Julie Andrews to attend JDIFF, First Cut! Youth Film Festival announces details of 2015 event and Dingle International Film Festival tickets now on sale.
Julie Andrews confirmed for JDIFF
Ms Andrews will participate in a public interview and will then close the Festival with the gala screening of the Academy Award winning film ‘The Sound of Music’.
The public interview will be hosted by Lyric FM’s Aedin Gormley where Ms Andrews will discuss her career from her first appearance on Broadway starring in ‘The Boy Friend’; to creating the role of Eliza Doolittle in ‘My Fair Lady’; to her film debut as the titular character in Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins’, for which she won a BAFTA, Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
The 2015 JDIFF programme launches on Wednesday 25th February, and the festival runs from 19th – 29th March 2015.
First Cut! Youth Film Festival announces details of 2015 Festival
The First Cut! Youth Film Festival 2015 has announced details of their 6th annual event – which will take place Friday 27 & Saturday 28 February in Youghal, Co. Cork in a ‘big screen’ pop-up venue.
The festival has continued to grow and provides filmmakers with a much needed opportunity to showcase their work and meet fellow filmmakers. It offers an opportunity for young filmmakers, aged 12- 24 years, to gather together in a vibrant festival atmosphere for a rare chance to network and showcase their work.
The festival engages young people who are making short films or who are interested but up to now haven’t had the opportunity to check it out and learn more. Organisers invite the whole community to get involved, bringing together local, national and international talent, skills and vision. In all over the two days of screenings the Festival will present almost 100 short films in various categories and special programmes. This year they welcome a new category - the annual Open Call was extended this year to include short films from college students.
Organisers have stated that they are delighted with the response to the 2015 Open Call – with short films from young people from all over Ireland and internationally being submitted. They have received films from 10 different counties: Cork, Dublin, Tipperary, Galway, Clare, Louth, Wexford, Kerry, Limerick and Louth and eight countries are represented: Scotland, Greece, the UK, Spain, Nepal, India, Ireland and South Korea.
As well as the screenings of works by young filmmakers, the Festival will also include workshops, performances and the rare opportunity for young filmmakers to learn from, and engage with the professionals. Panel discussions, Q&A sessions and hands-on workshops will take place in the Mall Arts Centre and in other locations throughout the town during the Festival.
More details and tickets can be found on the festival website: www.firstcutfilmfestival.com/.
Dingle International Film Festival announce details of 2015 Festival
The Dingle International Film Festival have announced that tickets are now on sale for the 2015 festival, due to run from Thursday, 12th March until Sunday, 15th March.
The 2015 Festival Pass can now be booked and is available here.
Dingle IFF will this year screen an array of Irish and international films and short films as well as hosting workshops and shorts and documentary programmes. In addition to this, Animation Dingle runs in conjunction with Dingle IFF which will year will take place on the 12th and 13th March 2015, including the Irish Animation Awards on 13th March.
Also returning to Dingle is Físín - an Irish language short script/proposal competition. The prize is €5,000 plus €2,000 worth of renting filming equipment.
The Dingle International Film Festival is also home to The Gregory Peck Award. Recipients of the award have included Laura Dern (2014), Jean-Jacques Beineix (2011), Stephen Frears (2010), Jim Sheridan (2009) and Gabriel Byrne (2008).
The 2015 festival will run from Thursday, 12th March until Sunday, 15th March.
