WELCOME TO THE
8TH ANNUAL KERRY FILM FESTIVAL
BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN
Call 066 712 9934 Or drop by The Old Presbytery
Shorts Programmes €5 Feature Programmes €7
For Siamsa Screenings €7 066 712 3055
For Listowel Screenings €7 068 22 796
For Dingle Screenings €8 066 915 1222
Call 066 712 9934 Or drop by The Old Presbytery
Shorts Programmes €5 Feature Programmes €7
For Siamsa Screenings €7 066 712 3055
For Listowel Screenings €7 068 22 796
For Dingle Screenings €8 066 915 1222
Click here to download the program.
Click here to download the 2008 application form.
Greetings to the 8th annual Samhlaiocht Kerry Film Festival – we’ve a jam packed calendar of wonderful events, a mix of popular old favourites and new screenings that offer something for everyone! And our brand new website, created and updated by Kerrynet, puts all the information you need right at your fingertips!
KFF promises, as ever, a wealth of the best Irish and International Short Films. We’re offering a €500 prize in each of four categories – Best Irish Narrative Short, Best International Narrative Short, Best Documentary Short and Best Animated Short, with the Animated Short category being sponsored by Cork Film Centre. We’re also offering a top cash prize of €5,000 for the Best Director – as judged by Gabriel Byrne. We’ve lined up a stellar panel of Judges – just click on the link on the right to see them all.
Our Short Screenings as ever take pride of place at the Kerry Film Festival and you can now browse them by title, by director, by venue and by date!
This year sees some major changes - we’ve significantly expanded our Feature Screenings for one!
Siamsa Tire in Tralee screens our Opening Night Film, on Saturday October 27th, the Irish Feature, STUDS, with director Paul Mercier in attendance. The Kerry Film Festival Irish Language Program sees the most influential Irish Language Film of the past thirty years, POITÍN, and the best Irish Language Film of this year, CRÉ NA CILLE, play in Dingle on October 29th and will be introduced by Dara Ó Cinnéide. Listowel plays host to the terrible two-some of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez for DEATH PROOF and PLANET TERROR, while Killarney sees local film makers screen premiers of their Feature films. Again the links on the right of the home page will help you navigate by film, by venue and by date of screening.
But that old favourite, the ever popular Gortbrack Farm musical documentary screening, returns with BE HERE TO LOVE ME, a wonderful doc about Townes Van Zandt – a musician about whom Steve Earle offered to "stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots" to declare him the world's greatest songwriter!
We’ve workshops galore including a Directing Master-Class by Director Paul Mercier, a Documentary Master-Class from film maker Dónal Ó' Céilleachair and Cork Film Centre’s Gunther Berkus lined up to teach a Master Class in Cinema 4D. So not only can you watch spectacular films – you can learn how to make them too!
There’s only one thing Kerry is better known for than the Arts and that’s football and in Siamsa on Sunday, October 28th we launch THE GREEN AND GOLD an historical documentary of the Kingdom’s favourite sons with footballers past and present on hand to speak about football.
Phew! We’re excited just thinking about it!
Cheers,
The Kerry Film Festival Crew