The Galway Film Fleadh, fast approaching as it will occur from 8th-13th July this year, will screen a vast number of shorts, some of which are premieres, of several genres during its run. The short films have been organised into programmes orientated around themes such as Duty, Family, Community, Love and Hope.
In the ‘New Irish Shorts 4’, entitled ‘Point of View – Our World’, one of the highlights will be ‘I am Jesus’. The short film, which will have its premiere at the fleadh, was produced by Smart Blondes, Ireland’s first all-female film and television production company (its members are Caroline Grace-Cassidy, Sorcha Furlong, Sarah Flood and Elaine O’ Connor).
Other Irish shorts screening at Galway are ‘The Weather Report’ and ‘Volkswagon Joe’, both in the ‘New Irish Shorts 1: On Location – Duty’ category. The former film stars Edward MacLiam and previously screened at the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival while the latter was recently selected for the Palm Springs International Shortfest, and has won awards at the Boston Irish Film Festival, the Irish Film Festa in Rome, and the Celtic Media Festival.
Another highly anticipated short that will screen is ‘Rockmount’, for which the first trailer was recently released. The film is the story of eleven year old Roy Keane as he aims to get onto the first team at his football club Rockmount AFC. Set in 1982 Cork, the film was shot in and around Cork city earlier this year.
The film was funded by the Irish Film Board as part of the Signatures scheme and it will be premiere as part of the ‘New Irish Shorts 7 IFB Premiere Shorts’ programme. Other films to screen as part of this programme include ‘Unhinged’, ‘Personal Development’, ‘The Duel’, ‘Rince’, ‘Sophie at the races’, ‘Céad Ghrá’, ‘Somewhere Down the Line’, ‘Cutting Grass’, and ‘Deadly’.
Irish feature films will also be premiering at the Galway Film Fleadh. As previously reported by IFTN, the films ‘An Bronntanas’, ‘Patrick’s Day’, ‘The Canal’, ‘Gold’ and ‘A Nightingale Falling’ will all debut at the festival, and it was recently announced that the film ‘Poison Pen’, written by Eoin Colfer and starring Lochlann O Mearain and Aoibhinn McGinnity, will also have its premiere at the fleadh. The film was produced by the participants on the Filmbase/Staffordshire University MSc in Digital Feature Film Production and was filmed in Dublin.
See more about the shorts screened at the Galway Film Fleadh here.
Tickets for screenings can be purchased on the Galway Film Fleadh website at
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com.