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An initiative to help address gender diversity in the Irish screen industry.

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MEET THE 140 PARTICIPANTS FOR @X_Pollinator_ 2024! Taking place from Feb 23 – 25 at @TUDublin_SoM , with programme highlights including Aoife McArdle, @Ella_Bee_G , Claire Frances Byrne & Sofia Exarchou. ➡️:
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We’re delighted to announce the participants for ELEVATOR, a new development programme that seeks to support 20 emerging and diverse female and non-binary writers, directors and creative partnerships, to become the inclusive leaders of the future. ➡️ :
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We’re thrilled by today’s announcement of funding for @X_Pollinator_ : INCUBATOR, which aims to support selected participants to develop feature film or TV drama pitched and treatments. 🙌 Supported by @screenskillsire , @ScreenIreland & @BAItweets . 👏 ➡️:
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. @X_Pollinator_ : INCUBATOR announces six successful projects for its new female-driven development initiative - supported by @screenskillsire , @ScreenIreland and @BAItweets . ➡️:
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✋ Appreciation Post for the @X_Pollinator_ creative team: Co-Directors @katieholly and @LaraHickey and Producer @evn_hrn They've brought together an incredible group of creatives, established and emerging, from Ireland's film industry @TUDublin_SoM over the last three days!
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It was fantastic to have today’s panel take place at @GalwayFilm - our first opportunity to meet in person for quite some time! Thank you to Emma Foley from @RebelPale , and moderator @DearbhlaRegan for a insightful discussion, and to our funders @ScreenIreland and @BAItweets ! 🙏
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. @X_Pollinator_ : ELEVATOR is a brand new development programme supporting up to 20 emerging and diverse female and non-binary writers and directors. We want to support and inspire you to become inclusive leaders of the future in the screen industry. ➡️ :
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We’re delighted to announce the twelve participants for CREATOR, an immersive residential talent development lab, encompassing a week-long residency, workshops with actors and mentorship and guidance from leading industry experts. ➡️ :
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. @AndieMcB is an actor, screenwriter and emerging director. In 2021, disappointed with the lack of diverse roles for working class women she set up her own production company Shine Bright Productions. Her goal to amplify women in film over 40.
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. @shannonwelby is a screenwriter with a love for storytelling & a fierce Donegal accent. Writer of debut short Every Limerence Helps, a comedy-drama about a woman in lockdown who falls for her delivery driver, Shannon has just completed an MA in Screenwriting.
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We’re very excited to start working on @X_Pollinator_ : INCUBATOR - a follow up development programme that aims to build on the success of the two weekend event last year. @X_Pollinator_ : INCUBATOR is supported by @screenskillsire , @ScreenIreland and @BAItweets .
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Congratulations to @X_Pollinator_ participants @Nedloughlin , Nell Hensley and Maggie Ryan @EscapePodMedia on their nominations for the @DublinFilmFest Discovery Award! 👏
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After two years online, @X_Pollinator_ is keen to get back in the room; we want to shift the focus to directors, by hosting CREATOR, an immersive residential talent development lab for 12 diverse female identifying and non-binary directors based on the island of Ireland.
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Congratulations to @X_Pollinator_ participants @Eva_Wyse @Creagh_Fish @denisedeegan and @FeeTuo on being selected for @ScreenIreland ’s Spotlight - the structured development scheme for new and emerging screenwriting talent. @screenskillsire @BAItweets 🙌
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Thanks to all #XPollinator participants, speakers and workshop leaders and, of course, the partners and funders @ScreenIreland , @screenskillsire , @BAItweets , @CEDIrelandMEDIA and @TheLirAcademy who were essential in making our first weekend a success!
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✨Screen Skills Ireland is delighted to announce the participants for the first iteration of the Screen Mentoring scheme. Congratulations to those selected!
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"Writing is going to the gym. It’s realising there are things I don’t know about this, who’s done it well? Watch that 18 times… It’s a mountain that you’re crawling up for a very very long. That’s okay. You’re supposed to be doing it that way." @sonyakelly06 at #xpollinator
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Calling ALL female creative talent! X-POLLINATOR is a new cross-disciplinary professional development & networking initiative addressing the gender imbalance in Irish audiovisual industry. Free inaugural event on 2nd/3rd Nov+7th/8th Dec APPLY:
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"I got the job... I was almost in tears wondering how on earth am I going to do this? I thought I’ve got to say I can’t do this... but I got off the phone with them and I felt so reassured." #ABumpAlongTheWay director @ShellyLoveFilms on being a single mum in film at #xpollinator
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During this unprecedented crisis that’s been so difficult for creatives, we want to help, in some way, by promoting the excellent work of our @X_Pollinator_ participants! ⁣ @X_Pollinator_ is supported by @BAItweets , @screenskillsire and @ScreenIreland .
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. @X_Pollinator_ would like thank directors @deerblahblah and @Cathy_Brady for their incredible keynote interview this morning for @X_Pollinator_ : INCUBATOR. Thank you also to @neilmurphy1000 @screenskillsire & @stephaniecomey @BAItweets for their introductions.
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Sin é for @X_Pollinator_ 2024... What a few days @TUDublin_SoM with this incredible group. A huge thank you to everyone who shared this journey with us this weekend. Our hearts are full! ♥️ 📷 Freddie Greenall
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Many thanks to our panel @SBourkeProjects , @frankberryirl & Bonnie Williams for our joining our recent @X_Pollinator_ : ELEVATOR Pitch, massive congrats also to our ELEVATOR participants on presenting their projects! 👏
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. @kimbartleydocs is a director and doc filmmaker whose first feature doc THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED was released to international acclaim in 2003. Her recent feature @PureGritFilm was released theatrically in 2022 after winning Best Documentary Feature at @GalwayFilm .
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📣📣Calling all female-identifying and non-binary DIRECTORS based on the island of Ireland. Apply now for X-Pollinator - CREATOR: an immersive, residential talent development lab under the guidance of renowned director Aisling Walsh. More info & apply:
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Our #xpollinator participants are making the rounds at our high speed networking @TheLirAcademy Are you with us this morning? Let us know what you're learning from each other as you cross-pollinate 📽️ #womeninfilm
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. @AmadiEnyi is a poet-performer, columnist, literary editor and arts facilitator from Lagos, Nigeria, currently living in Wicklow. Her work is widely published online and in print, notedly in The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories anthology edited by Sinéad Gleeson.
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Hard to believe that it’s been a whole year today since @X_Pollinator_ - a chance for over 140 participants to meet, learn, share ideas and network all in one room. It’s been incredible to see the progress from our participants, and we look forward to seeing what’s to come next!
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We’re thrilled to see that a number of projects from our @X_Pollinator_ participants have received @IFTA noms today! 👏 - @TracyMartinRed - Writer, Sister This - @cara_holmes - Director / Writer, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo - @iseulthowlett - Director, @CeilingGrass
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Congrats to @GalwayFilm on the launch of their programme for 2022 edition of the festival - taking place July 5 - 10.⁣ ⁣ We’re thrilled to see such a variety of work from our @X_Pollinator_ participants included in the programme, and wish to highlight their projects.⁣
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"It’s really important to keep creating. Meet someone & go for coffee. Even if they tell you that you don’t have what they want, they will feedback & tell you why. It’s useful and it always moves you on… You just have to keep going." @deeroycroft 's #xpollinator Break Out Session
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"I remember turning up to a panel and having to leave early with my child because it was bedtime and I was like ‘I can’t believe this bloody #womeninfilm panel is on at bedtime.’ So I started talking to some friends.” Director @hopedickle on co-founding @RaisingFilms #xpollinator
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Nell Hensey is a Filipino-Irish filmmaker, writer and director from Clare. She is particularly interested in telling stories that centre on the female experience and explore themes of coming-of-age.
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Thrilled to have been selected for the @screenskillsire Stakeholders Funding Scheme. Thanks to them & @BAItweets for their support. ELEVATOR is a brand new programme which aims to support 20 diverse and emerging female and non-binary writers and directors. More to follow...
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✨Congratulations to the 13 organisations selected for funding awards in the 2021 round of the Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme. The funding will enable these organisations to deliver skills development initiatives for the Irish screen sector.
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. @KatieMcNeice ’s work is marked by exceptionally strong screenwriting and explorations of character which are at once emotional and cinematic, such as the older LGBT generation of IN ORBIT and the experience of intersex babies and their parents in the upcoming LAMBING.
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SO, I STARTED A COMMUNE Writers: @iseulthowlett , @LauraLovesfilm , @NessaWrafter Producer: Kate McColgan
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Many thanks to the producers from @VenomFilm , @WAPictures , @tailored_films , @AlfonsoFilms , @fantasticfilms , @UGFilms , @Subotica_Films , @Samson_Films & @RebelPale for joining our recent @X_Pollinator_ : ELEVATOR producers’ networking session.
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Thanks to @caatdolan for the @X_Pollinator_ shout out in her Life Lessons in the @IrishTimes ! And to @deeroycroft for taking part in our My Thoughts Exactly session back in November! @katieholly @LaraHickey @ev__horan @screenskillsire @BAItweets @ScreenIreland @TheLirAcademy
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"I want to put people on TV where they’re just existing & their purpose isn’t for non-disabled people to feel better about themselves... The aim is to realise that we all move through the same world, we just go through different doors." @luberachi talks to #xpollinator
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. @allie_orourke is a stand up comedian, screenwriter, actress and independent producer. @taoiseachotrash is the co-host of the podcast Journey of the Monkey King, and ⅙ of the line-ups of sold-out Dublin Fringe Festival 2020 show Token Cis.
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"Artists are generally empaths and it’s a hard time to be a sentient being in the world… We need stories. Stories to understand ourselves better." Director and Writer @oonaghmurphy talks to #xpollinator #WomenInFilm
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Many thanks to our speakers for joining our recent @X_Pollinator_ : ELEVATOR roundtable session. Jasmine Daines Pilgrem, @LisaRichardsLtd Sarah Dillon, @wrap_fund Roisin Geraghty, @CorkFilmFest Sophie Green, @BanksideFilms Aneet Nijjar, @theotherparties Alice Ojha, @BBCFilm
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"We’ve inherited toxic structures. We’ve inherited systems which weren’t designed for us… Form is something we don’t speak about enough. Form is the one thing we as artists can control within systems that weren’t built for us." Writer & Director @oonaghmurphy at #xpollinator
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We are absolutely delighted with the news that @X_Pollinator_ : CREATOR has been nominated as a finalist for the Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Award for the @BigScreenAwards 2023, run by @Screendaily ! #BigScreen23 ➡️ :
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. @esosaonline is a writer & vocalist. She also works as an actor, with roles in film, TV & theatre. As a writer she is developing her own original TV series, as well as working in the writer’s room for other shows in development.
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. @KristinaRYee is an award-winning screenwriter & director. Her MA graduate film, Miss Todd, went on to win a Student Academy Award, a Royal Television Society Award, and was adapted into a children’s book. It was shown at festivals worldwide and won numerous accolades.
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. @AmanoAyla is a filmmaker of Japanese/British heritage. She grew up in New Zealand, and now resides in Cork, where her most recent short film, 4X4, was awarded Best Cork Short at @FastnetFilmFest and the Special Mention for Best Direction at the @CorkFilmFest .
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. @X_Pollinator_ has now concluded its eight-week development programme, ELEVATOR, which supported its participants in developing their networks and projects, and provided an access point to over thirty speakers from the screen industry.
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Many thanks to writers @sonyakelly06 , @ursularanisarma & producer @RebeccaOF for joining our recent @X_Pollinator_ : ELEVATOR writing session where our participants had the chance to meet some of the writing team behind hit TV series SMOTHER.
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Meet the @x_pollinator_ 2024 participants: Rachel Wren @racheljwren Rebecca Mairs @totalnightmairs Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair @rioghnachNiG Roisin Kearney @KearneyRoisin Roisin O'Hare Rosa Bowden @rosabow_ Rosa Mäkelä Ruth Hurl @r_smalls ➡️:
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"This is a kickstart... What about the future? What are your personal goals and what goals can we share and support each other in achieving?" Co-Creative Director @LaraHickey sets the agenda for #xpollinator Weekend 2 #womeninfilm
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💥 Premiering online tomorrow, 7pm as part of @dublinfringe , @mad_dangerous is a documentary series, directed by @ogradyemma , featuring interviews between influential women over 70. @UpUpUpCreates @CopperAlleyProd
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Congrats to @GalwayFilm on the launch of their programme for 2020 edition of the festival - streaming online July 7 - 12.⁣ ⁣ We’re thrilled to see such a variety of work from our @X_Pollinator_ participants included in the programme, and wish to highlight their projects.⁣
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! After the @X_Pollinator_ weekends and INCUBATOR, it’s clear that there is a wealth of incredible female creative talent in Ireland! 👏 It’s been inspiring to see the amount of female driven work coming through and we’re excited to see what’s next!
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Meet the @x_pollinator_ 2024 participants : Aine O’Sullivan Aisling Brady @aisaisbrady Aisling Magill Aisling Malone Aisling O’Regan Sargent Ala Buisir @buisir Alice McDowell Ally Ní Chiaráin ➡️
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Meet the @x_pollinator_ 2024 participants: Sara Joyce @SaraJoycey Sarah Ahern @Sarah_Ahern Sarah Gordon @sarahcagordon Sarah Jones @sarahjonze Sarah McKenna Dunne Shannon George @euromerp Sharon Newman Shauna Cullen @shaunscullen ➡️:
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4 years ago today in @TheLirAcademy , our first @X_Pollinator_ event started with 140 participants, 37 sessions & 63 industry speakers inspiring collaborations & networking amongst the next wave of female Irish talent over 2 weekends. Keep an eye out for our next venture in 2024!
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. @BeckyCheatle is a comedian, screenwriter & director. She is co-writer & director of Punch Line, winner of the Virgin Media Discovers short film competition & has recently contributed a piece for the Trans Anthology book of stories about transgender life in Ireland.
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Congratulations @frankberryirl , who recently joined us as a panellist for the ELEVATOR Pitch, on having AISHA in the @Tribeca Official Selection, and also to @X_Pollinator_ participant @Nedloughlin and our very own @LaraHickey on having short film LAMB selected too! 👏 #IrishFilm
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Elaine O'Regan of @sundaybusiness spoke to @katieholly about kicking down barriers for women in film and the launch of #Xpollinator in this week's Media & Marketing page. Apply for the inaugural Professional Development and Networking Event at
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. @X_Pollinator_ are thrilled to host a panel at @GalwayFilm with @ZlataFilipovic & @AnnaRodgersDocs from one of Ireland’s most exciting female led production companies @InvisibleThrd ( @ASecretFilm ). Sun 16 July, 12:30, @TheGalmont ➡️:
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Also announcing the line up for CREATOR, led by renowned director @WalshAisling , with directors @cliobarnard , @caatdolan , @sophhyde & @frankberryirl ; producers @DonohoeYvonne & Tristan Orpen Lynch; cinematographer Kate McCullough; editor Alex Mackie & casting director @mhcasting .
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"Hire people. If you have power, hire a diverse group of people. Your set will be better and your film will be better." @melsil , founder and publisher of @WomenaHollywood , leads the charge at #xpollinator #womeninfilm
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Congratulations to @X_Pollinator_ participants Kate Stanley Brennan, @Hantmam , @ClareMonnelly , @SazzyJayScott , and ELEVATOR participants @TaniaNotaroMuso and @LynnsDelighted on being selected in the second round of the @ScreenIreland @12bowstreet 'The Actor as Creator' scheme!
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33 actors. 33 creators. Screen Ireland is delighted to announce the second round of successful recipients for the Actor as Creator showcase scheme, in partnership with @12bowstreet . 💚📽️ #IrishTalent
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Meet the @x_pollinator_ 2024 participants: Geraldine McAlinden @GeraldineMcAli1 Grace Collender @GraceCollender Gregory Burrowes Heather O'Sullivan Hiram Harrington @HiramHorror Holly Márie Parnell Jade Jordan @j_jordan88 Jessie Hayden ➡️:
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. @TaniaNotaroMuso is an actor & screenwriter who was the winner of the John Boorman Award for the script Boxed & the winner of The Ronan Phelan Writers Award at IndieCork, 2019. Tania is also the recipient of the Dublin Artist Award 2021 from the Dublin Arts Council.
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. @X_Pollinator_ : ELEVATOR is a brand new development programme supporting up to 20 emerging and diverse female and non-binary writers and directors.We want to support and inspire you to become inclusive leaders of the future in the screen industry. Info:
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. @MiaMullarkey ’s short docs have received awards from international festivals such as @ASFFest , @RIFilmFest & @GalwayFilm . Mia’s debut short drama THE PASSION was nominated for an @IFTA in 2022, and @SafeasHousesSF has it’s US premiere at @Slamdance 2023.
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One week left to apply for @x_pollinator_ : ELEVATOR! Applications will close on Monday 6 September, 11am. Apply now ➡️
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"There was this feeling of togetherness and absolute righteous anger. There was huge support on social media from women across the world... The one that cracked open the whole thing for us was Meryl Streep." @lianbell on the viral success of #WakingTheFeminists at #xpollinator
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Great to see @X_Pollinator_ included in @anniedoona ’s @ScreenIreland presentation on Gender Equality Initiatives in 2019/2020 as part of this morning’s @IFI_Dub Spotlight online - Return to Gender. #IFISpotlight
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🚨 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR @x_pollinator_ : CREATOR 🚨 Our immersive residential talent development lab for 12 diverse female identifying & non-binary directors based on the island of Ireland. Apply now: ⚠️ Applications close on Fri 25 November, 5pm.
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"It’s about just writing characters… Don’t focus on the disability. Say you want to see disabled actors for different roles... Have the casting directors and the producers on board." @Shannonemurray Actor, Writer, Broadcaster, Disability Activist & Lawyer at #xpollinator
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Great start to the next stage of the CREATOR programme, in association with @12bowstreet . Thanks so much to actors @helenbehan & @MoeDunford for joining us, the @12bowstreet actors, our funders, our CREATOR participants &, of course, our Lead Creative Mentor @WalshAisling ! 👏
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To mark International Women’s Day, @X_Pollinator_ is delighted to post our highlights reel from @X_Pollinator_ 2024, made by @WeAreEPiKMedia . 140 participants. 23 sessions. 39 industry guest speakers. ⁣⁣ ➡️ :
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Thanks for today’s @X_Pollinator_ panel at @GalwayFilm : Focus on @InvisibleThrd . Thanks to @ZlataFilipovic & @AnnaRodgersDocs from @InvisibleThrd , Niamh Fagan from @ScreenIreland , @WalshAisling , @eibh_collins from @TalentAcademies , & Gar O’Brien-Collins & the @GalwayFilm team.
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The past 3 days for our CREATOR Actors Workshop, in association with @12bowstreet , have been incredibly inspiring. A massive thank you to our CREATOR participants, actors @helenbehan & @MoeDunford , the @12bowstreet team & actors, our funders &, of course, @WalshAisling ! 👏
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X-Pollinator
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Congratulations to @X_Pollinator_ participants @NessaWrafter , Maggie Ryan ( @EscapePodMedia ), @aliHorrorDoyle & @Hiya_Trish , and past speakers @RebeccaOF and @deirdrelevins on having projects selected for development in this year's @StorylandRTE ! @ScreenIreland 👏
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Storyland
3 years
We are very excited to announce the eight projects selected to go into development. A huge thank you to everyone who submitted to give us such a high quality to draw from #StorylandRTE @rte @RTE2 @RTEplayer @ScreenIreland
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X-Pollinator
5 years
"I don’t believe in unprepared instinct. I think there is absolutely no substitute for unbelievably rigorous preparation. By that I mean not the preparation they pay you for, it's the kind that happens way before." @GinnyGilbert on directing at her #xpollinator Break Out Session
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X-Pollinator
2 years
We’re thrilled to hear this news to @ScreenIreland ’s production and development team! Thanks to @tweetyceline for previously being a part of the INCUBATOR Pitch panel; and Heather Browning for script editing on INCUBATOR and ELEVATOR, and for the @X_Pollinator_ shout out! 👏
@Screendaily
Screen International
2 years
. @ScreenIreland bolsters film production and development team (exclusive)
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X-Pollinator
2 years
⚠️ 5 days left to apply for @X_Pollinator_ : CREATOR! ⚠️ CREATOR is a brand new immersive residential talent development lab, under the guidance of @WalshAisling , for 12 diverse female & non-binary directors based on the island of Ireland. APPLY NOW ➡️
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X-Pollinator
2 years
Rachel McGill is a filmmaker from Limerick, she is currently living and working in Belfast under @NIScreen ’s Aim High scheme. She has made a number of short films and most recently directed a short under the ENGINE Short Film Scheme.
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X-Pollinator
5 years
"The intersection between creativity and graft and craft is massive… the real work is under the hood and that deadly writing talent that you have will never work unless the engine has been built.” @UnaMullally shares words of wisdom for writers at #xpollinator
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X-Pollinator
6 months
MEET THE INDUSTRY SPEAKERS FOR @X_Pollinator_ 2024! @X_Pollinator_ 2024 is supported by @ScreenIreland through the Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme and @CNaM_ie , in association with @CEDIrelandMEDIA and @TUDublin_SoM .
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“I thought I’d get a treatment made into a film within a year & a half… There's no short cut. It made me realise lots of things & to just keep going. People always get there in the end if they keep going.” @tailored_films Ruth Treacy on @CEDIrelandMEDIA 's @EAVENews #xpollinator
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"You just don’t know where you’re going. You leave school and think you want to be an actor but haven’t got a clue where to go. We all need to start getting into transition years and tell them that these careers are available to them." Actor/Writer @CharleighBailey #xpollinator
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X-Pollinator
2 years
Happy International Women’s Day to all of the participants and speakers we’ve had take part in @X_Pollinator_ 2019, INCUBATOR and ELEVATOR! Thanks to our funders @ScreenIreland , @BAItweets and @CEDIrelandMEDIA for their continued support. #IWD2022
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X-Pollinator
5 years
Further shots from Day 1 of #XPollinator 's first weekend with @SineadEOShea , @ShellyLoveFilms , @KirstyBlakeKnox , @sonyakelly06 @ClareEmmadunne @markorowe1 and more. 📸Freddie Greenall
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X-Pollinator
3 years
Many thanks to Anu Henriques & Hannah Price @fablepicsuk , & writer Eve Hedderwick-Turner for joining our @X_Pollinator_ : ELEVATOR production company session where our participants had the chance to gain insight into the inner workings of the company behind Anne Boleyn & Rocks.
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X-Pollinator
2 years
Following the success of her @IFTA nominated and @FastnetFilmFest winning short film SISTER THIS for which she won the Discovery Award at @DublinFilmFest , @clairefrancie has since gone into funded development on several feature film projects.
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X-Pollinator
2 years
Thank you to everyone involved who has made this past week at CREATOR such an incredible and enriching experience. We are absolutely thrilled with the impact that this much needed event has had on our twelve female and non-binary participants.
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X-Pollinator
2 years
. @X_Pollinator_ are thrilled to host a panel at @GalwayFilm with Tamryn Reinecke & Emma Foley from one of Ireland’s most exciting female led and emerging production companies @RebelPale - moderated by @DearbhlaRegan . Sun 10 July, 13:30, @TheGalmont ➡️:
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X-Pollinator
2 years
Congrats to some of our @X_Pollinator_ participants on being selected for @Screendaily ’s inaugural Rising Stars Ireland, in association with @ScreenIreland . Writer / Director @KatieMcNeice Writer / Director @MiaMullarkey Producer @collie_mccarthy ➡️ :
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X-Pollinator
3 years
. @LynnsDelighted is an actor & writer who began writing in theatre, with several short plays including End of the Line at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and her short comedic film, The Arrival, winner of seven awards in Ireland, the UK, and New York.
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X-Pollinator
2 years
“Right now, it feels like @X_Pollinator_ will prove life altering. I’m already thinking differently and making plans.” Some feedback from one of our previous participants! Applications for CREATOR are now open :
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X-Pollinator
9 months
APPLY NOW FOR @X_Pollinator_ 2024 ➡️
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X-Pollinator
3 years
Congratulations to @RaisingFilmsIe on the @DublinFilmFest launch of their new groundbreaking and much needed report, which reveals major challenges for parents and careers working in the Irish screen industry. 👏
@RaisingFilmsIe
Raising Films Ireland
3 years
WE ARE LIVE! After a wonderful launch this morning @12bowstreet you can now read this incredibly timely and in depth report #PursuitOfChange - Issues Affecting Parents & Carers in Ireland’s Screen Industries 🙌🏻
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