2010: A new advisory board for the Irish School of Animation has been established. The members of the advisory board for animation include: Tomm Moore (Co-Founder and Creative Director, Cartoon Saloon - http://www.cartoonsaloon.ie/), Professor Greg Maguire (Co-Founder, Zoogloo LLC (http://www.zoogloo.net/) and Professor of Visual Communications, University of Ulster (http://www.ulster.ac.uk/)), Eileen Bell (Digital Media Development Advisor, Animation Ireland/Enterprise Ireland - http://www.animationireland.com/), Emma Scott (Production Executive, Irish Film Board - http://www.irishfilmboard.ie/), Dr Aphra Kerr (Content Manager, Game Developers Ireland (http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/) and Sociology Lecturer, NUI Maynooth (http://www.nuim.ie/)) and Andrew Kavanagh (CEO and Founder, Kavaleer Productions - http://www.kavaleer.com/).
15/6/10: BA Animation film ‘Olinda’ (directed by Bruno Palma) has won the Animation Category in the Digital Hub Best in Show competition 2010.
15/6/10: Congratulations to BA Animation student Kevin Ryan, who is a member of the Irish team ‘Nevermind Games’ who have made the final of this year’s Dare to be Digital competition with their game WiiKick (http://www.daretobedigital.com/).
15/6/10: The following BA Animation films will be screened at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh (http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com): The Artists, Olinda, Cookie Love, The Thin Pink Line, Photocopy, Laurie and the Litterbugs, and The Old Guys.
22/4/10: Congratulations to BA Animation graduate Sean Mullen, whose film 'The Artists' won the Animation of the Year category at last nights Student Media Awards (http://www.oxygen.ie/smedias_2010.PAGE2875.html).
25/3/10: Congrats to all of the BA Animation students who worked on films nominated for this years Oxygen Student Media Awards. All 8 shortlisted animations in the Short Animation category are ISA films. The list is available here: http://www.oxygen.ie/smedias_shortlist_animation.PAGE3161.html
18/3/10: 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 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/17/rts-awards-winners-nominees).
8/3/10: 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.
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 Award(http://www.digitalmedia.ie/categories.html) for Hasan Everywhere (which was also directed by Andrew Kavanagh).
23/2/10: On Wednesday 24th February next three animation Oscar nominees (Richie Baneham of Weta Digital, Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon and Darragh O’Connell of Brown Bag Films) will visit Ballyfermot College. They will also be joined on the night by Andrew Kavanagh (Founder/CEO Kavaleer Productions). The schedule for the event is as follows:
6pm: Talk by BAFTA award winning visual effects animator and Oscar nominee Richie Baneham (nominated in the category of Visual Effects for 'Avatar')
7.15pm: Panel Discussion: Richie Baneham will be joined on stage by fellow Oscar nominee and IFTA Rising Star award winner Tomm Moore (nominated in the category of Animated Feature Film for Cartoon Saloon’s 'The Secret of Kells') and Oscar nominee Darragh O’Connell (nominated in the category of Short Film (Animated) for Brown Bag Films 'Granny O'Grimms Sleeping Beauty'). The panel discussion will be chaired by Andrew Kavanagh (recent IFTA nominee for Kavaleer Production’s ‘Hasan Everywhere’).
All of the talks and the panel discussion will take place in the Anna Brett Hall, Media Building, Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Ballyfermot Road, Dublin 10.
22/2/10: The Secret of Kells wins in the Best Animation category at the IFTAs
and Richie Baneham wins a BAFTA in the Special Visual Effects category
for Avatar. Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon wins the IFTA Rising Star award.
2/2/10: Three animation graduates of the college have been nominated in three different categories for the 82nd Academy Awards (Oscars): Tomm Moore in the category of Animated Feature Film for 'The Secret of Kells', Nicky Phelan in the category of Short Film (Animated) for 'Granny O'Grimms Sleeping Beauty' and Richard Baneham in the category of Visual Effects for 'Avatar'. The three Oscar nominations for Irish School of Animation graduates is a fantastic achievement. As well as being a great reflection on the directors, animators and companies themselves, it’s also evidence of the standard of the animation courses at Ballyfermot College. It’s noteworthy that the nominees come from three different eras of animation education at the college. Nicky Phelan graduated in 2003, Tomm Moore in 1999 and Richie Baneham in 1994.
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 ISA 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).
20/1/10: ISA CON 2010 was a great success with approximately 100 people in attendance over the two days. Guests included Nick Ryan (Director/Writer/Producer), Louise Ridgeway (Head of Animation at Rare Ltd.), Stephen McFarlane (Art Director at Rare Ltd.), Damian Farrell (Creative Director at Caboom), Chris Dicker (Creative Director at TT Animation and Jason Ryan (Supervising Animator at Dreamworks Animation). For ISA CON 2010 images click here.
15/12/09: ISA CON 2010 Animation and Games Event at the Irish School of Animation. For more details see the low resolution PDF or the high resolution JPG.
14/12/09: 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.
14/12/09: The following BA Animation films will be screened and will be in competition at the next Animex festival (http://www.animex.net) in February 2010: The Artists by Sean Mullen and The Morning After the Night Before by Graham Holbrook.
3/12/09: ‘Olinda’, a short animation from Irish School of Animation graduate, Bruno Palma, has been selected from over 200 submissions as one of 18 films to be screened as part the Animarte 2009 Festival. Animarte looks to showcase the best animation shorts from around the world and brings them to cities throughout South America. It's a fantastic achievement for Bruno Palma's 'Olinda' to be selected alongside academy award nominee Bill Plympton’s ‘Horn Dog’, as well as short animations from prestigious International animation schools like ESMA School of Arts (Montpellier), Filmakademie (Baden-Württemberg) and Gobelins (Paris). For more information about Animarte see here and also here.
20/11/09: ISA films The Artists, Possessed, Cookie Love, The Old Guys and The Morning After The Night Before will be screened at the upcoming e-magiciens festival in France http://www.e-createurs.net.
19/11/09: BA Animation films 'Laurie and the Litterbugs' and 'Possessed' will be screened at the PAF 2009 Animation/Film Festival in the Czech Republic (http://www.pifpaf.cz/index.php).
17/11/09: The Digital Hub will screen ISA animations from 2009 next weekend (November 20th – 22nd) and also a selection of ISA animations from 2002-2009 in December as part of the Projected Weekends series (http://www.myspace.com/projectedweekends).
6/11/09: BCFE animation graduate Chris Dicker wins prestigious Japanese prize. See here.
9/10/09: 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 9th and Saturday 10th October.
14/9/09: 'Blip' has won a 4mations Toom Boom Studio on-line award. For more details click here.
8/9/09: BA Animation film ‘Olinda’ has been selected for screening at International Panorama CINANIMA 2009 http://www.cinanima.pt.
21/8/09: Three BA Animation Films ('Rat Race', 'The Old Guys' and 'The Thin Pink Line') will be screened as part of the Digital Hub 'Best in Show 2009' (http://www.thedigitalhubexhibit.com).
13/7/09: BA Animation film Blip has won Best First Animation at the Galway Film Fleadh 2009 (http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com).
10/7/09: Four ISA BA Animation films will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh (http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/) this weekend. The films to be screened are Blip, Mariella, Border Control and Rat Race.
25/5/09: BCFE Animation Show at Filmbase on Curved Street, Dublin 2. Show officially opens at 7pm. The show will be opened by Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon (http://www.cartoonsaloon.ie/).
27/3/09: Four BA Animation films have been nominated in the best short animation category at the 2009 Oxygen Student Media Awards (SMEDIAS 2009) http://www.oxygen.ie.
9/3/09: Feature animation 'The Secret of Kells' produced by the Cartoon Saloon (including ex-BCFE Animation students Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart and Ross Murray) is currently on general release (http://www.thesecretofkells.com/).
9/3/09: The BCFE Animation Students Reunion 1988-2008 will take place on March 25th 2009 from 7pm to 9pm in the Anna Brett Hall in Ballyfermot College of Further Education.
9/2/09: Last week four Animation staff members and 35 Animation students visited the Animex festival in Teeside in the UK. The visit was a huge success with both students and staff attending lectures and workshops with internationally renowned industry professionals such as Mark Walsh (Pixar), Tom Martinek (Industrial Light & Magic), Jason Sadler (Blue Sky Studios) and many more. For full details of the Animex line-up see http://www.animex.net/.
10/12/08: 30 BA Animation students today visited 3 Dublin Animation Studios – Brown Bag (http://www.brownbagfilms.com/), Kavaleer (http://www.kavaleer.com/) and Boulder Media (http://www.bouldermedia.tv/).
25/11/08: 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.
24/11/08: 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.
23/11/08: ISA graduation to take place in the RDS on Friday 28th November.
13/11/08: BCFE announces that a reunion of all Animation students from the years 1990 - 2008 will take place in 2009 (date will shortly be confirmed) in the Anna Brett Hall in Ballyfermot College of Further Education.
24/10/08: BA Animation graduate Riana McKeith's final year film has been selected for screening at the Cork Film Festival, the Kerry Film Festival and the Red Wasp Film Festival in Texas.
12/5/08: BCFE Animation Exhibition at Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar from 13th-15th May. The Animation Screening and Launch will take place at 7pm on Thursday 15th May.
11/2/08: ISA graduate Monica Kennedy announced as the winner of an Annie award for Character Animation in a Television Production for ‘El Tigre’.
30/7/07: BA Animation student films 'Mime Vs Mime', 'Room' and I'll C U L8er' have been chosen for screening at the Red Stick International Animation festival in Louisiana. And the films 'Room' and 'Bert' have been short-listed in the best short film category at the Irish Student Media Awards.
15/3/07: BA Animation graduate Loredana Fioretti has been short-listed in the best film category at the KAFI International Festival in Chicago for her final year film 'Air a Danser'.
15/12/05: Launch of Irish School of Animation.
