The Bargain Issue! Guest edited by Ken Wardrop and Andrew Freedman
Friday, May 1, 2009
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The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, sheds light on what the most recent budget means for the Irish Film industry. Sheena Sweeney interviews.
Friday, May 1, 2009
It’s tough making films. They cost a lot of money and because the economic downturn is showing no signs of levelling out just yet, the chance to get any kind of film made is becoming ever more precarious. With this in mind the Catalyst Project was launched in 2007 – 3 movies, 3 teams of writers, directors and producers, a budget of €250,000 each – and aimed at first-time filmmakers and emerging talent in all areas of production. Can a film be made on €250,000 and will low-budget filmmaking be with us for the foreseeable future?
Friday, May 1, 2009
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Liz Gill looks at the highly successful Danish film industry and wonders: could we learn a thing or two? Imagine, if you will, that in one year in Ireland, 27 Irish feature films (meaning Irish written, directed, shot, set and edited) with an average budget of 2.6 million euros, are released theatrically on 51 prints each, taking an average of 1.2 million euros at the box office and 26% of the national market share...
Friday, May 1, 2009
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8 features, 8 directors, 8 rules. Gavin Burke investigates the octically-obsessed Advance Party II. With the Catalyst Project asking its filmmakers to deliver a film on €250,000, Advance Party II’s budget of €1.5 million will seem like a luxury. Finding its inspiration from the competitive and creative community of the dogme movement, Advance Party I (API) brought together a new group of filmmakers and created a new and unique set of rules to govern the conception and production of their new films...
Mon, May 25, 2009
Welcome to the new Film Ireland website. We hope you like it and we hope you will find it useful and entertaining. The site is currently in Beta test mode and we will be continuing to improve and update it over the coming weeks and months. We'd like your feedback to help us in improving both this website and the print version of the magazine. With that in mind, we'd like to invite you to take part in our reader's survey. The survey should take no more than a couple of minutes to complete, and your honest feedback would be invaluable to us.
Fri, Jul 3, 2009
An over-baked and nonsensical waste of time.
Fri, Jul 3, 2009
An Irish feature length film that has been entirely produced by students has secured a slot in the Galway Film Fleadh for the first time in the festival’s twenty-year history. Written and directed by recent Dublin City University graduate John McKeown, the romantic-comedy Six Semesters is to play in the Wildcard Category of the International [...]
Thu, Jul 2, 2009
'Tony Manero' is a dark insight into the mind of a psychopath obsessed with John Travolta’s character from 'Saturday Night Fever'. Stephen Galvin talks to Alfredo Castro, star of the multi award-winning film.
Thu, Jul 2, 2009
There’s a killer on the loose in this dark, powerful portrayal of obsession.
Thu, Jul 2, 2009
If 'Road Trip' or 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' didn’t impress you, then perhaps give this film a wide berth.
Friday, May 1, 2009
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