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Filmbase will be closed for the August Bank Holiday weekend. We close at 5.30pm on Friday 30th of July and re-open at 9.30am on the morning of Tuesday 3rd August.
Enjoy the long weekend!

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 [...]

The 18th annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, renamed the GAZE Film Festival, will run for five days over the August bank holiday in the Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin. This year’s event offers a wealth of features, documentaries and shorts from countries such as Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Ireland, Norway, [...]

The Kerry Film Festival (KFF) has partnered with a number of film festivals in Spain, Italy, Sweden, Canada, the UK and America in an effort to promote the best of Irish short films.
The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2010, one of KFF’s partner festivals which is based in London, takes place from 21–30 July and will [...]

The National Campaign for the Arts is stepping up a gear in advance of the pre-Budget estimates in an effort to protect national and local funding for the arts.
They are preparing ads aimed at the general public and would appreciate any space they can be given in brochures/show programmes etc. Those interested should email the [...]

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.