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Galway Film Centre (GFC) and RTÉ are delighted to announce The Radio as the newest GFC/RTÉ Short Film Commission. After beating off stiff competition from over 50 applicants, Thomas Conway’s short script received further development support and will now go into production with Director Laura Kavanagh and Producer Evan Horan ...

Since early March 2020, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Galway Film Centre has been unable to facilitate equipment rental as we usually do. This July we have begun the process of moving from work-from-home back to our office routines, and we have received many questions asking us about when we will be ...

Our annual One Minute Film Festival took place throughout the week of the Galway Film Fleadh this year available to stream for free. Here people came to watch a programme of 20 1-minute films that span a wide variety of styles, genres, and origins, with films coming from all over the world. ...

To mark Europe Day 2020, Galway Film Centre teamed up with the European Commission Representation and European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland to launch a commission to put together two educational videos on Ireland’s relationship with Europe. Today we are releasing the last video from our Europe Day commission. It looks at the environmental initiatives pioneered by ...

Ionad Scannán na Gaillimhe/the Galway Film Centre (GFC) are delighted to be back with a presence at the 32nd Galway Film Fleadh this year. From the premiere screening of The Winter Lake, supported by the WRAP Fund, to the Fleadh Forum and our One Minute Film Festival, we are very busy once ...

To mark Europe Day 2020, Galway Film Centre teamed up with the European Commission Representation and European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland to launch a commission to put together two educational videos on Ireland’s relationship with Europe. Today we are releasing the first video from our Europe Day commission. It looks at the history of ...

  Celebrating its 11th year, the Fleadh Forum is an annual platform to explore, discuss and share ideas about what is happening in the audiovisual industry, delivering a unique opportunity for filmmakers and industry professionals to come together and exchange news and views.  Presented by the Galway Film Fair and the WRAP Fund, with the support of Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, the Galway Film Centre and Screen Skills ...

We are delighted to announce that two Irish projects have been selected to pitch at the Screen Talent Europe (STE) Pitching Forum at the Norwegian Short Film Festival. Now in its 5th year the STE Pitch Forum invites emerging producers, directors and screenwriters from their Partner organisations across Europe to ...

To mark Europe Day 2020, Galway Film Centre teamed up with the European Commission Representation and European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland to put together a commission on two 90 second videos highlighting Ireland’s relationship with Europe. On May 9th this year we put out a call looking for exciting, storytelling editors ...

    Galway Film Centre in partnership with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and Screen Skills Ireland is delighted to announce the successful participants for the second cycle of its Script Mentorship Scheme. Clare’s Sinéad Collopy, Donegal’s Antoin Beag Ó’Colla and Sligo’s Thomas Conway triumphed over stiff competition and are ...