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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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05 Sep 2008 Shark Awards Announce Shortlist
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The nominated titles for this year’s Kinsale Shark Advertising Festival now in its 46th year have been announced. The festival, which will be held on 11 – 13 September 2008 will see over 700 leading creative people from all over the globe attend. more
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04 Sep 2008 Graham Spurling Discusses Digital Cinema
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The roll out of digital cinema is currently under way across Ireland. IFTN caught up with Graham Spurling of Spurling Group Cinemas to gain some insight into the digital cinema conversion, the role 3D will play, and discuss his appearance at the upcoming Screen International Digital Cinema 2008 event in London taking place on September 25th. more
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03 Sep 2008 Production Underway On Kavaleer’s ‘Garth’
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Production is now underway on Kavaleer’s latest animation series ‘Garth’ (working title) set to air in on BBC CBeebies Channel in early 2009. more
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03 Sep 2008 Screening of King Kong Ahead of World Cyber Games
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In the build up to the World Cyber Games Irish final, The Digital Hub will present a ReelTime screening of ‘King of Kong; A Fistful of Quarters’ on Wednesday 3rd September at 7pm in the Budda Bag Store, on New Millennium Walkway . more
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28 Aug 2008 Sue Land Creates CGI For Cromwell
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CGI specialist Sue Land of UK visual effects company Red Vision speaks to IFTN on the recreation of 17th century war torn Ireland on Tile Films’ docudrama ‘Cromwell in Ireland’ to be broadcast on 9th and 16th September on RTE One at 10.15pm. more
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28 Aug 2008 New Irish Animation Draws International Attention
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Three exciting new animated series currently in production in Ireland; school hurling drama ‘Ballybraddan’; a series based on the award winning short ‘Badly Drawn Roy’, which begins a year of production next week; and Magma Films’ ‘Just a Thought’, are among the projects presenting at the CARTOON Forum (16 - 19 September) in Ludwigsburg in Germany. more
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27 Aug 2008 Deadline For IFTA Membership Renewals & Applications
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The deadline for new membership applications and renewals to the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is this Friday 29th August 2008. more
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13 Aug 2008 Screen Scene Launch New Website
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Screen Scene have launched their dynamic new website with plans to provide daily news and updates covering events and productions at the Dublin post production house. more
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12 Aug 2008 BCI National Conference Asks ‘Does the Medium Matter?’
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The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland has announced its National Conference will take place on 17 - 18 of September, at Dublin’s Croke Park Conference Centre. Entitled “Does the Medium Matter?” the conference will address themes of digital and new media from a variety of standpoints. more
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29 Jul 2008 RTÉ.ie Produces Debut Multimedia TV Series
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RTÉ.ie has produced a new multi-media three-part television series, ‘Global Classroom’, to air on RTÉ One’s Six One News and RTÉ Two’s News on Two on the 28th, 29th and 30th July. more
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28 Jul 2008 TV3 to Takeover Channel 6
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Independent Irish broadcaster TV3, owned by private equity firm Doughty Hanson, is set to take over Channel 6 from its founders and a consortium of investors for an undisclosed sum. more
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28 Jul 2008 The Farm Complete RTÉ Olympics Promo
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Dublin-based post production company The Farm has completed the new RTÉ promo for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. more
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22 Jul 2008 BCI Awards Boxer DTT Multiplex Contracts
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Boxer DTT Limited has been awarded the three national Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) multiplex contracts by The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. more
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