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My Environment, My Film: Viral Video Making Competition with Darklight, European Commission in Ireland and Cultivate
Attention all budding filmmakers! Make a short film on the Environment and you could win a state of the art HD camera and have your work screened at this year’s Darklight Festival! There will also be a FREE VIRAL [...]

Small Arts Festivals Scheme 2011, round one, closing date 10 September 2010
The Small Arts Festivals and Events Scheme is open to organisations that organise and promote festivals or events with a clear artistic purpose that will take place in the calendar year 2011.
A festival may represent one artform or may include a wide [...]

Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Limerick, is inviting expressions of interest under the Public Art – Per Cent for Art Scheme from established artists wishing to create unique work/s in any medium with an allocated budget of €100,000.
Following a major capital investment programme to a total of €40 million, two new buildings have been completed in [...]

The Arts Council would like to draw the attention of its subcribers to an upcoming deadline from Culture Ireland, the agency within the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport tasked with promoting Irish arts worldwide. Much of the work promoted abroad by Culture Ireland is proudly funded by the Arts Council, and the Council works [...]

Dysart’s Sail In Film Festival is a Flagship Project for celebrating Fife 2010 and is looking for entries to their short film competition.
A short film competition on the theme of celebrating Fife will give local and international filmmakers the chance to see their work projected onto a huge screen on a harbour cliff wall in.
The [...]

Don’t forget the deadline for the IFB’s Reality Bites scheme for the production of short documentary films is Friday 6th August.
The deadline for the IFB’s Signatures scheme is Friday the 3rd of September.
For more info on both of these schemes visit www.irishfilmboard.ie.

Darklight has announced the details of this years movie making challenge, Sony Ericsson’s ‘Free Your Film’. Following on from the successes of Darklight’s previous film making challenges, ‘Dublin: The Movie’ and ‘Hotel Darklight’, this year’s will be the best yet.
Sony Ericsson are collaborating with Darklight to find 3 aspiring filmmakers. They’re offering a budget of [...]

The deadline for the next round of project awards is 5.30pm on Thursday 2 September 2010.
The following awards will be available for activities taking place in 2011:
* Arts Participation Project Award
* Circus Project Award
* Dance Project Award
* Film Project [...]

Nisi Masa, the European network of young cinema, is organising an online video contest about multilingualism. Filmmakers are asked to submit their short to win a place aboard Polyglot – on the way to Turku, an itinerant filmmaking event traveling across the archipelago of Turku, Finland.
They are looking for film submissions in two categories, Video [...]

SHORTS JURY AWARDS
The Best First Animation Award in association with the Cartoon Saloon
Honourable Mention……Laurie and the Litterbugs & We Are Detectives
Winner…………Action Evader directed and produced by Pádraig Mannion
The James Horgan Award for Best Animation
Honourable Mention…….The Meaning of Eggsistence directed by Bruce Ryder and produced by Stephen Rennicks
Winner…….Mister Heaney – A Wee Portrait directed and produced [...]