UNESCO Galway City of Film News

          The Dingle International Film Festival wrapped up last night with the winner of the annual Físín pitching competition being announced. Tristan Heanue’s script Ciúnas (Silence) was the selected project and will receive a cash prize along with equipment rental from Vast Valley Ltd. The story revolves ...

UNLESS – The latest film by Irish director Alan Gilsensan gets a screening at EYE Cinema,  this Thursday March 15th at 7:30 pm. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Director hosted by Tony Tracy, Acting Director Huston School of Film & Digital Media. Based on the ...

Would you like to be TG4’s next Soap Star? Calling all aspiring actors and actresses! Ros na Rún, Ireland’s only Irish Language Soap Opera is on the lookout for fresh new talent to join its cast. The search is on for an array of new actors with exciting new roles ...

Due to the Status Red Weather Alert Galway Film Centre & Galway City of Film office are now CLOSED until Monday 5th March. Stay warm everyone #snowmageddon

Feature film submissions are now open for the 30th Galway Film Fleadh, taking place between 10th and 15th July, 2018. The festival is Ireland’s leading film event, known internationally as the discovery place of New Irish Cinema, and home to the Galway Film Fair, Ireland’s only film marketplace. The Galway ...

Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. After studying history at St. Hilda’s, Oxford University, she came to prominence in the early 1970s as a film theorist, writing for periodicals such as Spare Rib and Seven Days. Much of her early critical work investigated questions of spectatorial identification ...

When: Saturday February 17th Where: Galway Arts Centre on Dominick St Time: 10am – 5.30pm I’m holding open auditions for boys from 5-9 years of age for a feature film Calm with Horses, based on the story by Colin Barrett centering on the connection between an ex-boxer and his young ...

‘Anseo i lár an Ghleanna’ by Mordán Films is now available to view on the TG4 Player. The documentary is a unique chronicle of a year in the life of a small Conamara community. “Since the foundation of our state townlands and villages all across the western seaboard have been ...