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National Film School Wins at Celtic Festival
15 Apr 2005 :

Ouch

The National Film School in Dun Laoghaire has cause for celebration this week as two student works picked up awards at the 26th Celtic Film and Television Festival in Cardiff.

Ken Wardrop’s ‘Ouch’ and Denise Nestor’s ‘Faeries’ won in the student categories for Best

Factual and Best Interactive Media respectively. ‘Faeries’, an interactive CD Rom / Film that aims to encourage a renewed interest in the Irish storytelling tradition, and bring it to a new, modern audience. Moving away from the modern, sanitised perception of faeries, the project portrays them as they were originally perceived in Celtic mythology as sinister, mysterious beings. Users can explore the piece and uncover various pieces of information relating to the Faeries and the creepy ‘otherworld’ that they inhabit.

Following on from the success of 2004’s Irish Film & Television Award winning short ‘Undressing My Mother’, Ken Wardrop’s ‘Ouch!’, is a candid, funny portrayal of three men talking about their experiences with adult circumcision. Venom Films, the company founded by Ken Wardrop and producer Andrew Freedman are travelling to the Belfast Film Festival this weekend, where there will be a screening of ‘Ouch!’, as well as two of Venom’s previous productions, ‘Raving’ and ‘Useless Dog’.


Fairies

Useless Dog’ – which was made by the duo as a term project for IADT - has also been selected for the official international competition at the 51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (5-10 May 2005, Germany). The film is a witty observational documentary about an inept but loveable farm

dog, recently won Best Documentary at the MFA Short Film Festival in Mallorca.

IADT student films and projects have achieved considerable success over the years, and have been screened at more than 75 different film festivals across the world, winning numerous prizes along the way, and have been screened on 25 television stations. Some IADT graduates include the directors Aisling Walsh (Song For A Raggy Boy), Kirsten Sheridan (Disco Pigs), Kieron J Walsh (When Brendan Met Trudy), Robert Quinn (Dead Bodies) and Conor McMahon (Dead Meat).





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