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Screen Ireland’s Désirée Finnegan rewrites script for 2020
- Media & Marketing
- July 22, 2020, 05:05
Désirée Finnegan was seven months into her role as chief executive of Screen Ireland when every Irish cinema shut down and every mid-shoot film and te(...)

Streaming services should be taxed to save the Irish screen industry
- Media & Marketing
- July 23, 2019, 03:45
Should the State do what some EU members are already doing and introduce levies on subscription video-on-demand companies to boost funding for Irish-p(...)

Netflix and Amazon should pay levy to Irish industry, says Screen Ireland
- Media & Marketing
- July 20, 2019, 03:55
The Government should consider levying audio-visual services that are not based in the State but target audiences here, to generate funding for Irish (...)

Screen Ireland hosts Cannes women event as it steps up funding parity plan
- Media & Marketing
- May 20, 2019, 05:21
Screen Ireland will sponsor a sold-out international networking event for female talent at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Monday. The event is (...)

Ready for their Cannes close-up? Irish film-makers in the spotlight
- Film
- May 18, 2019, 05:00
As you read this, the lower decks of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes are awash with producers, distributors and funders. There has been all kinds o(...)

Screen Ireland appoints Désirée Finnegan as new chief executive
- Media & Marketing
- April 25, 2019, 14:32
Screen Ireland, the organisation previously known as the Irish Film Board, has appointed Désirée Finnegan as its next chief executive. She will repla(...)

Johnny Patterson, the Irish singing clown who met a tragic end
- Abroad
- April 2, 2019, 10:00
Images of Johnny Patterson, Ireland’s famous singing clown, often betray a certain wistfulness around the eyes, as if he was a man born with a strong (...)

Screen Ireland spotlights equality wins and ‘underfunded’ TV drama
- Media & Marketing
- January 17, 2019, 11:31
A psychological horror about an ominous sinkhole, an Atlantic-set thriller with a mysterious sea monster and a black comedy featuring “possessed magpi(...)

Screen Ireland searches for its next storyteller-in-chief
- Media & Marketing
- January 12, 2019, 05:38
“Want to be part of Screen Ireland’s narrative?” reads the job advertisement for one of the most important cultural positions in the State: chief exec(...)

‘I’m pretty buzzing’: Irish actor Jessie Buckley wins best newcomer award in Britain
- Film
- December 3, 2018, 15:15
In a very successful night for Irish film talent at the British Independent Film Awards, the Element Pictures-produced The Favourite won 10 awards, an(...)