22/02/18
Northern Ireland Screen is delighted to announce the five projects selected for its New Shorts Focus scheme 2018. New Shorts Focus is an initiative set-up to find Northern Ireland resident filmmakers exclusively from groups […]
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21/02/18
Derry Girls has consolidated to become the biggest series ever in Northern Ireland since modern records began in 2002, Channel 4 has revealed. The comedy, set in the early nineties during The Troubles, […]
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14/02/18
The ninth annual Takeover Film Festival organised by QFT’s young programmers ‘takes over’ QFT from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th February, with an exciting weekend of film previews, popular classics and masterclasses. Aimed […]
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13/02/18
The line-up for the 11th Irish Film Festa Short Film Competition, the only Italian film festival completely dedicated to Irish cinema, has been announced today. The competition, which will take place from 21 […]
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19/01/18
Congratulations to local Northern Ireland talent Dianne Lucille Campbell who is one of five other filmmakers from across the UK to be selected for this year’s Bridging the Gap programme. Dianne’s short film […]
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19/01/18
Northern Ireland Screen and the Community Relations Council are working together to support three new and emerging factual filmmakers, resident in Northern Ireland. We are looking for up to three factual short films*: […]
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11/01/18
The first episode of Derry Girls is Channel 4’s the biggest comedy series launch in almost 5 years with 2.5 million viewers so far (part-consolidated after 6 days) Second series commissioned by Director […]
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11/01/18
Congratulations to the Northern Ireland talent nominated at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA). The countdown begins for the Irish film industry’s biggest night of the year, acknowledging and rewarding the […]
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20/12/17
BBC Entertainment has commissioned Belfast based start-up, Nice One Productions (Chris Jones) and Hindsight Productions (David Young), to produce a 1 x 15” special of a brand new talk-show What Makes You Tic? […]
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20/11/17
The winners of the Royal Television Society Northern Ireland (RTS NI) 2017 Programme Awards were announced at a glittering awards ceremony in The MAC Belfast last week, hosted by TV presenter Angela Scanlon […]
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13/11/17
Out of Orbit is delighted to announce that principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on its debut feature, thriller The Dig. A murderer returns home to help the victim’s father find closure…and […]
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08/11/17
Two Northern Ireland Screen funded shorts, Inhale and Safe Haven, will be screening as part of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) which runs from today until Sunday 12th November. ASFF, which was originally […]
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08/11/17
Congratulations to Belfast-based game developer Billygoat Entertainment Ltd on its recent awards success for a number of Northern Ireland Screen funded projects; Supermarket Shriek and Her Majesty’s SPIFFING. Platform video game, Supermarket Shriek, […]
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31/10/17
BBC Digital Cities Week is set to come to Northern Ireland during the Belfast Media Festival. Digital Cities Belfast runs from Saturday 11 November until Friday 17 November with a series of free […]
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24/10/17
It was revealed today that locally produced thriller Bad Day for the Cut has been included in the New Talent longlist at this year’s British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). BIFA highlights and rewards […]
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20/10/17
Northern Ireland Screen and RTÉ launch four brand new 20 minute dramas from Storyland 2017 on RTÉ Player. Currently in its seventh season, Storyland 2017 brings original stories to a national and a […]
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13/10/17
Some of Ireland’s best known actors and comedians are giving up-and-coming comedy writers a boost by starring in Fright Shorts, a new film showcase to develop new Northern Irish talent. Jason Byrne, Bronagh […]
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13/10/17
Feature film, ZOO, from Belfast writer-director Colin McIvor and producer Katy Jackson, will get its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival this weekend on 14th October. Made with funding from the […]
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29/09/17
Local Filmmakers Causeway Pictures have been selected out of thousands of entries to screen Safe Haven at this year’s Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF), a major UK and BAFTA- recognised film festival now […]
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28/09/17
Wildwoods, the new live-action puppet comedy series for 4- to 7-year-olds chronicling the unlikely friendship between a gentle giant sasquatch and a feisty pint-sized sugarglider, premieres on Monday 9th October on RTÉjr. The […]
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06/09/17
The extraordinary story of political party, the Northern Ireland Woman’s Coalition (NIWC), is told in Peacemakers: Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs, the first of three programmes highlighting some of the people who worked to […]
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07/08/17
NEON, which creates commercial products in virtual, augmented and mixed reality software applications has recently launched a new immersive virtual reality (VR) experience called RETNE on Steam, the digital distribution platform. RETNE was created […]
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19/07/17
RTÉ and Northern Ireland Screen have announced the commission of four new original dramas for the new season of Storyland, the award-winning commissioning project that gives emerging Irish drama talent an opportunity to […]
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28/06/17
An initiative which provides an opportunity for emerging creative teams to create a short film which is tonally and thematically aligned with their feature film ambitions. Applicants are invited to submit a LIVE […]
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07/06/17
Film London’s Production Finance Market is now open for applications. Run in association with the BFI London Film Festival, the two-day film financing event will take place from 9-11 October 2017. Now in […]
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