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News & Events
2/6/10: Feedback on the AFH end-of-year show to follow soon.14/5/10: AFH (Higher National Diploma in Fibre Art and Textile Design) end-of-year show to take place in Farmleigh House, the Phoenix Park at 6.30 on Tuesday 18th May.
14/5/10: Ceolteoir gigs to take place in the Cobblestone on the evening of Tuesday 18th May.
10/5/2010: Animation Graduation Showcase 2010. IFI, 6 Eustace St, Dublin 2. Screening at 6.30pm on Wednesday 26th May. Industry Portfolio Day 10am-4pm on Friday 28th May in the Media Building, BCFE, Dublin 10.
10/5/10: Congratulations to BA Animation graduate Sean Mullen, whose film 'The
Artists' won the Animation of the Year category at the Student
Media Awards. More info
26/3/10: Congratulations to all of the animation students who worked on films
nominated for Student Media awards this year. All 8 animations on the
shortlist are ISA films. The list is available here:
26/3/10: Jam Media (founded by BCFE animation graduates John Rice, Alan Shannon
ansd Mark Cumberton) have won a Royal Television Society Award for
their show ‘Roy' in the Children's Drama category. Details here
8/3/2010: Oscar Winner!
Irish School of Animation graduate Richie Baneham last night picked up an Oscar in the category of Visual Effects at the 82nd Academy Awards for his work on the groundbreaking film Avatar. Congrats to Richie.
1/3/10: On Wednesday 24th February four ISA graduates and animation
Oscar nominees (Richie Baneham of Weta Digital, Tomm Moore of Cartoon
Saloon, Darragh O'Connell of Brown Bag Films and Nicky Phelan of Brown
Bag Films) visited Ballyfermot College. They were joined on the night
by another ISA graduate and IFTA nominee Andrew Kavanagh (Founder/CEO
Kavaleer Productions). It was a great occasion, attended by an
audience of over 150 people. See some photos of the afternoon/evening
here: http://www.isa-bcfe.ie/FEB24.jpg
1/3/10: Kavaleer Productions, founded by ISA graduate Andrew Kavanagh, have
won Best Use of Film or Animation as well as the Grand Prix at the
2010 Digital Media Awards ( http://www.digitalmedia.ie/ categories.html )
for Hasan Everywhere (which was also directed by Andrew Kavanagh).
22/2/10: The Secret of Kells won in the Best Animation category at the IFTAS
and Richie Baneham won a BAFTA in the Special Visual Effects category
for Avatar.
22/2/10: Richie Baneham and Greg Maguire to visit BCFE on Wednesday 24th fo February: Richie is a Ballyfermot graduate, and Oscar winner for his work on Gollum in The Lord of the Rings films and Oscar nominee for his work on Avatar. Greg currently runs character development/pipeline company Zoogloo and has previously worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation, Industrial Light & Magic, Electronic Arts, Sullivan Bluth and Lucasfilm Animation. Time and venue to be confirmed.
12/2/09: Photos from the Irish School of Animation 2010 Conference to be uploaded soon.
5/2/09: Ballyfermot College (Irish School of Animation) graduates have
received three Oscar Nominations for the 2010 Academy Awards. Daragh O' Conner and Nicky Phelan of ‘Brown Bag Films' have been nominated in the Short Animation category for ‘Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty'. Tomm Moore of ‘Cartoon Saloon' has been nominated in the Animated
Feature Film category for ‘The Secret of Kells'.
And Richie Baneham of ‘Rhythm & Hues' has been nominated in the Visual
Effects category for ‘Avatar'. To see Six One News coverage go to: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0203/6news.html (Item: Ballyfermot College basks in Oscar glory: available until 10/2/10).
26/1/10: BA Animation film Olinda has been selected for competition at the
Monstra Festival in Portugal: http://www.monstrafestival. com/english.html
22/1/10: Two Rock School graduates nominated for a Meteor Award: Mundy for 'Best irish Male' and Wallis Bird for 'Best Irish Female'/ To cast your vote go to the Meteor site.
22/1/10: Two BCFE animation graduates have been nominated for IFTA awards. Tomm Moore's The Secret of Kells (Cartoon Saloon) and Andrew Kavanagh's Hasan Everywhere (Kavaleer Productions) are nominated in the animation category.
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2010/ 0111/ifta.html
8/1/10: BA Animation 'Possessed' has been shortlisted for screening and competition at the Pune International Film festival ( http://www. puneinternationalfilmfestival. com/ ) alongside animations from Gobelins, Supinfocom and Filmakademie.
18/12/09: ISA CON 2010 is an animation and games event for students and industry professionals. This 2 day animation and games event is being held on the 7th and 8th January 2010 at BCFE. It is targeted at students, graduates and industry professionals alike. It's packed with guest speakers, panel discussions, workshops and portfolio sessions with industry professionals and academy award nominees from prestigious companies like Rare Ltd. and DreamWorks Animation.
Tickets are on sale now and one ticket covers all events! (Waged : €20; Unwaged : €15)
Tickets are available from the administration offices in the main building and arts building of Ballyfermot College of Further Education. For ticket sales and further info please contact:
Marita Reid , Administration, ISA CON 2010
Email: info@bcfe.cdvec.ie
Phone: 00353 (0)1 6269421
For more information
4/12/09: The reunion of the Rockschool for twenty years will take place on the Wednesday 10th March 2010. The theme for the event is "Twenty years ago today the Rock School came to play".
4/12/09: Animex have confirmed that the following two ISA films will be screened and will be in competition at the next Animex festival ( http://www.animex.net/ ) in February:
The Artists (Sean Mullen)
The Morning After the Night Before (Graham Holbrook)
19/11/09: BCFE ISA animation short 'Olinda' (director Bruno Palma) has been selected for the Animarte 2009 Festival
6/11/09: BCFE teacher Pilar Duncan's work has appeared at Sculpture in Context at the Botanic Gardens in August. A photo and introduction can be seen here
6/11/09: TT Animation's ‘What's Your NEWS?' from Irish animator and BCFE graduate Chris Dicker, has won in the categories of both Best Pre-School Show and the overall Grand Prix Prize at the NHK Japan Prize, an international contest for educational media held in Tokyo. Dublin born Chris studied Classical Animation for four years at Ballyfermot Senior College , during which time he was selected to be a Walt Disney intern. He then started working for TT Games as a lead animator and designer and went on to work many TT Games titles. For more details visit the IFTN website.
8/10/09: A selection of BA Animation films will be screened in the public area of the Lighthouse cinema in Smithfield as part of the Darklight Festival all day Friday 9 th and Saturday 10th October.
17/9/09: Three BCFE BA in Animation Films will be screened as part of the Digital Hub 'Best in Show 2009': 'Rat Race', 'The Old Guys' and 'The Thin Pink
Line'. For more details go to this site
17/9/09: Séamus Walsh, 2004 graduate of HND Film has won Best Short Flim at the 2009 Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival (YFIFF), Belfast with 'Somebody to Love'. See his blog here
14/9/09: 'Olinda' by Bruno Palma has been selected for the CINANIMA 2009 awards International Panorama category in Portugal.
14/9/09: 'Blip' has won a 4mations Toom Boom Studio on-line award. For more details go to this site.14/9/09: Eleanor McCaughey, 2001 graduate of the Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design at BCFE, has been nominated for a BP 2009 Portrait Award. From over 1900 artists, 56 were selected for the final stage of the competition. Her work can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery from the 18/6 to 20/9 or viewed online here.
12/7/09: Ballyfermot students Ben Harper and Sean Mullen won Best First Animation Category at the Galway Film Fleadh 2009 for their 3D film "Blip". You can view the movie here
20/4/09: The new Irish School of Animation website was launched today – check it out at http://www.isa-bcfe.ie/
30/3/09: Four BA Animation films have been nominated in the best short
animation category at the 2009 Oxygen Student Media Awards (SMEDIAS 2009). Also, 3 media degree students have been nominated in radio, web design and layout.
http://www.oxygen.ie .
2/3/09: HND in Fibre Art graduate survey now available for download
9/2/09: BCFE Irish School of Animation students past and present were well-represented at the PAF festival in Prague from the 11th to 14th of December (www.pifpaf.cz)- in Czech) and the E-Magicians festival (www.youngcreation.net) from the 25-28th of November. Irish productions included Oscar-nominated 'Give Up Yer Aul Sins' and 'Reprieved'.
9/2/09: 'Brendan and the Secret of Kells' produced by the Cartoon Salon (including ex-BCFE Animation students Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart and Ross Murray) is currently running at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Check the event website for details: http://www.jdiff.com/
9/2/09: BCFE Animation HND and degree students participated in Europe's longest-running animation event: the Animex Festival, Teesside, England.
9/2/09: Rock School and Music Management students return from the Bandcamp in Hammelburg, Germany: www.muzone-europe.com/
29/1/09: BCFE student Matthew Carpenter receives a lettet from the President Mary MacAlee for coming to the aid of a bus-driver in an attempted hijacking. The letter is available here.
9/1/09: 5 BCFE students get into the final rounds for the Art of Nurture Competition run by Lloyds TSB: Heli Hirvonen (AIH), Catherine Murray (AGH2), David Loughman (AGH2), Faye Tucker (AGH1), and Gary McLoughlin (AGH1). The competition winner will be announced at the Hugh Lane on 15 Jan at 7 pm.
1/12/08: Launch of 'The Ballyfermot Press' this week: to view the newspaper, go to www.ballyer.net
2/12/08: The Irish School of Animation at BCFE has been chosen to represent Ireland
at the e-magicians festival held in Valenciennes, France. The festival
runs from 25th November 08 to 27th November 08 and is sponsored by the
Supinfocom School of Valenciennes and Arles. It includes a presentation by
each of the 27 European countries. The Irish School of Animation will make
the presentation of Irish Animation which will consist of recent student
work and studio work from Cartoon Saloon and Brown Bag studios.
2/12/08: BA Animation graduate films ‘Reprieved' and ‘Border Control' will be
screened at the upcoming PAF 2008 Animation Film Festival in the Czech
Republic running from 11 -14 December. The focus of the festival will be
on Irish Animation with studios such as Cartoon Saloon, Brown Bag Films
and Monster Animation in attendance. Cartoon Saloon will also present the
very first public presentation of ‘Brendan and The Book of Kells' at the
festival.
6/11//08: Jackson Tribute Band to play Andrews Lane Theatre on Saturday the 15th November: gig organised by Music Management and MPM degree graduate Justin Coughlan.
24/10/08:
BA Animation Graduate Riana McKeith's final year film has been selected
for screening at the Cork Film Festival and the Red Wasp Film Festival in
Texas.
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