Filmmakers!
Festivals are fun and wining stuff is awesome and failing is okay but not trying is lame. So, here’s your chance to have fun and maybe be awesome and ultimately not be lame. YOU should submit something to Fingal Film Festival. Who doesn’t love a good alliteration appreciating affair (festival)?
Submissions are now open for the 2014 Final Film Festival, which will take place in Movies@Swords from 26th – 28th September, Pavilions Centre, Swords, Co Dublin. The three year old Festival (which in festival terms is a mature teenager, not a cute but essentially clumsy toddler) has gone from strength to strength, connecting emerging voices in film with industry experts and independent creative filmmakers from around the world.
Whether you’re emerging or established you can submit filmed material, and as long as you can shoe-horn your submission into submission in the format of: short film, feature film, Irish language film, documentary, student film, animation, international film, or if you’re a Fingal newcomer, you could win something and be considered the best in the world (of Fingal) for that thing, for a whole year. Also someone might give you some cash. For example, if you win Best Irish Language Short Film, TG4 and Film Equipment Hire Ireland will give you €3,000 worth of equipment hire for a 3 day shoot, with the resulting film to be broadcast on TG4. Winners are announced on the closing night of the festival.
But before you start worrying yourself with winning, you have to commit to submitting, deadline for submissions is June 30th, for more information see www.fingalfilmfest.com
There’ll also be an animation workshop by award-winning Dublin-based Animation Company Boulder Media (The Amazing World of Gumball, Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja), led by Emmy-nominated Creative Director Robert Cullen. Also, more workshops that you’ll find out about in due course.
Fingal Film Festival was established in 2012 to provide a platform for local, national and international emerging filmmakers, offering encouragement and promotion for new work in a quality cinema environment. Previous industry experts who have participated in the Festival include multi-award winning animators Brown Bag Films, Bafta winning writer and director Aisling Walsh, former president of the Irish Society of Cinematographers Ciaran Tanham and award-winning producer Arthur Lappin. Fingal Film Festival would like to thank their new principal supporter Fingal Leader Partnership as well as their other sponsors TG4, Canon, Film Equipment Hire Ireland and Kate Bowe PR.W: www.fingalfilmfest.com E: [email protected] F: facebook.com/FingalFilmFest T: @FingalFilmFest
