As the festive season gets underway, we are looking ahead to 2023 and our ambitious and exciting year-round programme of films and outreach events.
Secondary school students can still avail of our free online film programmes, available direct to classrooms, until 21st December. See below for details.
Your support has enabled us to provide our unique outreach programmes to over 6,000 young people since 2019. If you are able, a donation, no matter what the size, will help us enormously.
Finally, congratulations to filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain who has just been announced as UCC Film Artist in Residence for 2023. We work with Max across many of our young people’s film workshops, including Look@Me. We wish him, and outgoing UCC Film Artist Yvonne McDevitt, every success.
Read on for more highlights and news updates.
FREE ONLINE PROGRAMMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Intinn, our film and mental health programme for young people, is available for FREE online to Transition Year students nationwide until Wednesday, 21st December.
Intinn is CIFF’s award-winning national film and wellbeing programme that offers young people the opportunity to explore mental health, personal well-being and strategies of resilience through short films and pre-recorded well-being workshops led by youth mental health specialists, accompanied by specially developed Students and Teachers’ Resource Packs.
To enquire and book, contact schools@corkfilmfest.org
Intinn is proudly supported by ESB Energy for Generations, UCC, Gate Cinemas, Cork County Council and Cork City Council.
We are delighted to present the 1922 Commemoration screening of the short documentary Engagement & Endurance: Cork City Women in the 1920s for FREE online to secondary school students nationwide until Wednesday, 21st December.
Exploring themes of loss, political engagement, social justice and conflicting loyalties, this short documentary focuses on the often overlooked role played by Cork women in the turbulent period of the struggle for independence.
To enquire and book, contact schools@corkfilmfest.org
Commissioned by Cork City Council, as part of the Decade of Commemorations and funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts Gaeltacht, Sport & Media.
SUPPORT CORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Since 2019, we have engaged and supported 6,000+ young people through our education and outreach programmes, including Intinn, our free film and mental health programme, and Look@Me, our film and primary school education outreach project.
Cork International Film Festival is a registered charity operating on a not-for-profit basis, and your support enables us to continue to harness the power of cinema to inspire creativity, challenge convention, raise awareness, and expand horizons. With your assistance, we will continue to help young people to discover film and reimagine the world.
Your donation, no matter what the size, makes a huge difference. Thank you.
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY AWARDS
As Ireland’s representative for the European Film Academy (EFA) Short Film Award, we are delighted to collaborate with the EFA in hosting a livestream of the 35th European Film Awards on Saturday, 10th December, which will be held in front of a live audience at the concert hall Harpa in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The full nominations list includes the very best of European film talent, much of which screened at the 67th Cork International Film Festival last month, including Carla Simón’s Alcarrás; Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage; Dmytro Sukholtkyy-Sobchuk’s Pamfir; Charlotte Well’s Aftersun; and Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland.
The ceremony will be broadcast at 7.15pm GMT and available to watch live on our website.
TAKE OUR AUDIENCE SURVEY & WIN A PRIZE
We would love to hear your feedback to help us make the CIFF experience even better in 2023. Please complete our Audience Feedback Survey by this Friday 9th December and you could win a fabulous prize.
Win dinner for two guests at the Panorama Bistro at The Montenotte Hotel enjoy a movie in the Cameo Cinema on that evening.
Closing date for entry is Friday 9th December 2022.
PUTTNAM SCRIPT AWARD
Applications are now open for the 2023 Puttnam Script Award with our friends at Fastnet Film Festival, presented in partnership with Lord David Puttnam, who is also CIFF Patron.
The best script/screenplay, chosen by a panel of expert judges will receive a prize of €25,000 to go towards the production of one live-action drama short film. The film must be made on the Cork Wild Atlantic Way and have a duration of no more than 10 minutes. The subject/theme this year is: & “Lights, Camera, Action!”
The film will make its premiere at the Fastnet Film Fest in 2024.
Image: Justin Walpole
CIFF2022 IN CINEMAS NOW
Films you may have missed at the 67th CIFF are now showing in cinemas, including the British Independent Film Award (BIFA) and Cannes award-winning Aftersun; the spectacular Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical; wickedly funny The Menu; critically acclaimed She Said, and fantastical animation Strange World, all showing at the Gate Cinema.
At the Triskel, you can catch Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman (which screened at CIFF2021) as part of the 5th European Cinema Night, on Friday 9th Dec. CIFF alumnus Alan Gilsenan’s new film-poem, the haunting and visually captivating Ghosts of Baggotonia, opens on Sunday 11th Dec with the director in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
