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The IFI Irish Film Archive acquires, preserves and makes available Ireland’s moving image heritage, working to ensure that Ireland’s rich and varied film history, both amateur and professional, is protected and accessible for the benefit of current and future generations. Film reels, digital materials and document collections are held in ...
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The Guinness Archive has partnered with the IFI Irish Film Archive to catalogue, digitise and preserve a collection of 16mm and 35mm adverts made between the 1950s and ’90s. Dive into this curated collection of 85 adverts which feature a wealth of talent both behind and in front of the camera. The Guinness Film Society, in existence since the ...
Jun 22, 2012 · Eventually, in 1981, the Irish Film Board was founded by the government to both promote both the national film industry and Ireland as a destination for on-location shooting.
Although the Film Institute was founded in the mid-1940s, and calls for the establishment of a national film archive had been made by influential Irish practitioners such as Liam O‘Leary and George Morrison for decades, it was not until 1986 that the first move towards achieving this aim occurred with the establishment of the IFI archive ...
The Irish Film Board (IFB) was established to develop filmmaking in Ireland under the provisions of the Irish Film Board Act 1980. Over the following seven years, it funded or co-funded a total of 10 feature films, including Eat the Peach, Anne Devlin and Angel, before its activities were suspended by Taoiseach Charles Haughey. [1]
It is the leading resource for students of Irish film and film history and its collection spans from spans from 1897 to the present day. Including 30,000 cans of film,15,000 tapes, the Tiernan MacBride reference library and over 30,000 stills, posters and documents, the collection reflects Irish film production for over a century.
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The agency supports and promotes the Irish film industry and the use of Ireland as a location for international production. [21] The Irish Film Board was set up in 1981 to boost the local industry, and one of its earliest supported projects was The Outcasts in 1982. [22]
