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Thu 10 Oct 2009Artists lobby politicians to maintain funding
FILM PROJECTS in planning could risk being lost to Ireland because of uncertainty over the status of the Irish Film Board (IFB), Emmy award-winner Brendan Gleeson said yesterday.
The film In Brugesled to a 30 per cent increase in tourism for that town, and that was "even after Colin Farrell's character called it a s***hole", he said, to laughter in the room. And a Ridley Scott film project about 12th century knight William Marshall is "there for the taking" for Ireland, Gleeson said. "Certainty and dynamism will seal the deal."
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