Welcome to First Cut! 2012:


 

The 4th annual First Cut! Youth Film festival will take place on Saturday&Sunday 6th&7th October 2012GALA PROGRAMME

 

Film Gala Evening 2012: a date for your diary..

 

Young filmmakers from across Cork will gather together for a Gala screening of their work at Cork County Hall on Friday April 27th. 

 

This exciting event for young filmmakers is an integral part of the First Cut! Film Project and willl be hosted again by Cork County Council in the Vertigo Suite in County Hall.

 

In all  20 short films will be premiered, awards & certificates will be presented and some films will go forward for screening at the First Cut! Youth Film Festival

 

…all young filmmakers involved in making these films are invited!

 

 
 
 

First Draft 2012  .. do you have a great idea for a short film..

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
Richard Attenborough
 
 
WHAT IS THE 'FIRST DRAFT SHORT STORY COMPETITION?!
Young Writers (youth project/secondary school age) in the South and East Cork areas are invited to submit their short stories to the FIRST CUT Film Project!
You don't have to be a filmmaker... or even have any ambition of becoming one... but, if you have a short story (up to 500 words - two typed pages, or less) that you'd like to see made into a short film by young filmmakers participating in the FIRST CUT! Summer Film Week, send it in!


 

 

                                         Young Filmmakers and Festival volunteers at First Cut! Film Festival in Glanmire enjoying films, workshops and Q & A Swssions with the professionals

First Cut! Youth Film Festival 2011

“A crazy hive of activity and creativity!”  

Fantastic First Cut! Film Festival is over for another year, a great weekend of shorts, features, workshops and Q&A with the professionals. This was the first year of our travelling festival.

This youth  “ pop up”  Film Festival, with support from The Arts Council, Cork County Council Arts Office, SECAD and local businesses,( please see our Supporters page), gives young filmmakers a chance to screen their short films to a young, and not so young!, audience.


On October 1st & 2nd in Glanmire, Co Cork, with Cinemobile on board, the highlights were .... a great Opening on Saturday. Mick Hannigan , Director of Cork Film Festival, the oldest and largest Irish film festival took time out in the busy lead up to their 56th festival due to take place Nov 6-13.

The 100 seater  Cinemobile was filled with young filmmakers, actors& their supporters, Chris Hurley from Cork Film Centre and Ian Mc Donagh, Cork County Arts Officer and lots of local supporters. The Corona Festival Director applauded the creativity and hard work involved in making a film and encouraged young people’s involvement in this growing industry and in the magic of films. Mick also spoke about the recently set up Cork Screen Commission whose job it is to market the Cork region as a prime location for film and TV production. Jason O Mahony the newly appointed Commissioner expressed his sincere regrets at not being able to attend the First Cut!Festival.

First Cut! Film Project was set up in 2006 to provide training and support to groups of young people who are interested in making  film. Since then they  have , with Cork Film Centre professionals, been giving a variety of filmmaking workshops in the Cork harbour area. So of course there were some great workshops on the Festival programme. These were really well attended.

 First up was Jane Lee’s  Stop Motion Animation on Saturday. 90 minutes long with a finished film for YouTube viewing. “ It was a crazy hive of activity and creativity with 4 teams coming up with 4 short animations in just over an hour..using  plasticene, drawings, people and a whiteboard!”  Jane , award winning animation artist said. All 4 will be posted on you tube

A real treat on Saturday was the screening of My Brothers , followed by Q&A Session with Will Collins, Screenwriter, Niall Owens, Production and Timmy Creed, lead actor . This award winning film made in East Cork at the end of 2009 and premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2010 got a great response from the audience at the Festival. We were given a riveting insight into the film, the story, the filming and the experience of premiering at Tribeca, a big international festival. Will Collins proved himself to be a masterful storyteller with a great sense of humour and inspired young people to follow their dreams.

On Sunday morning the Festival kicked off day two with Pascal Scott, a highly regarded actor on both the Irish and International film and theatre scene and the local award winning filmmaker Patrick O Shea whose most recent film Tree Keeper we look forward to seeing. The Acting for Screen workshop was packed with budding young enthusiastic actors. The participants learnt about relating to the camera, using your body, voice and eyes, got advice about working with a crew and director. This activity based workshop from two experienced professionals was thoroughly enjoyed by all.

The real highlights were the films made by young people, the screenings were packed. 

This is a great opportunity for young filmmakers to showcase their work, We are delighted to bring together young filmmakers, film buffs and professional filmmakers to share their ideas and knowledge.These brand new shorts  were shocking, intriguing, beautiful, really funny, sad, frightening clever and  entertaining. All were thought provoking, memorable and some showed extraordinary promise. Everyone there wanted to see more ...so keep those cameras rolling .. let’s get planning ... First Cut! Festival  2012 here we come..