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30,000 visitors descend on city as Kilkenny goes green

By Kilkenny Now 16th March 2022 Post a comment

Festival Kilkenny is well and truly underway. Yesterday marked the beginning of six days of festival events featuring American marching bands, fireworks and fireshows, concerts, street entertainment and, of course, this year’s St Patrick’s Day Parade. A spokesperson for Kilkenny County County said the city expects to welcome 30,000 visitors over the coming

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Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon takes big film prize at IFTA awards

By Kilkenny Now 5th July 2021 0

The animated feature film set in Kilkenny that has wowed audiences globally has picked up yet another prestigious gong. Wolfwalkers, by renowned animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, picked up the Best Film title at the Irish Film and Television Awards, which were held virtually last night. The film set in medieval Kilkenny can now add the […]

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‘Sadly it wasn’t fifth time lucky’ – Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon misses out on Oscar

By Kilkenny Now 26th April 2021 0

There was disappointment in Kilkenny last night after the city’s animation studio Cartoon Saloon was pipped to the Oscar by the favourite. The Oscar for best animated feature went to Pixar for their film ‘Soul’. It was the animation giant’s 17th Oscar. Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Wolfwalkers was the critics’ favourite, but like most of the other […]

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Kilkenny studio scoops SIX new awards in final countdown to big night at the Oscars

By Kilkenny Now 20th April 2021 0

Kilkenny’s world renowned animation studio Cartoon Saloon has picked up no fewer than six new awards. Wolfwalkers, the mythological feature film set in Kilkenny, picked up five Annie Awards over the weekend, while Cartoon Saloon picked up another award for a short they made in collaboration with Greenpeace. The Annie Awards are handed out annually […]

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Epic feature set in medieval Kilkenny scoops first gong of awards season

By Kilkenny Now 15th April 2021 0

The new feature film from Kilkenny’s globally renowned animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, has finally broken its duck at for this season’s film awards, picking up ‘Wolfwalkers’ first gong. Wolfwalkers won Best Animated Feature at the PETA Oscats last night where it picked up a Golden Feline. Every year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals […]

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Just one movie stands in way of Oscar glory for Kilkenny: bookies

By Kilkenny Now 22nd March 2021 0

Only one movie stands in the way of Kilkenny film Wolfwalkers grabbing an Oscar next month, according to the betting in the wake of the nominations reveal last week. The latst Oscar-nomination feature from  Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon studio has been confirmed as one of the final contenders on the shortlist for Best Animated Feature at […]

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Cartoon Saloon’s Kilkenny masterpiece nominated for two international awards

By Kilkenny Now 9th March 2021 0

Kilkenny’s multi-award winning Cartoon Saloon are once again fighting it out with the big boys after receiving nominations at two of the world’s most prestigious film awards. The world renowned animation studio has been nominated for a Bafta Award and a Producer Guild of America Award for Best Animated Feature for the universally acclaimed film, […]

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Kilkenny film nominated for Golden Globe Awards

By Kilkenny Now 3rd February 2021 0

Kilkenny’s multi-award winning Cartoon Saloon have done it again! The world renowned animation studio has been nominated for a prestigious Golden Globe Award for it’s critically acclaimed new feature, Wolfwalkers, which is set in medieval Kilkenny. Irish actor Brendan Gleeson is also among the Irish nominees in the TV categories for his portrayal of former […]

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Wolfwalkers exhibition at Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery is virtually unmissable

By Kilkenny Now 13th January 2021 0

It’s lockdown and there is not a lot anyone can do, but people in Kilkenny can count themselves lucky as there is one truly extraordinary exhibition that is still going ahead online. The Butler Gallery is hosting an innovative online exhibition on what is bound to be the Kilkenny success story of 2021, Cartoon Saloon’s […]

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New film from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon wolfs FIVE awards in two days

By Kilkenny Now 24th December 2020 0

The latest critically-acclaimed feature-length animation from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon has just picked up five prestigious awards over the course of two days. The locally-based studio’s latest feature Wolfwalkers picked up the Best Animated Feature Award at four of the US Film Critics Circle Awards, while it also scooped top prize at the Dublin equivalent. The […]