage of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League with Asgard Media. |
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EDN Online Pitching Call for Projects |
| 02 Sep 2010 | The European Documentary Network (EDN) has introduced a new system of EDN Online Pitching. The new thematic pitching format is based on an online video conference, where a selected number documentary projects are introduced. For the first session EDN is calling for documentary projects with a cross platform potential. The deadline for receipt of entries is September 15th. |
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RTÉ Drama Seeks New Projects |
| 02 Sep 2010 | TV Drama and feature film submissions are currently being accepted by RTÉ Drama. The deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, September 17th and the broadcaster intends to review TV dramas and feature films that have a resonance for an RTÉ One audience for the next BAI round - closing 5th November 2010. |
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FÁS Opens Bursary Award Applications |
| 02 Sep 2010 | FÁS Screen Training Ireland supported by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish Film Board is currently inviting applications for the Screen Training Ireland Bursary Award Scheme. The scheme is open to experienced industry professionals and enables successful bursary recipients to participate in international training programmes, work placements and mentoring to assist their professional development. |
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Tyrell & Apple ‘Making the Grade’ |
| 02 Sep 2010 | September 22nd, 23rd & 24th will play host to three individual free one day courses entitled ‘Making the Grade’. The grading course, from Tyrell CCT in association with Apple, will give established FCP editors with a limited knowledge of online and finishing techniques the opportunity to learn key techniques to improve "the look" and output quality of their programs and VTs ready for transmission. |
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Vote for Your Top European Film |
| 02 Sep 2010 | The European Film Academy (EFA) is currently inviting votes for its 2010 People’s Choice Award. The award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film ‘An Education’, ‘Agora’ and ‘Kick Ass’ among the shortlisted titles. |
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Interview: Graham Linehan Revisits Craggy Island |
| 01 Sep 2010 | In a time when gross-out comedies are the safe option for most writers Graham Linehan insists on creating what he calls ‘Inclusive Comedy’. This is humour that won’t have various family members running for the kettle as a result of unrelenting awkwardness; rather it seeks to find the comedic heart in normally taboo subjects. IFTN spoke with the man who has brought us the three best known members of the Irish parochial community to see what audiences can expect from the upcoming ‘Father Ted’ documentary, his various ways of writing sitcoms and what his favourite ‘Father Ted’ episode is. |
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RTÉ Launches Storyland 3 |
| 01 Sep 2010 | RTÉ is today holding a briefing session to introduce the third installment of its commissioning competition, StoryLand. StoryLand 3 is a competition for online drama series that sees eight series and 21 episodes of new drama commissioned by RTÉ and the audience. |
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'His & Hers' Hits €300,000 at Irish Box Office |
| 01 Sep 2010 | Ken Wardrop’s ‘His & Hers’, which was released in Irish cinemas on June 18th, has now reached a gross box-office of over €300,000 making it the highest grossing documentary released in Ireland since Michael Moore’s ‘Farrenheit 911’. This is a fantastic result for the Irish documentary, which was made on a micro budget of just €100,000. Opening on week one on just €40,000, the power of word of mouth means the film has now grossed 7.5 times this amount. |
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TG4 Announces 'Emotional' Autumn Line-up |
| 01 Sep 2010 | A major new series profiling each of the 1916 Proclamation signatories; the story of the man who invented the documentary film using the Aran Islands as his testing-ground; a revealing television history of Irish rugby; Hector’s invasion of Canada; award-winning documentaries and a return to free-to-air TV for Magner’s League rugby are to form key elements in the TG4’s 2010 Autumn Schedule. |
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Green Inc Going 'Live' and 'Daily' |
| 31 Aug 2010 | Green Inc Film & Television has gone into production with ‘Four Live’ and ‘The Daily Show’ – shows that will broadcast in what was the slot of the group’s previous lifestyle magazine show ‘The Afternoon Show’ on RTÉ. The company is also in production with ‘The Many faces of…Richard Wilson’ for the BBC. |
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Irish Actor Mick Lally Dies, Aged 64 |
| 31 Aug 2010 | One of Ireland’s most well-known actors, Mick Lally, has passed away. The actor, known best to Irish television audiences for his long-running role as Miley Byrne in ‘Glenroe’, died this morning, aged 64, after a short illness. |
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UTV Interim Revenue Up 9% |
| 31 Aug 2010 | UTV Media PLC has released its interim results for the first half of the year. The findings in the report see group revenue up by 9% to £59.2m (2009: £54.4m) and Pre-tax profits up by 17% to £9.4m (2009: £8.0m) It’s further reported that an improvement in the UK airtime market in the first quarter of 2010 was not matched in the Irish marketplace but the second quarter brought growth in both the UK and Ireland. |
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Radharc Documentary Deadline Approaches |
| 31 Aug 2010 | Friday, September 10th has been announced as the closing date for entries to the Radharc Awards - presented to the producers of documentaries which address national or international topics of social justice, morality or faith and honour the memory of the late Fr. Joe Dunn. |
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BBC NI Schedule Highlights Factual & Comedy |
| 30 Aug 2010 | A release from BBC states that BBC NI Autumn viewers can look forward to a diverse range of fresh programmes with everything from brand new comedy and culture shows on Wednesday nights to thought-provoking and hard hitting documentaries. |
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Molodist Film Festival Celebrates Irish Shorts |
| 30 Aug 2010 | A showcase of Irish short films is to be presented at the International Film Festival Molodist in Ukraine which runs until the 31st of August. The Irish films being shown include Steph Green’s Oscar nominated ‘New Boy’, Darren Thornton's ‘Frankie’, Ciaran Foy's ‘The Faeries of Blackheath Woods’, Ken Wardrop's ‘Useless Dog’, ‘Undressing My Mother’ and ‘The Herd’. |
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Setanta Announces Two New Signings |
| 30 Aug 2010 | Setanta Sports has acquired the Irish television rights to broadcast live Serie A football for the coming season. The coverage launched on Sunday, August 29th August and continues today, Monday, August 30th with live broadcast of the Bologna v Inter Milan match at 7.45pm. |
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Graham Norton Lands BBCOne Friday Night Slot |
| 30 Aug 2010 | Irish presenter Graham Norton will bring his talk show, ‘The Graham Norton Show’ to a new Friday night prime time slot from October 22nd. The move, confirmed by BBC One Controller, Jay Hunt will see Graham’s show take over the spot vacated by ‘Friday Night with Jonathan Ross’. |
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