Frank Kelly gives the low-down getting your film into festivals.

First I would say don't worry too much about getting rejected, it's often not a sign of how good or bad your film is (unless it's really bad!) But I found out the film festival programmers often programme their festivals like a mix tape... or an iTunes playlist... ...

One of the many keys in the craft of screen writing is to remember that you are writing for the screen, that you are writing visually. ...

Producer Dave Leahy gives a personal insight into the making of the feature documentary "Hill Street" about the evolution of skateboarding culture in Dublin since the late 1980s, directed by JJ Rolfe. ...

For four years I have been working as a continuity/Script supervisor (scripty) and there is one thing that has really started to bother me. More and more of the Irish film makers I meet either don't know what a continuity supervisor does, they get their friend to do it for them or think they don't need one at all. These are the same people who will happily complain about the amount of mistakes there were in whatever piece of crap they were watching the night before yet it doesn't occur to them to pay someone to prevent these mistakes from happening in their own films. ...

We just got back from the famed SXSW Film Festival in Austin Texas where our feature Charlie Casanova was the first non-American film in six years to be selected for the Narrative Feature Competition and the first Irish film ever selected. We now move onto the European première in Paris for The European International Film Festival then to Krakow for the Off Camera + International Film Festival then to the Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado and more from there. Over the course of countless television and written interviews in Texas the 27 Q&A below is a distillation relating to the writing and production of the film. ...

How to write the one page pitch.

A pitch is a one page document the purpose of which is to make someone want to read your screenplay. Like a trailer works for a movie.

Some producers will only request to read scripts based on the strength of their pitches. So they're important. Here I'll give my thoughts on how to sell your script. ...