One of Ireland’s top festivals for new talent returns later this month. Based in Limerick, Catalyst International Film Festival will host the 5th edition of the festival presenting films, panel discussions, workshops and networking events in venues across the city of Limerick from 18th-20th April. Catalyst International Film Festival’s film programme aims to prioritise stories and storytellers currently under-represented on…
A writer, actor and comedian, Dublin’s own Hannah Mamalis is no stranger to the festival circuit. On stage, she’s performed here at Dublin Fringe, First Fortnight. For film, her short film Baby Steps has taken off in recent months, showing in Sweden, in Belfast, across the Republic and now at home in the Dublin International…
A journalist and documentarian, Kathleen Harris captures both the informative and the human side of complex topics. Born and raised in the US, Harris has lived in Ireland since 2006, and her work as a video journalist for the Irish Times has covered a wide range of topics, including Ireland’s abortion and gay marriage referendums,…
Ireland excels at documentary filmmaking. The last decade in particular has seen a Golden Age in Irish Documentary, with filmmakers like Paul Duane, Sinéad O’Shea and more doing innovative, immersive and interesting work in capturing real stories from Ireland and abroad. Programming good homegrown docs has always been one of the strengths of the Dublin…
The 2024 Dublin International Film Festival begins this Thursday, and as the biggest festival in the fair city of film every year, its programme is filled with so much cinema even the film fans with the deepest pockets and the swiftest shoes to move from screen to screen can’t see them all. This is especially…
Coming soon to Smithfield, the folks at Short Cuts Presents have programmed an evening of short films across various genres and themes, a taster selection of rising talents and their latest works. Taking place on Tuesday 13th February, nine short films will be showing at the Light House Cinema, with tickets now available for the…
More announcements are coming out about the programme for the 2024 edition of the Dublin International Film Festival. The biggest festival in the fair city of film will provide a festival spotlight this year on African cinema, with award winning entries from across the continent. Over 40 short films are also set to screen during…
Festivals like the Cork International Film Festival, which kicks off this week, are a fantastic avenue for unique storytelling from passionate filmmakers. One of Ireland’s own, Paul Duane is a filmmaker who has always been drawn to unique stories, including following KLF in What Time Is Death?, and the artistic efforts of Bill Drummond in…
One of the most recent and well-received additions to the festival calendar in the fair city of film is returning this winter and it’s getting bigger and better. Going into its 3rd year and its 4th festival, the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival promises some much needed winter levity with a packed programme of films,…
One of Ireland’s biggest film festivals has launched its programme this evening. This November, the Cork International Film Festival will be showing some of the year’s most anticipated films, including exciting new releases from a number of Irish filmmakers. Cork International Film Festival (CIFF) has launched the programme for the 68th edition of the Festival. The expanded…
