Limerick School of Art & Design -TUS to host EUNIC Short Shorts Film Festival for Europe 2025 – Thursday 16th October at 6 pm – TUS – Millennium Theatre.
All welcome! Admission free but advance booking required.
EUNIC Short Shorts from Europe 2025 The 2025 edition of the EUNIC Short Shorts from Europe Film Festival focuses on animation cinema and will feature short films from Cyprus, Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Croatia, Spain, Italy, France, and Slovenia, screened in their original language with English subtitles. The opening night will be held on Thursday, 16 October, at 6 pm at the Millennium Theatre, TUS Limerick.
All films in English or with English subtitles.
After the screenings, viewers will have the chance to vote for their favourite short film.
EUNIC – EU National Institutes for Culture is the network of European Union National Institutes of Culture, bringing together the cultural institutes and offices of EU member countries in Ireland.
Event organised by – Creative Broadcast and Film Production LSAD TUS, Department of Digital Arts and Media, Limerick. For more information please contact: stefano.odorico@tus.ie
The Dept of Digital Arts & Media, LSAD, are thrilled to announce that submissions for Catalyst International Film Festival 2025 are now open! This is your chance to be part of a festival that celebrates DIVERSE STORIES and DIVERSE STORYTELLING.
Emerging Filmmakers:
We are keen to engage with emerging filmmakers, broadening the horizons of future filmmakers and audiences alike.
What We’re Looking For:
✨ Films that promote gender equality, diversity, and inclusion.
✨ Stories from voices that struggle for visibility in mainstream film festivals.
✨ Films that entertain, engage, challenge, and inspire.
National Student Short Film Awards 2025 – Free entry to LSAD students and 2024 Graduates
The award is open to all students enrolled in a film programme and films can’t be any longer than twenty minutes, including titles and credits and must be submitted through FilmFreeway.
The winning film will be screened at the Catalyst International Film Festival and will receive €1,000 sponsored by the TUS Digital Arts and Media Department in Limerick.
Catalyst International Film Festival National Student Short Film Award is designed to recognise and celebrate the work of emerging student filmmakers from across the country.
Catalyst International Film Festival is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the film industry, and this award is a key part of that mission.
The festival is keen to engage with emerging filmmakers, ‘new’ rather than inevitably ‘young’, in order to broaden the horizons of potential future filmmakers and audience members.
All Catalyst Award Judges comprise esteemed professionals and experts from the film industry, guaranteeing that the work of the finalists will be showcased to pertinent industry figures, thereby presenting an exceptional opportunity for the winning filmmaker.
Previous Catalyst Awards judges include Colm Bairéad, Rebecca Daly, Frank Berry, Ursula Rani Sarma, Paddy Breathnach and Nell Roddy.
“We are thrilled to launch this new Award in association with TUS” said Dr Susan Liddy, Director of Catalyst.
“We believe that talent is plentiful but opportunities can be limited, and we are committed to supporting emerging filmmakers from all backgrounds. We look forward to seeing the submissions and celebrating the work of the next generation of filmmakers.”
James Greenslade, Head of Department, Digital Arts and Media, TUS, added: “Empowering emerging filmmakers to share their diverse narratives and voices is not just a celebration of their talent but a pivotal step in shaping a more inclusive and expansive film landscape. Through this platform, we embrace the power of film to inspire, connect, and pave the way for the future of storytelling.”
Entries will be accepted up until February 6, 2024 and the festival will be on from April 18-20, 2024.
For more information or to submit a film, click here.
Continuing the previous post about the short film Warts and All, I edited, and it being selected for this years Galway Film Fleadh, there has also been success for a number of LSAD Graduates of the Creative Broadcast & Film Production programme (and its previous variation).
On behalf of the academic team at LSAD, we say congratulations and we are delighted with the continued success of these and all our graduates. If you happen to be visiting the Fleadh in July we recommend you check out their films and work.
Melissa Collins
Melissa Collins
Melissa is the producer on Vonnie: Ireland’s Forgotten Fashion Icon.
Fashion, Family and Fate. An intimate family portrait is woven as three sisters recollect the legacy of their mother Vonnie Reynolds, a forgotten Irish fashion icon forced to retire after a tragic accident.
Directed by Renata Lima, and produced by Melissa Collins
Screens on Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre / 10:00 / 18+
Laura O’Shea
Laura O’Shea
Laura is the director on Wednesday Child
Wednesday’s Child- Marie faces her first day on the job as a social care worker. Despite her optimism, a house call to a family in crisis quickly brings her down to reality.
Directed by Laura O Shea and produced by Caroline Harvey & Charleigh Baileigh
Screens on Sat 09 July / Town Hall Theatre / 10:00 / 12+
James Skerritt
James Skerritt
James directed the short documentary A Stone Place
A Stone Place is a visual journey showcasing a unique rock that is quarried on the side of the biggest cliffs in Europe, and that has created the aesthetic of a small rural town in the West of Ireland.
Directed by James Skerritt and produced by Pete Moles.
Screens on Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre / 10:00 / 18+
Philip Shanahan
Philip Shanahan
Philip directed Tides of Time
Tides of Time – Taoidí Ama
A hidden door, a jungle, and a journey into the past – an adventure for all the family. Join Molly and Beth in a story that crosses time and generations, for risk-takers young and old.
Doras dofheicthe, dufair, agus turas siar ar an am atá caite. Bí i dteannta Molly agus Beth i scéal a ghluaiseann tríd na glúinte a thing romhainn – eachtra dóibh siúd a ghlacann rioscaí, idir óg agus aosta.
Directed by Phil Shanahan and produced by Cathriona Murphy & Gerard Keenan
Screens on Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre / 12:15 / 12+
Muireann de Barra and Andrew Keogh
Muireann de BarraAndrew Keogh
In addition to the afore mentioned graduates, lecturers Muireann de Barra and Andrew Keogh also have their project Focail Nua (New Words) premiering at the Fleadh.
Ireland has two full-time terminologists whose job is to create hundreds of new Irish words and phrases every month. Focail Nua is a celebration of the vitality, complexity and depth of the language.
Directed by Andrew Keogh and produced by Muireann de Barra
Screens on Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre / 10:00 / 18+
Congratulations to all and best of luck on the screenings at the Galway Film Fleadh, and continued success of the films.
“The Puttnam Scholarship, now in its 3rd year, is a cross-border initiative offers promising filmmakers access to interactive online masterclasses with Oscar-winning producer David Puttnam (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields) and each a €1,250 scholarship from Atticus Education towards their career development. The scholarship bursaries are supported by Accenture in Ireland.”
During its history so far, graduates of the Creative Broadcast and Film Production Programme (CBFP), at Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD) have been recipients of this prestigious scholarship, and this year we are delighted to announce once again another 4th year student and graduate, Turlough Ó Cinnéide as one of the chosen participants.
Turlough Ó Cinnéide
The CBFP academic and technical support team wish Turlough all the best on this great opportunity and we look forward to seeing what productions he will bring to our screens in the near future.
For more information on the Scholarship and announcement Click on the image below or HERE
Simon McGuire 