CORONA FASTNET SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OUR VILLAGE IS OUR SCREEN STEERINg COMMITTEE fESTIvaL paTRONS 2013 welcome. MauRICE SEEzER TONy baRRy Chair & Artistic Director STEvE COOgaN thanks to all of our sponsors for their continued support. times are HELEN WELLS SINéaD CuSaCK tough and support for the arts is usually the first casualty of economic Co-Chair, Admin & Submissions gREg DyKE recession. particular thanks to our title sponsor Michael and kathleen MaRIa pIzzuTI JaCK gOLD Barry of Barry & Fitzwilliam, importers of Corona, and to all of the many companies, funding bodies, local businesses and private individuals who Co-Artistic Director JEREMy IRONS give voluntary, financial and in kind support to our festival. Without their HILaRy MCCaRTHy JOHN KELLEHER support, and without the constant nurturing of ideas ongoing between the Public Relations Officer CHRIS O’DELL bSC members of the voluntary committee, this festival would simply not exist. pauLINE Cotter DavID puTTNaM helen Wells, pauline Cotter, hilary McCarthy, Maria pizzuti and Bridie Fundraising JIM SHERIDaN Dalton… fierce women all. they don’t let go. it’s scary. bRIDIE D’Alton KIRSTEN SHERIDaN this year we will be exploring sustainability in the animation industry in Treasurer gERaRD STEMbRIDgE ireland, and are delighted to welcome representatives from irish animation companies like Boulder Media, Brown Bag and Geronimo productions, as TECHNICaL WIzaRD For aLL ENquIRIES well as online independents like Jason sullivan, (aka sminky) and David MaRTIN LEvIS pLEaSE CONTact: Quin. We also have special events with Jack Gold, Lenny Abrahamson, FestivAL Box oFFiCe and Myles o’reilly and a number of fascinating round table discussions. pROgRaMME DESIgN & MAin street, sChuLL We are delighted to welcome back to CFsFF 2013 his excellency Carlos fESTIvaL gRapHIC DESIgN West Cork Garcia de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to ireland, and two very special JONaTHaN PARSON +353 (0)28 28600 guests, iván trujillo Bolio, general director of FiCG, the international Film Festival of Guadalajara, and one of Mexico’s finest actresses, pROgRaMME LAYOuT & OpENINg HOuRS Diana Bracho. WEbSITE DEvELOpMENT 10AM - 5.30pM in 2013, we are also reaching out to spain (eCAM, Madrid), turkey (with PAUL gOODE thanks to the turkish embassy, and in particular to Merve ihan) and to EMaIL short film collections from a number of polish film schools thanks to pRINTED by an introduction from actress and director urszula nawrot. our gratitude [email protected] also to his excellency Marcin nawrot, polish Ambassador to ireland, who INSpIRE, Skibbereen facilitated our invitation to Andrzej Bartkowiak, one of poland’s most successful Cinematographers, for a workshop on sat 25th May. For those unfamiliar with our film festival, we like to explore novel ways of WWW.faSTNETSHORTfILMfESTIvaL.COM viewing as we don’t have a cinema, and to enable this, we have embedded an intranet network into the village of schull. Distributed Cinema means that festival attendees can view our 2013 programme of competition TICKETS & PASSES shorts, as well as winning films from previous years, on computers and smart devices from within the village. this service is free, and operates 4 Day Pass €50 Dowtcha Stop Frame Motion Workshop year round. in the summer of 2013, we will be expanding the content of this service, creating an archive of films of local interest, as well as edited 4 Day Pass – Student/Submitter €25 Childen: aged 10 to 14 years only €50 interviews and filmed Q&As over the past 5 years, thanks to a grant from 3 Day Pass €40 Sminky Shorts (Adult) €8 West Cork Development partnership. our technical director Martin Levis, 3 Day Pass – Student/Submitter €20 Sminky Shorts (Under 18) €6 our web developer paul Goode, John Dalton, graphic designer Jonathan 2 Day Pass €30 Sminky Shorts (Family – 1 adult+3 child) €8 parson, Granite Consulting and our service provider Brendan hurley at Digital Forge deserve huge credit for their work so far on this. 2 Day Pass – Student/Submitter €15 “Deafeating Oceans Seven” €5 1 Day Pass €15 “Cuban Blood” €5 Welcome to West Cork and happy 5th Birthday to CFsFF! 1 Day Pass – Student/Submitter €10 “What Richard Did” €5 Maurice Seezer Dowtcha Puppet Making Workshop Storytelling & Face Painting FREE Artistic Director CFsFF 2013 Childen: aged 4 to 12 years only €5 Cycle Cinema FREE Dowtcha Puppet Shows FREE Children’s Cinema FREE ” directed by Ludivine Large-Bessette. ” directed CONTENTS pagE Passes to the Festival are nominally priced and Festival Pass Holders, access is FREE. Low heavily subsidised and allow free access to the Village • Tickets for the Dowtcha Stop Frame Motion WINDOWS INTO aN aNIMaTOR’S world 04 Hall for the majority of events on a first come first Workshop held in ‘The Tented Fringe’, can only be served basis. Unfortunately there is no facility to purchased at the Festival Box Office. Limited space THE aWaRDS 05 reserve seating. All other festival activities are free of available, so book early to avoid disappointment. Submissions 06 charge, unless otherwise stated. • Student ID is required when purchasing student/ EvENTS SCHEDuLE 24 Please note: submitter passes. EvENTS DETaILS 26 • For entry to events held in the Village Hall, passes • Unfortunately at present we do not have the facility and tickets can only be purchased at the Festival to take credit or debit cards as payment for tickets. SuppORTERS aND fRIENDS 44 Box Office. SpECIaL THaNKS 45 • Access to viewings of Cuban Blood, Defeating We thank you for supporting Schull’s very own SpONSORS 46 Ocean’s Seven and What Richard Did requires a ‘Distributed Cinema’, an Intranet network dedicated ticket from the Box Office at a charge of €5. For to Short Film. Cover: still from submitted Film “ submitted from still Cover: Banner photographs of ‘Al’ by John Carey. of ‘Al’ Banner photographs wINDOwS INTO AN THE ANIMATOR’S wORLD AwARDS bEST Of fESTIVAL CaSH pRIzE Of 42,000 aND aN ORIgINaL paT CONNOR SCuLpTuRE DavID quIN bEST IRISH SHORT fILM 4 arundel’s, Whyte’s bookshop, Schull Dentist, the festival Office, CaSH pRIzE Of 1,500 Headquarters Hairdressers and Divecology have all had their windows transformed by David Quin and Katy Goodhue into a temporary museum bEST yOuNg fILMMaKER (u22) celebrating 36 years of stop-motion animation by the Quin family. CaSH pRIzE Of 41,500 bEST JuNIOR fILMMaKER (u17) baILEbEag aND bOSCO 4 Bailebeag was Jim Quin’s first stopmotion series for CaSH pRIzE Of 250 rtÉ, its first iteration screening in 1976 – the series went through three subsequent developments. bEST IN CORK Jim Quin (joined by David Quin) shot hundreds of CaSH pRIzE Of 4500 – SpONSORED by CORK COuNTy COuNCIL stopmotion inserts for rtÉ’s Bosco series – Faherty’s Garden, Gregory Gráinneog, Aesop’s Tales and, the most bEST LOCaL INTEREST memorable of all The Tongue Twisters. this window CaSH pRIzE Of 4250 will feature sets, props and characters from Bosco and Bailebeag. bEST GATHERINg pROJECT CaSH pRIzE Of 4200 MORbEgS in the 1990’s, rtÉ produced their Bosco replacement bEST DRaMa programme called ‘The Morbegs’. David Quin produced CaSH pRIzE Of 4200 two stopmotion series for The Morbegs – Dúnín and Circus, as well as ireland’s first CGi series ‘Machines’. bEST COMEDy this window features sets and characters from Dúnín 4 and Circus. CaSH pRIzE Of 200 bEST DOCuMENTaRy TO ForgET CaSH pRIzE Of 4200 To Forget was David Quin’s first stopmotion short film, produced on 16mm film in 1991 and winning an Arts bEST EXpERIMENTaL Council Film and video award. to Forget was a post- CaSH pRIzE Of 4200 apocalyptic love story, heavily influenced by the first Gulf War. this window features sets and characters bEST DaNCE from To Forget, as well as some related David Quin 4 sculptures from the time. CaSH pRIzE Of 200 bEST aNIMaTION CuTbaCKS CaSH pRIzE Of 4200 ‘Cutbacks’ is a satirical internet series which David Quin has produced since 2009. Four short films have bEST DIRECTION emerged from the series – ‘Mister Heaney, a wee CaSH pRIzE Of 4100 portrait…’ won Best Animation at the 2010 Galway Film Fleadh and ‘leitronium’ won the irish Consulate bEST SCREENpLAY Award at the 2012 Chicago Film Festival. this window CaSH pRIzE Of 4100 features ‘cutbacks’ characters, props and sets, as well as animation books and festival trophies. bEST ORIgINaL MuSIC CaSH pRIzE Of 4100 T’WaS a TERRIbLE HaRD WORK bEST CINEMaTOgRapHy T’Was a Terrible Hard Work won a Frameworks Award 4 in 2009 and won Best Animation at the 2010 Fastnet CaSH pRIzE Of 100 Film Festival. these windows feature characters and sets from the film. paT CONNOR CREator Of THE bEST Of fESTIvaL AwaRD THE aRT Of aNIMaTION Pat was born in Dublin and studied art at NCAD. He lived and worked in New York from 1987-1993. these two windows show something of the workshop He now lives in Schull. His work can be seen and studio process, sets, props and characters from in several public collections including The Arts rtÉ series such as ‘Floradora’, ‘Long, Long Ago’, ‘The Council of Ireland, The Crawford Municipal Daisy Shoe’ and ‘Neddy’, as well as characters from Gallery, Cork, The National Museum of Ireland some ‘abandoned’ projects. and The AIB Collection, Dublin. Pat has represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale and in Japan, New York and Switzerland. 04 05 The following submission entries have not been Standard practice recommends that in the absence given an official viewers classification. The films that of classification, festivals classify their entire contain obvious adult content, violence or improper programme as over 18. We thus recommend that language are in programmes 12 - 13 and have an parents use their discretion as we aim to repeat over 18 recommendation. parts of the programme in various venues throughout.