Sep 13, 2011

YIFM present the first major event of our 20th Anniversary Celebrations ‘First Confession’ – Movie Premiere The night opens with a red carpet premiere of our latest short film  ‘First Confession’ based on the famous short story by Frank O’Connor. We are hoping the stars of the film, Pauline McLynn, Karl Spain and Brid Ni...

Sep 1, 2011

This September Young Irish Film Makers begin their twentieth year of making films with young people. Founded in 1991 Young Irish Film Makers has gained a reputation as the leading youth film training organisation in Ireland. Thousands of young people have attended classes over the years and many have gone on the third level courses in film, acting, animation and...

Aug 30, 2011

 Over the last couple of months The Young Irish Film Makers were busy with their annual film making summer camps. Young people from all over the country flocked to the summer camps in Kilkenny to learn about different aspects of film making, meet new friends and have a lot of fun. The budding young film makers were guided through various aspects of film making,...

Aug 29, 2011

Young Irish Film Makers summer film production this year was First Confession, based on the famous short story by Frank O’Connor. The film was shot in and around Kilkenny between Monday 4th and Friday 15th July. Mike Kelly has written the screenplay adaptation and will direct the short film. Young Irish Film Makers has adopted a new policy of using...

Apr 10, 2011

RTE paid a visit to Young Irish Film Makers over the week-end when they shot a sequence for their popular programme Winning Streak. Young Irish Film Makers is supported by the National Lottery through grant aid from The Arts Council. All our our technical members were fully involved setting up shooting opportunities from RTE crew. We were really pleased...