Article Category: Behind the Scenes

MORE MOOLAH FOR ‘REBELLION’ MARK II

July 26, 2018
THE TAXPAYERS’ latest handouts to Irish TV and film producers, for the April-June period, is the usual exercise in opacity because the Revenue is... Read more »

ELEANOR McEVOY’S SAD SONG

July 12, 2018
LAST WEEK singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy put on her hat as chair of the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) – which represents songwriters, composers and... Read more »

A SMASHING PLAN!

July 12, 2018
IN MARCH this year, the wheels came off Filmbase when Tom Murray was appointed liquidator but the story is far from over. For example,... 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 commissioned by Heather Humphreys in November 2016 from London consultants... Read more »

WILLIE WHITE’S WOES

June 28, 2018
THE OFF-STAGE drama for the Dublin Theatre Festival has seen an Arts Council cut in funding for 2018. It looks like the writing was... 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 account the gender, sexuality, etc of those to be published)... Read more »

SARAH GLENNIE’S SUCCESSOR?

June 13, 2018
THE BOARD of IMMA, chaired by David Harvey, will be relieved to have finally advertised the post of gallery director. It has only taken... Read more »

PENELOPE KENNY’S CONTACTS

June 13, 2018
AMONG THOSE IMMA board members keeping a close eye on the director recruitment process is Penelope Kenny, appointed in 2015 along with Dermod Dwyer... 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 UK. Produced by Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny and directed by... Read more »

ANNIE DOONA’S ANNUAL REPORT

May 31, 2018
THE LATEST annual report of the Irish Film Board (IFB) appeared without fanfare on its website last month. Since Annie Doona was confirmed in... Read more »

A SMALL WORLD AT IMMA

May 31, 2018
THE THIRD year of purchases by the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection has added four more pieces by mid-level artists to the artworks... 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 recent hearings, Goldhawk asked the Revenue for some facts. The... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S CONDITIONS

May 17, 2018
WITH THE Gate Theatre landing an extra €100,000 in funding from the Arts Council it looks like 2018 is shaping up to be a... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S AMERICAN DREAM

May 17, 2018
THE MANNER in which the Irish government funds the long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York continues to raise questions. And... 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 TV production sector comes the release by Annie Doona’s Irish... Read more »

SHEILA PRATSCHKE’S WONDERFUL LIFE

May 3, 2018
LAST MONTH Arts Council chair Sheila Pratschke gave a lengthy interview to The Irish Times but what was most interesting was what was not... 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 in a full-blooded comment piece last weekend in The Irish... 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 Authority of Ireland (BAI) had €6m of TV licence fee... Read more »

‘Appalling waste’

April 5, 2018
LAST MONTH, Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan was in the Dáil outlining the manner in which the huge Project Ireland 2014 cultural spend would... 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 cut lonely figures and, despite questions on the matter, there... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S NEW TEAM

April 5, 2018
ATHOUGH there has been lots of talk of transparency at the Gate Theatre (“I will not waver in our search for trust and transparency”... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL RESIGNATIONS

March 22, 2018
IT IS starting to look like being a member of the Arts Council is a hazardous affair. Artist Brian Maguire has just stepped down... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S FEMALES

March 22, 2018
NOW THAT Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has a recruitment campaign under way for a production and development coordinator, maybe the agency will... 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 gone to a woman – Jill Cousin – who joins... Read more »

MUSIC FESTIVAL’S SOUR NOTE

March 8, 2018
SPARE A thought for the team behind New Music Dublin (NMD) festival. Thanks to the weather ‘event’, the musical event was cancelled… for the... Read more »

McGUCKIAN’S DIRECTOR’S CUT

March 8, 2018
Although The total cost of the Section 481 tax credit for filmmakers in 2017 has not yet been calculated, the Revenue told Goldhawk the... 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 her new role, the museum is facing yet more bullying... 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 for the Irish Times Theatre Awards. The 20-year-old ritual gives... Read more »

US Arts Dosh

February 22, 2018
WITH THE long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York again under the spotlight, it was interesting to see the response from... Read more »

BLAKE NOT SO LIVELY

February 8, 2018
IN LATE January, the film trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter, burst the bubble for Irish film technicians wishing a speedy recovery to star Blake... Read more »

Yeats masterpiece

February 8, 2018
GOLDHAWK was pleased to see the painting John Butler Yeats, Self Portrait, New York (see The Phoenix 25/8/17) has remained here despite the decision... Read more »

GARECH DE BRUN’S SOUR NOTE

February 8, 2018
THERE HAS been some non musical activity at the struggling Claddagh Records – the traditional Irish music company chaired by founder Garech de Brún... Read more »