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cinemagic.ie DUBLIN ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL JULY 2020 ALL ACTIVITIES OPEN TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES IN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND CINEMAGIC DUBLIN Welcome to Cinemagic Dublin, an exciting month-long online programme of screenings, workshops, masterclasses and short film juries. We have programmed a contemporary season of the very best film content for young audiences to enjoy from home. A MESSAGE OF SUPPORT The Department of Education and Skills is delighted to continue its support for the Dublin Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival in 2020. Since 2008, the festival has provided a unique opportunity for young people to gain an insight into the world of film-making and to meet with industry professionals through participation in masterclasses and workshops. Cinemagic initiatives such as the cross-border jury, young film critic competitions and filmmaking academies provide young people from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland with unique opportunities to engage and interact with each other, based on their shared interest and opinions on films produced specifically for children’s audiences. Department of Education and Skills 2 CINEMAGIC DUBLIN ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 A BIG WELCOME FROM CINEMAGIC’S YOUNG PROGRAMMERS CINEMAGIC DUBLIN ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 3 CLICK HERE TO BOOK CREATIVITY CORNER Practical Tutorials for Children, Young People and Families Welcome to the ‘Creativity Corner’ activity bundle! Please note: Each tutorial will require participants to source a number of materials. The ‘Creativity Corner’ activities, part of Cinemagic Further details upon registration. Dublin Online, offer a series of tutorials and activity packs that will help you create your very own SHARE YOUR CREATIONS WITH US flipbook, Lego animation, clay model, prop hat; and teach you tips on applying SFX make-up. After you’ve finished your individual tutorial or the bundle pack, please take photos of your DETAILS work so we can see what you’ve created. For each session you will receive a recorded • Share on social media with the #CinemagicDublin 30 minute expert tutorial and a downloadable, • Follow us on Twitter: @Cinemagic step-by-step, activity sheet. The recorded • Follow us on Instagram: cinemagic_filmfestival tutorial will be available via private link and • Follow us on Facebook: CinemagicFilmFestival the activity sheet by private download. 4 CINEMAGIC DUBLIN ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 WHAT’S ON OFFER? Creativity Corner Tutorials creative talents. Stop motion allows COST young people to think outside the box by creating amazing stories through Individual Tutorial: animation. Participants will learn €5.00 about the techniques involved in this Bundle Pack (All x 5 area of filmmaking, including using Tutorials): €20.00 sound effects, visual effects and the craft of model making. Available from HAT 1st - 31st July FLIPBOOK MAKING TRICK: We go back to one of the HAT GET INVOLVED very first and most important MAKING If you would like methods of animation for this TUTORIAL to sign-up for the children’s workshop. Flipbooks tutorials (single are a series of pictures that change From the traditional gentleman, session or the very gradually from one page to the to magicians and horse riders the bundle pack) please next, so that when the pages are top hat is one of the most Iconic hats email workshops@ turned rapidly, the pictures appear to of the last couple of centuries. In cinemagic.ie stating animate by motion. Flipbooks are a this tutorial you will learn about the the classes you are fun and informative way for children history of hat making or Millinery as it interested in. to learn about the basic principles is referred to traditionally and how it is of animation and a great way for used in theatre and film productions. them to tell their very own stories. You will learn about different ways to create a hat from flat materials LEGO ANIMATION and you’ll create your own top hat and learn the different techniques Lego animation workshops to decorate the finished pieces. are a great introduction for participants who have SFX never tried stop motion MAKE- animation. Using Lego to animate is a big hit with UP IN young participants and FILM Please note this is a delivers quick results, making it cross-border initiative and more suitable to children. Children Special open to young people and can let their imagination run wild Effects is families in Ireland and without a Northern Ireland. as they construct and animate worlds in front of the camera. doubt a highly creative and fun area in make-up artistry. It allows you to MODEL MAKING create any creature or character you can imagine, as whacky or AND STOP-MOTION scary as your heart desires! In ANIMATION this practical tutorial participants will learn the basic skills and This stop motion animation techniques of make-up artistry. workshop is the perfect activity to get young people to discover and develop their CINEMAGIC DUBLIN ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 5 CAREER CRAFTS (ONLINE) The ‘Career Crafts’ Our Our Career Craft seminars are To register you must first email Programme is a cross- designed to introduce young people Cinemagic (accessible via the ‘Click border initiative and open to the many different fields, roles and Here’ tabs below) stating the workshop to young people in Ireland and Northern Ireland. jobs in film. The sessions are great you wish to attend and we will direct opportunities for new entrants to gain you in how to complete the booking. insight from industry leaders; network online with other new entrants and Please note: Participants may be asked develop knowledge and key skills. to undertake preparatory work before the sessions. “great opportunities for new entrants to gain insight from industry leaders; network online with other new entrants and develop knowledge and key skills” WRITING & DIRECTING FOR FILM WITH HUGH O’CONOR DETAILS Hugh O’Conor has written and directed many award-winning short Thursday 9th July films, music videos and commercials, 3.00pm-4.00pm including Corduroy, which was selected for the 60th Berlinale. He Platform: Zoom was a co-writer and performer in Ages: 18-25 the IFTA-winning Your Bad Self. His animated adaptation of Gogol’s The €10.00 Overcoat, and his first feature film as director, Metal Heart, were both prize-winners at the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh. He received the Jim Sheridan award for achievement in Irish Film at CLICK the 2018 Irish Screen America awards HERE TO in Los Angeles, and the Maverick REGISTER award from the 2019 Dublin Film Critics’ Circle. Hugh will give participants an overview of the work of the screenwriter and film director before discussing the fundamentals needed to succeed in the film industry. 6 CINEMAGIC DUBLIN ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 WRITING AND DIRECTING FOR TELEVISION WITH DUDI APPLETON DETAILS Dudi Appleton, along with his writing partner Jim Keeble, is one of the Tuesday 14th July foremost writers for high-end TV 3.00pm-4.00pm drama in Europe. He combines crafted characterisation and plotting with an Platform: Zoom acute understanding of suspense Ages: 18-25 and a razor sharp wit. He is best known for his work on Thorne – €10.00 the Stephen Hopkins directed series that he adapted from the bestselling books, and for writing and directing on five seasons of CLICK Silent Witness, the top-rated BBC HERE TO forensic thriller. In 2019, his series REGISTER Wild Bill aired in the UK and Ireland, starring Rob Lowe. Dudi will help participants develop a greater understanding of the skills and key methods needed when directing and writing for television. PRODUCING A LOW BUDGET FEATURE FILM WITH GARRET DALY DETAILS Garret Daly has produced and Garret will take you through all directed multiple short films including aspects of producing a full-length Thursday 16th July the award-winning Bogman and Last script on a low budget. This online 3.00pm-4.00pm Confession. In 2014 he co-directed his workshop is ideal for first-time young first fiction feature film, A Nightingale filmmakers who are thinking about Platform: Zoom Falling and this was followed in making a budget 2016 with the award winning Who is feature. Ages: 18-25 Dervla Murphy? He has also directed €10.00 the feature documentary A Grand Experience for RTÉ, an eight part TV documentary series for TV3 entitled Grassroots of the GAA, the RTÉ CLICK Storyland runner-up Rental Boys, HERE TO and numerous radio documentaries REGISTER and series for RTÉ Radio One and RTÉ Lyric FM. CINEMAGIC DUBLIN ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 7 VOICE ACTING WITH MORGAN C JONES DETAILS In this practical interactive session you’ll learn what it takes to become Tuesday 21st July a voice artist for cartoons and 3.00pm-4.00pm animation. Prepare to discover a multitude of fun voices and new Platform: Zoom characters before acting out a number of whacky, slap-stick routines. Ages: 18-25 €10.00 Morgan C. Jones is an Irish writer, actor, comedian, musician and producer. He has voiced numerous characters in films and TV shows including The Ugly Duckling & Me; CLICK Ballybradden, Galaktik Football and HERE TO Niko and the Way to the Stars. REGISTER TV PRESENTING WITH MARK LANGTRY DETAILS Join Mark Langtry for this unique insight into the exciting world of Thursday 23rd July television presenting. How do you 3.00pm-4.00pm prepare for filming? What are the best interview techniques? How do Platform: Zoom you get your own personality across on screen? The workshop will also Ages: 18-25 highlight the cross over skills of €10.00 confidence, communication and resilience. Mark Langtry is an experienced television presenter and science CLICK communicator and can be seen on HERE TO RTÉjr’s Let’s Find Out.