Four Cork primary schools have been shortlisted for the 20th Annual F\u00cdS Film Awards.<\/p>\n
Designed for primary pupils, the F\u00cdS Film Project guides children through every stage of filmmaking, from developing ideas and scripts to filming and editing.<\/p>\n
The creative process encourages learning beyond the traditional classroom, while helping pupils to strengthen communication and collaboration skills.<\/p>\n
The event, hosted by Cork native Sin\u00e9ad Kennedy from RT\u00c9, is set to take place in the Helix in Dublin on February 12 and will feature a host of short films created by primary school children and their teachers across Ireland.<\/p>\n
The schools and movies from Cork shortlisted for this year\u2019s awards include, Dungourney NS for \u2018DeValera\u2019s Response\u2019, Shanbally National School for \u2018The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln\u2019, Kilgarriffe National School for \u2018Our Adventure Boat- Adventure to Egypt\u2019 and Douglas Rochestown ETNS for \u2018A Letter From Our Animals\u2019. Successful nominees will be recognised across 24 categories, including acting, costume design, originality, and storytelling.<\/p>\n
Special category<\/p>\n
The awards aim to highlight the different components pupils and teachers consider when working as directors, producers, and screenwriters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year, the awards will also feature a special category sponsored by Met \u00c9ireann, entitled \u2018Met \u00c9ireann: Weather, Climate, and Our Future\u2019, which invites pupils to explore meteorology and climate science through film.<\/p>\n
Christina Reynolds, F\u00cdS creative manager at IADT, said the awards are \u201cabout young filmmakers, their ideas, creativity and confidence in using film as a way to tell stories\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAs the awards show marks its 20th anniversary, it\u2019s especially encouraging to see such strong and sustained participation from young filmmakers right across the country,\u201d said Ms Reynolds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough the long-standing partnership between IADT and Oide Technology in Education, the F\u00cdS Film Project continues to support schools in developing creative digital skills, giving students a platform to share their work and see what\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Cork primary schools have been shortlisted for the 20th Annual F\u00cdS Film Awards. Designed for primary pupils,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,41435,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-288347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cork-news","tag-cork-schools","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}