Festivals & Awards

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Forty Foot screened as part of a Private festival organised by Don Duncan (www.donduncan.net) in Beirut, Lebanon. February 29- March 4th 2012.

The theme of the festival is nation-building, sectarianism, conflict, and post-conflict resolution and includes  the following films: Angel, Bernadette: notes on a political journey, Bloody Sunday, Borstal Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, The Butcher Boy, Hunger, The Secret of Kells, The Pipe.

“the short films reflect what is happening now in Irish film-making and showcase current Irish film-making talent, without necessarily representing the central theme of his festival.

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View from the Doc, a festival of Irish documentary films in the centre culturel Irlandais in Paris. 6th – 8th October 2011.

Irish documentary-makers have been rightly applauded and crowned with awards for their work in recent years. A festival of screenings, interviews and encounters provides an unmissable opportunity to meet directors, writers and producers.

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The Irish Embassy in Mexico organized an Irish Cultural Week in Cuba, From 6th – 12th March 2011, at Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). Forty Foot was screened along with other Irish Favorites, The Bass Player, Saviours, John McGahem: A Private World, Eden, Once, Five Minutes of Heaven, and Kisses.

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Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington DC, USA, December 2010

CIFF is produced by Solas Nua since 2005, the only organization in the US solely dedicated to contemporary Irish arts.

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The Oldenburg Short Film Days zwergWERK, Oldenburg,Germany. November 2010

Celebrating its 10th year, the zwergWERK festival screens short film in all its facets – Documentary, Experimental, Music Video, Trash – dedicated, short fiction. One important part of the festival is a “Country portrait”, which this year is dedicated to Ireland.

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Underground Cinema, Dublin, Ireland. November 2010

Based in the beautiful seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, Underground Cinema showcases on the big screen some of the newest and innovative short films from new emerging Irish filmmakers.

Underground Cinema are widely recognised for presenting some of the most unique, cutting edge, visionary works that Irish cinema has to offer and take pride in bringing attention to the Irish filmmaker with the same enthusiasm that is often reserved for international artists.

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Couchfest, Seattle, USA. Nivember 2010

Celebrating its third annual year in 2010, Couch Fest Films is a cozy shorts film fest hosted in people’s houses. During Couch Fest Films, lovers of film can sit shoulder to shoulder watching short films while stuffing their faces with the snacks they thought they had to sneak in.

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Starz Denver Film Festival, USA, November 2010

The highly acclaimed and award-winning SDFF will celebrate its 33rd year in 2010. This intense and concentrated exposition showcases more than 200 new films from around the world. The annual celebration of film provides an important showcase for the best of world cinema, a platform for international film artists, and promotes dialogue among filmmakers and the public.

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Kerry Film Festival, Ireland, October-November 2010

The film will be screened in competition in the Irish Documentary Shorts programme. The Samhlaiocht Kerry Film Festival, now in its 11th year,  is at the forefront of bringing films and filmmakers to Ireland and creating an international audience for Irish filmmakers.

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Tinklai Short Film Festival, Vilnius &  Klaipéda, Lithuania, September 2010

International Film Festival Tinklai 2010 presents short film programs from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Ireland and the Basque Country.

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Doc-Europa II, Oporto & Lisbon, Portugal, May 2010

Doc-Europa showcases a selection of 27 current short documentaries, each from one of the 27 EU member countries. It is organised by Apordoc, the Portuguese Association for Documentaries, also organisers of Doclisboa.

Forty Foot has been chosen to represent Ireland for its second edition in 2010.

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The Henley International Film Festival, UK, May 2010

THE-HIFF is an international documentary film festival in Henley-on Thames (UK) that celebrates and showcases the best in international feature and short documentary filmmaking.

Forty Foot has been selected for competition for the Best International Short Film Award. The festival runs from 25th to 29th May 2010.

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Seattle International Film Festival, USA, May 2010.

The 36th Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF, May 20-June 13) has selected FORTY FOOT for competition. The film will be screening in  SIFF’s Short Film Weekend and competing for one of the short Grand Jury prizes, May 21-23, 2010.

All of the shorts will be screened at the new state-of-the-art SIFF Cinema.

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Busan International Short Film Festival, Busan, South Korea May 2010.

On its 30th anniversary, the Busan Asian Short Film Festival reformed to Busan International Short Film Festival opening its doors to the world.

This is BISFF’s  first year and out of 1251 films submitted from 57 different countries, we are very proud that Forty Foot is one of the 61 films selected.

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Bergamo Film Meeting, Italy, March 2010. Forty Foot screened on the 9th of March.

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Chicago Irish Film Festival, USA, March 2010.

Forty Foot screened on the 6th of March, as part of Documenting Ireland.

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Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Montana, USA,  Febuary 2010.

Forty Foot was selected to be part of a special Doc Challenge showcase at the 7th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

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Kasseler Dok Fest, Germany 2009. Forty foot was selected for official competition.

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Doclisboa, Portugal, October 2009. Forty Foot was selected for International Competition

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Dokufest Prizren, Kosovo, August 2009. International Doc Challenge Showcase.

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Stranger Than Fiction, Dublin, Ireland, June 2009. Shorts program.
Prizes “Best Irish Short Documentary” & “Audience Award”

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Hot Docs, Toronto May 2009, : International Documentary Challenge
Prizes: “Best Film”  & “Best Use of Historical Genre”

The International Documentary Challenge judges were:

John Sinno – Typecast Releasing
Michael Lumpkin – International Documentary Association
Oliver Sertic – Zagreb Film Festival
Angie Driscoll – Hot Docs International Programmer

This is what they said about Forty Foot:

We picked one film that we all connected with … that film captured a place and the people with so much genuine spirit, ease and humour…

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