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Up-to-date WFT Members and invitees, this is where you register to reserve your ticket for our 2022 Short Film Showcase, which will take place in the IFI on 7th December. Non members are welcome and can purchase their ticket to attend directly on the IFI website.

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Opening a window on work by a new wave of women filmmakers, the IFI and Women in Film and TV Ireland once again present this inspiring programme of short films selected from a significant volume of work submitted by WFT members. While these films couldn’t be more different in style, scope, genre and theme, they all have one thing in common: they are directed and created by the Irish film industry’s most talented up-and-coming women creatives.

The Line Up:

First Date

Tina, a recently widowed farmer, doesn’t want her daughter Jackie to move back to the city, leaving her alone. When she discovers Jackie has invited city boy Seamus for a date at their farm, Tina comes up with a novel solution to upset their plans.

Director: Clara Planelles / Producer: Pete Moles / Writer: Áine Ryan / DOP: Alfie Hollingsworth

GlitterBug

Set in 90’s Dublin, two young female DJs have their dreams of making it big in London crushed when one of them is diagnosed with HIV.

Director: Tania Notaro / Producers: Ali Doyle & Trish Ryan / Writer: Tania Notaro / DOP: Colm Whelan

Site Specific: College of Domestic Economy

A visual essay on the art, architecture and social relevance of the College of Domestic Economy, Cathal Brugha Street by conservation architect Mary McDonald and art historian Paula Murphy.

Director: Bonnie Dempsey / Producers: Aimie Gavin & Irish Architecture Foundation / DOP: Tom Comerford

A Death in the Family

A death in the family leads to an interesting meal for the mourners.

Director: Kate Haley / Producer: Robert O'Meara / Writer: Kate Haley / DOP: Eilís Doherty

Haven

Carmel, a lonely sheep farmer and mother and baby's home survivor strikes up an unlikely friendship with Tanaka, the teenager living in the local direct provision centre.

Director: Mo O'Connell / Producer: Mo O'Connell / Writer: Ivan Cush & Rehan Ali / DOP: Colm Hogan

Hello?

A tense phone call between two strangers doesn't go as expected. Both of their lives are turned upside down in an instant.

Director: Claire Byrne / Producer: Tina Pawlik / Writer: Tracy Martin / DOP: Philip Blake

Someday Sadie

In 1960's Dublin, a young working-class singer falls pregnant at an inopportune time changing the course of her life forever.

Director: Imogen Murphy / Producer: Fiona Kinsella / Writer: Kate Gilmore / DOP: Philip Blake

Ready?

Grace needs help with an audition but the only person available is her Man Utd. loving father, John. Tensions arise when a combination of John’s well-intentioned but misguided efforts and some triggering material rake over some partially healed wounds for Grace. This prompts a tearful revelation of Grace’s past trauma. After some initial uncertainty, the pair are reconciled, closer and clearer than ever before.

Director: Emma Wall / Producer: Claire Byrne, Jo Halpin & Siobhan Coakley for Alfonso Films / Writer: Niamh Branigan / DOP: Alba Fernandez

Not my Sister

When Chris comes home to Cork from London for her sister Zara's 13th birthday, a buried family secret begins to find its way to the surface.

Director: Jessica Courtney Leen/ Producer: Jessica Courtney Leen / Writer: Jessica Courtney Leen / DOP: Jass Foley

This event has been made possible with the support of the BAI.

A massive Thank You to the Showcase prize sponsors:

• Production People

• Windmill Lane

• Element Post-Production

• Dublin International Film Festival

• Apollo Lighting

• Vast Valley

• Docs Ireland

• Celtic Grips

• Irish Film Institute