Free two-part online workshop: April 17th : 2 -5.30pm; April 18th: 2-4pm
Screening of workshop films: May 7th, 6pm.

First Cut Youth Film Festival in collaboration with the Make Film History project are delighted to offer a two-part workshop that looks at how to use archival film to inspire and inform new film stories. You will get the opportunity to make your own three-minute film from archival footage which will be screened at this year’s First Cut! Youth Film Festival. As part of this process, you will get the opportunity to learn and practice the skills needed to plan, film and edit a film project on your smartphone.

International award winning filmmaker Tadhg O Sullivan will lead a workshop on the creative re-use of archive film, in collaboration with the Make Film History project, which makes available archive films from the BBC, BFI National Archive, Irish Film Institute and Northern Ireland Screen for educational use by young filmmakers.

This will be followed by a Smartphone Filmmaking Workshop with Póca Productions, a training organisation dedicated to teaching video production skills using the technology and software available on a smartphone. You will learn industry-standard skills and techniques necessary to plan, film and edit your short film using the technology and software available on your phone. 

The workshop series will culminate in a special screening of the short films made by the workshop participants at First Cut! on Friday May 7th, where a prize for the best film will be announced.

More details here: https://firstcutfilmfestival.com/creating-new-stories-from-the-past-an-archive-footage-smartphone-filmmaking-workshop/