IFTA Events 2020
BROADCAST & VOD EVOLUTION - THE NEW FRONTIERSFollowing on from the success of last year's Academy event VOD & Broadcast Content - What are the Opportunities? IFTA, in association with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), is excited to present the 2nd year of new frontier discussions 'Broadcast & VOD Evolution – The New Frontiers'
December 10th, 9am
IFTA NOMINEE ROUNDTABLE: LEAD ACTOR (FILM) The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) continues its series of online discussions with, IFTA Nominee Round Table: Best Actor - Film.
IFTA NOMINEE ROUNDTABLE: LEAD ACTRESSThe Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) continues its series of online discussions with, IFTA Nominee Round Table: Best Actress - Film & Drama.
IFTA NOMINEE ROUNDTABLE: BEST EDITINGThe Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) continues its series of online discussions with, IFTA Nominee Round Table: Best Editing. The round-table discussions series provide unique insight into creating award-winning film and television, with screen professionals at the very top of Irish and International filmmaking.
September 22nd, 6pm
IFTA Skills in Focus: Debut Feature Directing - Excellence in the CraftThe Skills in Focus:Debut Feature Film Panel will share the specific skill set required to make a top-level First Feature. Panelists Attending:
Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), Cathy Brady (Wildfire), and Aoife Crehan (The Last Right),with moderator Dearbhla Walsh (The Handmaid’s Tale)
September 3rd, 2pm
IFTA Skills in Focus: Documentary - Excellence in the CraftThe Skills in Focus:Documentary Panel will share the specific skill set required to make top-level documentaries. Panelists Attending:
Dan Reed(Leaving Neverland, Terror in Mumbai, The Valley); Emer Reynolds (The Farthest, Phil Lynott Songs For While I’m Away); Brendan Byrne (Bobby Sands: 66 Days, Gaza, No Stone Unturned)Sinéad Ó Shea (A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot)
August 28th 2pm
IFTA Skills in Focus: Cinematography - Excellence in the CraftThe Skills in Focus:Cinematography Panel will share the specific skill set required to become a top-level Cinematographer. Panelists Attending:
Cathal Watters(Rosie, Finky, Dark Lies the Island); Piers McGrail (Never Geow Old, Ordinary Love, Calm with Horses); Kate McCullough (Arracht, Normal People) Moderator: Ian Power
August 25th 11am
IFTA Skills in FocusThe Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) supported by Screen Skills Ireland presents the IFTA Skills in Focus Series a series of online panel events.
IFTA Screen Discussions - Be Good or Be GoneTwo petty criminal cousins receive a temporary release from prison.The film follows their misfortunes over four days.
Cathal Nally (Director/Producer) , Les Martin (Actor/Producer/Co- writer), Declan Mills (Actor/Producer), Alan Sherlock (Actor) & Joe Conlan (Composer) will participate
July 6th 4pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - Full CircleFrom the Gaza strip to Newgrange, Full Circle follows the lives of two men; an Irish war journalist Malcolm Walker (Michael Bates) and an American, Travis Sear (Mark Schrier).
Director Noel Brady, cast & crew will participate.
July 1st 6pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - RosieA woman, her husband and their four children find themselves homeless after their landlord sells their house. Over the next 36 hours, the couple desperately search for a place to live while trying to shield the kids from the reality of the situation.
Paddy Breathnach (Director) Roddy Doyle (Writer) & Sarah Greene (Actor) will participate
July 3rd 2pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - Metal HeartFraternal twin sisters Emma (Jordanne Jones) and Chantal (Leah McNamara) are worlds apart. When their parents go away for the summer, their simmering sibling rivalry threatens to boil over, especially when the mysterious next door neighbour (Moe Dunford) moves back in.
Director Hugh O'Conor and cast Jordanne Jones, Leah McNamara, Aaron Heffernon and Sean Doyle will participate.
July 1st 4pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - AnimalsAnimals tells the story of Laura and Tyler - two girls who like to party. Drink, drugs, and general debauchery infuse their days while their careers and lives remain on hold.
Cast & Filmmakers in attendance - TBC
June 30th 6pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - Dublin OldschoolAspiring DJ Jason reconnects with his brother Daniel on a drug-fuelled weekend trip through Dublin, discovering that their different lives may have more in common than they thought.
Dave Tynan (Director/Writer)Emmet Kirwan (Lead Actor/Writer) Ian Lloyd-Anderson (Actor)JJ Rolfe (Director of Photography) will participate.
June 30th 4pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - The New MusicAfter a Parkinson's diagnosis a classically trained pianist embarks on a path of self discovery leading him to a punk band.
Chiara Viale (Director/Writer) Philip Kidd (co-producer, cinematographer and editor) and Cilléin Mc Evoy (Lead Actor) will participate
June 29th 6pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - Never Grow OldDebauchery. Greed. Murder. Welcome to Garlow. The once-peaceful frontier town is now a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert (John Cusack) and his gang arrived and began gunning down their opposition.
Writer/Director Ivan Kavanagh, Producer Jacqueline Kerrin & Dominic Wright, cast Molly McCannm, Tim Ahern and Sean Gormley will participate.
June 29th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - The BreadwinnerParvana, an 11-year-old girl who lives under Taliban rule, must pretend to be a boy to support her family.
Director Nora Twomey and Producer Paul Young will participate
June 23rd 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - The DigAfter serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim's father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help him dig.
Directors Andy & Ryan Tohill, Actors Moe Dunford, Emily Taaffe and Lorcan Cranitch will participate
June 16th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - Extra OrdinaryRose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame. Directors Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, Actors Maeve Higgins, Terri Chandler and Barry Ward, and producers Katie Holly and Mary McCarthy will participate
June 17th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - FinkyRunning away from his tragic past, outcast and broken, Micí Finky is on a psychedelic, high-speed odyssey straight to the bottom of his own personal hell.
Writer & Director: Dathaí Keane, Writer: Diarmuid de Faoite, Cast: Dara Devaney, Fionnuala Gygax & Producer: Eileen Seoighe will participate
June 18th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - Black '47Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family.
Lance Daly, Producer: Macdara Kelleher and actors James Frecheville and Stephen Rea will take part in an online discussion.
June 19th 2pm
Previous IFTA Events 2020
IFTA Screen Discussions - Float Like a ButterflyFloat Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl's fight for freedom and belonging.
writer/director Carmel Winters, actors Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins and Hilda Fay will participate
June 15th 3pm
- IFTA Screen Discussions - The Dig
After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim's father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help him dig.
Directors Andy & Ryan Tohill, Actors Moe Dunford, Emily Taaffe and Lorcan Cranitch will participate
June 16th 3pm
- IFTA Screen Discussions - Extra Ordinary
Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame. Directors Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, Actors Maeve Higgins, Terri Chandler and Barry Ward, and producers Katie Holly and Mary McCarthy will participate
June 17th 3pm
- IFTA Screen Discussions - Finky
Running away from his tragic past, outcast and broken, Micí Finky is on a psychedelic, high-speed odyssey straight to the bottom of his own personal hell.
Writer & Director: Dathaí Keane, Writer: Diarmuid de Faoite, Cast: Dara Devaney, Fionnuala Gygax & Producer: Eileen Seoighe will participate
June 18th 3pm
- IFTA Screen Discussions - Black '47
Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family.
Lance Daly, Producer: Macdara Kelleher and actors James Frecheville and Stephen Rea will take part in an online discussion.
June 19th 2pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - A Bump Along the WayPamela is a boozy 44-year-old single mother whose teenage daughter Allegra disapproves of her care-free lifestyle. Their fragile relationship is further tested when Pamela becomes pregnant after a one-night stand. c
Bronagh Gallagher, Mary Moulds, director Shelly Love, writer Tess McGowan and producer Louise Gallagher will participate
June 12th 2pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - Ordinary LoveAn extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Directors Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glenn Leyburn, writer Owen McCafferty and Actress Lesley Manville will participate
June 9th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - The Last RightA fateful exchange on a flight has consequences for Daniel Murphy. He's left in charge of a corpse of someone he never knew. He is persuaded to take on the challenge of getting a coffin from his family home in Clonakilty to Rathlin Island
Director/Writer Aoife Crehan and Producer Paul Donavan from Deadpan Pictures will participate
June 10th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - Cellar DoorThe story follows Aidie, a fighter inside and out, as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church.
Writer/director Viko Nikci, actors Karen Hassan, Leah McNamara and Mark O'Halloranwill participate.
June 11th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - RialtoAt 46, Dubliner Colm has a comfortable life: a managerial job in the city’s docks, two healthy teenage children, and a kind, loyal wife in Claire. After the death of his father, Colm’s emotional life cracks open June 5th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - We OurselvesWe Ourselves is an unconventional film by Paul Mercier dealing with the lives of a group of seven friends over a period of more than two decades. May 29th 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions - ArrachtFilmed entirely on the west coast of Ireland in Connemara, Arracht is a haunting tale of overcoming grief and the fight for survival June 3rd 3pm
IFTA Screen Discussions- Never Grow OldAn Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises.June
IFTA Members Screening - ParasiteAcademy Members are invited to a special IFTA screening of Bong Joon Ho's Parasite, the winner of this year’s Best Picture Oscar.Feb. 25th
IFTA First-Look Screening - VivariumDirected by Lorcan Finnegan and written by Garret Shanley (Without Name, Foxes) Vivarium is a visually-striking and sinister “Twilight Zone fantasy”.March
IFTA First-Look Screening - The Rhythm SectionWith star-studded talent in front of and behind the camera, The Rhythm Section was shot in Dublin in 2018.Jan. 30th
Nathan Crowley MasterclassNathan Crowley is a four-time Oscar nominated production designer who has worked in the film and television industry for over 25 years.
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