ESFF at Fastnet Film Festival 10th Anniversary Edition!

10 YEARS OF FASTNET FILMS
Fresh from sending some of our favourite docs and animations to Mecal’s 10th year celebrations in March this year, we’re also impressed to discover that 2018 also marks the 10th year of the delightful Fastnet Film Festival in the lovely environs of Schull, County Cork in Ireland.

We held an enthusiastically received short film screening there last year and we’re very happy to be asked to present a programme of international and […]

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To the Lighthouse – The Fastnet Film Festival

At the closing night of the 2017 Edinburgh Short Film Festival, we were able to give a warm welcome to Aidan Stanley the Chairman of the Fastnet Film Festival, who had travelled from Schull in West Cork, where the festival is based, to this year’s events in Edinburgh.

We were happy to play host to Aidan, as we’d made the reverse trip ourselves, back in May, to the Fastnet Film Festival itself. The FFF is a […]

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A FAST TRIP TO FASTNET FOR THE FASTNET FILM FESTIVAL

We were delighted to be invited to programme for the Fastnet Film Festival, based in Schull in County Cork in the South West of Ireland recently, and so it was that we took the short flight over to Cork for the opening of the FFF 2017.  Now in it’s 9th year, the Fastnet Film Festival, is possibly the only film festival in the world that doesn’t have a cinema but despite this seemingly fatal handicap, […]

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Edinburgh Shorts Goes West (Cork)

A Fast trip to the Fastnet Film Festival

We have been busy recently setting up a new partnership with The Fastnet Film Festival, which is based in Schull, County Cork in the Republic of Ireland.

The festival has been running since 2009 with the aim of bringing together established and first-time filmmakers to celebrate short film and short film-making in the convivial and relaxed atmosphere of an Irish village. They show the competition films in the village […]

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Edinburgh Shorts Regular Submission Deadline Looms!

The Regular submission deadline for the 2017 Edinburgh Short Film Festival is Monday 15th May!

Last chance to submit at the regular submission fee rate!

Official Selection films will be eligible for one of our 3 awards for 2017:

Best Director
Best Animated Short Film
Rising Star Award

and will be eligible for inclusion on our Global Tour for 2017/2018 which will see the ESFF curating film programmes for

MECAL – Barcelona International Short Film & AnimationFestival
DC […]

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Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2017 Global Tour – Programming Festivals Worldwide!

SOME UPDATES ABOUT OUR 2017/2018 TOURING PROGRAMME

The Edinburgh Short Film Festival always been very active about creating partnerships with film festivals across the world and we’re delighted at just how much our festival partnership projects have expanded in recent years!

Part of our ethos is to work as hard as we can to promote the excellent short films that we screen every year at the ESFF and the hugely creative film-makers behind them. We spend a […]

By |May 4th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2017 Global Tour – Programming Festivals Worldwide!

ESFF Programming for the 2017 Fastnet Film Festival

We’re very pleased to have been asked to prepare a programme for the Fastnet Film Festival for their 2017 edition and looking forward to working with them and their ‘Light From the Land’ project!

The Fastnet Film Festival has been running in Schull, County Cork in Ireland since 2009 and the patrons include Sir David Puttnam, Steve Coogan and Jim Sheridan, so they have obviously made quite an impact!

We’ll be announcing the programme for Fastnet in […]

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