Movies

As well as the movies below we have a great film makers competition. We're looking for film makers of all shapes and sizes to submit a short film and come along to a screening where we'll show the top 10 films and announce the winners.

What's the prize? For the top prize we're offering the winning film maker to go off and make
another film. Dublin Business School have generously offered to provide 2 days worth of studio
space, lighting, sound, camera all to industry spec (plus all the other stuff you need to make a film) and then a further 2 days worth of post production facilities. For the winner and the runners up; Dublin City Channel will broadcast your shorts.

We've got a few terms and conditions:

  • All entries must be original pieces of work and not infringe on any copyrighted material
  • All films must be between 2-7 minutes in length.
  • We don't want to see any sex scenes or nudity but we're ok with bad language and excusable violence.
  • All films must be submitted on dvd and saved at the highest quality available to you.
  • All films must be entertaining; scare us, make us cry with laughter or pain just make sure your film doesn't put us to sleep!

If you need more information please email rathminesfestivalfilmcomp@gmail.com

To download the submission form please click here (submissionform.pdf)

Please send submissions to
James Casey,
Director Rathmines Festival 2009,
c/o Rathmines Pembroke Partnership,
11 Wynnefield Road,
Rathmines,
Dublin 6.

Dan, Dan, Dad and Me. Thursday, 23/04. 6.30pm. Rathmines Library

Tea and coffee served from 6.00 to 6.30 p.m. Film Introduction and screening at 6.30p.m The Irish Film Institute continues its collaboration with Rathmines Festival and the First Friday Film Club. Presenting “Dan Dan, Dad and Me” by director Lisa Mulcahy who will introduce “Dan Dan, Dad and Me” and will be available for a post-screening Q & A. Lisa is a prolific director of commercials and television drama (“The Clinic”, “On Home Ground”) and has just completed her first feature film “Situations Vacant”.

“Dan Dan, Dad and Me”is a frank and personal documentary about three generations of an Irish family. Directed by Lisa Mulcahy, this intimate and probing story unfolds over eighty years during which her family lived in Lissenfield, a rambling and ever declining house on Rathmines Road. As each new generation grew up, Lissenfield increasingly became the heart of the family from which they faced life’s challenges, from the struggle for Irish independence in the 1920s to bucking the social trends of middle class life in Dublin in the 1970s.

Route Irish, Political Documentary. Friday, 25/04. 5.30 – 7.30pm. DIT Main Theatre

This is director Eamonn Crudden’s painstakingly assembled documentary “Route Irish”. It is an account and critique of the movement against the use of Shannon airport on the Atlantic seaboard as part of the “war against terror”. The film is the result of nearly five years of work and is written with an attention to detail familiar to those who have seen Eamonn’s previous work, such as “Berlusconi’s Mousetrap”. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.

Silent Film – Modern Times starring Charlie Chaplin. Sunday, 26/04. 3pm – 5pm. Slattery’s

Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that has his iconic Little Tramp character, in his final silent-film appearance, struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplin’s view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization.

The movie deals with lots of the themes and topics that are very relevant in today’s economic climate and hopefully the manner in which Chaplin overcomes his obstacles will bring a smile to your face.