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Fantastic Success for the 13th Waterford Film Festival !
The 13th Waterford Film Festival closed on Sunday (November 24th) to a packed house in Central Arts and was a great success!
55 National & International films screened over 3 days and 40 screenwriter finalists were presented with certificates on the last day of the Annual Event.
Filmmakers, writers & guests came from across the country, as well as from the UK, Germany, Denmark and the USA to attend the events over the 3 days.
The festival was also honoured to have the Mayor of the Metropolitan District Cllr. Breda Brennan attend and speak on Opening Night.
Others events included The Dublin Arabic Film Festival on tour.Acclaimed filmmaker Zahara Moufid who founded the Dublin Arabic Film Festival, along with Oscar nominated director Jim Sheridan, spoke at the Waterford Film Festival on Arabic filmmaking.Zahara gave an insight to her film festival and her career.
During this event we also screened her latest short film 'Pappy' which is written by Mary D'Arcy and directed by Zahara.
We also screened Arabic film '50,000 Photographs' by Abduljalil Al-Nasser.On the last day of the festival we presented certificates to Finalists.
The overall winners for films and screenplays were presented with beautiful Waterford Crystal trophies.
The overall winner for Best Short Film went to The Vasectomy Doctor directed by Paul Webster and produced by Ronan Cassidy.
Runners up for Best Short Film went to A R E T H A directed by Dave Thomas & Produced by Jason Forde.
The overall Winner of the screenplay competition went to Next of Kin by Dean Marriott.
The Runner up award for Best Short Screenplay went to Vinnies Tale by Tommy Nicholson
Each evening filmmakers, the festival & central arts team had post screening meet ups and drinks in Revolution Waterford and we celebrated there on Sunday long into the night.
From everyone at the Festival, we would like to again thank all of the filmmakers, writers who entered and all the selected filmmakers & writers for giving us the opportunity to review so many amazing projects!
Congratulations again to all of the winners and finalists!
We would again like to thank all of our sponsors for their very much appreciated support and contribution towards the Festival's success.
Lastly, we would like to thank the fantastic team in Central Arts. We look forward to working with them again for the 2020 Festival!
The 13th Waterford Film Festival closed on Sunday (November 24th) to a packed house in Central Arts and was a great success!
55 National & International films screened over 3 days and 40 screenwriter finalists were presented with certificates on the last day of the Annual Event.
Filmmakers, writers & guests came from across the country, as well as from the UK, Germany, Denmark and the USA to attend the events over the 3 days.
The festival was also honoured to have the Mayor of the Metropolitan District Cllr. Breda Brennan attend and speak on Opening Night.
Others events included The Dublin Arabic Film Festival on tour.Acclaimed filmmaker Zahara Moufid who founded the Dublin Arabic Film Festival, along with Oscar nominated director Jim Sheridan, spoke at the Waterford Film Festival on Arabic filmmaking.Zahara gave an insight to her film festival and her career.
During this event we also screened her latest short film 'Pappy' which is written by Mary D'Arcy and directed by Zahara.
We also screened Arabic film '50,000 Photographs' by Abduljalil Al-Nasser.On the last day of the festival we presented certificates to Finalists.
The overall winners for films and screenplays were presented with beautiful Waterford Crystal trophies.
The overall winner for Best Short Film went to The Vasectomy Doctor directed by Paul Webster and produced by Ronan Cassidy.
Runners up for Best Short Film went to A R E T H A directed by Dave Thomas & Produced by Jason Forde.
The overall Winner of the screenplay competition went to Next of Kin by Dean Marriott.
The Runner up award for Best Short Screenplay went to Vinnies Tale by Tommy Nicholson
Each evening filmmakers, the festival & central arts team had post screening meet ups and drinks in Revolution Waterford and we celebrated there on Sunday long into the night.
From everyone at the Festival, we would like to again thank all of the filmmakers, writers who entered and all the selected filmmakers & writers for giving us the opportunity to review so many amazing projects!
Congratulations again to all of the winners and finalists!
We would again like to thank all of our sponsors for their very much appreciated support and contribution towards the Festival's success.
Lastly, we would like to thank the fantastic team in Central Arts. We look forward to working with them again for the 2020 Festival!
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Film AwardsEach year the festival gives a cash award and a certificate for the Waterford City & County Council Award for Best Short Film & a Waterford Crystal engraved trophy. We also give an award for runners up for best short film.
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