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Cork International Film Festival in partnership with Screen Producers Ireland will host an in-person documentary event and networking session on Thursday 11 November 2.30pm-5.30pm at Douglas Vance Suite, Metropole Hotel, Cork.

Sessions include:

Putting Irish Documentary on Global Screens in partnership with Screen Producers Ireland

The global demand for content extends to all genres and the potential for Irish documentary, of all types, to find new audiences is boundless. The question is how do Irish documentary makers access this growing demand for content, for both funding and distribution, while still making distinctively Irish stories for global audiences. The funding landscape is in flux, for cinema and TV releases, as funding agencies and public service media grapple with the changing marketplace.

Speakers:

• Trevor Birney – Producer, Fine Point Films
• Samantha Corr – Producer, Venom Films
• Nuala Cunningham – Producer, New Decade

Chair: Anthony Muldoon – Policy, Insights & Communications Manager, Screen Producers Ireland 

Screen Ireland: Building for a Creative Future 2024

Andrew Byrne, Project Manager with Screen Ireland, discusses Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland’s newly released strategy, with specific focus on how it relates to the documentary sector in Ireland.

Speakers:

• Andrew Byrne – Project Manager, Screen Ireland
• Interviewed by: Vanessa Gildea – Head of the Department of Film + Media, National Film School, IADT / Director, Producer, Writer

Career Interview: Pat Collins

To coincide with the Documentary Gala screening of his new feature documentary The Dance, Cork filmmaker Pat Collins joins Doc Day for an in-depth interview about his filmmaking career. A filmmaker with a long and distinguished body of work, Pat Collins has made over 30 films since his debut in 1999, and was recently elected to Aosdána. Works include the feature film Songs of Granite (2017), a portrait of Joe Heaney. Other films include; A Private World (2004), portrait of John McGahern; Tim Robinson: Connemara, (2011) a portrait of Tim Robinson and Taibhsi i mBeal Na Gaoithe, (2007) on Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, the award-winning feature film Silence (2012), and political feature essay films What We Leave in Our Wake (2009) and Living in a Coded Land (2014).

• Speaker: Pat Collins – Director, The Dance
• Interviewed by: Vanessa Gildea – Head of the Department of Film + Media, National Film School, IADT / Director, Producer, Writer

The event is free but ticketed. To book please click here.