Actors Masterclass with Fionnula Flanagan in association with the Galway Film Fleadh

Actors Masterclass with Fionnula Flanagan –

Date: 11/07/2014
Duration: 3pm-6pm
Venue: The Radisson Hotel, Galway
Cost: €50.00

Course Profile:
The Actors Masterclass will be hosted by John Hubbard of Hubbard Casting and will provide an intensive interactive environment in the skills, methodology and aesthetics of film acting aimed at actors working or wanting to work more in film. The masterclass will cover such topics as:
• Starting out as an actor
• Dealing with casting directors
• Securing an agent
• Preparing for an audition
• Working on set
• Relationship with the director and many more

Tutors: Fionnula Flanagan

Participant Profile:
This masterclass is aimed at actors.

How to Apply:
All applications for the Actors Masterclass are made through the Galway Film Fleadh.  Please contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com

The closing date for applications is: 1pm Friday 5th July 2014

The Next Big (Tax) BREAK – ACE Event at the Galway Film Fleadh

Date: 11/07/2014
Duration: 4pm – 6pm
Venue: The Radisson Hotel, Galway
Cost: €0.00

Course Profile:
A workshop presented by ACE (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen) and Bord Scannán na hÉireann /the Irish Film Board in association with Screen Training Ireland and the Galway Film Fleadh.

Fifteen European countries now have tax incentives, tax shelters or rebate schemes to support their film production industries, and at least five others are seriously considering introducing them. The schemes exist to provide additional support for national production; and they compete with each other – and with schemes now widely established across the rest of the world – to induce international producers with portable, high-budget film and TV productions to come and shoot locally.

Next year Ireland will launch a new incentive to replace its own Section 481, with a higher yield for producers and new features added. The design of the new scheme is in its final stages.

At this year’s Galway Film Fleadh, the producer-training organisation ACE will hold a round-table discussion which will put the new Irish scheme in its historical context, and assess its competitiveness and compatibility with other such incentives in Europe and beyond. Aimed at producers of all levels of professional experience with a serious interest in both evaluating and availing of the new incentive, this will also be a practical session that sets out how to make the most effective use of rebate schemes generally, individually and in combination.

Tax breaks for film production are nothing new: in the 1970s and 1980s tax-based provisions were devised to support film industries in Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, even the US. Some of these were later discredited and abandoned. Ireland’s incentive, inaugurated in 1993 as Section 35 and later revised as Section 481, ushered in a new wave of schemes based on the rebate-of-expenditure principle, which have been very widely adopted, modified and modernised over the past 20 years.

The round-table will be moderated by Simon Perry, President of ACE, with key contributions provided by professionals with first-hand knowledge of incentive schemes in Germany, the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, as well as by senior colleagues at the Irish Film Board.

Tutors: Simon Perry, President of ACE

Participant Profile:
Working producers with industry experience.

How to Apply:
Places are limited and pre-selected please apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday the 2nd of July 2014.

For further details contact: helen.mcmahon@screentrainingireland.ie

Fishamble’s SWING on National Tour to Two Dozen Venues

Fishamble’s SWING on National Tour to Two Dozen Venues

Conor Evans

The death has occurred of actor, and long standing Equity member, Conor Evans. He died on Saturday May 25th after a long illness, borne with the strength and tenacity that was a trade mark of his lengthy and diverse career. He is survived by his wife, actress Claire Mullan and his daughters, Lesley-Ann, Michelle and Christine.

He was a familiar face, both on stage and screen, for five decades. Conor was a performer on whom actors and directors could depend. Thoughtful, solid characterisations were his metier and his strong features landed him more than 40 film and television Series, both in Ireland and England. His first major film credit was in The Face of Fu Manchu in 1965 starring Peter Sellers, then Rocket to the Moon and Darling Lily.

However, it was his extensive grounding in theatre that provided an almost unbroken run of appearances in Dublin and on national tours. He appeared at the Gate Theatre with Edwards and MacLiammoir in Where Stars Walk, Major Barbara, Equus, The Merchant of Venice, Ill Met by Moonlight, and Wait Until Dark, and was a constant doyen of Phyllis Ryan’s productions. His talents also graced many successive Dublin Theatre Festivals, particularly in the premieres of Hugh Leonard’s The Poker Session and Madigan’s Lock.

His voice first became familiar as Father Hession in the iconic radio series, The Kennedys of Castlerosse. This led to a long stint with the Radio Eireann Players and his vocal talents were then sought as a voice-over artist.

Appearances in TV’s Tolka Row, The Riordans and Wanderley Wagon spanned many episodes and television performances continued as recently as in Father Ted and the original Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Conor was a staunch union member and supported his colleagues and his profession with the same forthright dependability. He will be sadly missed by a huge fraternity of the theatre. There cannot be many established actors who have not worked with Conor such was his prolific and valued output.

May he rest in the peace that he has so richly deserved.

Laurence Foster.
Monday May 26th. 2014

Secure Retirement Campaign launched

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Politicians told to fear the ‘grey army’ at launch of Secure Retirement campaign on Wednesday, 30th April in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1. A YouTube video was premiered which includes interviews with retired workers on the challenges they currently face and their previous working lives.

Launching the campaign, SIPTU General Secretary, Joe O’Flynn, said: “After a lifetime of work, people should look forward to a retirement with respect and dignity.  But increasingly workers above a certain age are facing the prospect of approaching retirement in fear and anxiety concerning their expected pension income and uncertainty surrounding the future cost of living, healthcare and public services, all of which effect their quality of life in their retirement years.

He added: “The battles you have fought, the stands which you have taken serve as signposts for the next generation of union activists. As workers and as citizens, you have earned the right to a secure retirement.”

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May Day 2014

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Over 1,000 trade unionists and community activists attended the DCTU May Day march.

May Day was celebrated in Dublin with a colourful and musical march from the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, to Liberty Hall. [Read more…]

Irish Equity AGM

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The Irish Equity AGM will take place on Sunday 13th April 2014 For more information click here [Read more…]

Open meeting for all actors

The Executive of Irish Equity is holding an open meeting for all actors in the Republic of Ireland on March 9th at 2pm in Liberty Hall Theatre.

The purpose of this meeting is to engage the broader acting community in a conversation about the issues and challenges facing actors in modern day society.

The meeting is open to all actors, both members of the union and non-members are welcome and encouraged to participate in the discussion.

Eanna Casey from the Recorded Artists Actors Performers (RAAP) will give a presentation on the role of the collection society with emphasis on payments that accrue abroad because of legislative entitlement. RAAP for is an Irish not-for-profit organisation set up to ensure that performers receive the performance royalties that are due to them both nationally and globally.

Stephen Spence, Assistant General Secretary Equity UK will also address the meeting.

We look forward to a good discussion on the day.

ICTU Women’s Conference calls for immediate release of Margaretta D’Arcy

Delegates at the ICTU Women’s Conference have overwhelmingly backed an emergency motion calling for the immediate release of 79-year-old peace campaigner Margaretta D’Arcy on humanitarian grounds.

The conference in Whites Hotel, Wexford, heard that D’Arcy, who is being treated for cancer, has been imprisoned for eight weeks for refusing to swear a bond that she will not trespass on Shannon Airport runway.

D’Arcy is an actor, playwright, author and a founding member of the artists association Aosdána. She is a veteran peace campaigner who in recent years has led protests against the use of Shannon Airport by the US military.

Proposing the emergency motion that Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter, move to release D’Arcy, SIPTU Campaigns and Equality Organiser, Ethel Buckley, described her as “a truly remarkable woman.”

“That a person who has always strove to highlight the best in humanity should be subjected to what she has described as amounting to a form of ‘sensory deprivation’ in the Irish prison system is a moral outrage,” she said.

“It is entirely appropriate that Justice Minister Alan Shatter should request that the Government instruct President Michael D Higgins to utilise the powers under Section 7 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1993 and pardon Margaretta and bring her ordeal to an end,” she added.

ICTU Women’s Committee Secretary, Margaret Browne, said: “Margaretta D’Arcy is an amazing woman and, at 79, she is still campaigning and standing up for the disadvantaged”

Following the conference’s unanimous endorsement of the motion, Ethel Buckley, said: “Conference has sent a strong message the continued imprisonment of this renowned feminist, artist and campaigner is completely unacceptable. Minster Shatter must take action now to set Margaretta free.”

A Night of Music & Spoken Word to celebrate the naming of the Rosie Hackett Bridge

A Night of Music & Spoken Word to Celebrate the Naming of the Rosie Hackett Bridge organised by SIPTU and the IWWU Commemorative Committee READ MORE

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