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Apple's comedy series Bad Sisters and Martin McDonagh's latest feature, The Banshees of Inisherin, took the top honors at this year's Irish Film & TV Awards (IFTAs). Scroll down for the complete list of winners. Sharon Horgan's Bad Sisters was the biggest winner on the eve, taking four gongs…

After three years of taking place entirely online, Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart), the largest content market in Asia before the pandemic, is finally returning as a fully-fledged in-person event (March 13-16, 2023).  Hong Kong also dropped the last of its Covid restrictions…

Brian Beckmann (Arclight Films), Caroline Couret-Delegue (Film Seekers Limited), Diane Ferrandez (AGC Studios), Jeffrey Greenstein (Millennium Media), George Hamilton (Protagonist Pictures), Jasmin McSweeney (NZ Film Commission) and Lise Romanoff (Vision Films) have been elected to serve on the…

Jonathan Wolf, managing director of the American Film Market who has led AFM for 24 years, will step down when his current term ends in June. He'll continue on as an advisor through the 2022 AFM, which is set to make its in-person return to Santa Monica for the 43rd edition, November 1-6, said the Independent Film…

Colm Bairéad's Irish-language drama An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) was the big film winner at last night’s vritual Irish Film and Television Academy awards with eight wins. Scroll down for the full list of winners. Director Colm Bairéad’s debut won best film, best director and lead actress for Catherine Clinch in…

Netflix APAC Commissions Netlfix has unveiled a trio of new series from the APAC region. Boy Swallows Universe, from Australia, is an adaptation of the book of the same name and will be turned into an eight x 1-hour show. John Collee (Master and Commander) is penning the adaptation, which comes from Brouhaha…

Nominations have been announced for this year's Irish Film And TV Academy Awards (IFTAs). Scroll down for the full list. Leading the way with ten apiece are Kenneth Branagh's much-fancied awards contender Beflast and Irish-language feature An Cailín Ciúin, which recently won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus…

Clay Epstein, the president of Film Mode Entertainment, has been elected chair of the Independent Film & Television Alliance for the 2021-2023 term, IFTA said Monday. He’s been a board member since 2008 and served regularly on its executive committee. Seven others were elected to the organization's 15-person board…

The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has picked Irish-Language feature Foscadh (Shelter) as this year's entry for the International Oscar race. Written and directed by Seán Breathnach, the pic stars Dónall Ó Héalai (Arracht), Fionnuala Flaherty (An Klondike), and Cillian O'Gairbhí (Blood) in a story based on…

A broad entertainment industry coalition Friday begged Senate leadership to push ahead with Federal aid for pandemic insurance since it's near impossible to get back to work without it, especially for independent film. Short of something really big — like the public-private Pandemic Risk Insurance Act (PRIA)…

New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney said Thursday that the nation desperately needs pandemic insurance, a "public private partnership that has a mechanism in place that you can depend on," and hopes some version of it will pass early in the Biden administration. "There are a number of proposals out there. People who are…

Film, TV, guilds and sports industry groups from NASCAR to the NFL on Wednesday sent a plea for action to lawmakers ahead of a key Capitol Hill committee meeting on pandemic insurance. The hearing set for Thursday morning, called “Insuring Against a Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions for Policyholders and Insurers,&#8221…