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Jul 12
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One Minute Film Festival Awards 2020

By Local Interest, News, Screenings

Our annual One Minute Film Festival took place throughout the week of the Galway Film Fleadh this year available to stream for free. Here people came to watch a programme of 20 1-minute films that span a wide variety of styles, genres, and origins, with films coming from all over the world.

As part of the festival each year we run a competition for the top 3 films and we are delighted to announce the winning films which are:

1st – Dear Diary – Mallika Juneja

2nd – Landscape – Johanna O’Brien

3rd – Mothers – Gloria Kurnik

Congratulations to the winning filmmakers, we hope to see you submit again in the future!

Jan 24
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Children’s Poster Competition for 15th Busan International Kid & Youth Film Festival

By Local Interest, News, Participation, Unesco

Galway City of Film is proud to announce our participation the Busan International Kid & Youth Film Festival Poster Competition.

From its launch in 2006, Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival celebrated its 14th year in 2019. As the only international kids film festival in Korea, it provides a ground for visual arts education. The festival hosts events such as Film Workshop and Seminars for children, Film and Fun, Poster Contest & Exhibition and Kids’ Cine-Playground, attracting huge attention of filmmakers from all over the world while achieving recognition as a Kids & Youth centered film festival.

You can find more information about BIKY here.

 

The Poster Competition

Every year, BIKY has made its beautiful official poster by collecting drawings from children with their amazing imagination and wit. It will be remade into a poster in the form of ‘collage’, after artists’ design works with the selected drawings.

To enter:

  • Create your magnificent poster.
  • Download the Application Form. (link below)
  • Attach the Application Form to the back of the poster.
  • Send poster and form to the Galway City of Film office. (Cluain Mhuire, Wellpark Road, Galway)
  • All posters must arrive in Galway City of Film offices on or before Monday February 10th.

Each city will select one drawing through their own entry process and then send the selected drawing to BIKY. All drawings sent from cities of film will be included in the official poster for BIKY’s 2020 edition and will be exhibited during the BIKY period.

BIKY will select one winner from the 12 cities to give a special chance. We will invite the winner to BIKY to participate in BIKY events. If they are 10-12 years old, BIKY will select them as a Jury Member. For the winner’s visit in Busan, we will provide benefits for winner as follows;

  • 2 round-trip flight ticket (winner, and their guardian – parent or teacher)
  • Hotel accommodation during their stay in Busan for BIKY
  • BIKY ID card & BIKY Package

Please click here to download the Application Form and get started!

For any further details, please contact admin@galwayfilmcentre.ie or call (091) 770748.

Nov 29
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Galway City of Film Celebrates Five Years

By History, Local Interest, News, Partners, Press, Screenings, Unesco

A special industry event held last night in Galway celebrated 2 key anniversaries in Film in the city. In 2014 Galway became the fifth city in the world to achieve the status of UNESCO City of Film, in recognition of the rich history and vibrant culture of filmmaking that continues in the city and county to this day. Galway City of Film is now celebrating its 5th anniversary of that recognition, and is taking a wonderful opportunity to look back at what has been achieved so far.

City of Film highlights include organising camps for young filmmakers and animators, hosting the One Minute Film Festival and 48 Hour Challenge, supporting short film funding schemes through Galway Film Centre such as Science on Screen and the GFC/RTÉ Short Film Scheme, local initiatives supporting industry including the Fís TV Summit and the WRAP Fund, as well as screenings, student exchanges, research and collaboration across the now 18 Cities of Film in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

With the confluence of these two events comes a unique opportunity to present our Galway UNESCO ‘City of Film/Ceantar Scannán’ Award to local film producer Lelia Doolan. An honour that has only been presented to one other recipient, Uachtaráin Michael D Higgins. It is difficult to think of anyone that has contributed more to the local and national film industry than Lelia Doolan and Galway City of Film wish to honor her and her legacy of incredible work by presenting this award to her as part of our celebrations.

Launched in 2014 by Uachtaráin Michael D. Higgins, Galway City of Film has offered valuable supports and resources to the filmmaking community in the city over the last five years that otherwise would not have been possible.

The award presentation was followed by a screening of Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody, a feature film directed by Aodh Ó Coileáin and produced by Paddy Hayes celebrating Galway artists including Rita Ann Higgins, Tommy Tiernan and Noeline Kavanagh.

May 31
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#RomaFF14 | Film Submissions Now Open for Rome Film Fest

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The 14th Rome Film Fest is organized by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, and will be held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and in other venues in Rome from October 17th to 27th, 2019.

They have opened up submissions for new feature films to be screened at their Festival in October!

See here for more information on how to apply.

May 28
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One Minute Film Festival at Galway Film Fleadh | Deadline for submission is 19th June

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Galway City of Film in partnership with Galway Film Centre and the Galway Film Fleadh are delighted to announce that the One Minute Film Festival is back for this year’s Fleadh!

 

Galway City of Film are inviting Filmmakers / Film Enthusiasts to make a one-minute HD film, based on any subject or any story. A panel of judges will select the best 30 One Minute Films and they will be screened at a special public event at the Galway Film Fleadh.

 

 

This year, there are cash prizes of up to €250 for the best 3 Films which will be chosen following the Galway Film Fleadh screening where your work will be screened to an international audience.

Entry to this competition is free and all genres are welcome including documentary, live action, art-house and animation!

Last year’s One Minute Film Festival included films from around the world, with 2 sold out screenings. The winner was the fantastic Bathmat by Jamie Sykes, second place went to Conor Healy for his film The Marksman and joint third place prize went to Mark Gallagher for The Jump and Marlon van der Strigt for Tormented.

Deadline for Entry: 4pm (GMT) Wednesday 19th June 2019

How to Enter:

  • Send a private Vimeo/Youtube link of your film along with the password to admin@galwayfilmcentre.ie
  • Please note: Do not initially send film files. Once the 30 films are selected to be screened we will then request a copy of your film (specifications: .mov/.mp4, H264, Apple Pro Res – 25fps) along with still images.

Guidelines:

  • One film per entrant.
  • Have copyright/permission for the music used.
  • Entries must have been made since July 2018.
  • Duration limit is 70 seconds including credits. Longer than this will not be considered.

For any further info: email admin@galwayfilmcentre.ie or go to www.galwayfilmcentre.ie

#GalwayCityofFilm

May 16
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Galway Film Society returns to Pálás for its first Summer season!

By News, Screenings

Galway Film Society returns to Pálás for its first Summer season! GFS are one of the longest running film societies in Ireland in their 55th year.

Once again, GFS will present local audiences with the opportunity to see the best new and award-winning films from all over the world on the big screen. Highlights in the Summer programme are Happy Lazarro, Woman at War and In Safe Hands. The season kicks off on May 19th and runs until the 1st July.

Don’t miss out on GFS Season tickets, which are on sale now from Pálás Box Office and over the phone only at a reduced ticket price of 42 euro for the bundle of six, for the first week of the summer season. Tickets for individual films are also available to purchase online or over the phone.

Films

May 19/20       Happy As Lazzaro (Italy)

May 26/27       Ash Is Purest Whire (China)

Jun 09/10        Woman at War (Iceland)

Jun 16/17         In Safe Hands (France)

Jun 23/24        Maborosi (Japan)

Jun 30/Jul 1    Balloon (Germany)

Apr 15
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Applications now OPEN for Little Cinema & Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge 2019!

By Local Interest, News

Applications are now OPEN for this years Little Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge! The challenge will take place from the 7th to 9th June and teams of filmmakers are invited to Galway to – write, shoot, and edit – their films in just 48 hours!

If you are up for the challenge, the entry per team is €80 and films are to be shot in either Galway City or County. This year to add an extra layer of difficulty, each team must feature a specific prop, a line of dialogue, and must be in one of two pre-agreed genres.

If you’re interested in taking part, please download your application forms here and send them to littlecinemagalway@gmail.com

#GalwayCityofFilm #48HrsGalway #LittleCinemaGalway

The Little Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge kindly acknowledges the support of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Apr 02
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Call for Entries | 2019 Busan Intercity Film Festival

By News, Screenings

The 3rd Busan Intercity Film Festival

Will be held from May 31st to June 3rd in Busan, South Korea, and they have put out a call for film submissions from other UNESCO Creative Cities.

Each year they decide on a slogan and screen a selection of films from each city, and this year that slogan is “Our City“. Galway City of Film will be choosing a shortlist of five films on this theme to send to Busan and to represent the City.

“We are going to invite outstanding films from various cities around the world that show different cultural characteristics and diversity while strengthening our relationship and friendship.” – Busan Intercity Film Festival Committee.

This is a fantastic opportunity for local Galway filmmakers to have their films shown in an international film festival, so be sure to send your film into us, and you’ll be in with a good chance of having it screened in Busan, Korea!

Requirements:

  • The film should be shot in Galway, or be directed by a Galwegian.
  • Your submission should reflect the theme of “Our City”.
  • You should have completed work on this film sometime in the last two years.
  • All entries must carry English subtitles.
  • All entries must be accompanied by stills from the film and some images of the director. (In the case that the film is chosen, these images will be used in the program.)
  • All submissions should come with a fully completed Application Form and be sent to admin@galwayfilmcentre.ie
  • All film files should be MOV, MP4, or H264.

The deadline for submissions is Monday April 22nd.

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