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Are you a writer, director or producer attending Festival de Cannes and Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes this year? 🎬 This immersive programme focuses on finetuning preparation for the Festival and Market, including preparation for meetings, pitching, and ensuring key business outcomes. 📅 Apply before Tuesday, 30th April 2024, 10am. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3JnU2VZ

The IFTA Awards 2024 will air tonight at 9.35pm on RTÉ Two, a star-studded affair with host Baz Ashmawy at the helm. The ceremony features appearances by high-profile Irish and international guest presenters representing the very best in world-class filmmaking, such as Oscar-nominated actresses Lily Gladstone and Kerry Condon, as well as Liam Cunningham, Fionnula Flanagan, Caitriona Balfe, Kneecap, Aidan Quinn, Neil Jordan, Patrick Bergin, Alisha Weir, Jason O’Mara, Clinton Liberty, Demi Isaac Oviawe, Alex Murphy, Michael McElhatton, Nadia Forde, Amy-Joyce Hastings, Pollyanna Mcintosh, and Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Winners included That They May Face The Rising Sun for Best Film; Cillian Murphy for Lead Actor Film; Siobhán Cullen as Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland IFTA Rising Star; Agnes O’Casey for Lead Actress Film; KIN for Best Drama; Clare Dunne for Lead Actress Drama; Éanna Hardwicke for Lead Actor Drama; and Richard Dormer for Supporting Actor Drama. Stephen Rea was presented with the IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Are you a first-time writer, director or producer working on a feature film or TV drama?🎬 We have teamed up with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and Atticus Education to offer FOUR Northern Ireland residents the opportunity to attend 6 two-hour online masterclasses with Lord David Puttnam. The successful applicants will receive a scholarship of €1,000💰. ⏰Apply by 12 noon on Monday 13th May 2024: https://ow.ly/53JK50RkSik

Are you a first-time writer, director or producer working on a feature film or TV drama?🎬 We have teamed up with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and Atticus Education to offer FOUR Northern Ireland residents the opportunity to attend 6 two-hour online masterclasses with Lord David Puttnam. The successful applicants will receive a scholarship of €1,000💰. ⏰Apply by 12 noon on Monday 13th May 2024: https://ow.ly/53JK50RkSik

📢Short film funding call. Funding is available for talent to produce live action, factual and virtual reality short films normally up to 15 minutes in length🎬. ⏰Company level deadline: Friday 7th June 2024 ⏰Individual level deadline: Friday 19th July 2024 Apply now➡️ https://lnkd.in/ehjZrS9C

https://lnkd.in/efAu7VN2 Aisling will be so very missed by us all. Anyone who ever worked with her or knew her would testify as to how full of light, humour and can'doism she was. It will be a long time before I have a MUA of this calibre who was also a qualified first-aider / responder on set. Rest in power Ais and we will see you again. Go dté tú slán

The great people at Stowe Story Labs have announced they will award $50,000 to support production of a new short film through their Short Film Production Grant scheme. Full details below and this is open to Irish talent as well as to those abroad. https://lnkd.in/eRx5-aq2

Let go of ego and you can save money and time on your films. The Clint Eastwood anecdote. I don't know the original source of the below anecdote, but it has always stuck with me. It is not uncommon for Clint Eastwood films to come under budget and under schedule. The best example of why his movies come in on-time and under budget? His reputation for doing scenes in a single take (two at most) precedes him. Actors know the rep, and prepare accordingly, as Matt Damon attests: I was playing a South African [in Invictus] and that’s a really hard accent to do. … It’s something that just required a lot of practice and I treated it like a job. I tested that one take theory on Day 1 of shooting. We did the first take. It went pretty well. Clint says, ‘cut, print, check the gate,’ which means we’re gonna move on. And I said, ‘Hey boss, maybe you think we could get one more?’ He just turned and goes, ‘Why? Do you want to waste everybody’s time?’ Eastwood uses the same crew over and over, and they know each other’s rhythms. He’s a director who lets the members of his team do their job. For instance, Clint got asked about working with editors, and says: “Well, we sit down in the morning and go over shots, talk about the sequence. Then I go play a round of golf, grab something to eat, come back in the late afternoon to see how it’s shaping up, look at the new footage that’s been cut. We talk some more and I give him some notes.” Other directors might hover at their editor’s shoulder, but that’s not Clint Eastwood’s style. Which explains why his features are completed without muss or fuss. His seasoned professionals are allowed to do their work without endless second-guessing from their director. ---- Share creative control. I have seen this many times over, the need to prove oneself usually involves micro managing every department. This slows down the pace which causes: delays, overtime, then you are over budget and over schedule. The crew and cast get frustrated. As a director, you choose the department heads you want to work with because you feel connected to their creative abilities and technical skills. So let those people do their jobs. Your filming days do not HAVE to be 12 hours long. Sometimes they may need to be, but if you got what you needed, end the day early and give the crew & cast some rest. If you scheduled 21 days of filming, if you are able to complete the film in 20 days - DO IT! That single day could save you $10,000. Editors are not technicians, the are storytellers. Let them tell the story they see first and then you come in later. You may never get an interesting or unique point of view if you hover over an editor and don't let them use their creative skills. You have nothing to prove to anyone. Let go of ego and let your team do their jobs. I am curious to hear your thoughts on this? How do you go about running your film sets as a director or producer? Let me know in the comments.

We have received European Commission approval for: - an increase in the film tax credit cap to €125m - extension of the tax credit to the end of 2028 This will help to attract more major global film & TV productions to Ireland Minister Michael McGrath TD has now signed these 2 orders https://lnkd.in/eUS9vVxj

Big in Germany - Like The Hoff and Johnny Logan! Craig and I and our brilliant Twelve O'Clock Arts Team wrote over an hour of music for Chantal in Fairyland which is killing it at the box office. Congratulations to the super hardworking Constantin Films team - Einfach Klasse! https://lnkd.in/dGvyA-nS