The full Annecy festival programme is online http://t.co/yDVogpjN incl. the Forty Shades of Green programme of Irish animated short films
3:39 PM - 16 May
Congrats @spaceagefilms on the news Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie will reunite to voice The Canterville Ghost animated feature - v. exciting!
10:00 AM - 15 May
Niamh Sharkey with RTE's John Murray on her new role as Children's Laureate,her books & The Happy Hugglemonsters http://t.co/WOUcetKb 49:00
10:02 AM - 10 May
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Every Tuesday evening in Brown Bag we like to have a training course outside of any training we might do as part of the day job. We finished our life drawing course, taught by Niall Laverty, and that was really enjoyed by everyone.
For the next course, we decided to do a ten week Sculpture course which was given by the talented Una Kavanagh. This has been really popular and it’s great...
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Earlier this year I was asked by the Irish charity Concern to join their newly established development board. Contributing ideas to an NGO like Concern seemed light years away from my day-to-day job in Brown Bag Films, but on understanding the remit of this new development board, I was genuinely honoured to accept.
Concern has worked in over 50 countries and employ 3,200 full time staff....
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I was recently in Shanghai for a week as part of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year annual retreat. I was nominated last year and as one of the alumni I attended the World Expo in Shanghai with over 70 Irish business people, and spent some time meeting local businesses and networking with each other.
Shanghai is an incredible city and no amount of googling will prepare...
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Last Saturday, the Lord Mayor, Councilor Emer Costello invited Brown Bag Films to the Mansion House for a reception in our honour. This was a moment we were deeply proud of and almost 70 Brown Baggers enjoyed the evening at the Lord Mayor’s historic residence on Dawson Street.
Accompanying the Lord Mayor was her...
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It really has been a manic week in here with the Oscar nomination. I don’t want to call such brilliant news ‘a distraction’ but It was also the week we launched HAROLD, our in house Intranet. This is a portal where we centralise all internal communication and try and make the move from existing over dependence on email as the central communication tool. The theory is that we will...
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Irish Animators issue a joint press release
05/02/10 by Cathal Gaffney
Posted in Uncategorized, News
The Animation CEO Forum believe that RTÉ are not fulfilling their role as a Public Service Broadcaster by failing to support, develop and fund the Animation sector in Ireland. In the context of the two Academy Award® nominations received this week by Irish animation studios, the Animation CEO Forum RTÉ have spent just €300,000 a year for the past 3 years on animated programmes. This...
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Last night saw the premiere of Disney’s Princess and the Frog in the Savoy cinema. In attendance were the film’s directors Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid) and John Musker (Aladdin). Also there on the night was supervising animator Andreas Deja, producer Peter del Vecho, and Anika Noni Rose who provides the voice of Princess Tiana in the film.
When one thinks of Disney features,...
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What happens when Granny O’Grimm gets too old to tell stories? Well she now has some competition from a young girl called Astrid who is looking to take second place as the world’s scariest bedtime storyteller!
Well done Astrid, you made me laugh out loud this morning. Maybe we should have a competition for the best Junior Granny?
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Every year in Brown Bag Films we support an Irish Children’s Charity. Last year we supported the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, by purchasing a mobile X-Ray unit for their hospital. This year we made a significant donation to the Laura Lynn Children’s Hospice.
The Laura Lynn Hospice is not yet operational but they hope to have the doors open in 2011 for what will be the...
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Today saw the launch of the IBEC Film & Television production report 2009. I sat on the committee and was representing the animation sector. Below is the text from my summary of the Irish Animation Sector in 2008 and you can download the full report from www.ibec.ie
Chapter One, Animation Production in Ireland
The Irish animation sector is an important contributor to the Creative...
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