One of Ireland’s top performers of stage and screen will be awarded this autumn at KIFF, joining the ranks of stars including Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, Eileen Walsh and more. Kerry International Film Festival announced this afternoon that award-winning actress Fiona Shaw is the recipient of this year’s Maureen O’Hara Award ahead of the 26th…
Wildcard and Vertigo Releasing have today released the teaser trailer for Saipan, the eagerly awaited new film about the infamous confrontation between iconic Republic of Ireland football captain Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) and his national team manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) during the team’s preparations for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Due to arrive in…
Vah Vah Films is proud to present With Compliments from the Gentlemen Across the Bar in Oman, a new comedy short starring Jack Gleeson (of Game of Thrones fame), Craig Reynolds, and Cameron Macauley. The premise is simple: two broke filmmakers recreate an iconic film trope in a beach bar in the Sultanate of Oman.…
Ireland’s most literary film festival returns this summer, promising another celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s Father of modernism, James Joyce. The Bloomsday Film Festival is the cinematic branch of the wider celebrations every year of the iconic author. For 2025, they have a high profile…
The Academy Awards, cinema’s biggest night of celebration, had its 97th annual ceremony last night, and it was Sean Baker’s Anora, an urban-fairytale romcom about a Brighton Beach stripper who runs off with and marries the son of a Russian oligarch, took away many of the top prizes. Baker’s superb film, which won five out…
The high profile of talent that the Dublin International Film Festival are able to attract usually means a few eye-catching conversations take place during the biggest festival in the fair city of film. This year is no different, and on top of the events already announced for DIFF 2025, this week ahead of the festival’s…
The Irish Film and Television Awards for 2025 took place on Friday, with Irish screen stars arriving in Dublin to receive the awards and adulation of their peers. Kneecap was the big winner for film on the night, taking home four awards including Best Director for Rich Peppiatt, but it was Small Things Like These…
The nominations have been announced for this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, with some of the island’s biggest names, hardest working pros and rising talents given nods for their work on screen over the last year. With nominations cross across 29 categories in film and tv, the IFTA winners will be revealed during the…
An Irish company have launched a scheme this month for emerging Irish genre writers to mark their entry into further filmmaking and to support emerging screenwriters in Ireland. Two-time Irish advertising ‘Company of the Year’ Banjoman Films is marking the launch of their film and TV division under the banner BMAN Entertainment with a scheme…
The latest book by historic Irish filmmaker Bob Quinn will be making its way to shelves in the new year. Across decades of a career in film, photography, television and more, Quinn has seen the arts on the island expand, and his new book will chart those experiences. The Count Me Out: Selected Writings of…
