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.
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Rod Stoneman and James Finlan of NUI Galway’s Huston School of Film & Digital Media have travelled to Western Africa for the continent’s largest film festival, FESPACO. Held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, the film festival first started 40 years ago and has evolved into an internationally renowned event. The team from NUI Galway will continue [...]
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The year 2009 marks the beginning of the construction of the new Filmmuseum and therefore this year’s edition of DOKU.ARTS will concentrate on architecture. From 11–14 June at the Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, around thirty creative documentaries about art and artists will be screened at the fourth edition of the festival. The festival mainly focuses [...]
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The Association for the Development of the Animation Industry of Córdoba is announcing the call for entries for the 5th International Animation Film Festival of Córdoba, Animacor’09, which will be held from 2–7 November. A total of €39,000 will be awarded to prize-winners in the course of the festival. The winners will also receive the [...]
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FEST, the International Film Festival Portugal, will take place 21–28 June. The Official competitive section in the festival, aimed at directors up to 30 years of age, has five categories: Fiction, Documentary, Experimental, Animation and Music Videoclip. The Silver Castle competition is also open for feature films from directors for whom this is their first [...]
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Irish films The Secret of Kells and Cherrybomb had their world premieres yesterday at the Berlin International Film Festival. The Secret of Kells, directed by Tomm Moore and produced by European Producer of the Year, Cartoon Saloon, is a beautifully animated film featuring the voice talent of Brendan Gleeson and Mick Lally and will screen [...]
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The 6th Mid Ulster Film Festival is due to take place 1–3 May 2009 at The Ulster History Park, Gortin Road, Omagh. The festival is currently open for submissions. Please note that the closing date for entry of all films is 19th March 2009. For entry forms please visit www.midulsterfilmfestival.com Tweet
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Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Five Minutes of Heaven, which stars Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, has won the prestigious World Cinema Directing Award and World Cinema Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film, which explores aspects of Northern Ireland’s troubled past, will receive its Irish Premiere on 21st February as part of the Jameson [...]
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Acclaimed Hunger actor Liam Cunningham and Oscar®-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan unveiled the impressive programme of events at the 7th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival launch. The launch took place in The Odeon, Harcourt Street at 6.30 pm Monday 26th January. Taking place from the 12–22 February, the festival features a stellar lineup of guests including [...]
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Liam Neeson selected Brian Durnin’s new short film Of Best Intentions for the top prize at the Kerry Film Festival. Brian, who wrote and directed the film, was on hand with producer Paul Holmes to pick up the award in Tralee, Co. Kerry. Jim Sheridan and Brenda Fricker were also present at the screening and [...]
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Irish audiences are to be given a sample of Ukrainian cinema with a week-long festival presented by the Irish Film Institute and the Embassy of the Ukraine in Ireland. The Festival will take place 19–25 September in the IFI. The Ukraine has been tipped to be the next Eastern European international success story after the [...]
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The deadline for submissions to the Waterford Film Festival is Monday the 1st of September. The festival welcomes local, national and international films and is open to any form of genre, with five categories including: Feature Film, Feature Documentary, Short Film, Short Documentary and Best First Short Film. The festival website has been updated and [...]
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