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A huge thank you to everyone who submitted a film for First Cut! 2023. The films that you send in are the core of the festival and every year we are overwhelmed by the quality of the work submitted by young filmmakers from all over Ireland and abroad. We’re hard at work finalising the exciting…
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First Cut! Youth Film Festival Filmmaking Through Irish Competition First Cut! is delighted to announce the return of its filmmaking through Irish programme Athrú Amháin. This competition is an initiative for young filmmakers to make films in the Irish language that tackle the urgent topic of climate change and create one minute films that focus…
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First Cut! is delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new strand to its annual programming. First Cut! International is an online platform that will augment the main Open Call programmes with online screenings showcasing the best short films by young filmmakers from all over the world. First Cut! receives hundreds of films from…
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Last year we were delighted to have a positive response to our pilot Irish language film programme Athrú Amháin / One Change. We are pleased to announce that it will run again in 2023. We will be accepting expressions of interest from January 9th, 2023. In January 2022 First Cut! Youth Film Festival launched its…
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First Cut! is delighted to share this good news! We have received an Arts Council Ireland YPCE Project Award to further develop First Cut’s innovative Youth Music Video Competition (YMVC) programme in 2023, allowing us to expand in a number of ways including increasing participant numbers significantly! So, to acknowledge and facilitate that exciting opportunity…
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First Cut! Youth Film Festival is thrilled to announce that submissions for the 2023 festival are now being accepted! Calling young filmmakers, aged between 12-24 years! Do you have a short film you want to see in one of Ireland’s biggest and most exciting youth film festivals? Then First Cut! wants to hear from you!…
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Workshop Now Full. We are always delighted to hear from young people who are interested in filmmaking and happy to put their names on a waiting list for future opportunities. Please email firstcutfilm@gmail.com for more info. Tá First Cut! Youth Film Festival ar bís deis nua do dhaoine óga a fhógrú – clár oiliúna saor in aisce atá á…
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Workshop Now Full. We are always delighted to hear from young people who are interested in filmmaking and happy to put their names on a waiting list for future opportunities. Please email corkyoungfilmmakers@gmail.com for more info. Cork Film Centre are excited to invite applications from creative young people age 14 to 18 for this upcoming…
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First Cut! is recruiting for a number of roles to help deliver the festival in Spring 2023.
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Meet the up and coming YMVC – Youth Music Video Competition directors making music videos for exciting Irish artists Paddy Hanna, Strange Boy, Willzee and Elaine Mai under the mentorship of acclaimed filmmakers Brendan Canty and Bob Gallagher. The YMVC 2022 directors are Fionnuala McCormack & Rachel McGill, Ian Fallon, Fia Wren, and Cara Gaynor.…