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Fergal Rock, a Dublin-based writer/director (Henry & Sunny, Tom Waits Made Me Cry) has been named a semi-finalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s 9th annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest with his screenplay Calvin & Skye. The finalists and semi-finalists, chosen from over 2,500 screenplays, were announced this morning (01/02/12) on the Zoetrope website.
http://www.zoetrope.com/contests/2011finalists.htm
In 2011, Calvin & [...]

A new funding scheme developed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) to support the archiving of broadcast material has been approved by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte TD.

The aim of the Broadcast Archiving Scheme is to encourage and support the development of an archiving culture in the Irish broadcasting [...]

Terry George’s The Shore and Peter McDonald’s Pentecost were both nominated for Best Short Film (Live Action) today as the nominations for this year’s Oscars were announced. Congratulations to all involved in these two great short films
Parallel Films’ co-production Albert Nobbs secured three Oscar nominations. Glenn Close is nominated for Best Actress in a Leading [...]

You have only seven days left to apply for funding to participate in the Community Outreach Digital Switchover Programme!
The aim of the programme is to involve community and voluntary organisations in reaching out to the people who otherwise may not make the switch to a digital television service, before the analogue signal is turned off [...]

The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to announce that Fionnula Flanagan will be honoured with the IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards, in Dublin on Saturday 11th of February 2012.
Speaking about Fionnula Flanagan and her Lifetime Achievement Award, IFTA Chief Executive Áine Moriarty said: ‘IFTA [...]

Have you a burning desire to direct an award winning documentary like Spellbound, Hoop Dreams or Roger and Me? What about His & Hers, The Pipe or Pyjama Girls? Is there a story you’d like to tell on television about Ireland today and your generation’s place in it? Do you have an observational [...]

2012 IFTA Nominations Galore for IADT graduates!
Once again graduates and former students of The National Film School at IADT did exceptionally well when nominations for the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards were announced this month. They scooped a fantastic 20 nominations. The winners will be presented with their trophies at the 9th annual IFTA [...]

As the closing date for Lasair 5 approaches we’d like to remind all applicants that the deadline for applications is 5pm Friday 27th of January. If you’d still putting the finishing touches to your applications the following notes may be of use – these notes were taken at the Lasair information session on 15th [...]

The Artist and The Descendants took home the comedy and drama best picture trophies at the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Sunday night. In a ceremony that saw Globes handed out to a wide range of projects, The Artist had the most wins for a movie with three total, including best [...]

Jameson are running the Done in 60 Seconds competition and asking budding filmmakers to remake their favourite movie in into a mere minute of screen time.
Entrants will have their 60-Second masterpiece viewed by a panel of leading professionals, including the acclaimed director Jim Sheridan. It’s a great stepping stone for any aspiring film maker as [...]