Tanya Doyle’s ‘The House’ has been selected as a finalist in the 2010 New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards for Best Television Documentary / Community Portrait Documentary.

The NY Festivals nomination follows hot on the heels of the nomination for Best Single Documentary at this years IFTAs, a nomination for the Prix Europa for Best TV Documentary 2009 and a nomination for Best Single Documentary at the Celtic Media Awards, 2010. With entries from over 30 countries, this years Television & Film Awards presented a strong competition so fingers crossed for an award at the ceremony in NYC in early May.

For more info on The House visit our recent productions page in Our Work or to see a review of The House click here and scroll down to The House and click ‘Watch the clip’.

For a full list of the New York Festivals Finalists click here

www.MarmaladeFilms.ie goes live on the 21st October 2009 but you already know this…Watch this space.

There is a new addition to the Marmalade office.

Apart from Justin and Steph who have joined us to research and assist in developing our new six part history, cookumentary series Bia Duchais, there is another addition to the Marmalade Production Office – a handsome and substantial bronze Radharc gentleman.

Marmalade was honoured to win the prestigious Radharc Award for our documentary The House. The Award is presented every two years to the producers of documentaries of outstanding quality, which address national or international topics of social justice, morality or faith. The documentary does not need to be of any religious adherence, but it should portray positive human values and should imply a challenge to the moral conscience of the kind that distinguished many of the Radharc films. And we think The house does.

Accepting the award on behalf of Marmalade Films, Producer of The House, Daniel Hegarty said “We have had the privilege of being nominated for an few few awards for The House but it is both fitting and an honour that our first award at home is this Radharc Award.” Later, Daniel said “We are very proud to win the Radharc Award because I hope the ethos of courage, quality and innovation with which Radharc was founded is reflected in the way that we make our films.”

The Radharc Awards honour the memory of the late Fr Joe Dunn, who co-founded ground breaking Radharc Films in 1961.

Click here to find out more about Radharc and the Radharc Awards.

10:10 – Cutting our carbon 10% a year – starting in 2010.

We’re proud to be doing our bit for the 10:10 effort. The Marmalade Promo & Commercials team had great fun cutting a promo for the 10:10 crew about their London office move and laying their cool, new and sustainable Interface FLOR, floor.

10:10 is an ambitious project to unite every sector of society behind one simple idea: we all commit to reduce our emissions by 10% a year, then work together to make it happen.

Doing 10:10 means committing to aim for a 10% reduction across four key areas of your carbon footprint. For most businesses this is is ambitious but achievable.

Check out the 10:10 website and see how you can reduce your carbon footprint by 10% by the end of this year.