Production Assistants

Here is how this works in practice. Our production-assistant network covers the entry-and-mid-level office-and-set support that anchors the Irish industry. This has the senior PAs progressed through Vikings six seasons at Ashford Studios Wicklow, Game of Thrones across Titanic Studios Belfast and Paint Hall. Foundation across Troy Studios Limerick on Apple TV+, Penny Dreadful and The Tudors at Ardmore Studios Bray. Plus the recent Banshees of Inisherin Achill Island unit, Belfast 2021, The Wonder, and An Cailín Ciúin Gaeltacht units. The training pipeline runs through IADT Dún Laoghaire, Trinity College Dublin Film Studies, UCD, DCU, Maynooth University, NUI Galway. Queen's University Belfast.

Here is the short of it. Ulster University. Plus the practical-workshop tracks at Filmbase Ireland and Pulse College Dublin (the senior Irish film school producing the day-one industry-ready PA bench). Animation Ireland sets up the Cartoon Saloon Kilkenny PA pipeline (the four Best Animated Feature Oscar-nom production training ground).

Here is the breakdown. PA skill covers office (call sheets, sides, contact lists, lodging booking, per-diem distribution, day-out-of-day boards, payroll tracking via Cast & Crew Entertainment Partners and the Screen Ireland-recommended payroll houses). Set (cast-and-crew lock-up. Walkie-talkie comms via Motorola DP4400e UHF, locked-off perimeter running, transport planning). Plus department-specific (camera PA, lighting PA, art PA, costume PA, makeup PA). SIPTU union coverage applies to the working PA roster, with day-rate-and-weekly-rate scales benchmarked to Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) industry-collective-agreement standards.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Bilingual skill. English-first with Irish (Gaeilge) capacity for Gaeltacht shoots (the An Cailín Ciúin 2023 first-Irish-language-Best-Global-Feature-Oscar-nom precedent), plus Northern Irish Ulster-Scots-and-Belfast-vernacular voice for cross-border units. Section 481 32% tax credit qualifies PA spend through Irish-resident hires plus the 40% regional uplift on named-area shoots. EUR Eurozone with GBP NI dual-currency, English-first comms with bilingual signage and Gaeltacht-region support, CTA-borderless cross-border UK crew movement.