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2nd Annual Writers Guild Nominees – 19th November 2008
Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, which starred Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, is among the three shortlisted nominees for Best Film Script at the second annual ZeBBies, the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild (IPSG) Awards. Roddy Doyle and Mark O’Halloran scoop two nominations each. Graham Linehan, best known for Father Ted, is shortlisted for Best Television Script for The IT Crowd.
The ZeBBies are named after O.Z. Whitehead (aka Zebby), actor and writer, who sponsored playwriting awards with the Society of Irish Playwrights (now the IPSG) for many years. The Awards will be hosted again this year by Senator David Norris.
The ZeBBies have been established to recognise the writer as the creative architect of every drama. The awards will be presented for the best script in the categories of film, television, radio and theatre. The shortlisted candidates are:
Martin McDonagh for In Bruges
Mark O'Halloran for Garage
Mark O'Rowe for Boy A
BEST FILM SCRIPT AWARD TO BE PRESENTED BY: Ingrid Craigie (Whistleblower)
Marcus Fleming for The Running Mate (Episode 1)
Graham Linehan for The IT Crowd (Series 2: Episode 1, 'The Work Outing')
Mark O'Halloran for Prosperity (Episode 3, 'Georgie's Story')
BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT AWARD TO BE PRESENTED BY: Tom Hickey (Alarm)
Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle for Playboy of the Western World
Sebastian Barry for Pride of Parnell Street
Christian O'Reilly for Is This About Sex?
BEST THEATRE SCRIPT AWARD TO BE PRESENTED BY: Hilda Fay (Fair City)
Nominees for Best Radio Script:
Lucy Caldwell for Girl From Mars
Roddy Doyle for Two Men Meet
Garret Keogh for Nancy
BEST RADIO SCRIPT AWARD TO BE PRESENTED BY: Frank Kelly (Father Ted).
Special Award to be presented to:
Bob Schneider, Vice-President of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAe).
In collaboration with the Irish Film Archive of the IFI, the film Ireland a Nation (1914) will be screened after the ceremony with accompaniment from 3epKano.
The winners will be announced at the ZeBBies Awards Ceremony on Tuesday the 25th of November, at the Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2.
Information available on the website www.script.ie
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David Farrell’s Documentary Elusive Moments to Screen at IFI – 19th November 2008
David Farrell is one of Ireland’s leading photographers working today and the only Irish person to have won the European Publishers Award for Photography. He is best known for his hugely successful exhibition Innocent Landscapes, dealing with the searches for the so-called 'disappeared' from the conflict in the North of Ireland.
Director Donald Taylor Black's film documents two years in the working life of Farrell and was shot in Dublin, Wicklow, Cobh, Paris, and Lugo in northern Italy. Filmmaker Donald Taylor Black’s work includes films about the arts such as At the Cinema Palace – Liam O'Leary and observational documentaries such as The Joy. He is currently Creative Director of the National Film School.
David Farrell’s Elusive Moments will be screened on Sunday 23rd November at 1 pm. Both Donald Taylor Black and David Farrell will be present for a post-screening Q&A.
Tickets can be booked through www.ifi.ie and by telephone on 01 679 3477.
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Backing by the MEDIA Programme of the EU to Be Continued – 18th November 2008
New three-year support allows EFP to continue promotional programmes inside and outside of Europe for the years 2009–2011.
European Film Promotion (EFP) announces a Framework Partnership Agreement with the MEDIA Programme of the European Union for the years 2009–2011 for the support of promotional activities inside and outside of Europe.
MEDIA's support is two-fold. EFP will receive €480,000 for promotional events and activities inside of Europe and €766,000 for events and activities outside of Europe, including Film Sales Support (FSS).
EFP will organise 11 promotional events a year between 2009 and 2011. Additionally, EFP will continue to offer Film Sales Support (FSS) to qualifying sales companies. This programme complements EFP's existing activities by helping European sales agents market their films at selected international film festivals and, for the first time ever, at major international markets, such as the FILMART in Hong Kong, the AFM in Los Angeles and the Asian Film Market in Pusan. FSS puts special emphasis on North and South America as well as East Asia to help with the visibility of European film in these countries. This support is available for Sundance Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara Mexico, Shanghai International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, and American Film Market.
FSS offers maximum grants of up to €5,000 for one film and €2,500 for a second film per festival to cover up to 50% of the costs for promotional activities undertaken by the sales representatives. Costs incurred at international markets, such as stand rentals and market screenings, are now also reimbursable.
More information about the individual events are available on EFP's website: www.efp-online.com
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Competition Winners Film Ireland Sept/Oct – 17th November 2008
The winners of the Film Ireland Sept/Oct issue competition were: Alma Keane, Fiachra Trench, Adam O'Shea, Michael Keane, Eoin Moynihan, and Helena O'Connor.
All six winners will receive a copy of Michael Dwyer's Film Quiz Book and a pair of tickets to a movie of their choice at Light House Cinema, Smithfield (Dublin).
The question asked was: What profession links the roles played by these actors in the following movies? Maggie Gyllenhal (Stranger than Fiction), Lyle Lovett (Short Cuts), Colin Farrell (A Home at the End of the World)
Answer: Bakers
For another chance to win Light House tickets simply answer the following question:
Which film documenting the events surrounding the rumble in the jungle heavyweight boxing clash of Mohammad Ali and George Foreman won the 1996 Best Documentary Oscar®?
Email your answer along with your name and phone number to competitions@filmbase.ie. Closing date: Friday, 12th December 2008.
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Cartoon Movie Submissions Deadline ’09 – 14th November 2008
The 11th edition of Cartoon Movie will take place 4–6 March 2009 in Lyon, France and the closing date for applications is 5th December 2008.
CARTOON is an international non-profit association based in Brussels with a remit to support the European animation industry. For the past 20 years, it has received financial support from the MEDIA Programme of the European Union to run its activities, which include Cartoon Movie.
Cartoon Movie is a co-production forum for feature-length animation, mainly for the cinema. Cartoon Movie takes place with an average of about 500 participants every year in March. After 10 editions in Potsdam (Babelsberg Studio, Germany), the event is moving to Lyon in France as from 2009.
For further information please click here.
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Vauxhall Auteur Theory Award – 14th November 2008
The 6th London Short Film Festival is looking for the next Scorsese, Spielberg or Tarantino who can produce, write, direct, shoot, act, edit and/or has written the music for their short film to qualify for the Vauxhall Auteur Theory Award.
The festival wants to hear from talented filmmakers who have worked on at least three aspects of the filmmaking process for the chance to win £1000 in prize money and have their film shown at Curzon Soho.
The Vauxhall Auteur Theory Award, created by Lucia Helenka, a London-based artist and filmmaker, is looking for talented, undiscovered filmmakers with a strong and personal vision and hands-on approach to filmmaking. The award, which is presented at the 6th London Short Film Festival in January, is in conjunction with car company Vauxhall who continue their commitment to driving emerging talent in short film. To qualify for the competition filmmakers must have worked on at least three areas of the filmmaking process including producing, writing, directing, camera, acting, editing and/or music composing. The film must also be under 10 minutes long.
Those shortlisted for the award will have the chance to see their film shown at the 6th London Short Film Festival and win prizes of £750 for first place and £250 for second place towards their next film project.
To enter all filmmakers need to do is simply fill in the application form at www.shortfilms.org.uk and submit their film on DVD.
Deadline for entry: 15th December 2008
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The Pint and a Picture Show to Screen The Mali Project – 14th November 2008
On Monday 17th November the Pint and a Picture Show will screen Dambé: The Mali Project, the recent feature-length documentary about the famous music festival in the desert. Directed by Dearbhla Glynn and produced by Vanessa Gildea, the film features Liam O'Maonlai and Paddy Keenan. It will be preceded as usual by the Irish Shorts Slot with several Irish short films including The White Dress, Vanessa's multi-award-winning short film (her first short made as director).
The Pint and a Picture Show is a free screening event that began in the first week of February 2008.
The programme normally consists of a full-length film (feature or documentary) preceded by a slate of quality Irish short films; often there is an informal Q&A session with one (or more) of the filmmakers whose work is being screened on the night, immediately after their film is shown.
The Portobello bar/hotel on South Richmond Street, just beside Portobello Bridge on the Grand Canal, is the venue for the event (and also for Cine-café, which has already made its debut there last Monday 27th October – the two events will share this venue, taking alternate Mondays until further notice).
For further information please contact Howard Linnane (organiser/MC) at 086 3614787.
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Solus Irish Film Collective – 14th November 2008
Solus is an independent film collective and platform for filmmakers working in Super-8 mm/16 mm and DV. The group was formed in 1998 in Dublin with the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland.
For this year's experimental film programme in DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) Jonas Mekas, founder of Anthology, gave Solus a selection of his 365 films from last year. Mekas, who is 86, made a film every day last year and uploaded it to his site every evening. This unique presentation took place on Saturday 25th October in the Denzille Cinema, Dublin.
A group from Nashville called Fugitive Projects was invited to curate a festival of 100 one-minute films. These 100 American films screened for the run of the festival in the foyer of the Sebastian Guinness Gallery in Temple Bar.
The festival also featured 'Lost Classics' – a programme of commercial feature films from the late 1970s re-edited for distribution on Super 8 mm, the home movie format before the advent of VHS.
Solus also programmed in Marseilles, Luxor, Alexandria, Estonia and Lithuania, selecting the Irish feature films for the 24th international Film Festival in Alexandria in Egypt. The collective are proud to have been instrumental in Declan Recks' Eden, from Samson Films, being screened at the festival in August.
Solus have launched a DVD in Anthology Film Archives in New York, with 3 evenings of screenings and a screening and party at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn. Along with a selection of new work by collective members, a selection of films by Vivienne Dick and Pat Murphy, Irish filmmaking veterans of the New York scene of the ’70s, will also be shown.
For more information about the DVD please click here:
Solus are supported by Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland
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Solus Irish Film Collective – 14th November 2008
Solus is an independent film collective and platform for filmmakers working in Super-8 mm/16 mm and DV. The group was formed in 1998 in Dublin with the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland.
For this year's experimental film programme in DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) Jonas Mekas, founder of Anthology, gave Solus a selection of his 365 films from last year. Mekas, who is 86, made a film every day last year and uploaded it to his site every evening. This unique presentation took place on Saturday 25th October in the Denzille Cinema, Dublin.
A group from Nashville called Fugitive Projects was invited to curate a festival of 100 one-minute films. These 100 American films screened for the run of the festival in the foyer of the Sebastian Guinness Gallery in Temple Bar.
The festival also featured 'Lost Classics' – a programme of commercial feature films from the late 1970s re-edited for distribution on Super 8 mm, the home movie format before the advent of VHS.
Solus also programmed in Marseilles, Luxor, Alexandria, Estonia and Lithuania, selecting the Irish feature films for the 24th international Film Festival in Alexandria in Egypt. The collective are proud to have been instrumental in Declan Recks' Eden, from Samson Films, being screened at the festival in August.
Solus have launched a DVD in Anthology Film Archives in New York, with 3 evenings of screenings and a screening and party at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn. Along with a selection of new work by collective members, a selection of films by Vivienne Dick and Pat Murphy, Irish filmmaking veterans of the New York scene of the ’70s, will also be shown.
For more information about the DVD please click here:
Solus are supported by Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland
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Of Best Intentions Wins Top Prize at Kerry – 14th November 2008
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 award presentation.
The film, based on renowned inventor Thomas Midgley, tells the story of five characters whose well-intentioned actions all incur disastrous consequences.
Brian is one of Ireland’s leading TV commercials directors and works with Red Rage Films. His previous films An Teanga Runda and Tilly and the Teeth have both won numerous awards around the world.
Of Best Intentions is produced by Red Rage Films and funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann and RTE as part of the Short Cuts scheme. It will be screened at the end of November at the Foyle Film Festival in Derry and at numerous other film festivals around the world.
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Call for Arctic Documentary Proposals – 14th November 2008
Below ZERO is a new international pitching session for documentary projects focusing on life above the Arctic Circle. This event is initiated in order to bring together filmmakers, producers, financiers and organisations whose common interest is documentaries thematically rooted in the Northern Polar region.
Below ZERO seeks a wide range of documentary projects on all subjects related to life above the Arctic Circle. These can be projects focusing on culture, environment, resources, politics, climate changes and indigenous peoples as well as general human stories.
Filmmakers from all over the World are welcome to submit projects for Below ZERO. Stories with a broad international market appeal are preferred. From the submitted project proposals a maximum of 12 projects will be selected for participation and the working language will be English.
Deadline: 14th November 2008
For further information please click here.
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Over 55's Film Club to Screen Garage – 14th November 2008
The Pictures film club for over 55's and friends will screen the award-winning Irish film Garage on 24th November at Axis Ballymun. Since being launched in January the initiative has become a social network for Ballymun and the surrounding areas with over 150 members. The monthly film club screens a wide variety of movies including classics, comedies, thrillers, drama, Irish film and foreign language movies.
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Mid-Ulster Film Festival Call for Entries – 14th November 2008
The Mid-Ulster Film Festival will be accepting entries until 19th March 2009. The festival, which takes place 1–3 May, is non-competitive and aims to nurture first-time filmmakers and offer them the chance to screen alongside award-winning films. For more information and information on how to apply please click here.
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Japanese Film Festival to Tour Ireland – 13th November 2008
Hosted by access>CINEMA, the Embassy of Japan and the Ireland Japan Association, Ireland’s first Japanese Film Festival, will take place in Dublin, Cork and Limerick during November 2008.
There will be four films in total (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Mind Game, Hotel Hibiscus an Go) playing over the course of a weekend. Two are live action, and two are animation. None will have screened in Ireland prior to the festival. The purpose of the festival is cultural, and to this end the screenings will be free of charge.
The Dublin screenings are 15th and 16th November in Cineworld. The festival is then travelling to the Kino in Cork for the 22nd and 23rd and reaching the Storm in Limerick on the 26th and 27th. The screenings are taking place under Club conditions and are therefore open to 18+ only.
For further details please visit www.accesscinema.ie
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Jim Sheridan Presents Brenda Fricker with Maureen O' Hara Award – 13th November 2008
Jim Sheridan presented Brenda Fricker with the inaugural Maureen O' Hara award at the 9th Kerry Film Festival, which ran from 1–8 November 2008.
Brenda won the 1989 Academy® Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Christy Brown's mother in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot in one of the two outstanding, Oscar®-winning performances in the film. Working again with Sheridan she co-starred in The Field, which was based on the play of the same name by John B. Keane.
‘It's a privilege for me to have Brenda Fricker pick up the inaugural award,’ said Maureen O' Hara. ‘Brenda has displayed courage and determination throughout her career and her Oscar®-winning role as Mrs. Brown in My Left Foot is one of the great highlights in Irish acting. I'm absolutely delighted that Brenda will accept this award.’
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Director and Stars of Kisses to Attend Opening Night at IFI – 13th November 2008
Lance Daly, the director of Kisses and the two young stars Kelly O’Neill and Shane Curry will attend the opening night of the film at the IFI on Friday 21st November at 6.45 pm
A gritty romantic fable about two young runaways in Dublin city during Christmas time, the film won Best Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh. The two actors have been widely praised for their sensitive and naturalistic debut performances.
The three will take part in a Q&A after the screening and Kisses will run at the IFI from the 21st November. Tickets can be booked through www.ifi.ie and by telephone: 01 679 3477.
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Hamburg Short Festival Call for Entries – 13th November 2008
The 25th Hamburg International Short Film Festival has given its the call for entries. The festival, which is organised by the Hamburg Short Film Agency, is intended to serve as a meeting place for both filmmakers and film lovers.
The competition categories include: the International Competition, the No Budget Competition, the National Competition, Three-minute Quickie (this year’s topic: ‘Human Error’) and ‘Mo & Friese’ Children’s Short Film Festival.
Deadline for entries is 15th February, 2009. Films should not exceed 30 minutes in length and should not be produced before 2008.
For more information, please visit www.shortfilm.com
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FÍS Film Festival Awards Irish Schoolchildren – 13th November 2008
The National FÍS Film Festival took place on Tuesday, 4th November 2008 in the Helix at Dublin City University with over 700 children and their teachers attending from around Ireland. Twenty-six awards were presented to schools and their students to celebrate their film achievements in areas such as animation, acting, editing and direction.
Children from over 100 primary schools throughout Ireland participated in the FÍS project by writing, directing and producing their own 5-minute films in a wide variety of genres including comedy, history, horror and Irish-language films. Regional screening events, some of which took place at local cinemas, were organised by local Education Centres. From the many submitted films, twenty-six were selected for their outstanding achievements to participate at the National FÍS Film Festival.
This is the fourth year of the National FÍS Film Festival. FÍS is an initiative of the Department of Education and Science and the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) with additional support provided by the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology (IADT).
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Darklight and The Imagine Cup Collaboration – 13th November 2008
Darklight, in association with Microsoft, Ireland are delighted to launch the 2009 The Imagine Cup Short Film Competition in Ireland.
Now in its sixth year, The Imagine Cup is an annual competition aimed at third level students that encourages young people across the globe to apply their imagination, passion and creativity to technological innovations that can make a difference in today's world.
The Imagine Cup is a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world issues. To enter the short film strand of the competition, participants have to submit a three-minute script or storyboard responding to the statement:
‘Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.’
Irish finalists will be brought to Egypt to participate in the Imagine Cup World Finals, where they are required to make a short film inspired by their winning idea. With a prize of $8000 USD for the overall winning entry, this is an opportunity not to be missed.
Darklight’s role in the Imagine Cup competition is that of mentor, facilitator and advocate. All questions regarding entry and participation in the Imagine Cup Short Film Competition should be forwarded to Sinead Ni Bhroin at imaginecup@darklight.ie.
For more details click here.
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Frank Sinatra Season at the IFI – 3rd November 2008
This November the IFI is screening a season of the best movies from Frank Sinatra’s prolific acting career and hosting an illustrated talk to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death. The season highlights his versatility as an actor, spanning upbeat musicals, serious drama, and classic thrillers.
Highlights of the season include On the Town, a breezy MGM musical from the late 1940s; Guys and Dolls, that saw Sinatra team up with Marlon Brando; a groundbreaking study of addiction in The Man with the Golden Arm; an exposé of small time hypocrisy in Some Came Running and one of the Cold-War era’s best political thrillers, The Manchurian Candidate.
Chief Executive of Film London Adrian Wootton, who programmed the event, will be presenting Celluloid Sinatra: An Illustrated Talk at 6.30 pm on November 24th. A serious Sinatra aficionado, Wootton gives an account of Ol’ Blue Eye’s life using slides, film clips and audio extracts. This is a must-see event for Sinatra fans and is sure to sell-out quickly.
To book tickets please visit www.irishfilm.ie or phone 01 679 3477.
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New Website Screenwriters – 3rd November 2008
A new website for aspiring screenwriters has been created. ScreenwritingGoldmine.com has been set up by Phil Gladwin, whose TV work includes writing for Russell T Davies and Lynda la Plante.
Membership of the site includes access to Phil’s successful Screenwriting Goldmine course. This takes a practical approach to screenwriting, and is based on his experience gained over more than a decade of writing for top level TV shows in the UK.
Please visit www.screenwritinggoldmine.com for more information.
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The Pint and a Picture Show Relocates – 3rd November 2008
The Pint and a Picture Show Relocates will now be held on Monday 3rd November, and fortnightly thereafter, at The Portobello bar/hotel on the Grand Canal.
The Pint and a Picture Show is a free screening event that began in the first week of February 2008.
The programme normally consists of a full-length film (feature or documentary) preceded by a slate of quality Irish short films; often there is an informal Q&A session with one (or more) of the filmmakers whose work is being screened on the night, immediately after their film is shown. In recent months the feature film has usually been Irish too.
The Portobello bar/hotel on South Richmond Street, just beside Portobello Bridge on the Grand Canal, is the new venue for the event (and also for Cine-café, which has already made its debut there last Monday 27th October – the two events will share this venue, taking alternate Mondays until further notice).
For further information please contact Howard Linnane (organiser/MC) at 086 3614787.
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Double Win for Irish Animation at Cinekid – 3rd November 2008
Magma Films' cartoon feature film Niko & the Way to the Stars has taken both the Jury and Audience awards at children's film fest Cinekid in Amsterdam over the weekend.
Together with Finnish film company Anima Vitae, Galway-based Magma's own daughter company Ulysses Films in Germany and Afilm in Denmark, the pic picked up both the Cinekid Lion Award and the Audience Award for Best Film. It's the first time ever a film has picked up both top awards.
Set to hit cinema screens here in Ireland from 28th November 2008, the CGI animated film tells the story about a reindeer boy who longs to fly and dreams of one day meeting his father who is a celebrity member of the famous Santa's Flying Forces. His desire to fly and find his real father leads him on a difficult and exciting journey accompanied by his true friend Julius, a flying squirrel, and Wilma a singing weasel whom they meet along the way.
The Cinekid Lion Awards is worth €15,000 and Niko And the Way to the Stars was supported by the Irish Film Board and the Government of Ireland Section 481 tax incentive.
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Irish Stars at London Film Festival – 3rd November 2008
This year’s Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival hosted 191 feature films and 109 short films from 43 countries including a record 15 world premieres recorded the highest ever audience attendance.
High-profile international filmmakers and actors attended their film’s screenings over the 16 days including Liam Neeson at Richard Eyre’s The Other Man with co-stars Laura Linney and Romola Garai. Liam Cunningham, along with Michael Fassbender, attended the screening of Hunger, which was introduced by director Steve McQueen.
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Irish Stars at London Film Festival – 3rd November 2008
This year’s Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival hosted 191 feature films and 109 short films from 43 countries including a record 15 world premieres recorded the highest ever audience attendance.
High-profile international filmmakers and actors attended their film’s screenings over the 16 days including Liam Neeson at Richard Eyre’s The Other Man with co-stars Laura Linney and Romola Garai. Liam Cunningham, along with Michael Fassbender, attended the screening of Hunger, which was introduced by director Steve McQueen.
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Irish Zombie Flick Wins Award – 3rd November 2008
Irish Zombie Flick Battle of the Bone has won the Audience Choice Award at the 2008 Freakshow Horror Film Festival in Orlando, Florida. From Belfast-based Yellow Fever Productions,Battle of the Boneis a blend of Hong Kong-style martial arts action, zombies and local banter and follows a very different July 12th.
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Dare2bdrinkaware Competition Launched – 10th October 2008
A film competition aimed at promoting responsible drinking, now in its second year, the DAREBDRINKAWARE competition offers students the chance to win €5,000 for producing a short film that encourages responsible drinking. This year’s awards event will take place in April 2009, with Lenny Abrahamson delivering the keynote address.
The deadline for entries is Friday, 12th December 2008. For more information see www.dare2bdrinkaware.com
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Red One Workshops – 10th October 2008
Clonboo Films will be running two weekend workshops on the new Red One Cameras. The workshops will be taught by Billy McCannon, a writer/director who has extensive experience in using the cameras. The courses will take place on the weekends of October 11th and 12th, and November 13th and 14th, and the fee is €380.
For more information contact Daniel Balteanu on (01) 511 1299.
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Film Societies Information Day – 10th October 2008
If you are interested in setting up a film community or society in your area, then you can visit a free event to be held in Queens Film Theatre Belfast on Saturday 11th October from 9.30 am to 5 pm. The event will offer opportunities for networking, information on how to set up a society, and advice on how to make the most out of your resources.
Please note that there are a limited number of places at this event, so to ensure that you get a place contact julieanne@northernirelandscreen.co.uk or see www.bffs.org.uk
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Horrorthon Line-up Announced – 10th October 2008
The full line-up for this year ’s Horrorthon festival has been announced. The festival will take place from 23–27 October in the IFI, and features premiers of, among others, Martyrs, Saw V, Quarantine, and Ghostwood, the new feature from young Irish director Justion O’Brien, while classic screenings will include Evil Dead 2, The Hunger, and Child’s Play.
For more information, see the Horrorthon programme, available soon at the IFI or on the website at www.ifi.com
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RTÉ Launches New Drama Competition – 10th October 2008
RT É has launched StoryLand, a new project inviting new and experienced programme makers to make drama series specifically for the web, aimed at the 19-25 year old audience.
Aspiring and experienced programme makers are invited to make pitches for a 6-part drama series to be webcast in March 2009. From the pitches received, a panel chaired by Irish scriptwriter and actor Mark O'Halloran (Adam & Paul, Garage, Prosperity) will commission 10 new pilot drama series to be webcast on the RTÉ website. Viewers will then vote which pilot episode they would like to see more of, and the winner will be commissioned for a full series.
The closing date for submissions is 17th November 2008. See www.rte.ie/storyland for details on how to apply.
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Irish Short Reaches Finals in TCM Classic Shorts Competition – 10th October 2008
The Wednesdays, directed by Conor Ferguson, is one of 6 finalists in the annual TCM Classic Shorts Competition. His second film, Atlantic – a short commissioned by the Irish Film Board, and starring Liam Cunningham – was also Highly Commended in the competition.
The winners will be announced at an awards night on 29th October at London's National Film Theatre, following a screening of all six shorts competing for £10,000 in prizes. These will later be broadcast on the TCM channel during a special Classic Shorts weekend.
The Wednesdays has won six awards to date, including the International Audience Award at Clermont-Ferrand, the largest short film festival in Europe; and has screened all around the world, including festivals in the US, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Mexico, Thailand and South Korea. Both films were produced by Park Films and will screen at the Clones Film Festival (22–26 October 2008) and the Foyle Film Festival (21–29 November 2008).
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Reel Art Launched – 6th October 2008
The Arts Council, in association with Filmbase and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival have announced a new scheme to provide funding for documentary filmmakers. Entitled Reel Art, the scheme will offer grants of up to €80,000 to three documentaries with an artistic theme. The Reel Art films will be made for theatrical exhibition and will be shown at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in February 2010.
Applications should be sent in hardcopy to Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 before 5 pm on Wednesday, 5th November 2008.
Further information is available on the Reel Art website www.reelart.ie or from Filmbase, the operator of the scheme, www.filmbase.ie
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Arts Council Announce New Bursary Awards Deadline – 6th October 2008
The Arts Council has announced a new closing date for Round 1 of its 2009 Bursary Awards. This has been brought about by an increase in applications of over 25%. The new closing date is Thursday, 27th November 2008 at 5.30 pm.
It is planned that all applications received prior to the closing date will receive a decision in February 2009. The closing date for Round 2 will be in April 2009.
The aim of the award is to allow artists, working in any context or in any art form, to buy space and freedom to concentrate on a body of work and provide the equipment, facilities and third party expertise to develop practice. Recipients can receive up to a maximum of €15,000 per year through the Bursary award. A number of multi-annual bursaries, which offer artists funding for up to a three-year period, are available each year.
New guidance notes and application forms are available online at www.artscouncil.ie and hard copies will be available at the Arts Council from Monday 10 November.
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Young Screenwriters Wanted – 2nd October 2008
The Junior Galway Film Fleadh, in association with SpunOut have announced their annual story pitch competition. The competition is open to young people aged 13–18 years old, who are invited to write a short (500 word) story pitch for a feature film, short film, documentary, book or videogame. Shortlisted ideas will be presented as part of the festival. Each idea will be critiqued by award-winning Irish screenwriter Christian O’Reilly (Inside I’m Dancing) and voted for by an audience, with the overall winner being awarded a Script Training Scholarship at the Galway Film Centre. The closing date for entries is 24th October 2008.
For more information see www.juniorfilmfleadh.com
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ReelHeART Festival Calls for Entries – 2nd October 2008
The ReelHeART International Film Festival in Toronto is now accepting submissions for their 2009 festival. The festival is looking for completed films and screenplays from international entrants. The final entry deadline is 31st December 2008.
For more information see www.reelheart.com
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Minicinefest Winner Announced – 2nd October 2008
Colm Quinn ’s The Discreet Charms of the Refugee won this year’s Minicinefest Golden Triangle award at the Ranelagh Arts Festival. Judges for the event were film critic Michael Dwyer, and filmmakers Lenny Abrahamson and Conor Horgan.
The short tells the story of an African-Irish man auditioning for a role in a Civil War drama set in a fictional African nation. It was produced as part of the Garage Studio at the 2007 Berlinale Talent Campus.
Upcoming screenings for the film include the Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol and the 32nd Sao Paolo International Film Festival. It has already received special mentions at Cork, Waterford and Chicago-Irish film festivals.
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Film Critics Wanted – 2nd October 2008
The Talent Press is a new project organised by the Berlinale Talent campus, Goethe-Institute, and FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics). Young film critics and journalists will be invited to Berlin to report on the films at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival (5–15 February 2009). The program is open to young film critics or journalists under 30 years old and who have published articles either in print or online. The deadline for applications is 8th October 2008.
For more information and details of the application process see www.berlinale-talentcampus.de
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Irish Short The Confession for Nationwide Release – 26th September 2008
On October 17th, Thomas Heffernon’s The Confession will be rolled out in 33 cinemas across Ireland screening with Ian Fitzgibbon's A Film With Me In It, which stars Dylan Moran and Mark Doherty as out-of-work actors. The Confession will also be playing with the film at its Dublin premiere in Cineworld on 7th October 2008.
Parallel Films are the production company behind A Film With Me In It and it is being distributed in Ireland by Vertigo Films. The Confession was shown to Parallel Films by their Distribution Consultant Brendan McCall, who ran Buena Vista Ireland for a number of years before retiring last year.
Shot over three days in December 2007 on location in Whitefriar Street Church in Aungier Street, The Confession has played at 22 International Film Festivals so far, including the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Boston Film Festival. Worldwide sales for The Confession are being handled by Network Ireland, the leading distributor of short film content in Ireland.
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Irish Short Defaced Selected by Onedotzero – 25th September 2008
Lorcan Finnegan's short film Defaced has been selected by onedotzero (adventures in moving image) to screen in their 'cityscapes' programme. The festival begins in Buenos Aires on the 26th September before moving to Zurich, followed by Moscow, before returning to London for a 3-day festival at the BFI South Bank in November. The film will then screen as part of the onedotzero global tour over the next year, with screenings taking place at over 150 national and international events around the world.
Defaced can be viewed here: http://www.vimeo.com/986679
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Alphabet of the Cinema Ñ at Instituto Cervantes – 25th September 2008
October sees the return of the Alphabet of the Cinema Ñ, a retrospective of Spanish cinema, in alphabetic order according to director, the letter 'C' shown in October, 'D' and 'E' in November and 'F' in December. This offers a unique opportunity to access the wide range of Spanish comedy, drama, animation and documentary, showcasing cinema from its beginnings to modern day. Films will run every Wednesday at 6.30 pm until mid-December.
Also continuing in October and November is the Moving Worlds Cinemas of Migration film series and workshops, which explores the complexities of everyday migrant experiences, reflecting the desire to infuse contemporary Irish debates on migration with a more extensive range of voices, stories and languages. Moving Worlds is run in conjunction with the Forum on Migration and Communications, Create, the Goethe-Institut Dublin, l’Alliance Française and the Austrian Embassy. Films will be screened every Thursday from the 23rd of October until the 6th of November at 6 pm.
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George Morrison Retrospective to Open this Week – 24th September 2008
To coincide with the premiere of Ciarín Scott’s new documentary Waiting for the Light about filmmaker and archivist George Morrison, Filmbase and the IFI will present a retrospective of his work that will run from 24th September–4th October 2008.
Best known for films Mise Éire (1959) and Saoirse? (1961), this retrospective has been developed to reintroduce audiences to his work. It will combine a selection of screenings at the IFI of rarely seen films by George, as well as an exhibition at Filmbase of a selection of photographic works and related items.
The screening at the IFI will take place on Wednesday 24th September at 6.30pm.
The exhibition at Filmbase will open after the screening at 8pm on the 24th and will run daily until the 4th of October.
Audiences can catch Waiting for the Light, which will premiere at the Stranger than Fiction Documentary Film Festival, on Saturday 27th September at the IFI.
For more detailed information visit the Filmbase website here.
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Irish Series Nominated for Award at MIPCOM TV Festival in Cannes – 24th September 2008
Irish miniseries Aisling’s Diary has been nominated for the C21 Format Awards as the best multi-screen format. The awards, which take place as part of the MIPCOM TV festival, will be presented in Cannes on the 14th October.
Aisling’s Diary, which premiered on RTÉ Two on the 1st September, was nominated due to its strong interactive element, and has proven popular with Irish audiences. Viewers are invited onto the show’s web page, where they can keep up-to-date with what’s happening in Aisling’s life through blogs, episodes, interviews, behind the scenes footage and interact with the characters themselves. Episodes are also broadcast on-line at http://www.rte.ie/tv/ttv/aislingsdiary/
The lead role of Aisling is played by New Yorker Esther Di Maggio and native Dubliner Chris Newman plays the part of Murphy, her love interest. The programme is shown over forty, three-minute episodes, appearing each weekday on RTÉ Two with a twenty-minute omnibus each Saturday. As well as being an excellent vehicle for young up and coming Irish actors, Aisling's Diary gives a good insight into modern teenage life in Dublin and is one of only a few Irish dramas to showcase Irish dance in a contemporary setting.
CR Entertainment is a Dun Laoghaire-based production company which has been experiencing huge success with its pioneering cross-platform strategies in the entertainment industry. The innovative format of Aisling’s Diary has already proven successful for the company, with its online drama series, Sofia’s Diary, which has attracted over 26 million views in the UK. CR Entertainment Group has operations in Dublin, Belfast and London, and is opening an office in Los Angeles at the end of 2008.
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Seoda: Irish Film Archive Films to Air on TG4 – 24th September 2008
Seoda is a new series of films from the Irish Film Archive that will be broadcast on TG4 this Autumn, starting this Wednesday 24th September. The series features of newly-restored works which have been selected from thousands of films preserved in the national collection for their cultural and entertainment value. The series will go out from Wednesday 24th September at 9pm on TG4 and on 7 consecutive Wednesdays thereafter until Wednesday 12th November. Repeats are on Friday nights from Friday 26th September, and on 7 consecutive Fridays thereafter until Friday 14th November 2008.
Seoda offers a glimpse of Irish life and times from 1948-1970: President Kennedy on his 1963 cavalcade visiting Dublin, Wexford and Galway; the last tram from Howth in the company of Cyril Cusack; the bustle of 1950s Dublin (Portrait of Dublin) and the quietly abandoned village of Crookhaven in Cork. There’s also traditional music keenly observed by Louis Marcus in Flea Ceoil. The eleven films in the series cover a broad range of topics including emigration, politics, personal saving, TB, diphtheria and architecture. The programme themes are deeply rooted in Irish culture, heritage and experience and many are presented here as Gaeilge.
Introductions to the programmes have been written by Ireland’s leading documentary historian Dr Harvey O Brien and are presented in Irish by highly-respected actor Niall Toibin. The series, produced by the Irish Film Institute and IFI Curator Sunniva O’Flynn in collaboration with Lotus Films, is distinguished by the technical excellence of the archival images – all of the titles have undergone meticulous pictorial and audio restoration from original film formats using the latest transfer technologies.
Funded by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland as part of the Sound and Vision Scheme and by TG4. The IFI is funded by the Arts Council.
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Documentary Chippers to Screen at the IFI – 23rd September 2008
The Filmbase documentary Chippers is to premiere on Saturday 27th September at 12 am, at the IFI as part of the Stranger Than Fiction festival. Nino Tropiano’s hour-long documentary made its Italian premiere at the Hai Visto Mai documentary festival in Siena, where it was awarded a Special Mention.
Chippers tells the story of Dublin’s well-established community of four thousand Italians who have owned chip shops in the city since the 1900s. Five different families tell their stories and offer insight into the experience of how a small community has preserved their cultural identity and link with their country of origins, while at the same time seamlessly assimilating into their host country.
This film features archive footage of the city of Dublin and extracts of short documentaries sourced from the Irish Film Archive and from Istituto Luce (Italy). It is a nostalgic, melancholic and at times funny portrait of the early struggle and integration of this unique community.
The film was initially funded through the Filmbase/RTÉ Short Film Award scheme with additional funding by the Irish Film Board.
To book tickets, please go to www.ifi.ie
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Irish Boxing Documentary Out 3rd October – 22nd September 2008
Saviours, the new boxing documentary by Ross Whitaker and Liam Notan will be on release in cinemas from 3rd October 2008.
The winner of the Best Feature Documentary at the Waterford Film Festival, the film features boxers Dean Murphy, Abdul Hussein and Darren Sutherland, who recently won bronze at the Beijing Olympics.
For more information please visit www.myspace.com/savioursfilm
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1st International Festival of Fake Film Trailers – 22nd September 2008
The new website Teaserland.com is holding the First International Festival of Fake Film Trailers, a joint project by Vas a Ver and Acción Media. The Festival, directed by Xavi Bru, invites everyone to make a fake trailer of a non-existing film and post it on Teaserland.com from September 23rd.
The prize, which is €30,000 funding to make a short film, will be announced in January 2009 by a jury composed of: Jaume Balagueró (film director), Mirito Torreiro (film critic), Gregorio Belinchón (film journalist), Esther García (producer), Angel Sala (director of the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia) and Manel Vicaría (Vas a ver).
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Digital Film Installation at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios – 22nd September 2008
From 26 September –1 November 2008, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios will be presenting Here Lies in film... a digital film installation by Operating Theatre (Olwen Fouere and Roger Doyle) in collaboration with master cinematographer Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love, Lady in the Water) and edited by Simon Hudson. The film extends and reworks a durational installation Here Lies, which Operating Theatre first made with theatre director Selina Cartmell in 2005. This work is inspired by the account and experience of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the hugely influential French playwright, poet, actor and director.
In 1937, prompted by an apocalyptic vision, Artaud travelled to Ireland seeking a resting place for a ‘walking stick of knotted wood’, which he believed to be the staff of St Patrick. After much travelling (and some time spent in jail) Artaud was eventually deported from Cobh and on re-entry to France, incarcerated in an asylum for ten years. His trip to Ireland is often described as the beginning of the end.
Operating Theatre creates performance-based work with music as a core element. In its twenty-eight year history, Operating Theatre has produced a diverse portfolio of work using processes which have included the integration of music technology with original composition, found and commissioned texts, and live performance. The company’s work has been presented in both conventional and non-theatrical environments. Here Lies in film is the company’s inaugural piece in this medium.
More information on www.templebargallery.com
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School Doc Premiere at IFI’s Stranger Than Fiction Festival – 22nd September 2008
In June 2007, Greendale Community School was the first state school in Ireland to be closed. Documentary filmmaker Aoibheann O'Sullivan went to the school in Kilbarrack to film in February 2007, initially intending to make a 10-minute creative documentary using the sounds of the empty corridors and shots of the empty classrooms. However, after talking to the staff of the school she decided there was another story to be told. The one-hour documentary film Greendale, Death of a School is about the staff who worked together to keep the school running up until the final day.
For further information, or to book tickets, please visit www.irishfilm.ie
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QFT Autumn Programmes – 19th September 2008
The QFT has a range of programmes in a busy Autumn schedule. From 29 September–2 October the QFT, as part of Age Awareness Week, will screen a range of films including the Northern Ireland premiere of Young@Heart, a documentary about an older people’s choir who cover Coldplay and The Clash.
As part of the QFT’s 40th Anniversary celebrations, which will take place 3–9 October, there will be a special a special preview of Burn After Reading (the new Coen Brothers film), an In Conversation with Ciarán Hinds and a special QFT late presentation of Performance, followed by a DJ set from David Holmes.
There will also be the Turning Point: 1968 season from 10–16 October. This season of films, looking at the revolutionary spirit of 1968, will include a special screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, courtesy of the Kubrick family.
The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s (18–30 October) is also scheduled and will include the major Ennio Morricone Season and a preview of the new black comedy A Film With Me In It, starring Dylan Moran.
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