diff First Frame 2023 presented by TUS LSAD

Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS in association with Dublin International Film Festival proudly presents a preview screening of diff First Frame 2023: student film awards, Film Industry panel discussion with Q&A and live musical performance in TUS Millennium Theatre, Limerick on Wednesday 22nd February from 9am- 4.30pm.

Short Film Programme

The event includes a screening of diff First Frame 2023 Award nominees. These films are produced by third level students from around Ireland, across a range of genres including animation, documentary, experimental and drama. The two short film programmes take place at 9am and 2.30pm. The event is opened by Dr Susan Liddy, Mary Immaculate College Limerick, Women in Film and Television International (President) and Women in Film and Television (Ireland)

Film Industry Panel discussion

A special Film industry panel of interest to film students and film makers alike takes place in TUS Millennium Theatre from 11am-1pm. This includes award winning director, diff Film Maker in Residence 2023 and TUS alumni Laura O'Shea, who’s award winning short film, ‘Wednesday’s Child’ will also be screened on the day.

Laura is joined by Michelle Ryan - Limerick-based Director and founder of EPIK Media, and Editor and TUS (LIT) alumni Philip Shanahan. The panel is also joined by Rachael Power, Manager of the National Talent Academy TV+Film (Munster) Manager and Film in Limerick representative.

Music Performance with Limerick- based Mexican soloist, Fer Kenobi.

Read more about diff here

The event is also streamed via Eventive (link tba)

The event is hosted by staff and students of the Creative Broadcast and Film Production and Music Technology and Production programmes at LSAD Department of Digital Arts and Media, TUS Moylish Limerick in partnership with Dublin International Film Festival, supported by WarnerBros.

Schedule

The event takes place in TUS Millennium Theatre Moylish from 9am-4.30pm.

9am: Opening address - Dr Susan Liddy (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) Chair, Women in Film & Television Ireland

9.30am Short Film Programme 1

11.30 am: Film Industry Panel

1-2pm Lunch break

2pm: Live Music

2.30-4.15pm: Short Film Programme 2

New! Screening running Order

Programme 1

The Total Station 9 (TU Dublin Media) Cian Geoghegan

Undying Heart 9 (DKIT) Cian Gibson

Battle of The Cans 2 (LSAD TUS) Elina Burykina, Edmund Murphy, Kieran Brennan, Dermot Nolan

Masked Mystery 3 (LSAD TUS) Aran Bradley, Mattia Zerbinati, Oliwia Deyna, & Sara Justino

Cry Baby 6 (NFS IADT) Tess Doolan Burke

Thin Walls 7 (NFS IADT) Ethan Dodd, Aisling Keogh

Nico 3 (LSAD TUS) Dailies Productions

Til Forever Falls Apart 7 (TU Dublin Media) Eve Murphy

Bed Sheets 5 (GTI) Macnás Moreno

Imagine Ethan 2 (LSAD TUS) Shola O'Riordan

The Tap 5 (GTI) Brian May

What's Done is Done 5 (MU) James Patrick Murphy and Shekainah Santos

Floare 3 (NFS IADT) Colin Dragoi

No Evil 11 (DKIT) Oisin Martin

Influenza! 4 (NFS IADT) Oisin McKeogh, Sophie Lynch

Dungeons and Dreams 6 (LSAD) Simon Cunningham

Last Seen 4 (NFS IADT) Wiktoria Weinritt

The Finer Details 10 (LSAD) Alyssa Fleming

Love by a Blue String 1 (DIFE) Coraline Ferol

Standing Bear 7 (DKIT) Dillon Donohoe

Programme 2Enough 9 (TU Dublin Media) Jack Wall O'Reilly

Soulmates 10 (DKIT) Shona Kelly

The First Selona 2 (LSAD TUS) Púca O Donnell

It Came from Outer Space (probably) 2 (LSAD TUS) Peter Ruddock

Did you Finnish? 6 (GTI) Melissa Brogan

Retail 6 (NFS IADT) Donal Cotter, Jess Lyons

Bright Bronze 4 (NFS IADT) Cormac Doherty

I 1 (LSAD TUS) Eva Dobuseva

The Shadow 4 (GTI) Ashley Durkin

True Wind 12 (TU Dublin Media) Molly Kiely

Ixtli 2 (LSAD TUS) Emiliano Pineda Alverado

Púca 6 (LSAD) Heather Curtin

Ultra 6 (SETU) Lia Nic Craith

Faithful 9 (DKIT) Ciara Harrington

Something to Declare 2 (ETB Kinsale) Jack O'Reagan / Rowan Williams Huber with David Ian Bickley

Watercolour 3 (NFS IADT) Dara McManus

Under Observation 3 (BCFE) Katie Ryan

Good Grief 7 (NFS IADT) Julia Wysocka, Hana Mohammed

Transcendence 3 (TCD) Megan O Rourke

Take Control 5 (DKIT) Jessica Thompson

Dancing in Depth 5 (DKIT) Sarah Connolly

Further information contact: Muireann de Barra - muireann.debarra@lit.ie

Documentary film maker and joint-Programme Leader, Creative Broadcast and Film Production, LSAD TUS

*The diff First Frame 2023 award winners will be announced in Dublin's Lighthouse cinema on Thursday 23rd February.