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Athena has helped sharpen our organisation's mission and vision, enhanced our media performance and helped us identify a clearer vision about how to reach our most important constituencies.
Clients - Setanta Sports Ireland
Project:
Most recently, Athena Media has commenced production for their second Setanta Sports commission, a biography documentary "Pat Falvey - My Private Everest".
The documentary will follow Pat's life from South West Ireland to Everest and the North Pole, discovering the man beneath the adventurer and is supported with a 100,000 Euro grant from the BAI Sound and Vision Scheme.
See our news section and blog for updates over the coming year and visit Pat Falvey's website here
======================================================Athena Media previously produced an eight part documentary series on female Irish Sports Stars for Setanta Sports entitled 'Winning Women'.
The documentary features Joanne Cuddihy (Olympic runner), Katie Taylor (European Champion Boxer), Kirsty McGarry,(skier), Stephanie Meadow (golfer), the Irish women's cricket team, Ireland's rugby women, Cork GAA stars Briege Corkery and Juliet Murphy, Emma Byrne and Ireland's soccer women playing for Ireland and Arsenal
The series began on Setanta Ireland on April 21st 2008 at 21:30
For this series Athena Media was awarded a 260,000 grant from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland Sound & Vision Fund. In this the third round of the funding scheme, the BCI awarded 9 million to television projects.
Visit the Winning Women MySpace page for all information about the production here
This site continues to update progress, development and repeats of our 'Winning Women' documentaries. The Katie Taylor episode Boxing for Gold repeated on December 3rd 2008 8pm - Setanta Ireland.