Irish Film Institute
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 Irish Film Institute
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| Address | 6 Eustace Street Dublin Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 53°20′41″N 6°15′54″W / 53.3446°N 6.2649°WCoordinates: 53°20′41″N 6°15′54″W / 53.3446°N 6.2649°W |
| Type | Cinema |
| Capacity | 424 (258 + 106 + 58) |
| Screens | 3 |
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| Opened | September 1992 |
| Architect | O'Donnell & Tuomey |
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The Irish Film Institute (formerly the Irish Film Centre), also known as the IFI, is both an arthouse cinema and a national body that supports Irish Film heritage. The IFI presents film festivals, retrospectives and curated seasons, along with independent, Irish and foreign language films overlooked by commercial multiplexes at its cinemas in the Temple Bar quarter of Dublin. It maintains an archive of Irish films and provides education in film culture.
The IFI increases the range of films available to Irish audiences. New releases, national seasons, directors' retrospectives, thematic programmes, festivals, and special events have been regular features of the programme. Every year, the IFI rewards its audiences by hosting an Open Day, with free cinema screenings and tours. In 2011, the IFI was awarded Dublin's Best Cinema in Dublin Living Awards. In the last two decades the IFI has seen over 3.1 million cinema attendances to see 63,000 screenings of over 5900 different films. The IFI Café Bar has been serving over 1.78 million cups of tea and coffee to audiences that include over 8,000 members. The IFI Irish Film Archive contains 611 different collections with over 26,000 cans of films, the oldest of which, a Lumiere brothers film of Dublin and Belfast, dates back to 1897. In 2012, the IFI celebrated its 20th birthday in its landmark location in Temple Bar with special screenings, talks, blogs, a series of commissioned illustrations by members of Temple Bar Graphic Studios, a QR code trail and pop-up museum and exhibition.
The IFI is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status.
The IFI has three core activities:
The National Film Institute (NFI, now the IFI) was founded in 1943 and officially incorporated on 2 June 1945. While the other leading film organisation of the time, the Irish Film Society, was interested in interpreting and understanding the art of cinema, the NFI saw itself as the teacher and moral guardian of the cinema-going public.
Under Archbishop McQuaid's direction, the NFI not only maintained a distributing library of films available to schools, colleges and associations around the country, but also became involved in the production of safety, health and educational films in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Many of these were commissioned by government departments to offer information on matters of public health and safety, personal finance, and on historical and cultural subjects. The Institute also produced numerous educational 'filmstrips' for use in the classroom by teachers. Also notable is a series of films recording the highlights of All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals between 1947 and 1979.
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