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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!

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.

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.