IFB Shorts on the Menu at Electric Picnic
For the third year running, a wide selection of award winning Irish short films will screen at the Electric Picnic music festival, which takes place this weekend from August 29th - 31st in Stradbally, Co. Laois.There will be two special programmes of IFB funded short films which will screen as part of the film line-up in the Electric Picnic Cinema Tent.
The Cinema Tent provides a welcome alternative to other higher energy activities at the festival, with dramatic velvet draping, giant beanbags and popcorn on hand to complete the experience. Running around the clock all weekend, the cinema programme will also feature cult classics, comedy blockbusters, animations, bone chilling horror movies, sci-fi and 80's classics. The award winning Irish feature film Once will screen on Saturday night at 8.40pm.
The first programme on Friday at 3.20pm will specialize in live action short films and will be repeated on Saturday night at 11.15pm. The second programme on Sunday afternoon at 12.15pm will focus on Irish animation suitable for a younger audience. These times are subject to change.
Highlights of the selection include the multi award winning films New Boy directed by Steph Green, which picked up awards at the Tribeca, Seattle and Melbourne International film festivals this year and Darren Thornton's film Frankie which also scooped a host of awards this year including the UIP Prix Award for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film Festival. Pat Shortt can be seen in the hilarious Spacemen Three, while Amy Huberman stars in the drama Deep Breaths.
The animated Granny O'Grimms Sleeping Beauty which picked up the Best Irish Short Animation award at the recent Galway Film Fleadh and the Audience Award for Best Animated Short (Runner Up) at the Palm Springs International Film Festival this week will screen as part of the outstanding animation programme on Sunday.
The full line-up for the festival includes:
Live action shorts films
Saturday
• Spacemen Three (Hugh O'Connor)
• Pump Action (Frank Reid)
• Whatever Turns You On (Declan Cassidy)
• The Blaxorcist (Edward King)
• Frankie (Darren Thornton)
• New Boy (Steph Green)
• Deep Breaths (PJ Dillon)
• Teeth (Ruairí O' Brien, John Kennedy)
• The Basket Case (Owen O'Neill)
• The End is Night (James Cotter)
• The Garden of Ireland (Ciaran Deeney)
• TreeClimber (Michael Kinirons)
• Shapes (Alan Brennan)
• Of Best Intentions (Brian Durnin)
Irish Animation
Sunday
• Granny O'Grimms Sleeping Beauty (Nicky Phelan)
• Agricultural Report (Melinda Padua)
• Pilgrim (Matthew Darragh)
• The Red Ball (Alan Holly)
• Changes (Lorcan Finnegan)
• Sandpiper (Jimmy Murakami)
• The Rooster, the Crocodile and the Night Sky (Padraig Fagan)
• Ding Dong Denny's History of Ireland (Cathal Gaffney)
• Badly Drawn Roy (Alan Shannon)
• Charred & Feathered (Rory Byrne)
• Revolution 365.1 (Sean Roxenham)
• Dick Terrapin (Damien O'Connor)
• Evil K'Beagle (Trevor Murphy)
• The Faery Wind (Edith Pieperhoff)
• Dublin 1 (Jason Tammemagi)