Screen Ireland on Culture Night 2020
Posted: 16th September 2020
To celebrate Culture Night 2020, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to present an online screening of uplifting Irish short films. Today and all weekend, you can watch a curated line-up of 9 short films from emerging and established Irish filmmakers: the theme this year is feel-good shorts, to remind us of how connected we all still are.
Presenting a mix of award winning live-action, animation and documentary short films, the line-up includes
- Reality Baby, documentary short, directed by Nodlag Houlihan
- Late Afternoon, Academy Award-nominated animation, written and directed by Louise Bagnall
- Mary, live action short, written by Jonathan Hughes and directed by Shaun O’Connor
- The Swimmer, documentary short, directed by Thomas Beug
- The Bird and the Whale, animated short, written and directed by Carol Freeman
- Nice Night for It, live action short, written and directed by Rachel Carey
- Time Traveller, live action short, written and directed by Steve Kenny
- Smithy and Dicky, documentary short, directed by Hannah Quinn
- The Vasectomy Doctor, documentary short, directed by Paul Webster
You can screen the full programme of feel-good short films at www.screenireland.ie/culturenight right now.
In addition to the short film programme, Screen Ireland is supported Irish VOD platform VOLTA, in gifting great Irish film with its Culture Night collection. Available until the 20th of September, Irish audiences can enjoy seven Irish films which reflect Irish culture in different ways.
The films included in this special Culture Night collection are:
- Once
- One Million Dubliners
- Dublin Oldschool
- Song of Granite
- The Irish Pub
- An Engineer Imagines
- Curious Works of Roger Doyle
Head to www.volta.ie/culturenight and enter the code CULTURE20.