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Ten Cork student films to screen in France

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Posted on 08/12/2011
by Brian Hayes Curtin
@corkindo

Sacre bleu! Ten student films from Cork have been selected to screen at a prestigious film festival of France, the home of cinema. Demonstrating the strength of young film making talent in Cork right now, the Rencontres Henri Langlois Festival International des Ecoles de Cinéma selected ten films from Cork-based students.

The students of the Department of Film in St John's Central College had their work selected by the festival which is taking place in December in the Vienne region of France.

"It's a wonderful honour to represent St John's and Cork," said Linda Curtin, one of the filmmakers. Her short, ‘Screen Man’ was her graduate film and was made in 2011.

"I'm really happy with the response to the film, it won Best Experimental Film at the Dare Underground Film Festival in Cork this summer and also screened in the Cork Film Festival. This will be its first screening outside Ireland and I'm looking forward to seeing how a French audience reacts to it."

"There seems to be a groundswell of support for filmmaking in Cork at the moment; Catherine Murray and Ed Kadysewski do a wonderful job in St John's, training the film makers of the future, while Mick Hannigan and his team at the Corona Cork Film Festival have been strong supporters of independent film for years,” she said.

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