Open Call

Programme 1

Saturday 11th, 10am, The Mall Arts Centre

It Makes No Scents (Liam O’Leary)

Summer of 89 (Daniel Heaphy)

Russian Military Warship Go... (Oleg Pchelkin)

I Like It Here (Tom Anson)

B Ready (George Lynch)

Dare (George Lynch)

Rock Hard (Gearoid Murphy)

Fake Reality (Dimitris Trahanis)

The Documentary (Dylan Sheehan)

When I Let Go (Kyra Owers)

Clammed Up (Thomas McNamara) exCHANGE Year (Nora Twomey)

Collapse (Mark Delaney)

Breakable (Dylan Shortt)

Programme 2

Saturday 11th, 11.30, The Mall Arts Centre

Pokemaniac (Wexford Youth Film Project)

The Time I Spoke to the Sky (Rachel Griffin)

Two Fools, One Lie (Rachel Griffin)

Dslexia & Me (Patrick O’Connor-Mason)

For Crying Out Loud (Aoife Rees)

Last Seen (Wiktoria Weintritt)

Something Smells Fishy (YIFM - Young Irish Filmmakers)

The Tell Tale Heart (Max Hendrickson)

Supernova (Niamh Collins/Emerging Limerick Filmmakers)

Faith (Callum Sinnott/Kildare Young Filmmakers)

Gan Tadhall (Muirinn Carty)

The Bullies (Alicia/Drishane Direct Provision Centre)

Panel Discussion:

Rachel Griffin, Muirinn Carty, Dylan Sheehan, Kyra Owers, Mark Delaney and Faith Akinbote (from The Bullies) will discuss their work in a Q&A moderated by filmmaker Mieke Vanmechelen.

First Cut! is committed to promoting and celebrating filmmaking for all young people.

First Cut, in collaboration with Elena Horgan, then Cork County Council Filmmaker in Residence, was awarded a Léargas European Year of Youth 2022 grant to build on a 2022 festival pilot project and provide 5 days of filmmaking workshops to a group of young people, who live in Drishane Direct Providsion Centre, in Millstreet, Co.Cork. At the end they would have a finished film that they wrote, acted in, directed and edited themselves with professional support, training and equipment.

Today’s Open Call programme includes The Bullies, the resulting film! The workshop was facilitated by Elena Horgan and Megan Murphy.

Elena Horgan is a filmmaker and lens-based artist from Cork whose previous work has been screened at festivals such as Dingle Film Festival, FEST Portugal, Austin Arthouse and London Experimental. Over the last year, she has been working as Cork County Council’s filmmaker in-residence. During the residency, she has gotten the opportunity to collaborate with various groups in the community through filmmaking. She has just finished her latest short film Cumha, an experimental documentary about land, language and identity, shot on 16mm.

Megan Murphy is a documentary filmmaker based in Dublin. Her love is observational documentary focused on social issues. She has recently began studying psychology with the belief that art is a powerful tool in mental health. This film is part of a series of activities and events which represent a First Cut focus on visibility, diversity and inclusion in filmmaking for young people from all backgrounds, particularly those who face barriers in getting involved in the artform due to economic and social inequality.