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Archive for February, 2010
ART BY CHANCE Call for Entries
ART BY CHANCE is the brand new ‘Ultra Short Film Festival’ that aired in 13 countries and more than 70 cities in May/June/July 2009.
Dingle Film Festival hosts Ireland’s first RED Users Gathering
Dingle Film Festival will welcome RED to the first annual Irish Red Users’ Gathering in Dingle on Saturday March 20th in The Phoenix Cinema.
Dingle Film Festival welcomes Alan Piper, Operations Director of RED Europe, who will be showcasing the newly upgraded RED One Camera, with Mysterium-X Sensor, as well as premiering RED’s 4K M-X Show Reel on JVC’s new 4K Projector, supplied by HoloVis UK, another first for Ireland.
Bitfilm Festival Call for Entries: Film Production, Wikipedia Style
Bitfilm Festival is calling for short documentary, fiction and animation submissions to combine into one film with the title ‘Money & Me’, with the most popular film in every category receiving prize money.
Interview with 'Eamon' writer/director Margaret Corkery
access>CINEMA’s Dave O Mahony introduces the first of the IFI’s Conversations with Irish Filmmakers series with writer/director Margaret Corkery.
Margaret’s background in art and photography led to her early short films ‘Killing the Afternoon’ and ‘Joyride’, which were both screened and discussed at the event.
Her debut feature, the dark comedy ‘Eamon’, was produced as part of the Catalyst Project. Margaret discusses her experiences in writing and shooting the film, her influences, and the challenges faced in marketing a film and gaining entry into the major film festivals worldwide.
Screening at the Berlinale: An Interview with Kerry Condon
Kerry Condon stars in the Berlinale-featured Irish short ‘Hum’ by Rebecca Daly. Beatrice Ní Bhroin talked to her about her latest works and how the Irish actress has achieved worldwide success without losing sight of her Tipperary roots.
Irish Filmmakers Wanted
WithRobots… is a group of avid film fanatics and writers who are getting together to bring an exciting new opportunity to movie goers and directors in Northern and Southern Ireland with the independent film festival, UntappedResource.
Oscar® Nominees to visit Ballyfermot College
Talk and panel discussion set for Wednesday 24th February.
JDIFF Career Achievement Award
Ciarán Hinds, Patricia Clarkson and Kristin Scott Thomas to receive Voltas at the 8th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
'Unknown White Male'
Liam Neeson heads the cast of the action thriller
being shot on location in Germany.
Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival
Irish novelist Patrick McCabe to take part in the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival.
Irish Film at the Berlinale: An Interview with Rebecca Daly
Beatrice Ní Bhroin reports from the 60th Berlinale, at which two Irish shorts screened: Hugh O’Conor’s ‘Corduroy’ and Rebecca Daly’s ‘Hum’.
18 Irish Features to Screen at JDIFF
Nine Irish features and nine Irish feature documentaries are to screen at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
Two classic Re-releases at the IFI
Two very different classic films are being re-released at the IFI this February: Dennis Hopper’s landmark road movie ‘Easy Rider’ (1969) and Max Ophüls literary adaptation a Stefan Zweig’s novella, ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ (1948).
Irish short 'The Crush' to screen at Chicago Irish Film Festival
The short film ‘The Crush’ has been selected to screen at the Chicago Irish Film Festival and also at the Belfast Film Festival.
Irish Short 'Sugarstick' Wins at Slamdance
Laura Way’s short ‘Sugar Stick’ has won the Audience Sparky Award for Best Anarchy Online Film at the Slamdance Film Festival.
Irish Doc 'Paradiso' wins Audience Award in Germany
‘Paradiso’ has won an Audience Award at the International Film Weekend Wuerzburg in Germany.
Irish Film ‘One Hundred Mornings’ Wins At Slamdance
Bl!nder Films first feature film ‘One Hundred Mornings’, funded by the Catalyst Project and directed by Conor Horgan won a Special Jury Mention at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in January 2010.
