Northern Ireland’s public transport services provider, Translink, are on board for another year of movie mania as they announce their sponsorship of the 2007 Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival’s Secondary School Education Programme.
Cinemagic is delighted to have the ongoing support of Translink, who will actively contribute to youth development by providing secondary schools with free return bus travel to Belfast, to attend a fun-filled series of screenings and workshops during the annual film festival which takes place from 16 November – 2nd December.
Cinemagic would like to extend an invitation to all teachers to their Education Programme Launch. The event will take place on Tuesday 2nd Oct 2007, 4.30pm-6.00pm in the QFT, Belfast.
Come along to meet the Cinemagic team, receive the 2007 festival programme and find out how your school can get involved! With thanks to Translink, Cinemagic is able to offer complimentary return bus travel for your school to attend festival events. Contact Claire on 028 90 311 900 to find out more.
Email laura@cinemagic.org.uk to register your interest for the education programme launch.
After more than two years of development, the team is eager to get iStopMotion 2 into your hands. At this stage, iStopMotion 2 is fully functional and has completed intensive beta testing. All major problems reported during beta testing have been resolved, so it should be ready for production work. But please perform your own intensive testing before betting your business on it and report any problems you find.
The team is hard at work to give the product the final touches, but since the remaining tasks are not critical for using the product, we wanted to start getting it into your hands. This is the list of open tasks:
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