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2020 vision as Galway chosen as European Capital of Culture

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Galway has been named European Capital of Culture 2020 at a ceremony in Dublin. Limerick and the ‘Three Sisters’ region of Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford had also competed for the title. Galway receives a prize of €1.5 million from the EU and will jointly hold the Capital of Culture honour with Rijeka in Croatia.

Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment, Jane Daly, Programme Manager for Galway 2020, said her initial reaction was disbelief followed by:

 ‘I cannot imagine what we would have done if we hadn’t won! There are 2,000 people on the streets of Galway watching live and they’ve all done so much – we were here representing them, it’s for the city and county of Galway and we’re going to deliver the most extraordinary Capital of Culture Europe has ever seen. We’ve got this!’

When asked about Galway’s preparations ahead of 2020, Daly replied:

“We’re ready to go! We’ve already started – we’ve done nine pilots on some of our projects. Everybody from Druid to Macnas to the music hubs to Athenry 2020, they were just waiting for the green light and now they’re ready to go.”

In Galway more than two thousand people turned out to hear this afternoon’s announcement at a specially erected big screen on Mainguard Street in the city.

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Discover Galway

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Make a fresh start this season with an exciting break in beautiful Galway. Wander Galway City’s cobble-stoned streets and feel yourself stepping back in time to Medieval Ireland. Known the world over for its friendly people, charming streets, shopping and nightlife, Galway will refresh flagging spirits like no other place. Visit the famous Galway Farmers Market in Church Lane for lots of great Irish delicacies and enjoy the wonderful atmosphere. Have a break to remember in Galway.

http://www.discoverireland.ie/places-to-go/galway

Fáilte Ireland

By Enjoyment, Sports, Visit

Fáilte Ireland is the National Tourism Development Authority. Our role is to support the tourism industry and work to sustain Ireland as a high-quality and competitive tourism destination. We provide a range of practical business supports to help tourism businesses better manage and market their products and services.

We also work with other state agencies and representative bodies, at local and national levels, to implement and champion positive and practical strategies that will benefit Irish tourism and the Irish economy.

We promote Ireland as a holiday destination through our domestic marketing campaign (DiscoverIreland.ie) and manage a network of nationwide tourist information centres that provide help and advice for visitors to Ireland.

http://www.failteireland.ie/

Wild Atlantic Way

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The Wild Atlantic Way is Ireland’s first long-distance touring route, stretching along the Atlantic coast from Donegal to West Cork. The overall aim of the project is to develop a route that will achieve greater visibility for the west coast of Ireland in overseas tourist markets.

http://www.wildatlanticway.com

One Minute Film Festival at Galway Film Fleadh

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Filmmakers selected for the One Minute Film Festival at Galway Film Fleadh.

Galway UNESCO City of Film is delighted to announce the films selected for this year’s One Minute Film Festival at the Galway Film Fleadh.

  • ‘Inner Space’ by Alfie Hollingsworth & Flann Manning
  • ‘Vexation’ by Amy O’Callaghan
  • ‘An Agonising Encounter’ by Amy Poland
  • ‘Body of Christ’ by Amy-Joyce Hastings
  • ‘Paddy’ by Barry Clifford
  • ‘The Man Whose Hair Blew Away’ by Brigette Heffernan
  • ‘Something Borrowed’ by Carolyn Wagner
  • ‘The Social Experiment’ by Claire Millane
  • ‘Parting’ by Conor Healy
  • ‘Splat Chat’ by Conor McMahon
  • ‘Farmer Dan: How To Play The Bodhran’ by Dermott Petty
  • ‘Rubber Duck’ by Eoin O’Neill
  • ‘The Final Fairytale’ by Ingrid Goodwin
  • Hussein & Hassan’ by Jamillah Van Der Hulst
  • ‘Tae Talk’ by Jenn McGuirk
  • ‘Rebirth’ by Joe Davis Productions
  • ‘Beautiful Boy’ by John Gleeson
  • ‘Family Favourite Moments’ by Johnathan Connolly
  • The Irish Skateboard Association’ by Joseph Ingersoll
  • The Conflict’ by Kevin John Ward
  • ‘Unlucky Dave’ by Kush Gupta
  • ‘A Love Letter’ by Laura Poortenga
  • ‘Deadly View’ by Malcolm Willis
  • ‘Water Walker’ by Margaret Sclafani
  • ‘Civitatula’ by Martin McDonnell
  • ‘Before You Were Old’ by Max Webb
  • ‘Nina’s Birthday’ by Robert McCarthy
  • ‘A Claddagh Heart’ by Tony Walsh

The One Minute Film Festival will screen at the Galway Film Fleadh on Sunday 10th July at 4.30pm and all are welcome.

Prize winners will be announced at both the 4.30pm screening and at the official Fleadh prize giving ceremony at 7pm on Sunday.

For tickets see: http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/index.php/project/one-minute-film-festival-2/

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Winners of One Minute Film Festival at the Fleadh

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We had 2 SOLD -OUT screenings of the One Minute Film Festival at the Galway Film Fleadh yesterday, Sunday 10th July.

We are delighted to announce that the 1st place prize went to filmmaker Carolyn Wagner for her film ‘Something Borrowed‘. She received €500 and was presented with the prize at the official Fleadh Awards Ceremony on Sunday evening.

 
We awarded joint 2nd place prizes to filmmakers Amy Joyce Hastings for her film “Body of Christ” and to Johnathan Connolly for his film “Family Favourite Moments”.

 

 

 

 

Thank you to all the filmmakers who took the time and effort to submit to this years One Minute Film Festival and congratulations to all three winners!

#GalwayCityofFilm

 

100 Years of Cinema

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Galway UNESCO City of Film commemorates 1916 with ‘100 Years of Cinema’ Programme

 

Galway, UNESCO City of Film, is commemorating the 1916 Rising with an exciting programme of seminal Irish Cinema and landmark television events to take place over eight Saturdays throughout 2016. This programme, called 100 Years of Cinema, will take the form of one-day events, roughly one Saturday per month, to include screenings, debate and lively discussion of the development of our national identity and our national cinema over the past one hundred years. Each event will be themed and programmed by a different guest curator, beginning this month with Gar O’Brien, Programmer, Galway Film Fleadh.

 

Gar will explore the theme of The Rising on Film on Saturday 20, February in An Taibhdhearcwith selected screenings and discussion. At 2pm Mise Éire (‘My Ireland’) will be screened. The film has held an iconic status in Irish cultural history since its release in January 1960. Mise Éire was actually the first Irish feature-length film that utilised an orchestral soundtrack, a specially commissioned score by Seán Ó Riada, but its renown also rests on its director’s then relatively novel technique of recounting historical events entirely through existing archive material. The film is a stirring chronicle of Ireland one hundred years ago and contains newsreel camera footage of critical developments during the Easter Rising.

This will be followed by the documentary, Curious Journey at 4pm. In 1973, Kenneth Griffith, the renowned documentary maker, gathered together a group of nine veterans of the Irish Rising. Almost half a century after the terrible events they lived through, this highly diverse group – branded terrorists by the British in their youth  – gave their own vivid account of what it was like to live through those turbulent times. This emotional film is a powerful and heartfelt testament to nine brave men and women who risked their lives for their country as well as being a first hand historical record.

The film will be followed by a discussion on how the Rising was captured and portrayed on film with Dr Kevin Rockett, Professor of Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin and Dr. Conn Holohan, Huston School of Film and Digital Media and will be chaired by lecturer in Film Studies, Patsy Murphy.

Finally there will be a 7pm screening of David Lean’s cinematic masterpiece, Ryan’s Daughter. The film is set in 1916 and is arguably the most visually impressive film ever made in Ireland. In keeping with his distinctive epic scale, the production was famously long and drawn out while the meticulous director waited for perfect weather conditions for his many and spectacular outdoor scenes, leading actor Robert Mitchum to comment that working with the director was “like constructing the Taj Mahal out of toothpicks.”

As a added bonus at 12pm on the afternoon of Saturday 2oth February there will be a special UNESCO City of Film free screening of Man of Aran (1934) with a new soundtrack by UK Indie band, British Sea Power. This haunting new score uses guitars and modern sounds to add a new dimension to this highly influential documentary, which the British Film Institute recently listed as one of the top ten most important documentaries of all time.

Tickets, €5.50 per film and €15.00 for the full day, are available from An Taibhdhearc at ticketsor on 091-562024. Details of further upcoming 100 Years of Cinema events at www.galwayfilmcentre.ie.

 

Culture Night 2015

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Galway Film Centre.

Under the banner of UNESCO City of Film, are delighted to be hosting a screening of short films from Galway and the 4 other UNESCO Cities of Film on Culture Night Friday 18th September in the Galway City Museum.

 

Short films will be screened from Bradford-UK, Sofia-Bulgaria, Busan-South Korea and Sydney-Australia and they will be an eclectic mix of short documentaries and fictional tales reflecting the personality of the 5 cities. The event will be held in the Galway City Museum’s Education Room from 5.15pm until 8.30pm and the films will be screened on a loop over the evening.

The running order for the evening will include films from:

Galway

Contact – 6.33mins – Dir. Laura Poortenga

Brief Lives – 5.33mins – Dir. Anna Downes

Knitted Memories – 3.45mins – Dir. Mary Fitzpatrick

Bradford

Spare Key – 6.33mins – Dir. Ross Birks

Busan

Bus Stop – 4.38mins – Dir. Park Soo-Min

Sofia

Botev is an Idiot – 8.51mins – Dir. Deyan Bararev

Ginka – 13.13mins – Dir. Antonia Milcheva

Sydney

Flat Daddy – 15.26mins – Dir. Matt Holcomb

See the official Culture Night website for more Culture Night information.

GALWAY CITY MUSEUM
SPANISH PARADE
GALWAY
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#Bradford City of Film  #Busan City of Film   #Sofia City of Film   #Sydney City of Film

 

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