A Waterford media production company will be bringing the Oscars live in the South East tonight.
Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon can't travel to the states to walk the red carpet due to restrictions this weekend.
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Tonight, a special will be filmed to showcase the nomination live from Kilkenny Castle to celebrate the Irish film Wolfwalkers.
Tomás MacCraith of Nemeton TV in An Rinn explains more:
"We're providing all the camera, the lighting and everything and feeding that all back to the main programme tonight in LA.
"It's basically looking after all of the facilities here, getting all the pictures back, getting all the pictures in from America and everything that goes with it," he said.