IRISH FILM & TV RESEARCH ONLINE
is based in the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin
The links are arranged in the following groupings
- Film festivals in Ireland
- Irish film festivals outside Ireland
- Film and television archives, libraries and websites with Irish material
- Irish television broadcasters
- Irish film and television organizations
FILM FESTIVALS IN IRELAND
Belfast Film Festival
Annual festival usually which
takes place in Belfast in March.
www.belfastfilmfestival.org
Cinemagic World Screen
Festival
Annual film festival for young
people which takes place in Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland
in November/December.
www.cinemagic.org.uk
Clones Film Festival
Annual film festival which
takes place in Monaghan in October.
www.clonesfilmfestival.com
Cork Film Festival
Established in 1956, Cork Film
Festival takes place in October.
www.corkfilmfest.org
Cork Youth International
Film Video Arts Festival
Film festival established in
1980 to involve young people in filmmaking and the arts.
www.corkfilmfest.org
Darklight Film Festival
Established in 1999, Darklight
Film Festival, which takes place in June/July, brings new work to Irish
audiences through cinema, exhibition and performance and from 2002 to
an international audience via the internet and touring programme.
www.darklight-filmfestival.com
Doclands Film Festival
Annual festival of Irish and
international documentaries which takes place at the Irish Film Institute.
www.doclands.ie
Dublin International Film
Festival
Annual festival which takes
place in February.
www.dubliniff.com
Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival
Annual festival which takes
place in August.
www.gcn.ie/dlgff
Foyle Film Festival
Annual film festival which
takes place in November.
www.foylefilmfestival.com
Fresh Film Festival
Limerick-based festival taking
place in March which screens the work of primary and secondary students
aged 7 - 18 years.
info@freshfilmfestival.com
Galway Film Fleadh
The Galway Film Fleadh is a
six-day event held in July.
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
Irish Animation Festival
Two-day animation film held
in September in Dublin's Temple Bar.
www.topgold.com/anamu
Junior Galway Film Fleadh
Children's film festival
which takes place in November.
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
Junior Dublin Film Festival
Children's film festival
held annually at the Irish Film Institute.
jdff@indigo.ie
Kerry Film Festival
The Samhlaíocht Kerry Film
Festival usually takes place in October.
www.kerryfilmfestival.com
Mid-Ulster Film Festival
Film festival which takes place
in May.
midulsterfilmfestival.com
Stranger Than Fiction:
Documentary Festival & Market
A festival devoted to documentaries.
www.irishfilm.ie
IRISH FILM FESTIVALS OUTSIDE IRELAND
Boston Irish Film Festival
The Boston Irish Film Festival,
founded in 1999, organizes a film festival in March, as well as events
and screenings throughout the year
www.irishfilmfestival.com
Celtic Film
and Television Festival
The CFTF's aim is to promote
the languages and cultures of the Celtic countries on screen and in
broadcasting.
www.celticfilm.co.uk
New York Film Fleadh/Craic
Festival
Founded in 1998, the Film Fleadh
Foundation has designed and produced the Craic Festival that presents
Celtic cinematic and musical culture in March each year.
www.thecraicfest.com
FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES & WEBSITES WITH IRISH MATERIALS
Library of Congress (Washington)
www.loc.gov/film/arch.html
Archive Film Agency (London)
www.archivefilmagency.com
BFI Library and Information
Services
The BFI Library and Information
Services holds a comprehensive collection of research materials on international
cinema and television including materials of significant Irish interest.
www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo
BFI National Archives
The BFI National Archive is
one of the world's greatest collections of film and television, and
holds theatrical copies of many Irish films.
www.bfi.org.uk/nftva
BBC Motion Gallery
Encompassing 500 million feet
of film and 400,000 hours of video, the BBC archive spans over 8 million
subject categories.
www.bbcmotiongallery.com
British Movietone News
International cinema newsreel
covering the period 1929-1979. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
www.movietone.com
British Pathe
A major multimedia resource
with a history stretching back to the early twentieth century.
www.britishpathe.com
BUFVC (British Universities
Film and Video Council)
The BUFVC is a representative
body which promotes the production, study and use of film and related
media in higher and further education and research. Its online searchable
database includes a comprehensive catalogue of British newsreels.
www.bufvc.ac.uk
CAIN
The CAIN Website of the Troubles
in Northern Ireland contains a database of 695 programmes, news items,
and current affairs items about 'the Troubles'; the Belfast Bulletin's
list of British television programmes about the conflict, 1968 to 1978;
and a list of films with 'The Troubles' as a theme (1968-present).
www.cain.ulst.ac.uk
Central Office of Information
(COI)
www.coi.gov.uk
Cinematheque Francaise
www.facets.org/cinematheque/archive
Film Images London
www.film-images.com
Getty Images
www.creative.gettyimages.com
Huntley Film Archives
www.huntleyarchives.com
Imperial War Museum, London
www.iwm.org.uk
Ireland Film and Television
Net
IFTN is
a website devoted to providing information of interest to the Irish
film industry, including a weekly update of events, and a summary of
information on films related to or filmed in Ireland.
www.iftn.ie
Irish Film Archive
The Irish Film Archive is a
constituent element of the Irish Film Institute. Its main objective
is to acquire, preserve and make available Ireland's moving image
heritage.
www.irishfilm.ie/archive
Irish Genres in Film and
Television - Database of Irish Films
The Irish films database is
an ongoing project.
www.irishfilmgenres.com/database.htm
Irish on Film
- A Database of Irish Movies
An annotated database of films
with Irish themes or Irish characters containing a complete list of
Irish films.
www.irishfilm.net
Irishscreen.org
Los Angeles-based organization
which organizes Irish film events, including screenings of new releases
with film directors in attendance.
National Archives of Ireland
Ireland's national repository
of state papers. Amongst the materials of interest to film researchers
are the records of Ireland's film censors since 1923; policy documents
and memoranda relating to the establishment of Irish film institutions,
including the National Film Institute of Ireland and Ardmore Studios.
www.nationalarchives.ie
National Film and Sound
Archive-National Library of Australia
www.nla.gov.au/collect/film
National Library of Ireland
Ireland's national library.
It holds the Liam O'Leary film collection of Irish film memorabilia,
correspondence, and film stills of Irish interest, including of cinema
buildings, and those relating to Irish-born Hollywood director Rex Ingram,
about whom O'Leary wrote a biography. Elsewhere in the library are
held manuscripts and other papers deposited by filmmaker Neil Jordan;
and issues of the first Irish film publication, Irish Limelight,
1917 - 20.
www.nil.ie
NIFTC Digital Film Archive
The Northern Ireland Film and
Television Commission's Digital Film Archive (DFA) contains 55 hours
of moving images about Northern Ireland from 1897-2000. There are 389
items covering drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreels, amateur
and actuality film.
www.niftc.uk
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
Amongst the films of Irish
interest are some of the Irish-theme silent films made by John Ford.
www.moma.org/collection/depts/film
RTE Libraries and Archives
This site provides access to
a selection of the audio-visual material preserved by RTÉ Libraries
and Archives.
www.rte.ie/laweb
UCLA Film and Television
Archives
One of the world's largest
film archives with many Irish-theme films.
www.cinema.ucla.edu
WPA Film Library
The WPA Film Library contains over 60000 hours of film and video materials, and is the world's leading commercial stock footage archive of moving images.
www.wpafilmlibrary.com
IRISH TELEVISION BROADCASTERS
BBC Northern Ireland
www.bbc.co.uk
Radio Telefis Eireann (RTE)
www.rte.ie
TG4
www.tg4.ie
TV3 Television Network
www.tv3.ie
Ulster Television
www.utv.ie
IRISH FILM & TELEVISION ORGANISATIONS
Access Cinema
Access Cinema provides support
to film societies throughout Ireland.
www.accesscinema.ie
Arts Council/An Chomhairle
Ealaíon
Autonomous body established
in 1951 to stimulate public interest in and promote the knowledge, appreciation
and practice of the arts, including, since 1973, film.
www.artscouncil.ie
Broadcasting Commission
of Ireland (BCI)
The Irish state's regulatory
body for broadcasting. Its remit includes aiding the preservation of
Ireland's audio-visual heritage.
www.bci.ie
Bord Scannán na hEireann/the
Irish Film Board
Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the
Irish Film Board is the state body responsible for the development of
the Irish film industry. It provides loans and equity investment to
independent Irish film-makers to assist in the development and production
of Irish films.
www.filmboard.ie
Cork Film Centre
Cork Film Centre is a resource-based
organization, focused on developing, promoting and facilitating people
working creatively in the medium of the moving image.
www.corkfilmcentre.com
Department of Arts, Sports
and Tourism
irlgov.ie/arts-sport-tourism
Enterprise Ireland
www.enterprise-ireland.com
Equity
- Irish Actors Equity
www.siptu.ie
FAS Screen Training Ireland
www.screentrainingireland.ie
Filmbase
Filmbase is a support organization
for independent film and video makers in Ireland. It provides facilitates
for training & development; equipment hire; information services;
and representation and lobbying for the low budget film sector. Filmbase
also publishes Film Ireland magazine (www.filmireland.net), and runs two short film award
schemes.
www.filmbase.ie
Galway Film Centre
The Galway Film Centre offers
equipment, training, information and post-production facilities at non-commercial
rates to independent filmmakers, artists, community groups and educational
facilities.
www.galwayfilmcentre.ie
IBEC Audiovisual Federation
www.ibec.ie
Irish Film and Television
Academy (IFTA)
www.ifta.ie
Irish Film Institute
Irish Film Institute is the
national centre for film culture in Ireland. Its premises in Dublin's
Temple Bar, opened in 1992, house two cinemas, a bar and restaurant;
a specialist film book and DVD shop; a film and media education department;
the Irish Film Archive; and the Tiernan MacBride Library, which contains
files on Irish directors and films.
www.irishfilm.ie
Media Antenna Galway
Part of the Media programme
of the European Union.
www.media-antenna.com
Media Desk Ireland
Part of the Media programme
of the European Union.
www.mediadesk.ie
Northern Ireland Film and
Television Commission
The Northern Ireland Film and
Television Commission is an integrated agency for the development of
the film industry and film culture in Northern Ireland.
www.niftc.co.uk
Irish Film Censor's Office
The state body which regulates
the public exhibition of theatrical films in Ireland.
www.ifco.ie
Playwrights and Screenwriters
Guild
The representative body for
playwrights and screenwriters in Ireland.
www.script.ie
Reel Ireland International
The Reel Ireland International
programme of Irish film is funded by the state body, Culture Ireland.
www.loc.gov/film/arch.html
Screen Directors Guild of
Ireland
The representative body for
film directors in Ireland.
info@sdgi.ie
Screen Producers Ireland
The representative body for
film producers in Ireland.
www.screenproducersireland.com