First Take

Supported by Screen Ireland and Screen Training Ireland.
Thursday 13th November / 11:00 / Triskel Christchurch

First Take is a training and development event for film and media students, emerging filmmakers and newly established film professionals. Through individual presentations, case studies and panel discussions, the event aims to promote fresh thinking and foster DIY ethics amongst attendees, inspiring them to create their own film projects, and to proactively promote their work.

Sessions will delve into the fundamental techniques of pitching and packaging film projects, explore the creative and practical processes involved in low-budget feature filmmaking, and provide a case study analysis of a high-profile Irish feature film.

Sessions

Introduction

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Building our film industry in a regional setting

This session will delve into the initiatives and players aiding in the development of sustainable regional film production in Cork and County, including building film productions and production companies in the region, our thriving West Cork Studio and its bustling production schedule, as well as insights from makers on how they make producing in regionally viable.

Speaker:

  • Sinead O’Riordan – Board Member, Screen Cork / Producer, Swing Bout
  • Édaín O’Donnell – Founding Director, West Cork Studio 
  • David O’Mahony – Producer, Blue Pineapple Pictures 
  • Host: Anthony Muldoon – Director of Strategic Policy, Screen Producers Ireland

Presented in partnership with White and Black logo with geometric shape for Screen Producers Ireland

Inclusion & Best Practice in the Film Industry

The session will discuss principles of inclusion in the filmmaking process, particularly in terms of gender parity, tackling unconscious bias, and the importance of diversity in the industry, engendering participants to adapt these foundational conventions and best practices from early in their career.

Presented in partnership with Women in Film & TV Ireland

Speakers:

  • Jessie Fisk – Producer, Feline Films
  • Oonagh Kearney – Director, Five Letters To The Stranger Who Will Dissect My Brain
  • Dr. Susan Liddy (MIC) – Co-Chair, Women in Film & Television Ireland
  • Darya Zhuk – Director, Crystal Swan
  • Louise Ryan – Marketing and Communications Manager, Screen Ireland

Mary is Missing | Case Study of Run of the Mill’s Film School

This session forms a case study of NTA’s work with Run of the Mill’s Film School project, which has culminated in a new short, Mary is Missing, which features a cast and crew of adults with intellectual disabilities. Directed by CIFF award alumnus Aisling Byrne, the session will discuss the process of making the film, including valuable insight from select cast and crew of the film.

Speakers:

  • Aisling Byrne – Director, Mary is Missing 
  • Killian Coyle – Producer, Mary Missing
  • Dan Keane – Cinematographer, Mary is Missing
  • Host: Sinead O’Loughlin – FIlmmaker

Presented in partnership with



The Art of Editing Shorts

Examining the art and craft behind editing short film, and its particularities as an art form mutually exclusive from feature film, this session will give insights on working with directors, negotiating narrative and story, as well as advice on how to carve a career as an editor.

Presented in partnership with

Why Film Criticism Matters

 

The ubiquity of the internet has brought both a democratisation, and fragmentation to the art of film criticism in recent years.

This session responds to the question of why criticism is important.

Speakers:

  • Aoife Barry – Culture Writer
  • Rory Cashin – Film & Entertainment Correspondent

 

 

 



Storyhouse | Carving a career as a screenwriter

In collaboration with Storyhouse, the festival and talent development programme that champions and cultivates the art of storytelling for the screen, we celebrate the and celebrates this craft with some of Ireland’s best writing talent, who will discuss cultivating a career in writing and  the creative and practical mechanisms they implement in their work, with tips for emerging screenwriters entering the industry.

Speakers:

  • Ailbhe Keogan – Writer, Bad Sisters, Joyride, Sunlight, Trespasses
  • Cara Loftus – Writer, Hidden Assets, Spilt Milk
  • Host: Malcolm Campbell – Creative Mentor, Storyhouse

Presented in partnership with



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