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Signal Arts Centre with the support of 3e are delighted to announce the launch of Signal’s first annual film competition. As ever Signal are constantly developing new ways to engage with the arts community both locally and further a field.
To this end we have decided to launch our film competition to encourage and support [...]

The shortlists for the Bronze Torc Awards for Excellence for this year’s Celtic Media Festival are announced.
Among the Irish to make the shortlist were Stella Days for Feature Length Drama; Corp + Ana for Drama Series; Barbaric Genius, Tubaiste Árainn Mhór, and Wonderland The Men who won’t stop marching for Factual Single; The Boy in [...]

Eilis Mernagh is co-producing a short film to be called ‘Tiger’. A thriller in ten minutes about a battle of wits between a tiger kidnapper and one of his victims, a pampered bank manager’s wife. The script was written by Mernagh and was shortlisted for the short script competition at the Waterford Film Festival in [...]

We’re delighted to announce that Irish director Colm Quinn’s short drama Joy is to have its international premiere at next month’s South by South West festival in Austin, Texas. Winner of the Filmbase/RTÉ short film award, it will screen as part of the narrative shorts competition along with 26 other titles from around the world. [...]

Jeff Doyle’s ‘Phonebooth’ short listed for Jameson Done in 60 Seconds Film Competition
Jeff Doyle’s minute-long version of the Colin Farrell vehicle Phonebooth is the only Irish entry shortlisted from over 400 UK entries for the Jameson Done in 60 Seconds Film competition.
Voting is open now and will close on 29th February with five of the [...]

In the run up to the Academy Awards ceremony, the IFI is presenting two weeks of free lunchtime screenings of Pentecost. The film is a leading hope for Irish Oscar glory this year, one of two short Irish films nominated in the Short Film (Live Action) category, and this is a great chance for Irish [...]

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 [...]