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Feature film set in historic Kilkenny city wins prestigious international award

By Colin Bartley 30th October 2020 0

The latest offering from Kilkenny’s world renowned animation studio Cartoon Saloon has picked up the first of what is suspected to be many awards – just days before the film goes on general release. The prestigious American Film Institute annual festival AFI-Fest held their awards ceremony over the weekend in Los Angeles, with Cartoon Saloon’s […]

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WATCH: Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon team up with Greenpeace for hard-hitting short film

By Colin Bartley 22nd October 2020 0

Kilkenny’s globally renowned animation company has teamed up with a global environmental activist group to create a film it hopes will put pressure on businesses they say are destroying the earth’s vital rainforests for the benefit of the meat industry. Greenpeace has released the short animation ‘There’s a Monster in my Kitchen’ produced by the […]

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New feature from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon studio draws rave reviews

By Kilkenny Now 14th September 2020 0

The new feature by Kilkenny’s talented Cartoon Saloon team is getting the thumbs up from critics. Wolfwalkers, the latest offering from the multi award-winning animation studio, had its world premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. And it appears the feature is already getting rave reviews. Irish Times film critic Donald […]

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Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon reveals exciting new plans to draw on local talent

By Kilkenny Now 12th September 2020 0

Kilkenny multi award-winning studio Cartoon Saloon is planning to run their own courses to train a new generation of animation artists. It is hoping to draw on local artistic talents to help the studio to grow over the coming years. The courses would also help to provide more local jobs. Cartoon Saloon’s new feature Wolfwalkers […]

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Kilkenny-made cartoon to premiere at prestigious international film festival

By Kilkenny Now 10th September 2020 4

The latest feature from the award-winning Kilkenny studio Cartoon Saloon will have it world premiere at the 45th Toronto International Film Festival. Wolfwalkers is the fourth feature from Cartoon Saloon, and the studio’s third film directed by Tomm Moore, who previously helmed the Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea. Wolfwalkers follows Robyn

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Kilkenny studio’s Oscar nominated masterpiece is in top five animated film of the decade

By Colin Bartley 13th December 2019 0

KILKENNY’S world-famous animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, has received yet another stunning endorsement of their work. With the decade coming to a close, many take time to reflect on what has just gone by, which is exactly what one of the most influential magazines in the movie business has just done. They have decided Cartoon Saloon’s […]

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New website to attract investors to Kilkenny and South East

By Kilkenny Now 26th November 2019 0

A new website has been launched in an attempt to attract businesses to Kilkenny and the South East. Developed as a marketing tool, http://www.irelandsoutheast.com hopes to showcase the region to investors and professionals as a great place to live, work and invest. “I think there is strong familiarity about the South East as an affordable […]

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Come work in Kilkenny! 800 exciting career roles on offer at Christmas jobs market

By Colin Bartley 23rd November 2019 Post a comment

Up to 800 new career opportunities in Kilkenny will be up for grabs at jobs fair being held in the city over Christmas. The jobs exhibition is being run at Christmas to showcase the hundreds of jobs and the array of positions available in Killenny, to people coming home for Christmas, as well as people […]

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A huge draw! Crowds flock to city for Kilkenny Animated festival

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY is set to draw a huge crowd this weekend for an event visitors have had pencilled in for a while now. Kilkenny Animated, the world’s foremost animation festival, is taking place around the city and county this weekend and has drawn its guests from the leading lights in the industry globally. […]

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Dreaming of a green Christmas: Festival to transform city through art and recyling

By Kilkenny Now 2nd October 2019 Post a comment

By COLIN BARTLEY SAY it quietly – Chrismas is coming. And this year a Kilkenny festival is trying to turn the festive season green, rather than red. Yulefest Kilkenny is asking the public to think about sustainability in the run-up to Christmas and aims to brighten up the city with festive shopfront transformations, all made […]