Fresh Film Festival (Ireland)

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Location Limerick, Ireland Festival date March/April Website freshfilmfestival.net		Founded 1997 Language English, others

Instances 2016 Fresh Film Festival, 2014 Fresh Film Festival

Fresh film festival 2013 vlog

The Fresh Film Festival (Irish: Féile Úr Scannán) is a festival for young people which takes place in Limerick, Ireland each Spring.

Running since 1997, Fresh Film Festival is a year round organisation. The annual festival includes its competitive event, Ireland's Young Filmmaker of the Year, which screens films made by young people aged between 7 and 18 years.

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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 Filmmaker 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.

Winners

2011: Senior Award "4:27 AM" -Directed by Seán Murphy

The Radharc Trust: Documentary Award: "The First Rose" -5th Class Scoil Eoin

Brown Bag Animation Award: "Ages Ago" -Ryan and Mark Buckley

2010: Senior Award "Dystopia" by Seán Conroy from Dublin, Ireland

Brown Bag Animation Award: "Reflection" by Alfie Hollingsworth and Dylan Bickerton

Junior Award: "Bionicle Legend" Leon O'Connor, Limerick, Ireland

RTÉ 60 second short award: "Piece Of Cake" Laura Gaynor, Sligo, Ireland

2009: Senior Award "The Grim Trials of Vida Novac" by Nicholas Sheridan from Wexford, Ireland

International Award "Girls" aka 'Piger' by Ida Gedbierg Soerensen/Stammen, Station Next, Denmark

RTE 60 Second Short Award: "The Show-Offs" by Colaiste Chiarain, Croom, Limerick

Brown Bag Animation Award: "The Show-Offs" by Colaiste Chiarain, Croom, Limerick

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 "Oxygen" 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

Festival 2010

The 13th Fresh Film Festival featuring Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards took place in Limerick between the 21 and 24 March 2010. Workshops included a screenwriting workshop with Fast Show writer David Cummings and an animation workshop with artist Michael Fortune. The Young Film-Maker Awards divided into two age categories: Junior (7 –12 yrs) and Senior (13 -18yrs) had an entry of over 160 films from young people from across the island of Ireland. Dublin student Sean Conroy was named Ireland’s Young Filmmaker for 2010 for his timely film 'Dystopia' which details the coming to power of an authoritarian leader in Ireland following an economic collapse.

Festival 2011

Fresh Film Festival 2011 was held between the 28th and 31 March.

Workshops

Workshops included a Videogame Design Workshop and a Filmmaking Workshop by Eugene O'Connor.

Screenings

The animated feature film Persepolis was screened on the 28th.

A collection of international short films made by young people from across Europe, Palestine and South Korea was screened under the title "Kids on the Move".

Award Ceremony

The award ceremony for the senior category was held on the 30th of March, and awards were given by Rob Ross, RTÉ presenter. The junior category were screened on the 31st, and awards were given out.

1st Place "4:27 AM" -Directed by Seán Murphy

2nd Place "Az Utolosó Livoskaja - The Last Princess" -Directed by Seán Conroy

3rd Place "Have You Ever?" -Dean Gilchrist, Gearóid Gibbs & The Knockbeg Film Society

The Radharc Trust: Documentary Award "The First Rose" -5th Class Scoil Eoin

Highly Commended for Editing "Somnium" -Arran Tenzin Bradstock

Highly Commended for collection & script "Let Time go Lightly" -Alan Doyle

Judges recommendation for Brownbag "Ages Ago" -Ryan and Mark Buckley

Trivia

2006 winner Eoghan McQuinn won first prize in the 15- to 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 released his feature film 'Stiches' starring British comedian Ross Noble (2012).

2nd Prize winner for 'Requiem' in 2007, director Patrick Ryan is in pre-production on his Irish western '[)http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4285984&tpl=archnews&force=1 Darkness on the Edge of Town]' (2013).

1st Prize winner in 2003 Donal Foreman has completed production on his film 'Out Of Here'(2013).