Last week, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland announced a further range of stimulus supports for the Irish screen industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, to provide practical and effective funding measures to support production companies and creative talent in developing a strong slate of quality projects, so that the industry can emerge from the current situation in a position to scale up production activity. Guidelines for... Read more...
When Dublin went into lockdown in March, Daily Madness got to work figuring out what they could do to help – the result was Pins and Nettie at Home, a mini-series based on their preschool series, Pins and Nettie, but with the focus shifted to showing Pins and Nettie playing games and having fun together while staying home. Daily Madness... Read more...
Gerry Shirren, managing director of Ireland’s acclaimed animation studio Cartoon Saloon, was kind enough to drop us a line about how he and his brilliant team are faring these days. Kilkenny has been in lockdown since March 15 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will continue to be shut down until May 5 at last estimate. “Both at Lighthouse Studios... Read more...
Although the latter part of Q1 brought with it some unforeseen challenges, the opening months of 2020 were chock-a-block with good news for Lighthouse Studios. One of their biggest causes for celebration was the fact that they turned three years old this February, and during a business breakfast briefing they revisited some of the highlights from the previous year. LHS... Read more...
Cartoon Saloon’s latest tv series, co-created by Nora Twomey (Song of the Sea, Moone Boy) and Fabian Erlinghäuser (The Breadwinner, The Secret of Kells), premiered exclusively in Ireland on RTÉ 2 on March 2, 2020 and is expected to roll out globally on Nickelodeon International later this year. You can catch all the episodes so far over on the RTÉ... Read more...