‘Opus K’ is a stylish detective story that screens at Darklight on Friday, 21st October at 4pm at The Factory, 35A Barrow Street, Grand Canal Dock. Film Ireland caught up with its director Eamonn Gray and DOP Baz Al Rawi.
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‘The Guard’ wins Best Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh’s award ceremony held last night at the in the Town Hall, Galway
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Neil Dowling talks about his debut feature ‘Sarang Hey!’ that has its World Premiere
at the Galway FIlm Fleadh (Friday July 8th @8pm)
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The program for this year’s Galway Film Fleadh has been announced.
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Galway Film Centre and Input Media are running ‘The 30 Minute Film Festival’ a new event in association with the Galway Film Fleadh.
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Due to Northern Ireland Screen’s partnership with the Galway Film Fleadh, Northern Ireland writers will be offered the opportunity for a one-to-one meeting with the Fleadh’s Screenwriter in Residence Gill Dennis (Walk the Line; Return to Oz).
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The Irish feature film, Man Made Men, has won the Best Foreign Feature award at the Arizona International Film Festival.
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The Irish feature film, ‘Man Made Men’, has been selected to screen at the 20th Anniversary of the Arizona International Film Festival.
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The deadline for accepting submissions for Feature Film and Feature Documentary categories for the Galway Film Fleadh is Friday 25th March
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Filmbase, in association with the Galway Film Fleadh and The Light House Cinema, present the Best of the West 2010, Award Winning Short Films from the Galway Film Fleadh.
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The Best of the West 2010 will give Dublin audiences a chance to catch the winning short films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
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The Filmbase/RTÉ funded short film Dead Load will première next week at the Galway Film Fleadh, where it will screen in competition with a number of other Irish shorts.
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The Galway Film Fleadh/Hubbard Casting in association with Fás Screen Training Ireland have announced that Annette Bening(American Brauty, Being Julia) will deliver the Actors Masterclass at the 22nd Galway Film Fleadh.
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The Galway Film Fleadh, in association with FÁS Screen Training Ireland, have announced that Ronald Harwood is to present the screenwriting masterclass, while Stephen Daldry will deliver the directors masterclass at the festival.
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The 22nd Galway Film Fleadh announces the return of the popular Pitching Awards.
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The deadline for applications to the Galway Film Fair has been extended until Tuesday the 8th June.
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The deadline for the Galway Film Fair this year is Friday 28th May.
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Guest editor Hugh O’Conor revels in the current abundance of excellent Irish film.
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Niamh Creely talks to Miriam Allen, the managing director of the Galway Film Fleadh, about how the festival does so much more than screen films.
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This is part two of a two-part Film Ireland podcast with writer/director Conor McMahon, recorded three weeks after the world premiere of his ultra low-budget improvised horror film ‘The Disturbed’ at the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh.
Conor sheds some light on what does or does not happen to a filmmaker when a film is well received at a large film festival such as Galway, his meeting with sales agents, applying for completion funding, plus more about the movie now that the film has been seen by an audience.
The Disturbed will be screened in the IFI as part of The Horrorthon this October Bank Holiday weekend.
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This is part one of a two part Film Ireland podcast with Writer/Director Conor McMahon recorded before the world premiere of his ultra low budget improvised horror film ‘The Disturbed’ at the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh.
We hear about what inspired him to make it and what writing process there is in an improvised movie shot in sequence. Conor also talks about the relationship with actors and director when their isn’t a script, what stage he was at in post production at the time and what hopes he had going into the festival.
Part 2 will shed some light on what does or does not happen to a filmmaker when a film is well received at a large film festival such as Galway plus a little more about the film now that people, including Film Ireland, have actually seen it.
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A great selection of diverse animated shorts will again premiere at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh highlighting the wealth of animation talent in Ireland. The Frameworks scheme aims to combine this creative exploration with an ability to appeal to a wide audience. This year’s short animations include Louise Bagnall’s Donkey which tells the tale of [...]
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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.
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For the first time ever the Galway Film Fleadh will have a Fringe Fleadh event. Organised by FilmmakersNetwork.ie, the mini-festival will screen new Irish shorts that for one reason or another slipped through the official net.
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The 21st Galway Film Fleadh will take place from 7–12 July 2009 and has opened its call for submissions. The Fleadh accepts feature films, documentary features and short films. Screening at an earlier film festival will not preclude selection, although priority will be given to European and world premieres.
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