IFB invites you to‘swede’ your own Irish movie in exciting competition!!
To celebrate the release of Academy Award-winner Michel Gondry's new comedy, Be Kind Rewind starring Jack Black and Mos Def, the Irish Film Board are delighted to be involved in a competition to get budding filmmakers make their own Irish ‘sweded' movie.
Using an Irish or Irish-themed film as inspiration, the competition involves making a short ‘sweded' movie that's no more than two minutes long. A ‘sweded' movie is a re-imagining of a film, trailer or scene made using anything that is to hand.
The prizes which are sponsored by the IFB, Filmbase, Darklight Festival and Channel 6 include two tickets to an Irish movie premiere, a walk-on-part in an Irish Production, a year's free membership to Filmbase and a screening of the winning short on Channel 6 and at the Darklight Festival in June.
Be Kind Rewind is a story about two best friends, one electromagnetic field and every movie you've ever loved. It will be released in cinemas across Ireland on 22 February with paid previews on 20th and 21st February.
For further details about the competition and the movie, please log on to http://www.bekindrewind.ie/.
For further information, please contact
Siobhán Farrell, Eclipse Pictures, 25 Hatch Place, Dublin 2
Tel: 01 634 0112; Fax: 01 634 0125; E-mail: siobhan@eclipsepictures.ie; Web: http://www.eclipsepictures.ie/