Full list of the Awards and Winners is now up on the Awards page!

What a great little festival! Huge turnout and great atmosphere and best news is we’ve broke even!
Just back from the Awards Party and congratulations to all the winners. We will post up a full list of winners and the great prizes donated on the awards page very soon.

On to the thanks…
To all the filmmakers for entering their films. Without films we wouldn’t have film festival!
To all the volunteers who built the Dublin Film Fringe festival from scratch: Paddy, Sean, Ruth, Paudie, Sankar, Quang, Tris, Jason and whoever else I missed.
To the panelists who gratefully gave their time and knowledge for free on the cinematography seminar: Ruairi O’Brien, John Leahy and Mike Hannon.
To all the people, companies & organisations who supported the festival by donating prizes.
To Smock Alley Theatre and Le Cirk for letting us use their venues.
To Mike Glennon from The 202s for DJing in Le Cirk and Trevor Furlong who helped out with the sound and Jules Hackett on the door.
To the audience who came and paid a tenner each. Thanks! Hope you had a great time and saw some great films and music videos. Our costs are covered by ticket sales alone so without your support we’d be sunk.

Looking forward to next year’s bigger and even better Dublin Film Fringe.

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13:30 – 15:00 Cinematography Workshop | Banquet Hall, 15-19 Essex Street West, Temple Bar
IFTA nominated DOP Ruiarí O’Brien, Video Artist and Documentary Director Mike Hannon and Production Depot owner John Leahy talk about the various cameras and formats and when to choose one over the other. Another guest speaker to be confirmed. Followed by general chat and networking.

16:00 – 17:30 Shorts Screening 1 | Banquet Hall, 15-19 Essex Street West, Temple Bar

18:00 – 19:30 Shorts Screening 2 | Banquet Hall, 15-19 Essex Street West, Temple Bar

20:00 – Late! | Le Cirk (Sweeneys), Dame Street

  • 21:00 Music Videos Screening (Free finger food / Drinks promo)
  • 22:30 – 23:00 Awards Ceremony
  • 23:00 DJ

Prices: The workshop and each of the screenings will cost €6 admission. Alternatively you can pay €10 which cover entrance to all 3 events. The Music video programme in Le Cirk is free and there will even be free finger food served!

Hot off the presses here is the list of music videos selected for the Dublin Film Fringe Music Video event in Le Cirk .

Bowlegged – Red Lights
Bats – Shadow Fucking
Dirty Epics – We’re Coming Up
Disconnect 4 – The Disco Never Changes
David Geraghty – Kaleidoscope
Grand Pocket Orchestra – Ballet Shoes
Le Galaxie – You Feel the Fire
Laurier Tiernan – You Will Die As You Have Lived
Barry McGuire – Where the River Flows
Fiona Melady – Love in the Movies
Mumm Ra – She’s Got You High
North Atlantic Oscilation – Drawing Maps from Memory
Riptide Movement  – Cry Cry Baby
Snowdial – In Your Head
So Cow – Shut Eye
202s – Ease My Mind
White Lies – To Lose My Life

Please note that videos were chosen for the suitability of playing in a pub environment and that we were favouring songs/music that would play best in this venue. It’s not a competition. It’s a way to view and celebrate the music video form. Should be a great night.

Out of the mountain of entries the following films have been selected for the first Dublin Film Fringe. Congratulations to all the filmmakers involved!

Shorts Programme 1

Listen
Scratch
Long is the Way / Ta An Bealach Fada
Trumpet City
The Hollow Girl
Circus Porcelina
Sunshower
Verso-Tempo
Solo Duet
Swing
Kettle

Shorts Programme 2

Sugar Stick
The Euthanizer
Before I Die
Glitch
The Christmas Ward
A Film From My Parish – 6 Farms
Penny
Road to Roast
Natural Causes
Near Future
3 Bags Full

Two very strong programmes filled with interesting and very different films. Commiserations to all those filmmakers whose work were weren’t able to fit into either of the programmes.

The FilmmakersNetwork.ie Dublin Film Fringe will take place on the 6th March 2010. Please mark your diaries,  calendars and backs-of-hands now.  The festival will feature a number of short film screenings, workshops and other events. Full details will be released shortly. Check back here for more info.

Following on from the success of the Galway Fringe Fleadh June 2009, FilmmakersNetwork.ie presents Dublin’s first Film Fringe Festival in March 2010, the FilmmakersNetwork.ie Dublin Film Fringe.

The Dublin Film Fringe festival aims to focus on exciting new shorts from Irish filmmakers as well as showcasing classic or unseen shorts from established directors. The festival will take place in sites across the city and we aim to host talks by directors, as well films screened in unusual and diverse locations.

“The Dublin Film Fringe is an opportunity for audiences in the capital to see some of the best shorts from emerging Irish filmmakers,” says Jason Butler, founder of FilmmakersNetwork.ie. “The theme of our mini-festival is ‘D.I.Y.’ We’ll showcase films and filmmakers that display the invention, ingenuity and raw energy required when working independently.”

The Dublin Film Fringe festival is now accepting submissions for its short film programme as well as a call for volunteers.