The 3rd Kino Festival of New Irish Cinema is to take place from 14 - 21 March 1999. Shorts and features are eligible and the festival includes a competitive section
Originally a sidebar in the 1995 Kinofilm festival, much was the interest in the wealth of talent and quality of work from Ireland, Kino decided to develop it as a festival in its own right. Coupled with the fact that the city was planning an annual festival of Irish culture in 1996, it made economic and cultural sense to link the two festivals together. Thus, came about the birth of the most comprehensive and dynamic festival of new Irish cinema anywhere in the UK. March 1998 saw the second edition of the Irish festival.
The festival showcases about 60 new Irish shorts each year and normally includes 3 or 4 low budget features. The festival is competitive and has six award categories.
BEST 'SHORT CUTS' FILM
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
BEST OF THE NORTH
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
BEST NEW 16MM SHORT
INNOVATION AWARD FOR A NEW IRISH FEATURE
Kino Film Klub was founded in 1993 as Manchester's only cult cinema club, over the last four years Kino has developed as a festival organisation for the screening of short films. Kino have shown over 2000 short films, presented in six short film festivals, at city center cinemas and in over 35 non traditional cinematic venues - ranging from clubs and pubs, arts and music festivals, social venues, galleries, function rooms, outdoor screenings and even in the rusty hold of an ex Norwegian fishing trawler.
The aim of Kino is to create awareness of the short film, bringing this exciting and thought provoking style of film making to the attention of Manchester's multi cultural community and cinema going public. In doing so Kino aim to develop new audiences and give invaluable exposure to important new work from today's young film makers.
The Kino festivals embrace all styles of quality film making from around the globe. Throughout there is an emphasis on low budget cinema that will inspire, delight, provoke or even shock its audience.
Low budget encompasses innovative, cutting edge cinema. Offbeat and quirky, challenging and dynamic, outrageous and uncompromising cinema, running alongside traditional forms of drama, comedy, documentary, animation and experimental, and featuring new digital media and artists' film videos.
Kino presently coordinates three festivals concentrating mainly on the short film format.
3rd Kino Festival of New Irish Cinema
14-21 March 99
(Deadline for entries 15 January 1999)
Shorts and features eligible - includes competitive section
4th Manchester International Short Film and Video Festival
October / November 1999
(Deadline for entries 31 August 99)
Shorts only eligible
New for 1999 is the American Underground Film Festival For specific enquiries about any of the Kino festivals, contact: John Wojowski, Festival Director on John.kino@good.co.uk For general enquiries and information relating to festivals, contact:
KinoFilm
Tel: +44 (0)161 288 2494
email kino.info@good.co.uk
WWW: www.kinofilm.org.uk
Michael McMahon 11/2/99
