Fresh Film Festival (Ireland)

Infobox Film Festival
name = Fresh Film Festival


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location = Limerick, Ireland
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website = http://www.freshfilmfestival.netThe Fresh Film Festival is a festival for young people which takes place in Limerick, Ireland each Spring.

Running since 1996, the Festival includes the annual competitive event, Ireland's Young Film Maker of the Year, which screens films made by young people aged between seven and 18 years.

The festival

The Fresh Film Festival's main aim is to encourage young people to make films. The festival screens a number of feature films and hosts workshops.

The jury

Ireland's Young Film-maker of the Year is judged by a number of film and education professionals and the 1st and 2nd prize winners at the previous years competition.

Festival 2008

The 11th Fresh Film Festival featuring Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards took place in Limerick between the 3rd and the 9th of March, 2008. This year’s Festival Programme programme included feature screenings and animation and cinematography workshops. Feature screenings included the film noir style, teen drama/murder mystery, ‘Brick’, directed by Rian Johnson, the Irish Premiere of ‘Buddha Collapsed out of Shame’, from 20 year old Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf and Christian Wagners’ drama, detailing a Bosnian mothers search for her daughter after the war, entitled ‘Warchild’.

The Young Film-Maker Awards divided into two age categories: Junior (7 –12 yrs) and Senior (13 -18yrs) had an entry of over 120 films from young people from across the island of Ireland.The 2008 Senior Award went to 'Alien Verbatim' by Laurence Snashall from Schull, Co. Cork, the Radharc Documentary Award: 'Sneakers' from Patrickswell National School, Limerick. The Junior Award went to Geallscoil Ultain, Co. Monaghan, for their film ‘Ruairi’, and the Brown Bag Animation award went to the the Sacred Heart School, Portlaoise for ‘The Last Penguin’.Venues were the Belltable Arts Centre and Storm Cinemas, Castletroy, Limerick.

Previous Winners: Ireland's Young Filmaker of the Year

2008: Senior Award "Alien Verbatim" by Laurence Snashall from Schull, Ireland

Junior Award: "Ruairi" by Geallscoil Ultain, Co. Monaghan, Ireland

Brown Bag Animation Award: "The Last Penguin" by Sacred Heart School, Portlaoise, Ireland

Radharc Documentary Award: "Sneakers" dir. Patrickswell National School, Limerick, Ireland

2007: Senior Award "Hang Up Noise Man" by Re Productions from Dublin, Ireland

Radharc Documentary Award and Junior Award: "Abuelita" dir. Santana Hernandez Power, Kilkenny, Ireland

The Brown Bag Animation Award: "UpsideDown Goldfish" dir Bryan O'Sullivan, Cork, Ireland

2006: Senior Award "The Cycle" dir. Eoghan McQuinn from Dublin, Ireland

Radharc Documentary Award: "The Fool's Card" Sian Murray, Dublin, Ireland

2005: Senior Award "The Vent" dir. Glenn Lambert DublinMade Films, Dublin, Ireland

2004: Senior Award " The Boy's Revenge" dir. Jonathan Lambert, DublinMade Films, Dublin, Ireland

2003: Senior Award "The Unmentionable" by DogDay Films, Dublin, Ireland

2002: Senior Award "Weird Evolution" dir. Emlyn Lewis, Cavan

2001: Senior Award "-" by Jeremy O'Hanlon, Dublin, Ireland

1999: Senior Award "The Jock Club and the Mellon Collie Death of Eugene Nerdlinger" dir. Anthony Kinsella - C13 Pictures

Trivia

2006 winner Eoghan McQuinn won first prize in the 15-20 year old category at the Berlin Youth Media Festival, 2007, for his film 'The Cycle'

2005 winner Glenn Lambert was brother of Jonathan who won in 2004

2nd prize winning director in 1998, Conor McMahon is currently working on 'The Clown' (2008) with Rubicon Films

External links

* [http://www.freshfilmfestival.net Fresh Film Festival: Official Website]
* [http://www.belltable.ie Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland: Official Website]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5400579644940430410&q=fresh+film+festival&total=162&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2 'The Cycle' dir. Eoghan McQuinn, Ireland's Young Film-maker of the Year, 2006 on Google Video]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrOGAd8pcMk 'The Boy's Revenge' dir. Jonathan Lambert, Ireland's Young Film-maker of the Year, 2004 on YouTube]
* [http://donalforeman.com/blog/ blog of Ireland's Young Film-maker of the Year, 2003, Donal Foreman]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8492019819140235076 'The Jock Club...' dir Anthony Kinsella, Ireland's Young Film-maker of the Year 1999, on Google Video]