Screen Skills Ireland, the skills development unit within Screen Ireland, is pleased to announce the selected participants for the renowned Screen Leaders programme 2020. Previous Screen Leaders participants include multi-award winning companies such as Element Pictures (Ireland), Cinenord (Norway), Brown Bag Films (Ireland), Filmmore (Netherlands), De Mensen (Belgium), and Cartoon Saloon (Ireland). Screen Leaders is a strategic company development programme for... Read more...
In July 2020 CMC was re-invented as a week-long online conference of children’s and youth content, with webinars spaced at convenient intervals so that lock-down life could still go on! Animation Ireland and its member companies participated in the CMC Video on Demand programme with a Focus on Ireland mini documentary. The documentary contains interviews with some of Ireland’s best... Read more...
New episodes of Irish animated series Ollie will land on RTÉjr from Monday13 th July and continue throughout the summer!Ollie is an animated series for children 3 to 5 years, featuring a new forestfavourite, Ollie the owl. Right in the middle of a very busy city, there is a peaceful place. It’s a cosy park, closed off and forgotten, a... Read more...
On Sunday July 12, 2020 the 32nd edition (and first ever online edition!) of the Galway Film Fleadh came to a close after another outstanding year of film premieres, events and discussions. The annual awards ceremony was live-streamed online and Pink Kong Studios film won ‘Best Debut Animation Short: Dead Hands of Dublin by Leo Crowley’ ‘The Dead Hands of... Read more...
The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has announced the 2020 IFTA Nominations for the Irish Academy Awards across 25 categories in Film and Drama.Over the past few months during lockdown, the Irish film and television industry has been busy viewing, deliberating and shortlisting the best work from across great Irish films, performances and achievements in what has been an... Read more...