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13 Irish Films Chosen for Mallorca Shorts Fest
15 Mar 2005 :

Out of 78 shortlisted films, 13 Irish shorts have been selected for competition in the Mallorca Film Academy Planet Europe Short Film Festival which begins today on the Spanish isle.

The official competition for the festival is split into three categories; animation, fiction and documentary. Irish shorts feature in all three categories. A total 210 entries were received for the competition with 78 films selected by the festival.

In the fiction category Peter Foot’s ‘The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife’ and Daniel O’Hara’s ‘Fluent Dysphasia’ are shortlisted.

In animation, an impressive seven out of eighteen chosen films are Irish. They are Barley Films ‘Agricultural Report’, Monster Animation’s ‘Dublin 1’, Paul Sheehy’s ‘Bullox’, Sarah Long’s ‘Carpere’ Joseph Shortall’s ‘Doctor On Call’, Conor Ryan's ‘Cold Pursuit’ and Shane Collins’ ‘Trouble In Paradise’.

Finally, Venom Productions fared very well in the documentary selections with three film shortlisted; ‘Ouch’ and ‘Useless Dog’ from IFTA winning director Ken Wardrop and ‘Like Swimming Underwater’ by Tiffani Hodder. Neasa Ní Chianáin’s ‘Gods, Fairies & Misty Mountains’ has also been chosen in this section.

Judging the 2005 competiton is Fiction Judge Simon Andreu (international Majorcan actor), Documentary Judge, Simon Davies & Animation Judge, Marcos Mateu (animator, illustrator and production designer for amongst others Dreamworks SKG, Animagic Studios and Amblimation/Universal Pictures). The festival will also present an MFA acting award which will be judged by Irish actor Colm Meaney and Hollywood Coach Bernard Hiller. Actress Nuala Kelly from ‘The Carpenter and his Clumsy Wife’ is nominated with five others for this award.

The Mallorca Film Academy Planet Europe Short Film Festival runs from the 15th - 19th of March 2005. For further info go to: www.mfa-planeteurope.com.



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