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THE DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL Film Festival has been the annual way to get a great film fix – but up to now, it has only been open to the over-18s.
However, a change of sponsor means that rules governing alcohol sponsorship of events won’t apply to the DIFF, so it can begin to include events for families.
Audi was named as the new sponsor of DIFF yesterday. The title sponsorship will last for three years. The festival – which will take place from 18 – 28 February 2016 – has brought many Hollywood stars to Ireland over the past 12 years.
A new chapter
Gaby Smyth, Chair of the Festival Board, said that the new partnership with Audi “marks the beginning of a fantastic new chapter for the festival”.
Audi has a long history of partnering with the creative arts, including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs), the Berlinale Festival and the Emmy Awards.
Plans are well underway for the 2016 ADIFF, with some exciting pre-Christmas programme announcements imminent.
Director of ADIFF, Gráinne Humphreys, said that the news was “fantastic”.
We can open up the programme to younger audiences, which is something that has always been intriguing.
She described festivals with programming for children as “a crucial space where people start their love of cinema”.
The other element is Audi have been working for a number of years with a number of prestigious film festivals, so it’s really exciting from that point of view.
Programming for the festival is currently underway, with a big announcement about guests due before Christmas. The ADIFF will launch in January.
Focus on Ireland
“It’s a really interesting year,” said Humphreys. “There has been lots of new Irish work, which is fantastic, and there’s a lot of buzz around Irish cinema. From that point of view, I think the festival is really well positioned to give a sense of where the wind is blowing.”
Humphreys said that they will be looking for films for the new broader audience, including films that come within specific themes that are of interest to a younger audience “and not having to exclude them”.
She added that there is a “perception that subtitled films are too complicated, or there’s a sort of darkness about film festivals. A lot of the time there isn’t. There are broad comedies, films about beautiful stories about friendship between strangers, and [other types of films].”
As this is the first year of the broader remit, programming for younger people will be piloted this year. It’s something that Humphreys is welcoming from a business but also a personal perspective.
“I have a young nephew. From my point of view, it always seemed really unfair that I had to say ‘no, you have to wait a while before you can go to a film festival’,” she said.
Sing Street
Dublin Film Festival / TwitterJohn Carney’s #SINGSTREET to open Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2016 #ADIFFhttps://t.co/uR8OTz72cV pic.twitter.com/kjXqj0OkwH
— Dublin International Film Festival (@DublinFilmFest) December 16, 2015
John Carney’s latest film Sing Street will open next year’s ADIFF, it was announced today. It’s a coming-of-age film set in 1980s Dublin and stars Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo and Jack Reynor.
“I’m excited to have Sing Street premiere at the Festival,” said Carney. “The film loosely charts my own experiences as a skinny kid in a pretty rough-and-tumble school in the mid 80s in Dublin. I invite any of the school bullies from back then (teachers included), to the screening, where I will publicly fight them.”
For more information, visit the ADIFF site.
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Almost twice the numbers dying from suicide as die on the roads. This is at national crisis level at this stage and needs to be tackled with the same amount of resources that have been put at the disposal of the road safety campaigns.
I have to agree. This is a national emergency.
Every life lost is a tragedy.
No surprise here. One other issue is that you cannot even do voluntary work because you’ll lose your social welfare if you do as “you are not available for interview or to take up full time employment”. Just goes to show the idiocy of the Political Institutions / Department Of Social Welfare. If you were doing voluntary work and living on the €188 a week, would you continue to that if offered a full time job? I know that if I was called to an interview I would tell the voluntary organisation that I cannot make it in as I have an interview and if I got the job I would take it and leave the voluntary work.
Voluntary work will help keep people sane and motivated to look for work, otherwise people will stay at home get demoralised and think what’s the point in even looking for a job. People think that there are a lot of people are on welfare because they “like it”. RUBBISH! I’d like the politicians to live on social welfare benefits for a month and to carry out all the strings that go with it and then justify how they can say it is a “comfortable lifestyle”
There is a form to complete, and if approved ie a reputable voluntary organisation is essential, you can do voluntary work – I do :).
Voluntary work is just that and if you volunteer and at the start explain if an interview comes up you are attending then that is appreciated and understood. And your skills will be much appreciated and you will keep your work skills up to date, motivate yourself and give back to the community – go for it CSEC Bio? If you want to volunteer for Sea Shepherd just let me know, happy to have you on board.
who on earth keeps thumbing comments down?. if I find out who they are they will be terminated.
Just ignore them.
Even if every banker & politician was made to read that report I wonder just how much they would really care. Peoples lives seem to matter less and less.
I personally know of 5 individuals, young men, who were in construction and were caught where they owed the supplier for materials and the developers refused to pay them anything, they were left with massive bills and lost of pressure from the suppliers. The individuals could not take legal action against the developers because of this NAMA thing ! and every one of the individuals took their own lives, leaving young families, parents, siblings, wives, girlfriends, friends, neightbours and community devestated.
And the Government has just cut spending on Suicide assistance ? WHY ?
sad the people at the top never cared never did nor never will i highllighted this last week in the lenihan article and in it lies some of their decision making bullshit for the ordinary people how much more can a race of people take without revolting something got to give
Lenihan gets a Kings funeral while those driven to suicide rarely even get a mention in the media. Its a tragedy.
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