Nick Fraser on the current state of documentary filmmaking • Mint Productions on the Bertie documentary series • Pitching training event at the STF doc festival • Interview with documentary filmmaker Liz Mermin • Roundtable: The future of creative documentary • Pat Collins interview • Steve McQueen on Hunger • Gideon Koppel interview on Sleep Furiously • Loopline Film’s doc courses • A doctor for docs • Nino Troppiano on Chippers
Alan Parker’s handy tips on a career in film • Damien O’Donnell and short film form • John Boyne and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas • Michael Dwyer interviews Robert Redford • Donald Clarke interviews the organisers of Ireland’s three majors film festivals • Alan Moloney: The producer • The craft of film editing • Why are there so few female film critics? • George Morrison retrospective • John Carney editing his latest feature: Zonad
The art and the origin of the studio • 50 years of Ardmore Studios • TV vs Big Screen • How can Irish film find an audience: Creativity • Robert Walpole on finding and distributing a quality film • AGM of the Federation of European Film Directors • Martin Duffy and the cameraman’s three-legged best friend • Ruppert Wyatt on The Escapist • Cannes Film Festival 2008 • Of Best Intentions: it couldn’t have been done without a studio
Shimmy Marcus on self-distribution • Filmmakers and digital distribution • Ed Guiney and Audrey Sheils: Element Pictures’ distribution arm • Interview with Maretta Dillon and Neil Connolly about the new Light House • Thinking in 3D: Interview with Catherine Owens, co-director of U23D, and Tom Krueger, co-DOP of U23D • Declan Recks talks to Roddy Doyle, Pat McCabe and Eugene O’Brien about the art of adaptation • Making comic books into moving pictures • Vintage Irish movie posters • Supervisor sound editor Patrick Drummond remembers the digital revolution • Using the Genesis in Of Best Intentions
Irish cinema relationship with Hollywood • Interview with Tony Safford • Lost in Translation: the doubled-edged sword of Hiberno-English • The Irish film industry: roundtable with John Carney, David Collins, Martina Niland, Mark O’Halloran and Kirsten Sheridan • Irish cinema’s evolution of the genre film • Eugene O’Brien remembers the Westerns • How the economics has shaped the perception of national and international cinema • Interview with Simon Perry, CEO of the BSÉ/IFB, as the Board reaches its 15th year • An Irish director working in Hollywood: Kirsten Sheridan
An overview of how Irish cinema has dealt with the erotic • Homosexuality, Trauma and the Cosmopolitan Queer • All about shooting sex with Paddy Breathnach, Lenny Abrahamson and Colm McCarthy • Film Ireland’s Sex Survey • Irish Film Censor John Kelleher interview • The slippery question of Irish porn • Female Desire in Contemporary Irish Cinema • To do a sex scene or not to do a sex scene? Actor Pauline McLynn’s musings
Not just for footie fans, The Damned United is a joy to watch. Peter Morgan reunites for the third time with Michael Sheen as the two men look to complete a hat-trick.
17-year-old student Nicholas Sheridan has been named as Ireland’s Young Filmmaker for 2009 at this year’s Fresh Film Festival in Limerick. His extraordinarily powerful film The Grim Trials of Vida Novac, dealing with racism, poverty and illness, took first prize at the festival, which is host to the premier accolade in Ireland for filmmakers aged 18 and under.
The interfilm 25th International Short Film Festival in Berlin, which runs from 3–8 November 2009, is now accepting submissions for its international competition.
We are pleased to announce that the winner of our Metrodome competition is Francesco Pilla. Congratulations! The answer to our question ‘Who is the first Colombian to ever receive an Oscar® nomination?’ was Catalina Sandino Morena. Keep an eye on www.filmireland.net for more competitions! Tweet
Filmbase will host a free information session on podcasting this April. The session will outline current trends in the use of podcasting by artists, teachers and organisations and will take place from 10.30 am until 1 pm on Wednesday April 1st at Filmbase. The session will show how podcasting can be used as a learning tool by filmmakers and artists, and how filmmakers can use podcasting to distribute their own content online.
Irish TV & Film Freelancers Directory is a new website for industry professionals allowing them to list their contact details, CV and other information which will enable production companies here and abroad to find and hire freelance professionals. To visit the site please go to www.callsheet.ie Tweet
A nationwide study, commissioned by Miramax Films and the London Jewish Cultural Centre to mark the DVD release of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on 9th March, surveyed 1,200 British secondary school children of all religions about their knowledge of the subject.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ (ICCL) inaugural Human Rights Film School Competition is fast–reaching its closing date of 17th April 2009.
Five shortlisted films will be shown at a Gala Screening early this summer and adjudged by the ICCL’s prestigious competition jury, which includes directors Kirsten Sheridan, Jim Sheridan and Rebecca Miller. The winning filmmaker will be awarded a place in the Summer School on Film and Human Rights, which takes place during the Venice Biennale this summer.
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The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media and The National Film School, Institute of Art Design & Technology (IADT), Dún Laoghaire present a one–day conference on Film and Education – Filmsense, which will take place on Friday, 24th April 2009 at IADT Dún Laoghaire.
Nearly 6,000 immigrants have died on the frontiers of Europe since 1988. Among them, 1,883 have been lost at sea in the Sicilian Channel between Libya, Tunisia, Malta and Italy. Prospect, a new video work by Anthony Haughey, highlights this neglected issue, exploring personal stories and experiences of illegal immigrants in ‘Fortress Europe’.
The US feature film Leap Year starring Amy Adams (Doubt, Enchanted) and Matthew Goode (Watchmen) will go into production in Ireland at the end of this month.
Dublin’s Light House Cinema will be providing the camera obscura setting for a unique display of developing work of 22 artists from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). The exhibition will be open daily from 1.30 pm–9 pm from 27th March until 6th April, and will be free of charge and open to the public.
The Mizen Peninsula is Ireland’s most southwesterly point. Its nearest cinema is an hour away by car in Bantry. Despite this fact, this year it will host its first Short Film Festival. The films will be screened in the Cinemobile – Ireland’s first state of the art 100 seater mobile cinema.
The festival will run from 14–17 May and all films submitted for the festival will be screened in various venues around Schull. The shortlisted films in each category will be screened in the Cinemobile in town.
The Directors Finders Series Award presents an Irish director with an opportunity to showcase their film in the state-of-the-art Director’s Guild of America Theatre, Sunset Boulevard, LA, to an audience of American distributors and industry personnel with a view to securing a U.S. distribution deal.
The Cinemagic Film and Television Festival for Young People is coming back to Dublin. From 6–13 May young film and TV enthusiasts will have a wealth of screenings, masterclasses with film and television industry guests, workshops for schools, a cross border jury panel and Q&A’s to chose from. All of these aim to entertain, motivate [...]
The Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition, which was founded in 1998, is now accepting submissions for this year’s competition. Each year dozens of production companies and literary representatives sign on as participants to read Scriptapalooza’s winners, finalists and semifinalists. The final deadline for submissions is 15th April 2009. Tweet
Finscéal Pháidí (Páidí’s Tale) is the latest project from the team behind the multi award–winning short film Mac an Athar. Written and directed by Colm Bairéad and produced by Greg Corcoran for Fingers Crossed Films, Finscéal Pháidí, a 15 minute short film, was commissioned as part of the Filmbase / TG4 Lasair scheme with support from Gael Linn and Foras na Gaeilge.
More flash in the pan than work of genius, the film fails to deliver anything memorable.
In a genre that has become increasingly synonymous with crudeness, teen sex and vulgarity it is refreshing to come across an expletive-free family comedy in the shape of Paul Blart: Mall Cop. There is just one problem: it’s not really all that funny.
The 7th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is currently seeking volunteers to be part of the festival team. Running 12–22 February 2009, the festival will host some of the finest exponents of contemporary cinema and show over 100 great Irish and international films. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience a major international film festival [...]
The Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) has named Steve McQueen’s study of Bobby Sands’ last days, Hunger, as the best Irish film of 2008, narrowly beating Lance Daly’s Dublin-based Kisses to the top spot. The other Irish film gaining recognition was Liam Nolan’s and Ross Whitaker’s study of St. Saviour’s Olympic Boxing Academy in north [...]
The deadline for the 2009 Imagine Cup has been extended to 1st April. Now in its sixth year, The Imagine Cup is an annual competition aimed at third level students that encourages young people across the globe to apply their imagination, passion and creativity to technological innovations that can make a difference in today’s world. To enter the short film strand of the competition, participants have to submit a three-minute script or storyboard responding to the statement: ‘Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.’
There will be a free talk at the Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009, which takes place 13–15 March in Killruddery, Bray, Co Wicklow.
‘From Silent cinema to a cinema of Silence’, a talk by Katherine Waugh, will take place Saturday 14th March at 1.00 pm.
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