The dates for the 11th edition of IFI Stranger Than Fiction, Dublin’s documentary film festival, have been confirmed as September 25th-28th 2014. The Festival is looking for original and exciting documentary films from Irish and international filmmakers to include in the programme. Submissions are now open for Irish and international short documentaries and Irish feature length documentaries with the deadline 6pm, June 13th 2014.
Festival Director Ross Whitaker says “After a fantastic festival last year with brilliant films including ‘Smash & Grab’, ‘Muscle Shoals’ and IFTA nominated ‘Here Was Cuba’, over 30 filmmaker guests and large and engaged audiences, I’m looking forward to this year and all of the great documentary submissions that we’ll be receiving.”
This year, IFI Stranger Than Fiction plans again to premiere some of the best documentaries from Ireland. For the second year in a row the Festival will be partnering with Eat My Shorts, an organisation that specialises in delivering short film programmes and festivals in different contexts around Ireland, in programming its documentary shorts selection.
Since 2001, IFI Stranger Than Fiction has hosted premieres of Irish documentaries including ‘Pyjama Girls’, ‘The Liberties’, and ‘Bloody Sunday – A Derry Diary’. International hits such as ‘Muscle Shoals’, ‘The Imposter’, ‘The Yes Men Fix The World’, ‘Sleep Furiously’, ‘Forgetting Dad’, ‘Jesus Camp’ and Oscar-winning documentaries such as ‘Born Into Brothels’ have all had their Irish premiere at IFI Stranger than Fiction.
The festival has attracted many guests filmmakers from around the world to present and discuss their work. Details of the 2014 programme will be announced and go on sale in early August 2014.
IFI Stranger Than Fiction is accepting entries of Irish and international short documentaries (under 20 mins) and for Irish feature-length documentaries (over 60 mins). International features are programmed on an invitation-only basis.
All Irish feature-length entries must be Dublin premieres. For short documentaries, no premiere status is required but preference will be given to shorts which are Dublin premieres so please indicate if this is the case in your submission. Films that have been broadcast on Irish television or on a channel available to Irish television audiences will not be considered. There is no entry fee.
For submission details and more announcements on the festival, see www.ifi.ie/stf
