The 27th annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) announces its 2026 Irish Showcase, the largest celebration of Irish cinema in North America scheduled to take place during its eight-day run (October 15-22) in Southern California. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Production has started this week on 'Baile', a new film co-commissioned for TG4 and BBC Gaeilge. The comedy drama co-stars Hazel Doupe and Marion O’Dwyer. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Kerry International Film Festival (KIFF) has announced the full programme for its 27th edition, taking place in Killarney from October 15th to 18th, 2026. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 IGNITE-Docs programme, a talent development programme directed towards emerging Irish and Northern Irish documentary filmmakers embarking on their first or second non-fiction feature film. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Irish-UK feature 'Ancestors', directed by David Turpin, starring Éanna Hardwicke and produced by Samson Films, has won the International Critics’ FIPRESCI Prize at the 51st Toronto International Film Festival. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

IFTA will present a TV Showrunner Masterclass with Ronan Bennett, BAFTA-winning writer and showrunner whose credits include 'Top Boy', 'The Day of the Jackal', and 'MobLand' in Dublin on October 8. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Guy Pearce is set to reunite with Irish filmmaker Andrew Baird for 'Bottle', marking the pair’s fourth feature collaboration. The film will shoot on location in Ireland, with Samson Films’ David Collins among its producers Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Four short film projects from Cork City, Cork County, Kerry and Waterford have each been awarded €14,000 in production funding through the inaugural Déascéal film scheme. Read more: lnkd.in/eyiXMkBb

Netflix has unveiled the first images of Irish actor Daryl McCormack as Mr Bingley in its forthcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s 'Pride and Prejudice'. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Element Pictures has commenced filming on the second season of BBC thriller 'Nightsleeper' in Belfast, Colin Morgan, Madeleine Mantock and Christian Cooke lead, with Ian McElhinney, Eileen O’Higgins and Cúán Hosty-Blaney among the cast. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Irish feature 'Lemonade', starring Barry Keoghan and Lewis Brophy, has secured a theatrical distribution deal for Ireland and the UK with MetFilm Distribution and Break Out Pictures following its world premiere at TIFF. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Oscar and BAFTA-winning Production Designer Nathan Crowley, whose credits include 'Wicked', 'Interstellar' and 'Dunkirk', took to the stage at Dublin’s Light House Cinema for a special IFTA Production Design Masterclass. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Ciarán Hinds will star alongside Paul Mescal in a new production of Tom Murphy’s 'A Whistle in the Dark', a co-production between the Abbey Theatre and the UK’s National Theatre. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

National Cinema Weekend took place across the weekend of September 5th & 6th with Irish cinemas recording huge attendance numbers of over 280,000 admissions. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Prime Video has released the first official images from 'Boys of Tommen', an adaptation of West Cork author Chloe Walsh’s bestselling YA romance series. Brendan Canty is directing the series following his IFTA-winning feature debut 'Christy.' Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Irish cinematographer Darran Tiernan has received his first Emmy Award for his work on Prime Video’s superhero series 'Spider-Noir' Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

The Irish Film & Television Academy is accepting submissions for consideration for the 2027 IFTA Film & Television Awards ceremony. The Deadline for submissions is Friday October 9th. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

First images and further story details have been released for Kim Bartley’s narrative feature debut 'Lemonade', an independent Irish feature starring Barry Keoghan and rising actor Lewis Brophy. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Cork-based production company Great Island has secured the screen rights to Clíodhna O’Sullivan’s bestselling romantasy novel 'Her Hidden Fire', with plans to adapt it as an eight-part young adult series. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…

Andrew Scott will discuss his career across film, television and theatre as part of the Screen Talks programme at the 70th BFI London Film Festival, taking place from 7 to 18 October. Read more: iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&on…