IRISH filmmaker Andrew Legge, writer-director of the mockumentary The Chronoscope, has been chosen as one of the six participants in the autumn session of the prestigious Cannes Residence, running from 1 October to 15 February. He will join Costa Rica's Paz Fabrega, Ioana Uricaru from Romania, Bani Khosnoudi from Iran, China's Zhang Yue and Oliver Hermanus from South Africa in Paris, where they will develop their scripts and meet with industry executives. They were selected from 170 candidates worldwide by Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob and his jury. Since 2000, the programme has seen 64 projects completed and, in most cases, released theatrically.

Legge made his debut with 2001 horror short The Brain Eaters, and was the cameraman on Conor McMahon's 2004 zombie thriller Dead Meat. Chronoscope, which is narrated by Jeremy Irons and stars Donal O'Kelly, is a 20-minute short about a scientist in the 1930s who invents a machine that can see into the past.

FOLLOWING on the success of The Tudors, another major television drama is set to film in Ireland. The fourth and fifth series of the ITV drama Primeval are moving here from Surrey, with cameras due to start rolling in March. Thirteen new episodes will be shot on location in Dublin and Wicklow over the following nine months. The hit drama, starring Jason Flemyng, Ben Miller, Andrew-Lee Potts and Hannah Spearritt, will cost €15m and create over 70 crew jobs. The third Primeval series, which concluded in June, reached 4.5 million viewers and has been sold to 45 countries worldwide.

"A diverse crop of fabulous urban and rural locations such as castles, sea and coast, the historical Dublin quarter and the unique Irish countryside, coupled with drawing on the huge experience of Irish crew and cast alike, make the prospect of filming Primeval in Ireland a fantastic opportunity for us," says producer Tim Bradley.

DRIVE-IN movie screenings, pioneered in recent years by the West Belfast Festival, are growing rapidly in popularity throughout the country. Nenagh's Spleodar Festival is to host two open-air screenings of Steven Spielberg's ET: The Extra Terrestrial on 30 October. Patrons will be able to watch the movie from the comfort of their own cars, picking up the soundtrack on their car radios.