Galway Film Fleadh

Nominated for an Oscar earlier this year, Song of the Sea (PG) is a stunning animation from the people who brought us The Book of Kells (2009). 

Yesterday saw the release date of a film by Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon, entitled Song of the Sea, which earlier this year was nominated for an Academy Award. 

Tomm Moore has already enjoyed a night at the Oscars for his Song of the Sea, and now the animated feature is about to be released in Ireland, writes Ed Power

Goldsmith Yvonne Ross, fiancée of producer Paul Young, will be walking the red carpet at the Oscars tomorrow wearing jewellery she designed for the event.

Irish movie-lovers will be rooting for Cartoon Saloon tomorrow evening when the Kilkenny-based animation studio takes on the giants of Hollywood at the 87th Academy Awards ceremony with its feature film, Song of the Sea.

The animation industry is in rude health globally and especially in Ireland with Cartoon Saloon up for an Oscar next week. Ed Power asks some well known faces what cartoons they lived for as kids.

Irish animated film Song of the Sea will compete against some of the biggest players in the movie business after being nominated for an Oscar.

Song of the Sea from Kilkenny's Cartoon Saloon has been nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at this year’s Academy awards.

This week’s Small Business Show looks at Camara, the charity which takes old technology from businesses and puts it back to work helping disadvantaged children around the world. Oscar nominated animation company, Cartoon Saloon, talk about what it takes to create great animation and how publishers are now getting in on the animation industries. Temptster talks about filling to those empty tables and chairs as well as cinema seats. In the final part of the show we meet video analytics company Vidiro Analytics.

THE shortlist for the fourth annual Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards has been announced in Dublin by a celebrity jury that includes Oscar winner Brenda Fricker, Oscar nominated director Kirsten Sheridan and Senator David Norris.

Two BBC television dramas will be filmed here this year in what is being hailed as a major coup for the Irish Film Board.

A SPANISH film exposing the plight of the victims of sex trafficking took grand prize at last night’s prestigious Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) Human Rights Film Awards.

A SELECTION of new talent in the film industry here have been nominated for a special award by the Irish Film Board (IFB) and the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA).

A COLLEGE in the Dublin suburb of Ballyfermot, which has been inextricably linked with this year’s Hollywood Oscars, yesterday previewed four potential winners.

A trio of films is set for shooting around Ireland in the coming weeks.