Article Category: Behind the Scenes

A SMASHING PLAN!

July 12, 2018
IN MARCH this year, the wheels came off Filmbase when Tom Murray was appointed... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN STARTS TO BUILD

July 12, 2018
IT’S FAIR to say there are few surprises in the expensive film industry review... Read more »

WILLIE WHITE’S WOES

June 28, 2018
THE OFF-STAGE drama for the Dublin Theatre Festival has seen an Arts Council cut... Read more »

ANNIE DOONA’S BALANCING ACT

June 28, 2018
LIONEL SHRIVER’S outburst in The Spectator rubbishing publisher Penguin’s diversity policies (ie taking into... Read more »

SARAH GLENNIE’S SUCCESSOR?

June 13, 2018
THE BOARD of IMMA, chaired by David Harvey, will be relieved to have finally... Read more »

PENELOPE KENNY’S CONTACTS

June 13, 2018
AMONG THOSE IMMA board members keeping a close eye on the director recruitment process... Read more »

IRISH MOVIES MISS THEIR TARGET

June 13, 2018
ON MAY 25 Oscar-nominated The Breadwinner (see Reviews) was released in Ireland and the... Read more »

ANNIE DOONA’S ANNUAL REPORT

May 31, 2018
THE LATEST annual report of the Irish Film Board (IFB) appeared without fanfare on... Read more »

A SMALL WORLD AT IMMA

May 31, 2018
THE THIRD year of purchases by the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection has... Read more »

CREDIT WHERE (TAX) CREDIT IS DUE

May 17, 2018
WHILE THE Joint Oireachtas culture committee prepares its report on the film industry following... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S CONDITIONS

May 17, 2018
WITH THE Gate Theatre landing an extra €100,000 in funding from the Arts Council... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S AMERICAN DREAM

May 17, 2018
THE MANNER in which the Irish government funds the long delayed $62m Irish Arts... Read more »

BACK ON THE GRAVY TRAIN

May 3, 2018
FOLLOWING HOT on the heels of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s hand-out to the... Read more »

SHEILA PRATSCHKE’S WONDERFUL LIFE

May 3, 2018
LAST MONTH Arts Council chair Sheila Pratschke gave a lengthy interview to The Irish... Read more »

EMER MARTIN Vs EDNA O’BRIEN

April 19, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS are due to writer-cum-filmaker Emer Martin, who gave Dame Edna O’Brien both barrels... Read more »

DRAMATIC HAND-OUTS FROM THE BAI

April 19, 2018
THE LATEST round of the Sound & Vision fund run by Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting... Read more »

‘Appalling waste’

April 5, 2018
LAST MONTH, Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan was in the Dáil outlining the manner... Read more »

HEATHER HUMPHREYS’S €7M PLOT SPOILER

April 5, 2018
ON THE last Dáil sitting day before Easter, March 29, the five members present... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S NEW TEAM

April 5, 2018
ATHOUGH there has been lots of talk of transparency at the Gate Theatre (“I... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL RESIGNATIONS

March 22, 2018
IT IS starting to look like being a member of the Arts Council is... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S FEMALES

March 22, 2018
NOW THAT Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has a recruitment campaign under way... Read more »

HUNT MUSEUM’S HUNT is OVER

March 22, 2018
THE LONG vacant position of director and chief executive of the Hunt Museum has... Read more »

MUSIC FESTIVAL’S SOUR NOTE

March 8, 2018
SPARE A thought for the team behind New Music Dublin (NMD) festival. Thanks to... Read more »

McGUCKIAN’S DIRECTOR’S CUT

March 8, 2018
Although The total cost of the Section 481 tax credit for filmmakers in 2017... Read more »

GERRY GANNON’S GET-OUT CLAUSE

March 8, 2018
AS INCOMING director of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) Lynn Scarff prepares for... Read more »

LITTLE DRAMA AT THEATRE AWARDS

February 22, 2018
THIS WEEKEND in the National Concert Hall, the theatre industry’s glitterati will dutifully assemble... Read more »

US Arts Dosh

February 22, 2018
WITH THE long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York again under... Read more »

BLAKE NOT SO LIVELY

February 8, 2018
IN LATE January, the film trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter, burst the bubble for... Read more »

Yeats masterpiece

February 8, 2018
GOLDHAWK was pleased to see the painting John Butler Yeats, Self Portrait, New York... Read more »

GARECH DE BRUN’S SOUR NOTE

February 8, 2018
THERE HAS been some non musical activity at the struggling Claddagh Records – the... Read more »

Arts Chiefs

January 25, 2018
THE APPOINTMENT of Lynn Scarff as director of the National Museum of Ireland continues... Read more »

IFTA’S CASTING GROUCH

January 25, 2018
THE LIST of nominations for this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards... Read more »