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Welcome to the 18th Fresh Film FestivalCome and celebrate with the Fresh Film Festival it’s our 18th birthday!This years festival runs from March 31st to April 6th, our theme is ‘Urban Life Urban Landscape’. With a staggering 400 hundred entries for the second year running, our festival is bigger than ever. In addition to our feature film screenings, workshops and the competition to find Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year we are delighted to be running two projects in conjunction with Limerick City Of Culture. We will be welcoming young filmmakers from Europe and the US to join us for our festival as part of our ‘Streetscape’ programme. This programme will see a group of elite Irish young filmmakers team up with our international friends and take to the streets of Limerick to create micro films. Continuing our international theme, we will be hosting a screening of short films by young filmmakers from the filmmaking hotbeds of Tribeca and Seattle. We invite you to take part in our International forum ‘Make Your Mark’ an exploration of cultural Identity, youth and Irish film. We also invite you to take part in our ‘Big City Portrait’ a free project that will see Fresh working with groups of young people from all over Limerick to create films on the theme of place. So come and join us for our biggest festival to date, get inspired and make movies! For full event listings and info please see www.freshfilmfestival.net or call us on 061 319 555.
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March 31st- Feature Screening 'Intouchables' French Film Primary School animation workshop
April 1st- Feature Screening ' From up on Poppy Hill' Studio Ghibli animation Secondary school animation workshop
April 2nd- Ireland's Young Filmmaker of the Year- Junior Competition
April 3rd- Ireland's Young Filmmaker of the Year- Senior Competition
April 4th- International Short Film Screening, Tribeca and Seattle
April 4th-6th 'Streetscape' International programme
April 5th- 'Big City Portrait' launch and workshop
April 5th - 'Make You Mark' Forum
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Contact: Miriam Garcia Mortell
087 617 8048
BIG CITY PORTRAIT PRESS RELEASE
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Fresh Film Festival launches ‘Big City Portrait’In conjunction with Limerick City of Culture we are delighted to announce Fresh Film Festival’s ‘Big City Portrait’. This project will facilitate the production of a collection of micro-documentaries, made by groups of young people in Limerick. The documentaries will focus on aspects of the filmmakers’ lives: an activity, a place, an object, or whatever inspires the creation of a film. Talpini Media will work with schools, clubs and youth groups, across the Limerick to identify young people to create a collection of films to tell the stories of Limerick's young people. The films will be screened in innovative ways across the city and will be collected to create an interactive online web documentary.On Saturday 5th of April we will launch the project with a workshop consisting of a practical introduction to documentary filmmaking and will explore the opportunities for innovative filmmaking in the digital world.
Location: The Captains Room at the Hunt Museum 11.00-13.00
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Contact: Miriam Garcia Mortell
087 617 8048
