The Eat My Shorts film festival will take place this year on as part of the Castlepalooza Festival from 30 – 31 July in Tullamore’s Charleville Castle. Event organisers are currently inviting short film submissions until June 10th. In other news, Prickly Pear Productions’ short, ‘Paperman’ walked away from last week’s Canada International Film Festival with the title of Best Animation.
Eat My Shorts invites submissions
A subsection of the Castlepalooze Music and Arts festival, The Eat My Shorts film festival is currently inviting short film submissions. Projects should be under 15 minutes in length and can be in the format of documentary, drama, music video, animation or experimental. Individuals whose shorts are selected to screen will receive a pair of tickets to the weekend event. The screening event will take place alongside Catlepalooza's live music, workshops and other information sessions.
The key objective of the short film event is to make all facets free of charge. As such, there is currently no fee for submissions and no admission fee for the events. For more information visit www.eatmyshortsfestival.com
’Paperman’ Canadian Festival Win
Irish short animated film, ‘Paperman’ walked away from the Canada International Film Festival (2 – 3 April) with the prize for Best Animation. The short has enjoyed further success recently with the news that it has been selected to screen at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, the British Independent Film Festival in Dorset, UK and Brussels Children's Film Festival.
Directed by Richard Kelly and co-written by Richard and Séan Ryan, ‘Paperman’ sees a lone man's quest to find his true love in a busy paper metropolis. The short was produced with funding support from the Frameworks’ programme, a joint initiative between BSÉ/IFB, RTÉ and the Arts Council.
For a full list of Canada International Film Festival winners visit www.canadafilmfestival.com
