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Today marks the official launch of the ‘Science on Screen Film Festival Ireland’ an exciting new annual Irish Film Festival, running from the 5th to the 8th November 2020 online. The Festival will showcase the best of science in film and this year incorporates themes of representation and diversity in ...

Galway Film Centre (GFC) welcomes the announcement by Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe that the government’s commitment to the audiovisual sector has been renewed in the Budget 2021. This commitment takes the form of a one year extension to the Regional Film Development Uplift at the top rate of 5% ...

Galway Film Centre in association with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Screen Skills Ireland and Gréasán na Meán Skillnet are pleased to announce the return of Script Mentorship Scheme for 2020 which has been expanded to include a Script Editor. Now in its third cycle, the hugely successful scheme is ...

We are seeking short science documentaries for the inaugural year of Ireland’s first science film festival, the Science on Screen Film Festival, taking place in Galway city, Ireland in 2020. You can submit your short science film to the Festival here. The festival which takes place online in November will ...

Galway City of Film in partnership with Galway Film Centre is delighted to present a special screening of the One Minute Film Festival for Culture Night 2020! Each year as part of the Galway Film Fleadh we put together a programme of films one minute in length that show the ingenuity and creativity of ...

*GFC have made the decision to have our equipment rental remain closed until further notice. This decision has been made in light of government regulations and the health and safety of our staff. We are assessing the guidelines and recommendations on an ongoing basis. Since early March 2020, due to ...

While the last number of months have been a challenge, they have also been an incredibly productive period for our Galway Stories: Through A 2020 Lens initiative. This period of work on our Virtual Production (VP) setup has been spent in isolation from each other and from most of our ...

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 ...

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 ...