Wednesday, March 9, 2011
New Broom
Jimmy Deenihan TD will be the new Minister of the re-constituted Department of Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht Affairs. Best of luck to him, let's hope he brings a new broom into the Department and questions all the assumptions.
MEDIA Programmes Hearing
The future of the MEDIA programmes
MEDIA 2007 and MEDIA Mundus
Public hearing 18 March 2011- 9.00-16.00
The audiovisual industry in times of globalisation and digitisation
09.00-09.30 Registration & coffee
09.30-09.45 Opening Speeches
09.45-10.10 Keynote: Marjane Satrapi
10.10-10.25 Introduction and context: Vladimir Šucha
10.25-10.35 First results of online consultation & focus groups: Aviva Silver
10.35-11.30 Panel: Old and new business models for the MEDIA programmes:
o Training: Sophie Bourdon (ATC)
o Producers: Johannes Rexin Heimatfilm and Dariusz Jablonski (Apple Film)
o Distribution: Antonio de Medici (Bim Distribution)
o Animation: Marc du Pontavice (Xilam Animation)
11.30-12.30 Interventions from and discussions with the audience
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.25 Keynote: Hengameh Panahi
14.25-15.25 Panel: How to better engage with audiences?
o Film literacy: Charlotte Appelgren (Cineregio)
o Producer: Tero Kaukomaa, (Blind Spot)
o VOD Platform: Alain Rocca, (Universciné)
o Cinema: Claude-Eric Poiroux (Europa Cinemas)
o TV: Piodor Gustafsson (SVT)
o Sales Agent: Michael Weber (The Match Factory)
15.25-16.00 Interventions from and discussions with the audience
Closing
MEDIA 2007 and MEDIA Mundus
Public hearing 18 March 2011- 9.00-16.00
The audiovisual industry in times of globalisation and digitisation
09.00-09.30 Registration & coffee
09.30-09.45 Opening Speeches
09.45-10.10 Keynote: Marjane Satrapi
10.10-10.25 Introduction and context: Vladimir Šucha
10.25-10.35 First results of online consultation & focus groups: Aviva Silver
10.35-11.30 Panel: Old and new business models for the MEDIA programmes:
o Training: Sophie Bourdon (ATC)
o Producers: Johannes Rexin Heimatfilm and Dariusz Jablonski (Apple Film)
o Distribution: Antonio de Medici (Bim Distribution)
o Animation: Marc du Pontavice (Xilam Animation)
11.30-12.30 Interventions from and discussions with the audience
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.25 Keynote: Hengameh Panahi
14.25-15.25 Panel: How to better engage with audiences?
o Film literacy: Charlotte Appelgren (Cineregio)
o Producer: Tero Kaukomaa, (Blind Spot)
o VOD Platform: Alain Rocca, (Universciné)
o Cinema: Claude-Eric Poiroux (Europa Cinemas)
o TV: Piodor Gustafsson (SVT)
o Sales Agent: Michael Weber (The Match Factory)
15.25-16.00 Interventions from and discussions with the audience
Closing
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Oh lord, in 3D
I thought my ears were deceiving me. The radio ad went something like this - 'See Michael Flatley in Lord of the Dance 3D, in cinemas from March 11'
Perhaps there has been a marketing campaign in other media for several weeks and I've missed it because it seems a rather short run-in to an opening this coming Friday, hot on the (ahem) heels of Carmen 3D which opened last Friday.
Perhaps there has been a marketing campaign in other media for several weeks and I've missed it because it seems a rather short run-in to an opening this coming Friday, hot on the (ahem) heels of Carmen 3D which opened last Friday.
Funding Decisions
The first Irish Film Board loan decisions of 2011, made on March 4.
Development
Project Director Writer Production Co. Funding Award
First Draft Loans
The Brave Tin Soldier Colin Downey €12,000
Tell Them Nothing Domhnaill Glesson €12,000
Closed Circuit Ian Power €12,000
Spin City Johnny O'Reilly €12,000
Better Love Conor Horgan €12,000
Nineteen Days And Counting Ann-Marie McCormack €12,000
Immaculate Ray Lawlor €12,000
Fiction Development Loans
S/He's The Dad Charlie McCarthy Charlie McCarthy Icebox Films €18,000
The Mulberry Project Richie Smyth Martin Brennan & Michael B. Jackson Heavens Gate Films €11,000
A Month In The Country John Banville Treasure Entertainment €28,000
Animation Development Loans
Little Caribou Barry O'Donoghue Barry O'Donoghue Barley Films €10,000
Cosmo Jason Tammemagi Jason Tammemagi Monster Animation & Design €16,000
Production
Project Director Writer Production Co. Funding Award
Fiction Feature Films
Honeycomb Imogen Murphy Matt Reynolds Samson Films Provisional Offer Of Commitment
Funny Bones Conor McMahon Conor McMahon Fantastic Films Provisional Offer Of Commitment
Fiction Creative Co-production
Stay Wiebke Von Carolsfeld Wiebke Von Carolsfeld Samson Films €240,000
Milo Berend & Roel Boorsma Berend & Roel Boorsma Samson Films €400,000
Documentary
Showrunners Des Doyle Black Sheep Productions €15,000
Off The Beaten Track Dieter Auner Ikandi Productions €25,000
Muerte & Me Ross McDonnell & Carter Gunn Fastnet Films €235,000
Clientelle John Loughney Still Films €15,000
Stuffing The Tiger: A Jounrey Through The Crash Donald Taylor Black Poolbeg Productions €10,000
Saving The Titanic Maurice Sweeney Tile Films €150,000
Jerry McGill: Very Extremely Dangerous Paul Duane Screenworks Limited €75,000
Completion Fund
Eliott & Me Fintan Connolly Fintan Connolly Fubar €10,000
Charlie Cassanova Terry McMahon Terry McMahon €13,000
Distribution
Print Provision
Between The Canals Mark O'Connor Maek O'Connor Avalon Films €5,486
Rewind PJ Dillon PJ Dillon Carbon Films €8,100
Small Change Cathy Brady Cathy Brady Venom Limited €3,355
Marketing Support
As If I Am Not There Juanita Wilson Juanita Wilson Element Distribution €21,825
Essential Killing Jerzy Skolimowski Jerzy Skolimowski Element Distribution €5,000
Direct Distribution
Between The Canals Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor Avalon Films €7,200
Rewind PJ Dillon PJ Dillon Carbon Films €15,000
Development
Project Director Writer Production Co. Funding Award
First Draft Loans
The Brave Tin Soldier Colin Downey €12,000
Tell Them Nothing Domhnaill Glesson €12,000
Closed Circuit Ian Power €12,000
Spin City Johnny O'Reilly €12,000
Better Love Conor Horgan €12,000
Nineteen Days And Counting Ann-Marie McCormack €12,000
Immaculate Ray Lawlor €12,000
Fiction Development Loans
S/He's The Dad Charlie McCarthy Charlie McCarthy Icebox Films €18,000
The Mulberry Project Richie Smyth Martin Brennan & Michael B. Jackson Heavens Gate Films €11,000
A Month In The Country John Banville Treasure Entertainment €28,000
Animation Development Loans
Little Caribou Barry O'Donoghue Barry O'Donoghue Barley Films €10,000
Cosmo Jason Tammemagi Jason Tammemagi Monster Animation & Design €16,000
Production
Project Director Writer Production Co. Funding Award
Fiction Feature Films
Honeycomb Imogen Murphy Matt Reynolds Samson Films Provisional Offer Of Commitment
Funny Bones Conor McMahon Conor McMahon Fantastic Films Provisional Offer Of Commitment
Fiction Creative Co-production
Stay Wiebke Von Carolsfeld Wiebke Von Carolsfeld Samson Films €240,000
Milo Berend & Roel Boorsma Berend & Roel Boorsma Samson Films €400,000
Documentary
Showrunners Des Doyle Black Sheep Productions €15,000
Off The Beaten Track Dieter Auner Ikandi Productions €25,000
Muerte & Me Ross McDonnell & Carter Gunn Fastnet Films €235,000
Clientelle John Loughney Still Films €15,000
Stuffing The Tiger: A Jounrey Through The Crash Donald Taylor Black Poolbeg Productions €10,000
Saving The Titanic Maurice Sweeney Tile Films €150,000
Jerry McGill: Very Extremely Dangerous Paul Duane Screenworks Limited €75,000
Completion Fund
Eliott & Me Fintan Connolly Fintan Connolly Fubar €10,000
Charlie Cassanova Terry McMahon Terry McMahon €13,000
Distribution
Print Provision
Between The Canals Mark O'Connor Maek O'Connor Avalon Films €5,486
Rewind PJ Dillon PJ Dillon Carbon Films €8,100
Small Change Cathy Brady Cathy Brady Venom Limited €3,355
Marketing Support
As If I Am Not There Juanita Wilson Juanita Wilson Element Distribution €21,825
Essential Killing Jerzy Skolimowski Jerzy Skolimowski Element Distribution €5,000
Direct Distribution
Between The Canals Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor Avalon Films €7,200
Rewind PJ Dillon PJ Dillon Carbon Films €15,000
Monday, March 7, 2011
Getting with the programme...
...or, some snippets from the government-in-waiting's programme - Government for National Recovery 2011 - 2016
• Where appropriate, agency boards will be scrapped and agency managers will report directly to Ministers and their Departments on performance against targets.
• We will go beyond the recommendations of An Bord Snip to rationalise core processes that are duplicated across the public service, by establishing shared backoffice operations for information technology, human resource management payments and entitlement applications, business inspections and procurement.
• We will make substantial cuts to the number of State bodies and companies.
• We will instigate a Government-wide review to identify and eliminate non-priority programmes and outsource, where appropriate, non-critical functions.
Cut the 13.5% rate of VAT to 12% up to end 2013 [The exhibition trade will welcome this]
Arts, Culture and Sport
• We will make strategic policy formulation the primary function of the Department, with line agencies and bodies responsible for policy implementation.
• We will seek to capture some public good from NAMA by identifying buildings that have no commercial potential, and which might be suitable as local facilities for art and culture.
Responsibility for policy-making will revert to the Department, while agencies will be accountable for implementing policy, assessing outcomes and value for money.
All State funding will be subject to the beneficiaries signing up to a dispute resolution service, a code of governance and a new mandatory code of conduct regarding child protection in sport.
Communications
• We will review and update Intellectual Property legislation currently in place to benefit innovation, develop a National Intellectual Property protocol to give clarity about terms on which business can access IP created in Higher Education Institutions, and clarify legislation relating to online copyright infringement and enforcement of rights relating to digital communications.
• We will examine the role, and collection of, the TV license fee in light of existing and projected convergence of broadcasting technologies, transform the TV licence into a household-based Public Broadcasting Charge applied to all households and applicable businesses, regardless of the device they use to access content and review new ways of TV licence collection, including the possibility of paying in instalments through another utility bill (electricity or telecom), collection
by local authorities, Revenue or new contract with An Post.
• We will review the funding of public and independent broadcasters to ensure a healthy broadcasting environment in Ireland.
• Where appropriate, agency boards will be scrapped and agency managers will report directly to Ministers and their Departments on performance against targets.
• We will go beyond the recommendations of An Bord Snip to rationalise core processes that are duplicated across the public service, by establishing shared backoffice operations for information technology, human resource management payments and entitlement applications, business inspections and procurement.
• We will make substantial cuts to the number of State bodies and companies.
• We will instigate a Government-wide review to identify and eliminate non-priority programmes and outsource, where appropriate, non-critical functions.
Cut the 13.5% rate of VAT to 12% up to end 2013 [The exhibition trade will welcome this]
Arts, Culture and Sport
• We will make strategic policy formulation the primary function of the Department, with line agencies and bodies responsible for policy implementation.
• We will seek to capture some public good from NAMA by identifying buildings that have no commercial potential, and which might be suitable as local facilities for art and culture.
Responsibility for policy-making will revert to the Department, while agencies will be accountable for implementing policy, assessing outcomes and value for money.
All State funding will be subject to the beneficiaries signing up to a dispute resolution service, a code of governance and a new mandatory code of conduct regarding child protection in sport.
Communications
• We will review and update Intellectual Property legislation currently in place to benefit innovation, develop a National Intellectual Property protocol to give clarity about terms on which business can access IP created in Higher Education Institutions, and clarify legislation relating to online copyright infringement and enforcement of rights relating to digital communications.
• We will examine the role, and collection of, the TV license fee in light of existing and projected convergence of broadcasting technologies, transform the TV licence into a household-based Public Broadcasting Charge applied to all households and applicable businesses, regardless of the device they use to access content and review new ways of TV licence collection, including the possibility of paying in instalments through another utility bill (electricity or telecom), collection
by local authorities, Revenue or new contract with An Post.
• We will review the funding of public and independent broadcasters to ensure a healthy broadcasting environment in Ireland.
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