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The Little Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge (Challenge) returns this August for its fifth year!  Up to 10 teams from all over the country will compete to write, shoot and edit a 5 minute film in just 48 hours for the chance to be crowned Best ...

Galway Film Centre and Galway City of Film are delighted to announce our new Short Documentary Bursary, the documentary funding scheme for filmmakers in Galway City and County.  We are looking for up-and-coming filmmakers to apply to this bursary to help them make one of their first steps in their early ...

  Monday 28 June 2021: CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices at NUI Galway, together with partners Galway Film Centre, are delighted to announce that the latest documentary produced through the Science on Screen public engagement programme will be broadcast on TG4 on Thursday, 1 July at 10.30pm.  Written and ...

Galway UNESCO City of Film, in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Galway City Council, and Galway County Council is calling for applications for a new Virtual Production Short Film bursary for 2021. This Virtual Production bursary will support a team in producing a ...

Galway Film Centre in partnership with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Screen Skills Ireland,  Gréasán na Meán Skillnet and the WRAP Fund has today announced the successful participants for the third cycle of its Script Mentorship Scheme for the WRAP region. Following an overwhelming response, the successful Screenwriters are Dave Moran (Mayo), Liz Quinn (Galway) and Pat Comer (Galway) along ...

Galway Film Centre (GFC) and Galway 2020, in association with Screen Talent Europe presents the sixth and final video in the Virtual Production series titled Working Collaboratively, Remotely.  In this seminar we will demonstrate how we created a productive and remote working environment for our Virtual Production project using specific online tools. These tools include Virtual Machines, ...

Deadline to apply is 12pm Monday June 14th 2021 Screen Skills Ireland (SSI) in partnership with Screen Skillnet is calling for applicants for their flagship Passport to Production initiative, a structured programme designed to equip new entrants with the tools to take up their first position as trainee crew members ...

  Irish projects Fágtha by Daniel Butler and I’m Still Josephine by Tania Notaro have been selected to represent the Galway Film Centre and compete in the Screen Talent Europe (STE) Pitching Forum at the Norwegian Short Film Festival 2021.  Now in its sixth year, the winning project at the STE Pitching Forum will receive a production grant of €4,000 with ...

Galway Film Centre (GFC) and Galway 2020, in association with Screen Talent Europe presents the fifth video in the Virtual Production series titled Live Action. In this seminar we will demonstrate how to shoot the live action component of a project and bring it live into the Unreal Engine 4 ...

Galway Film Centre (GFC) and Galway 2020, in association with Screen Talent Europe presents the fourth video in our Virtual Production series titled Greenscreen.   This seminar will cover how to set up your Greenscreen including defining its boundaries which is hugely important to your workflow. We’ll also be looking at how to set up your composure composition which will ...