Irish film

Irish film

The history of Irish filmography
began in 1910 from
“A Lad from Old Ireland”
Is a one-reel 1910 American
motion picture directed by and
starring Sidney Olcott and
written by and co-starring
Gene Gauntier. It was the first
film appearance of prolific
actor/director J.P. McGowan.
The film was the first ever
production by an American
movie studio to be filmed on
location outside of the
United States. Filming took
place around Cork and
Killarney in Ireland, and in
New York City.

Cinemas in Ireland
The first cinema in Ireland, the Volta, was opened at 45
Mary Street, Dublin, in 1909 by the novelist James Joyce.
Ireland has a high rate of cinema admissions (the highest
in Europe).
There are several cinema
chains operating in Ireland.
Among them are ODEON
Cinemas, Omniplex, IMC
Cinemas (Both Omniplex and
IMC are owned by the Ward
Anderson group), Cineworld,
Vue and Movies@Cinemas.

Irish Film & Television Academy
The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) was founded in 2003.
The Irish Academy's aim is to stimulate original and creative
production work and encouraging excellence through recognition,
education and leadership in film and television. The Irish Academy
is a Founding Member of FAN-E (Film Academies Network of
Europe.) Academy members are over 1,000 Irish professionals
working in film and television industry across fourteen chapters of
discipline including directing, writing, acting, producing,
cinematography, craftsmanship and technical.
The objectives of the Academy:
• To Encourage high standards of art and technique in persons engaged
in production work and to celebrate excellence through the annual
Awards Ceremony.
• To raise the profile of Irish talent & production, by actively promoting
Irish excellence within the Academy and ensuring that achievements
are recognised and respected throughout the world.
• To Establish an academic programme of activities to nurture and
encourage emerging Irish talent.

Irish Film & Television Awards
The first Irish Film & Television Awards Ceremony took place in Dublin in
2003. Following the significant growth of the Irish film and television
industry in recent years, the Academy in 2015 split the Awards into two
distinct separate Ceremonies. The IFTA Film & Drama Awards and the
IFTA Television Awards taking place in April and October respectively.
Each Ceremony celebrates and honours the very best of Irish creative
talent working in their respective fields across Film & Drama production
and Television Programming. Through the two ceremonies the Academy
showcases to the world what Ireland’s small but outstanding film and
television community has to offer. Winners are presented with a unique
cast bronze IFTA statuette.

The Irish Film Institute (formerly the Irish Film Centre),
also known as the IFI, is both an arthouse cinema and a
national body that supports Irish Film heritage. The IFI
presents film festivals, retrospectives and curated
seasons, along with independent, Irish and foreign language
films overlooked by commercial multiplexes at its cinemas
in the Temple Bar quarter of Dublin. It maintains an archive
of Irish films and provides education in film culture.

Famous Irish Directors
Leonard "Lenny"
Abrahamson (born 26
January 1966) is an Irish film
and television director.
Abrahamson is known for his
films Adam & Paul (2004),
Garage (2007), What Richard
Did (2012), Frank (2014) and
the Oscar-winning Room
(2015).
Frank is a 2014 comedy-drama
film directed by Lenny
Abrahamson and starring
Michael Fassbender as the title
character, along with Domhnall
Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
and Scoot McNairy.
Adam & Paul is a 2004 Irish film which
follows a day in the life of two Dublin
drug addicts, Adam and Paul, as they
wander around Dublin trying to score
heroin. Adam is the taller and slightly
smarter of the two while Paul is his
sidekick.

Ian Fitzgibbon (born 1962 in
Dublin) is an Irish film and
television actor/director. He is
perhaps best known for
directing Spin the Bottle, A Film
with Me in It and the Comedy
Central UK show Threesome,
and for the role of Fr. Jessup in
Father Ted. In 2014, he won an
IFTA for director television
drama for the Sky sitcom Moone
Boy.
A Film With Me in It is a 2008 Irish film directed by
Ian Fitzgibbon and written by Mark Doherty. The
film is a black comedy that follows Mark (also
Mark Doherty) and Pierce (Dylan Moran), an
unsuccessful actor and a failing writer
respectively, who find themselves trying to cope
after a string of accidents surrounds them in
corpses.
Death of a Superhero is a 2011 Irish drama film
based on the New Zealand novel of the same
name by Anthony McCarten. The film stars
Thomas Sangster alongside Andy Serkis. It tells
the story of a dying 15-year-old boy who draws
comic book stories of an invincible superhero
as he struggles with his mortality.

Famous Irish Actors
Andrew Scott (born October 21,
1976) is an Irish film, television and
stage actor. Scott was born in
Dublin, Ireland. His father, Jim,
worked in an employment agency,
and his mother, Nora, was an art
teacher. He has an older sister,
Sarah, a sports coach, and a
younger sister, Hannah.
He is most well known as
Sherlock Holmes' nemesis
Moriarty in the BBC drama
series Sherlock.
Filmography

Michael Fassbender (born 2 April
1977) is an Irish–German actor of
stage and screen whose career
includes roles in both independent
and blockbuster films. Fassbender
was born in Heidelberg, Baden-
Württemberg, West Germany. His
mother, Adele, is from Larne,
County Antrim, in Northern Ireland,
and his father, Josef Fassbender,
is German.
Filmography

Filmography
Cillian Murphy (born 25 May
1976) is an Irish actor of stage
and screen. Murphy was born in
Douglas and raised in
Ballintemple, two suburbs of Cork.
His father, Brendan, works for the
Irish Department of Education, and
his mother is a French teacher.
Not only are his parents
educators, but his aunts and
uncles are also teachers, as was
his grandfather.