The Pint and a Picture Show: Now in Rathmines
The Pint and a Picture filmshow free film screening event has relocated to Mother Reilly’s in Rathmines. Tonight, on Monday 30th November, the Irish feature film ‘Man Made Men’ will screen.
Archive for November, 2009
New Filmbase Course: Writing Short Films That Get Funded
Filmbase’s day-time course (10–12 December, 10.30am–5.30pm) will give expert guidance in crafting short film scripts.
Special guests announced for IFI German Film Festival
The IFI German Film Festival will take place 3–13 December and Tim Rostock, Connie Walthers, Jens Junker, Tobias Walker and Thomas Lauterbach are to attend.
IFI Ireland On Sunday Presents ‘Hotel Darklight’
The IFI will be screening the Darklight Festival’s feature length film ‘Hotel Darklight’ on Sunday, 13th December at 1pm.
The Magic Lantern Film Society Starts New Season
The Magic Lantern Film Society is returning to Derry audiences on Thursday 3rd December at the Nerve Centre on Magazine Street.
Irish Short 'Henry & Sunny' Screens at UK Festival
Fergal Rock’s short film ‘Henry & Sunny’ has screened at the We the Peoples Film Festival in London.
Animation 'Olinda' Selected to Be Screened at Animarte 2009
Irish School of Animation (Ballyfermot College of Further Education) graduate Bruno Palma’s student animation Olinda has been selected from over 200 submissions as one of 18 films to be screened as part the Animarte 2009 Festival.
‘Adam & Paul’ DVD Re-Release
The award-winning ‘Adam & Paul’ is to be re-released on DVD on the 4th December 2009.
Two Further IFI French Film Festival Guests Confirmed
Two more featured film directors, Michael House and Julie Lopes-Curval, have confirmed their attendance at the IFI French Film Festival.
‘An Cosc’ to screen at the Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington
The TG4/Filmbase short film ‘An Cosc’ has been selected to screen at the Capital Irish Film Festival (4–7 December) in Washington.
New European Co-Production Event
A three-day co-production market Arc 1950 Co-Production Village (6–8 December) will run as part of the first Les Arcs European Film Festival.
Los Angeles Irish Film Festival
James Bartlett reports from the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Irish Film Festival (23–27 September 2009, Los Angeles)
The Japanese Film Festival returns to Dublin with a Cosplay Competition
The Japanese Film Festival returns this November, once again bringing the best new Japanese films to Dublin audiences. The screenings will take place at Cineworld, Parnell Street, from 20-22 November.
Screen Cinema in Dublin Launches a New Season of Classic and Cult Movies
In the first few weeks they will be showing Hollywood oldies every Tuesday starting with the absolute classic (and Martin Scorsese’s fave) ‘Singing in the Rain’ on the 17th of November.
Filmbase to host Fundraiser Table Quiz on Friday 27th November!
Filmbase will host a Fundraiser Table Quiz on Friday 27th November at Alchemy Club & Venue, in the Temple Bar Hotel.
Sorority Row
‘Sorority Row’ has all the joie de vivre of toilet trading and would only truly satisfy if it were a snuff movie.
‘Ballybrando’ Documentary to Be Broadcast in December
‘Ballybrando’ is a documentary charting the ill-fated 1995 Irish film Divine Rapture, which had Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp among its stars. The documentary, currently being edited, tells the story of the ‘greatest film never made in Ireland’, as the project was brought to a halt as a result of financial difficulties.
www.savethekino.com Website is Now Live
It had been announced that the Kino Cinema, Cork is to close at the end of November. The Kino is the only dedicated art-house cinema in Munster. Cinema lovers of Cork have come together to save the Kino. A new website, www.savethekino.com, to save the cinema has been launched.
'The Disturbed' gets deal with Cinemavault
Conor McMahon’s Irish thriller, ‘The Disturbed’, which recently played to a sell out crowd at the Horrorthon film festival in the IFI over the October bank holiday weekend, has been picked up by Toronto-based Cinemavault for worldwide sales and representation at the American Film Market in Los Angeles.
European Film Academy Nominations 2009
Two Irish feature-length animations, Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells and Niko & the Way to the Stars from directors Kari Juusonen and Michael Hegner, have both received nominations from The European Film Academy in their Animated Feature Film 2009 category.
Save the Kino Campaign
More than 300 people attended a public meeting to launch a campaign to save Cork’s Kino Cinema, the only independent cinema outside of Dublin, which recently announced it was being forced to close on Sunday, 29th November as a result of High Court proceedings by creditors seeking repayment of a debt owed for design work.
Cork Film Festival Kicks Off
The 54th Corona Cork Film Festival, Ireland’s oldest film festival which will take place from 1–8 November, launched its programme of events on Thursday, 22nd October.
Free documentary screening at Instituto Cervantes, Dublin
The documentary ‘Even the Olives Are Bleeding’, about the Irish man Charles Donnelly who died fighting during the Spanish Civil War, will be shown on Friday, 6th November at 2.30pm at the Instituto Cervantes.
BlueCat Screenplay Competition – Call for entries
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition 2010 is now open for submissions. Every screenplay submitted to BlueCat receives written analysis.
Irish filmmaker wins in Japan
The short film Atlantic, written and directed by Conor Ferguson, produced by Park Films, starring Liam Cunningham and funded by Bord Scannan na hEireann/the Irish Film Board has been awarded Best Very Short at the prestigious Sapporo Short Fest in Japan.
