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Cork Film Festival

Festival
6 November 2015 to 15 November 2015
Submission Deadline: 
1 August 2015
Submissions for the 60th Cork Film Festival are now open. Running from 6-15th November 2015, the 60th Edition will see Cork City and County play host to some very special events and screenings. One of Europe’s oldest film festivals, the Cork Film Festival plays a rich selection of the best of contemporary global cinema and is always on the look out for interesting new voices. The Festival is Ireland’s premiere Talent Discovery and Development Festival, and has a rich programme of activities for emerging filmmakers

Since November 2014, the Cork Film Festival has been Academy Awards® accredited, meaning that the winners of the Grand Prix Irish Short presented by RTÉ Cork and the Grand Prix International short qualify for the long list of the Academy Awards® for the Animated Short Film/Live Action Short Film category. Cork Film Festival is also a BAFTA [British Academy of Film and Television] recognised festival for British Short Film, further enhancing the festival’s international reputation (filmmakers whose British shorts are selected for competition in the Festival’s Grand Prix International short competition can enter their films for BAFTA consideration). The Festival’s juries also submit a short film nomination to the European Film Academy Awards.

In 2014, the Festival inaugurated a new prize for feature length films: the Gradam Spiorad na Féile / Spirit of the Festival Award. Details are here.

- See more at: www.corkfilmfest.org