Starting at 10:59, listen back as Assistant Editor Gemma Creagh chats with Pádraig Hurley on D15 Today on 92.5 Phoenix FM about the film industry, the origins of Film Ireland magazine, and our exhibition in partnership with DBS School of Arts, which takes place this Thursday.
Film Ireland had its samizdat beginnings as Issue No.1 of Film Base News in May/June 1987 and continued in print form as Ireland’s leading film publication until moving exclusively online in 2014. Our Digital Archive will offer the complete collection of 147 physical print issues of Film Ireland, covering more than 12,000 pages of fascinating and essential industry content. The digital archive will be made available on an OA (Open Access) basis to students, researchers and the general public under a Creative Commons agreement.
The unique and varied content created by many dedicated editors and contributors to Film Ireland over the period offers a lens through which we watch an emerging film sector become the significant regional and global player we now know to be the Irish Film Industry. Analysing early Film Ireland content, we recognize the importance of key formal concerns regarding funding, taxation, industry structure, training needs, EU relations and Foreign Direct Investment for our industry. We also see the development of early concerns around the issues of gender representation, genre, language, diversity and sustainability that we now consider central to the activity and output of Irish Film and Media.
About The Digital Archive Project
Our Film Ireland Digital Archive Project is an important Cultural Heritage conservation initiative. We look forward to seeing you at the event on 17th April and to celebrating the hugely significant contribution that Film Ireland has made (and continues to make) in recording, revealing and preserving so many aspects of 20th and 21st century cultural heritage in Ireland.
The event will be introduced by former Film Ireland Editor and Director Johnny Gogan.
