Irish Film Festival for School Children Reaches Climax
The Irish National FÍS Film Festival took place in October in Dublin City University. Twenty-five awards were presented to schools to celebrate their outstanding film achievements in areas such as animation, acting, editing and direction.
FÍS (literally translated as 'Vision') is an initiative from the Department of Education and Science (DES) in the Republic of Ireland and is a project designed to introduce the medium of film as a support to the Primary School Curriculum
700 children and their teachers from all over Ireland took part in FÍS by writing, directing and producing their own films in a wide variety of genres including comedy, drama, history, horror, documentary and scannáin as Gaeilge freisin. Great excitement was created in local communities as local screenings were organised, sometimes in cinemas! From the many submitted films, twenty four were selected for their outstanding achievements to participate in the National FÍS Film Festival. More information about the results is available from the FÍS web site.
