Fastnet Film Festival opens today
The 8th Fastnet Film Festival opens today in West Cork with over 50 expert guests, 46 events and screenings of competition shorts in 18 venues in both Schull and Ballydehob.
Guests at this year's festival include Room producer Ed Guiney, composers Bill Whelan and Stephen Rennicks, and directors John Carney, Carmel Winters, Jim Sheridan, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Rebecca Daly, Richie O'Donnell and Vivienne deCourcey.
Audiences can enjoy a busy programme of shorts, features, seminars, workshops and fringe events taking place over the next five days. Irish Film Board supported shorts in the programme include They Shoot People, The Great Fall, Maidhm, How Was Your Day?, A Coat Made Dark and January Hymn. IFB/RTÉ Frameworks animated shorts include Unhinged, Geist and City of Roses. IFB short documentaries Displaced and 45 will screen at the festival. This year's programme also includes a screening of the IFB After '16 shorts, specially commissioned for the centenary of the 1916 Rising. This special screening will be introduced by Deirdre Ní Challanain, granddaughter of Michael Mallin, the subject of A Father's Letter.
The programme also includes a number of features length films including IFB supported Mammal, Sing Street, Room, A Doctor's Sword, Atlantic, Viva, and a 20 year anniversary screening of The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
The Fastnet Film Festival runs from Wednesday May 25th to Sunday May 29th 2016.