Article Category: Behind the Scenes

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Arts Chiefs

January 25, 2018
THE APPOINTMENT of Lynn Scarff as director of the National Museum of Ireland continues the trend in recent years of women holding the bulk... Read more »

IFTA’S CASTING GROUCH

January 25, 2018
THE LIST of nominations for this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards (part 1 – film and TV drama) resulted in a... Read more »

LYNN SCARFF’S INSIDE TRACK

January 25, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS to Lynn Scarff who has landed the €120,000 per annum job of director of the National Museum of Ireland. Currently in situ as... Read more »

BILL SHIPSEY’S PRODUCTIONS

January 11, 2018
TOP BARRISTER Bill Shipsey avoided some embarrassment last month when his Art for Amnesty (AfA) vehicle was taken off the Companies Office strike-off list... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL’S ART ATTACK

January 11, 2018
THE 2016 annual report of the Arts Council was published recently and includes some rather interesting figures, especially regarding the multi-million euro art collection.... Read more »

Pálás Programmes

January 11, 2018
GOLDHAWK has reported on the tortuous (torturous?) development of Galway’s bijou art-house cinema, Cinema Palace. It was originally promoted by Lelia Doolan’s Solas group,... Read more »

U2’s album reviews

December 14, 2017
EVER SINCE U2 released the critical and commercial flop No Line On The Horizon in 2009, the key question among music hacks with each... Read more »

TICKING BOXES AT THE ABBEY

December 14, 2017
ABBEY THEATRE co-directors Neil Murray and Graham McLaren have ruffled a few Irish feathers since they arrived from Scotland. But maybe you can’t blame... Read more »

IT’S A SMALL WORLD

November 30, 2017
WHILE THE most talked about article in last week’s Irish Times Christmas supplement was, of course, the profile of one Al Porter – concluding... Read more »

ARTS HEADS PLAYING CATCH-UP

November 30, 2017
LAST WEEK’S sitting of the joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht focused on the topical issue of sexual harassment and bullying in... Read more »

FICTION LAUREATES LINE UP

November 30, 2017
IT’S THAT time of year again, when the great and good of the Irish literary establishment line up for Merrion Square’s beauty contest to... Read more »

Selina Cartmell’s Good News

November 2, 2017
WITH the Gate Theatre’s new director, Selina Cartmell, now well ensconced in her office, the good news is that the financial picture looks rosy.... Read more »

HANDOUT TIME AT THE IRISH FILM BOARD

November 2, 2017
WHILE THE global film business focuses on Harvey Weinstein’s unmasking, it was business as usual at Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) where the... Read more »

John McAuliffe’s broadside

November 2, 2017
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by the attack on culture minister Heather Humphreys and her Creative Ireland programme, penned by... Read more »

THE SQUEEZE OF TROY

October 19, 2017
ON AUGUST 24 last an interesting advert appeared on the UK film and TV production guild website. It relates to the latest international show... Read more »

Pratschke v Humphreys

October 19, 2017
IT’S A TRYING time at the Arts Council where they have just lost a board member, the unions are kicking up and the chair... Read more »

TAPPING THE TAXMAN

October 5, 2017
THE REVENUE’S latest figures for Section 481 film and TV production tax beneficiaries have just been released at a time when Goldhawk hears the... Read more »

NGI misses john yeats MASTERPIECE

October 5, 2017
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised at the latest state splurge on Yeats items, both ahead of and at Sotheby’s so-called ‘Yeats... Read more »

Brunswick Debt

September 21, 2017
THE LIQUIDATION of the long-established Brunswick Press is now complete but there was not too much left for creditors after the professionals took their... Read more »

AnneMarie Naughton’s Rangle

September 21, 2017
THE SUBJECT of industrial relations in the film industry is an especially touchy one and a new arrival on the scene could lead to... Read more »

MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S GERMAN PROBLEM

September 7, 2017
THE PUBLICATION of the 2016 accounts for Octagon Films Ltd reminded Goldhawk of the ongoing legal tango in the Four Goldmines between Octagon directors... Read more »

HUNT ON AT the HUNT MUSEUM

September 7, 2017
AT LONG last, the job of director of the Hunt Museum in Limerick has been advertised (in the Limerick Leader). This process has somehow... Read more »