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Chief Executive of Screen Ireland, Desiree Finnega Chief Executive of Screen Ireland, Desiree Finnegan, and the recently appointed Chair of the Board, Susan Bergin, launched Building for a Creative Future 2024, the new strategy from Fís Eireann/Screen Ireland. The strategy sets out a vision for the booming creative screen industry with a number of targeted initiatives to drive sustainable growth for the future. In recognition of the continued growth in demand for skills, an investment in creative talent and skills development is at the heart of the new strategy. Screen Ireland announced plans to invest €3 million in the development of industry crew and talent in the coming months. To deliver on the skills and talent development ambitions embedded within the strategy, Screen Skills Ireland. More will adopt a more central role as the skills team within Screen Ireland by the end of 2021. Three new regional Crew Hubs are planned for across the country working collectively to target a national approach to crew development. Two new ‘Screen Ireland National Talent Academies for Film and TV Drama and Animation’ have also been established to build talent and skills regionally. A new scheme, Pathways, will enable new entrants from a range of diverse backgrounds to gain paid work experience opportunities on film and television productions. A range of other initiatives being announced today are designed to support this ambition: - A new platform called ‘Where to Watch’ which will help audiences all over the world to discover Irish productions; - A new Creative Futures Fund (CFF) to build additional development capabilities and to support high-quality creative projects; - A new support fund for Irish distribution companies designed to help offset the challenges that have been created by Covid-19. Building for a Creative Future 2024 builds on the momentum in the industry as it continues to enjoy growth and success despite the challenges faced over the course of the pandemic. In the first six months of 2021 the industry contributed an estimated €289 million to the economy and directly supported over 12,000 jobs. Read the full plan over at https://www.screenireland.ie/strategy
This year, Cork International Film Festival celebr This year, Cork International Film Festival celebrates female directors and their uncompromising, original artistic visions through its Female Visions Retrospective. Filmgoers are invited to (re)discover inspiring works by daring, brave, visionary filmmakers that changed cinematic language and rewrote the history of film. The Retrospective includes six international features by acclaimed directors, including Beau Travail from French director Claire Denis, The Mourning Forest from Japanese director Naomi Kawase and Daisies from Czechoslovakian director Věra Chytilová. Ireland is represented by Pat Murphy’s Nora and Kirsten Sheridan’s Disco Pigs together with a specially curated programme of shorts. Explore the works of experimental and ‘artist moving image’ filmmakers in two programmes created in partnership with aemi (Artists’ and Experimental Moving Image), and be amazed by the work of Maya Deren, one of the pioneers of female cinema in CIFF’s online-exclusive documentary, Martina Kudláček’s In the Mirror of Maya Deren. Anna Kopecká, CIFF Director of Programming, commented: “We continually seek to champion new voices as well as celebrate auteurs and established directors through our curated programmes. This year, we pay particular attention to bold and uncompromising Irish and international female directors, paying tribute to their fantastic work that changed the history of cinema and keeps challenging our understanding of what cinema is. We open our Festival with a warm yet realistic love story from acclaimed British director Clio Barnard and we are proud to present our retrospective programme Female Visions, giving audiences a unique opportunity to re/discover fiction and documentary movies by visionary female filmmakers both on the big screen and online.” The full programme for CIFF2021 will be announced on Thursday 14th October. https://corkfilmfest.org/
WFT is delighted to report that our chair Dr Susan WFT is delighted to report that our chair Dr Susan Liddy has been invited to become a Member of the Council of the Irish Film Institute. Drawn from a broad community of cultural practitioners, broadcasters and educators, the purpose of Council Members is to support the IFI and promote Irish film and culture. Best of luck, Susan and we thank you for the tireless work you do! https://ifi.ie/
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