Killinarden Community School Students’ Film Premiered for DCTV Launch
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Killinarden Community School Students Film Premiered for DCTV Launch
Johnny Splitz, a short film made by a group of talented young people from fifth year in Killinarden Community School Tallaght, will be one of the first featured shorts as part of the launch of Dublin Community Television (DCTV) this month.
The film was made as part of a collaborative project led by Olivia Fitzsimons, Film and Visual Arts Coordinator for West Tallaght. The project is part of the work supported under the Film and Visual Arts Programme, which was initiated by South Dublin County Councils Arts Office, with the support of RAPID and the Dormant Accounts Fund.
Students worked with filmmakers, Olivia Fitzsimons and Orla Russell Conway, throughout the project, which took place over the last year. The students scripted, acted, directed, filmed and helped to edit the piece. Since the completion of the project they have attended acting and directing masterclasses hosted by Cinemagic, and now have plans to make another script in the autumn. Some members of the group will also become part of a new youth-led filmmaking group supported by South Dublin County Councils Arts Office, Tallaght Young Filmmakers (TYF), which willbe piloted later this year.
Olivia Fitzsimons, filmmaker and Film and Visual Arts Coordinator for West Tallaght, said Im so thrilled that the film will be making a little bit of history! The project was a challenging and exciting process. I know that these young filmmakers will be making more films and telling stories from their communities in the future and its a very special chance to be involved with talented Irish filmmakers of the future.
Johnny Splitz looks at the familiar story of teenage pregnancy and its effects in an unusual, entertaining and original way.
The short film will be premiered at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 16th in the New Theatre on East Essex Street in Temple Bar as part of the programme This is Dublin at the launch of Dublin Community Television (DCTV), by Eamon Ryan T.D., Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. DCTV is Ireland's only democratically-controlled and only advertising-free TV channel with broadcasting programmes made by, about and for Dublin communities.
Johny Splitz will also be shown in DCTVs notice board on Sundays , Mondays , Wednesdays and Thursdays on NTL Digital Channel 802.
For more information, please contact Victoria Durrer, Youth Arts Coordinator, Arts Office, South Dublin County Council at vdurrer@sdublincoco.ie or 080860479535.