26/02/2013 - Agency links with William Morris

The Irish Film Board (IFB) has appointed Mary Callery as the third and final Project Manager and Emma Scott as Production and Distribution Executive, thus completing the new restructure of the IFB Production and Development team. Callery has more than 25 years of experience in the Irish film and television industry. She was at broadcaster RTE and recently an executive producer at Parallel Films.

Callery said, “In the time that I have worked in the industry I have seen it grow from strength to strength and it's a very exciting time to be joining the Irish Film Board. I hope that Irish writers and producers feel they will benefit from the wide range of experience that I have gained both from working as a commissioning editor and as a producer in receipt of funding.”

Scott, who earlier looked after production funding at the IFB will now be responsible for monitoring the agency’s production slate, acting as the Irish representative for Eurimages (the Council of Europe's Co-production Fund) as well as managing the distribution support for local films.

The IFB has also announced a link up with the William Morris Endeavor (WME) agency in Los Angeles. Irish Film Commissioner Naoise Barry will work with WME’s Graham Taylor and his team to promote Ireland as a location for film, television drama and animation production and seek inward investment opportunities into the country for the audio-visual production sector.

Patrick O’Neill, Industry Affairs Executive and Andrew Meehan, Development Executive both conclude their roles at the IFB this month. Patrick will head up new distribution company Wildcard Distribution and Andrew will pursue writing projects.