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A Celebration of the Art of the Short Film Cork October
2005
2005 is the 50th anniversary of Cork Film Festival. It is
also the year when Cork will be the European Capital of Culture.
We are now planning a key element of that year's programme,
an international symposium on the short film.
It is our view that the short film is a critically neglected
art form and the symposium is intended as an intervention
to redress this neglect. The Short Film Symposium will bring
together short film specialists, curators and programmers,
filmmakers and film critics.
Papers will be presented, formal discussions will be scheduled,
a book on the short film will be launched and there will be
a comprehensive programme of screenings.
The 'conviviality' inherent in the definition of 'symposium'
will not be neglected.
Call For Papers
A conference will be organised exploring the history, aesthetic
and cultural significance of the short film and we now invite
proposals for papers on the history of the short, on aesthetic
trends, on short film auteurs, on specific exceptional shorts.
What Are The Great Shorts?
During this year's Cannes Film Festival we launched a search
for one hundred great short films from throughout the history
of cinema, from early silent film to contemporary digital
work, encompassing narrative, abstract, experimental, animation,
and other forms of the short.
This will not be a poll but a consultation with experts and
specialists on the short film - short film festivals and agencies,
cinephiles, cineastes, film historians, cultural critics,
etc.
Opinions will be solicited from interested parties who will
be invited to submit their views on what constitute great
and significant short films. Whether a specialist proposes
one film or one hundred, all submissions will be welcome.
The intent is not to establish a definitive 'canon of great
shorts' but rather to draw attention to what we consider to
be superb examples of the form.
100 Great Shorts
It is our intention to screen the selected 100 great shorts
during the 2005 Cork Film Festival. An illustrated book on
these will be published.
For further information contact:
Mick Hannigan, Festival Director
Email mick@corkfilmfest.org
Una Feely, Short Film Programmer
Email una@corkfilmfest.org
Shorts Come First in Cork
Since its inception in 1956, Cork Film Festival has championed
the short film. Each year, in addition to side-bar programmes,
we screen some 80 shorts in International Competition, 48
in National Competition. These are selected from over 1,600
submissions.
In recent years we have hosted the Jameson Award for Best
Irish Short Film. We screen work not just from the major production
centres but from countries with lesser production levels;
Shorts from the Basque country, from young Iranian filmmakers,
from Estonian animators, from young black South African filmmakers
and from the Indigenous filmmakers of Australia. We have screened
tribute programmes to sixpack film, Mike Hoolboom, Phil Mulloy,
the Quay Brothers, Adam Elliott, and a retrospective of the
work of John Smith.
Cork Film Festival Awards 2003
Jameson Award for Best Irish Short Film
Full Circle, Dir. Simon Fitzmaurice
Claire Lynch Award for Best First Short by an Irish Director
Two Fat Ladies Dir. John Hayes
Best International Short Film
United We Stand, Norway directed by Hans Peter Moland
Best'Made in Cork' Short
Shhh! Dir. Peter Gleeson
Audience Award for Best Irish Short
Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom, Dir. Daniel O'Hara
Audience Award for Best International Short
Rave Against The Machine, England, Dir. James Harvey, Richard
Rudy, Stevan Riley, Holly Lubbock
Award of the Festival
Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, England, Dir. Duane Hopkins
International Jury
Agron Domi, Albania: Tirana International Film Festival
Noreen Donohoe, Ireland: Film Producer
Edward Fletcher, England: Distributor, Programmers
National Jury
Jane Hooks, England: Film Producer
Mary McCarthy, Ireland: Deputy Director Cork 2005 European
Capital of Culture
Stefano Sardo, Italy: Screenwriter, Programmer of Short Film
Festival in Bra and Slow Food on Film
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