Irish Film Institute -IFI National

IFI National

As Ireland’s national cultural institution for film, the IFI works with partners throughout Ireland to provide audiences with access to the IFI’s programmes and resources.

IFI National curates special programmes from the IFI Irish Film Archive, making material from this important national resource available to a wider audience.

LOCAL FILMS FOR LOCAL PEOPLE

Since 2014, The Irish Film Institute has been bringing films from the collections of the IFI Irish Film Archive back to the counties in which they were made. Local Films for Local People (LFLP) is an exciting and varied programme of films presented in collaboration with a range of cultural partners across 14 counties, and 22 venues to date. Throughout the year, programmes of local interest are presented in cinemas and arts centres around the country, providing an accessible route to film heritage for a broad range of audiences. The programmes include both professional and amateur films documenting domestic life, school days, agriculture, industry, sport, music, and much more. Some of the programmes, which date from the earliest days of cinema to recent times, include cine-concerts featuring silent films accompanied by local musicians.

Now in its twelfth year, Local Films for Local People provides an accessible route for a broad range of audiences to their county’s film heritage which is preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive.

EVENTS COMING SOON:

Thursday 14th May
IFI LOCAL FILMS FOR LOCAL PEOPLE: A KILDARE KALEIDOSCOPE
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare

A KILDARE KALEIDOSCOPE is a delightfully varied programme of short films made in and about Kildare from the 1900s to the 1970s. It includes the first film ever made of a Grand National Winner at Eyrefield Lodge Stud in 1902; the peat cooperative at the Bog of Allen (1920s); a grim snapshot of Ireland written by Rathangan’s Maura Laverty (1947); an upbeat film about Irish Ropes in Newbridge (1955); newsreel stories from the 1960s about a Chinchilla farm in Naas, go-kart racing in Castledermot, the Batchelors Peas factory in Athy, waterskiing in Ballymore Eustace and the opening of a bubblegum factory in Kilcock; a charming film about catechism class for the primary school pupils of The Curragh School (1976) – and lots more besides!
With an introduction from IFI’s Sunniva O’Flynn who will welcome feedback from local viewers who may recognise previously unidentified people and places on this journey through Kildare’s historic past.

Programme duration – approx. 70 mins

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Wednesday 27th May
IFI LOCAL FILMS FOR LOCAL PEOPLE : A MEATH MISCELLANY
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan

A MEATH MISCELLANY is a delightfully varied programme which includes a range of amateur and professional films, dating from the 1940s to more recent times. The programme includes a lavish US dramatisation of the Trial at Tara, the All Ireland Football Final from 1949 when Meath won a close victory over Cavan; a kaleidoscopic range of Butlins holiday makers captured by amateur and professional filmmakers; stories from Gael Linn’s Amharc Éireann newsreel (1956 – ‘64) – opening of a bubble gum factory at Kilcock, new housing estates in Trim; masses on the Hill of Slane and a Fleadh Rince at Oldcastle.

Programme duration – approx. 70 mins

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Organisations interested in collaborating with IFI National should contact Sunniva O’Flynn, Head of Irish Film Programming. 

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