With just days to go, until the First Frame Event of the Dublin International Film Festival is taking place at the Millennium Theatre, TUS, below is a featurette of the short documentary ‘Dungeons & Dreams’. Produced by the 2nd Years of the Creative Broadcast & Film Production programme at LSAD, TUS, the story features Kéno McMahon, who with others use the table top game Dungeons and Dragons to explore questions of identity and gender.
The featurette was produced by Film CEL, the in-house production unit at TUS.
This is one of 11 nominations for LSAD, TUS in DIFF 2023, and also the first time that an event for the festival is taking place outside Dublin. Check out my previous post for more details of what’s happening on the day, or on the image below. Tickets are free and still available HERE or via clicking the picture below.
With one week to go until LSAD, TUS hosts the First Frame Event for the Dublin International Film Festival, further information has been released on the Panel, Live Music as well as news of nominations for LSAD Students.
11 Dept of Digital Arts and Media projects have been shortlisted for diff First Frame awards 2023 out of a total of 40 films selected from Colleges and Institutions from around the country.
LSAD Creative Broadcast and Film Production nominated films are as follows:
‘Púca’ Directed by Heather Curtin
‘Dungeons and Dreams’ Directed by Simon Cunningham
‘The Finer Details’ Directed by Alyssa Fleming
The remaining nominations featured represent works of the Clonmel Programmes in the Digital Arts and Media Department.
Dr. Susan Liddy
Further details have been added and the LSAD team have secured Dr Susan Liddy Mary Immaculate College, to open the event
Event Schedule
9am – Event opening and welcome
Dr Susan Liddy- Chair Women in Television and Film Ireland, Catalyst International Film Festival, Mary Immaculate College Limerick Gráinne Humphreys, Festival Director DIFF
Mike Fitzpatrick, Dean LSAD
9am & 2pm Film Screening
🎦 Screening of shortlisted diff First Frame awards 2023 films, animation, documentary.
11am-1pm -TV + Film Industry Panel 11am-1pm
📹 Laura O’Shea- Award winning film maker, diff Film Maker in Residence & Music Technology Production graduate LSAD TUS
🎥 Philip Shanahan – Film Editor & Creative Broadcast and Film Production graduate LSAD TUS
🎬 Michelle Ryan– EPIK Media founder + Director & Mary I graduate
📽 Rachael Power– National Talent Academy TV + Film Manager -Screen Skills Ireland/ Film in Limerick
Catalyst International Film Festival presents a film programme that prioritizes stories and storytellers currently under-represented on screen and behind the camera. We want to create a more inclusive industry and films screened here will promote gender equality, diversity and inclusion whether in content, key creative roles or crew. Catalyst is dedicated to addressing under-representation in GENDER, RACE, SOCIAL + ECONOMIC EXCLUSION, DISABILITY, AGE and SEXUAL ORIENTATION on and off screen. This is not a definitive list!
We are currently open for submissions for the 4th Catalyst International Film Festival 30|31 March & 01 April 2023.
2023 AWARDS:
Best Irish Short Film
Best International Short Film
Best Documentary Short Film
Spirit of the Festival Award
Jury Special Mention Award
Breakthrough Award
Short Screenplay Award (in association with the Writers Guild of Ireland)
Simon receiving the award for Best Midwest Short Film from Mayor of Limerick, Francis Foley
The success of the short film, Warts and All’, continued on Sunday night last, with it picking up the award for Best MidWest Short Film at the Richard Harris International Film Festival. There was stiff competition in this category, namely Wednesday Child, directed by Laura O’Shea, which had three nominations in total.
Warts and all editor, Simon McGuire, was present to accept the award on behalf of director Pat Shortt, writer Michelle Lehane and producer Lee Crowley. This award comes on the back of picking up the Best International Narrative Short Film Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California the previous week. The film will be continuing to screen at various festivals around the country and abroad, so keep an eye out for it in coming schedules.
On the back of successful screenings at the Newport Beach and Kerry Film Festivals, news filtered through from Newport Beach that Warts and All received the award for Best International Narrative Short Film.
Producer Lee Crowley has led in the thanks via the films Twitter page, “We are absolutely delighted to win Best Short Narrative International Short. Thanks to the jury and all the team @nbff for this wonderful award!”
Congratulations to the Cast and Crew of Warts and All and a special congrats to the director Pat Shortt on bringing the team together to make this project.
For a Full report on all the award winners at the Newport Beach Film Festival Check out the article by clicking the Variety Logo below:
THe 10th year of the Richard Harris International Film Festival is now underway with a jammed packed programme of events taking place across multiple venues in Limerick City. With short and feature screenings, networking events and the annual Gala Awards Show, produced by Simon McGuire, LSAD, TUS, this promises to be a great in-person return to the festival since the pandemic.
Check out the schedule below and click on the logo above for the website and more details and information.
The Festival Programme features Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy! They have 27 Shorts, 2 Features, 2 Retrospectives (The original Hocus Pocus and 28 Days Later screened by EIFF at Arc Cinema Ennis) , 14 International Shorts, 13 Irish Shorts, 7 Student Shorts, 3 Irish Student Shorts, 5 Workshops, 1 industry panel, 1 Pitching Comp and a Whiskey Experience for after hours! They even have their very own festival beer – a blood orange infused ale (of course!) by local brewery Western Herd.
EUNICS Short Shorts 2022 – will be held in the Millenium Theatre on 20th October 2022
Expect Action, Comedy, Animation, Drama and more from Short Shorts from Europe Film Festival, a selection of European short films of ten member countries of EUNIC Ireland.
Let Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, and Spain entertain you with a variety of genres from contemporary, cutting-edge filmmakers. Cork International Film Festival and TUS Limerick School of Art and Design will also present short films from Ireland on the programme. After the screening the audience will be asked to vote for their favourite film via their smartphone.
This event is brought to you by the EUNIC Ireland network in association with Cork International Film Festival, Light House Cinema Dublin, Pálás Cinema Galway, TUS Limerick School of Art and Design and Richard Harris International Film Festival. EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture – is the European network of organisations engaging in cultural relations. It advocates a prominent role of culture in international relations and is a strategic partner of the EU.
EUNIC Ireland members are: Alliance Française/Embassy of France, Austrian Embassy, British Council, Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria, Culture Ireland, Goethe-Institut, Embassy of Greece, Instituto Cervantes/Spanish Agency for the International Cooperation and Development (AECID), Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Embassy of Hungary, Embassy of Luxembourg, Embassy of Malta, Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Embassy of Portugal, Embassy of Romania, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia and Embassy of Switzerland.
Exciting times ahead for the cast and crew of Warts and All, with the announcement of selection to the Newport Beach Film Festival.
The short film, directed by Pat Shortt, will get its screening on October 16th at the California festival which draws a number of famous faces as well as established and iconic film makers each year.
For details check out the link HERE and watch this space for other festival screening announcements in Ireland.
Michelle Lehane (Writer, Actor), Pat Shortt (Director) and Faye Short (Actor) at the Galway Film Fleadh screening of Warts and All.
Fay Shortt(Actor), Pat Shortt (Director), Michelle Lehane(Writer/Actor) and Simon McGuire (Editor) at the Galway Film Fleadh Screening of Warts And All.
‘Púca’ Directed by Heather Curtin 
‘Dungeons and Dreams’ Directed by Simon Cunningham
‘The Finer Details’ Directed by Alyssa Fleming 
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