The Celtic Media Festival has announced the shortlist for the 2012 Bronze Torc Awards for Excellence. The awards celebrate the very best of film, television, radio and interactive media to emerge from within the Celtic nations and regions - whether in English, Breton, Irish, Welsh, Manx or Scottish Gaelic. The winners will be revealed at this year’s festival in Derry-Londonderry in April.Shortlisted titles include; Wonderland: The Men Who Won’t Stop Marching, BBC Northern Ireland’s enthra...
The 33rd annual Celtic Media Festival will run in Derry-Londonderry from the 18th-20th of April 2012.
The festival is expected to attract some big name guests and prestigious industry speakers to the city. Hollywood star Tilda Swinton, Creation Records founder Alan McGee and award winning actor, writer and director Peter Mullan were among the contributors at the 32nd festival in Stornoway, Scotland last year.
Previous high profile guests include screenwriter Jimmy McGovern, film m...
CELTIC MEDIA FESTIVAL SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED AS OPENING EVENT SET TO TURN FESTIVAL ‘UPSIDE DOWN'
Celtic Media Festival today (Tuesday, 18th January 2011) announces the prestigious shortlist of the 2011 Bronze Torc Awards for Excellence, which celebrate the very best of film, television, radio and digital media to emerge from within the Celtic nations.
98 productions, companies and personalities have been shortlisted across the 19 award categories - including...
The first Bronze Torcs for Excellence have been awarded at The Celtic Media Festival tonight in Newry. The awards celebrate the very best of film, television, radio and digital media to emerge from within the Celtic diaspora within the last year. Tonight's ceremony was presented by the BBC's Karen Kirby and RTE's Dónal Mac Ruairí.
The Bronze Torc for Factual Series went to Abú Media and TG4 for MOBS MHEIRICEÁ. The documentary charts the story of the rise and fall o...
The 31st annual Celtic Media Festival takes place in Newry, Northern Ireland from 21st-23rd April. Last held in Northern Ireland in Belfast in 2003, this is only the fourth time the festival has been hosted in Northern Ireland and the first time in Newry.
The three day event will see some of the most influential names from the broadcasting and film industries gather at The Canal Court Hotel in the city to celebrate the quality and diversity of work being produced by the C...
The shortlists have been announced for the Bronze Torc Awards for Excellence at the 31st annual Celtic Media Festival. The awards celebrate the very best of film, television, radio and digital media to emerge from within the Celtic diaspora.
78 productions and companies have been shortlisted across the 21 award categories, with 26 entries each from Scotland, Wales and Ireland. As always, Celtic languages feature prominently across all categories with all of the factual e...
Newry has been chosen as the host city for the prestigious Celtic Media Festival from the 21st-23rd April 2010. The three day celebration of broadcasting and film talent will showcase work from Scotland, Northern Ireland, The Republic of Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. Now in its 31st year, the festival is expected to attract up to 400 delegates to the city including some big name guests and prestigious industry speakers.The Celtic Media Festival is supported by broadcast, film, cultural...
Screen Machine on the way to the Maes!Picture caption: The Screen Machine Picture credit: Ewen WetherspoonCaernarfon’s newly revamped main square Y Maes is set to be transformed into a screening venue between 25-27 March 2009 as part of the 30th Celtic Media Festival’s community outreach programme.The Screen Machine is an articulated lorry which transforms into a luxury cinema with some clever rigging. Over the three days of the Celtic Media Festival, it will offer members of the public, sc...
