Cinemagic Dublin is back this June with a programme for young people aged under 12 years of age. This jam packed programme will include film screenings, workshops with both public and schools events taking place at various venues around the city.
The festival will include a special nursery programme of short films designed to entertain and educate young children. Each nursery school will be turned into a mini cinema for the morning to introduce the children to TV and film. Screenings will include animations from around the world such as ‘Peter Rabbit’ shorts, ‘Henry Hugglemonster’ and ‘Anam Anamráin’ - new animated interpretations of 12 old Irish songs.
The Junior Talent lab on June 7 is open to the public (for young people aged 8-12) and allows children to meet industry professionals, to ask them questions about their field and to get top tips about working in the industry. The event will take place in Filmbase and will include a TV Presenting workshop with RTE Elev8’s Diana Bunici; The Last Broadcast! Radio Presenting and Production with Mairead Campbell and Special effects make-up in film with artists from MFK institute who will teach participants the basic skills and techniques of make-up artistry.
A series of family film screenings open to the public will be screened at Cineworld on June 7 and 8. They will include ‘The Legend of Sarila 3D’, ‘Anina’, ‘A Cat in Paris’ and ‘The Boy and the World’.
An extensive Education programme of workshops and screenings aims to help children learn more about the industry, critique and analyse film and TV, and express their own opinions on what they see. The primary schools Education programme will include: Early Years Drama with Emma Coogan; Make a Movie in a day with Young Irish FilmMakers; Animation with Cartoon Saloon; A workshop on film classification – That’s Classified – with IFCO; Storyboarding with Flickerpix animations; An animation showcase and screening with claymations; stop motion animations shadow play and 3d computer animation; Children’s Books Ireland session about superheroes and Girl Power which includes a screening of ‘Frozen’ followed by a creative workshop on superpowers; Sci-Fi Shadow play workshop and Sci-fi storytelling with Jack Lynch with a screening of the ‘Iron Giant’.
The Festival is once again looking for junior film jury members to take part in the Cinemagic cross-border 'cine seekers' Jury. The jury members (open to young people all over Ireland) will meet over two days in June (7 & 8) in Cineworld. To apply for the junior film jury email: claire@cinemagic.ie.
The Cinemagic Film Festival also caters for young people aged 12 – 17 with a host of film and television events such as online journalism, creative writing and animation. For a full review of the programme previously covered by IFTN click here.
To view the Cinemagic Festival Programme online and to book tickets for the upcoming events log onto cinemagic.ie.
