This year’s Darklight Festival will take place Thursday 20 – Saturday 22 October in The Factory, 35A Barrow St. Grand Canal Dock.

The Darklight Festival Launch Thursday 20 October at 7pm

Celebrate the opening of the 13th annual Darklight Film Festival … enjoy a free beer or two from independent local breweries with music from Michael ‘Le Cool’ McDermott who will entertain us with a YouTube DJ set. Followed by a screening of the opening film Sound It Out (Jeanie Finlay, 2011)

This year’s festival theme is Strictly Roots and we’ll be celebrating the spirit of grassroots filmmaking; how friends and communities come together, and against the crazy backdrop of global financial meltdown still manage to make moving, hilarious, challenging and kick-ass films.

Through our programme strands at this year’s festival; New Indie Voices, Spotlight on Docs, SFX Unplugged, 3-D.I.Y. and Artist in Focus, we’ll be featuring all aspects of grassroots filmmaking including; crowd funding, distribution, homemade digital and special FX. And it’s all taking place in our new HQ, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock.

For tasters of films and more check out our Tumbler page – http://darklightfilmfestival.tumblr.com/

RSVP events at darklight dot ie to attend the launch event

Love is all we bring.

Nicky, Sinead and Sarah.
Team Darklight.

Tickets are now on sale for Power to the Pixel’s Cross-Media Forum, returning to the BFI London Film Festival for another year.  Showcasing some of the hottest talent working in cross-media, we are delighted to be hosting the following public events:

11 October, Conference Summit

The Conference covers the latest trends in audience behaviour, business models and case studies of successful cross-media projects with Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner and transmedia producer extraordinaire, presenting an opening keynote and speaking in the UK for the very first time.

12 October, The Pixel Pitch Competition

A showcase of eight of the best international cross-media projects – fiction and non-fiction – with teams pitching to a jury made up of leading financiers, commissioners and decision-makers from the film, broadcast, advertising, tech, online, publishing and mobile industries.

Find more info here or email info@powertothepixel.com for further details.

Just a few more hours to get your submissions in for consideration for this year’s Darklight Festival.

If you are part of a film group/collective/co-op/society we want to hear from you! Please enter you works (the more the merrier) either online to info@darklight.ie or via post to Submissions, The Darklight Film Festival, 35A Barrow St, Dublin 4.

Submission deadline is 5pm, today August 31st.

Thanks so much to everyone for submitting to this year’s Darklight Festival.  For those who have not yet submitted, there is still time!  Please submit your works to us by August 31st.  Either email info@darklight.ie or post to: The Factory, 35A Barrow Street, Dublin 4.  And remember the theme for this year’s festival is Grassroots and collective filmmaking so please, where possible, send in multiple works you and your group have made and also a brief synopsis on how you came together, why you work well together along with comments on work submitted and future projects in the pipeline!

THE PIXEL MARKET is dedicated to showcasing and financing cross-media projects from around the world. The event takes place on 12 & 13 October 2011 as part of Power to the Pixel’s annual Cross-Media Forumfrom 11 – 14 October held in association with the BFI London Film Festival.

The Pixel Market will introduce 25 cross-media project producers to top international financiers, commissioners, tech companies, online portals and media companies during the two-day event.  Up to 8 of the 25 selected teams will compete for the £6,000 ARTE PIXEL PITCH PRIZE at the Market’s public event, The Pixel Pitch on 12 October at NFT1, BFI Southbank.

Further information can be found at Power to the Pixel’s website www.powertothepixel.com

This year’s festival will take place in The Factory, 35A Barrow Street, Dublin 4 from 21-22 October.

Spread the word!

Calling all Irish artist and filmmaking co-operatives!

Darklight is Ireland’s premier festival celebrating independent, DIY and artist films. At this year’s festival, we’ll be looking at all aspects of grassroots filmmaking, whether that is crowd funding, production, distribution, alternative screening spaces – we want to hear from you…

Submissions

You can submit your work to us via email or by post. Make sure to include information about how the group came together, what kind of work interests you and who the members are. You can send youtube / vimeo links etc to info at darklight dot ie. Alternatively, you can post DVDs to Submissions, Darklight Festival, The Factory, 35a Barrow Street, Ringsend, Dublin 4

Drop us an email before 30 June 2011 to register your interest. Films from cooperatives and groups should be received by 29 July 2011.

Stay In Touch

Expect more information on the Darklight 2011 programme very soon. We’ll be announcing dates imminently. For up to the minute updates make sure to follow us on Twitter, twitter.com/darklight_2011,
Become a Friend on Facebook facebook.com/darklightfestival,
Like us http://tinyurl.com/6eakklj
Recommend your friends to join our email-list http://www.darklight.ie/contact/join-the-maillist/

Darklight 2011: Strictly Roots

Our friends at Still Films have asked us to spread the word on their crowd-funding campaign for their new documentary The Nightdancers. All the information you need is below.

“We have just launched a crowd-funding campaign for a documentary were making about Ugandan Breakdancers, Tabu-flo, who are competing at Breakin’ Convention in London this May and there are a number of ways you could help us cover the travel and some production costs. The more we spread the word, the faster we achieve our target of GBP3,600, and you can win prizes for helping!
Firstly by spreading the word to your networks:

We have a Facebook page about the film you can Like and Share with your friends –  http://on.fb.me/g1w1mp

Follow the dancers progress on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/StillFilms

and lastly you can contribute through Buzzbnk (new crowd-funding site) http://bit.ly/i5llYV

Become part of the project. Spread the word. Tell your friends. Give a breakdance crew from Uganda the chance of a lifetime!

Thanks a lot!”

This Weekend! Darklight Film Festival & STILL FILMS showcase @ the Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington DC. Screening times and ticket information via Irishfilmdc.org below!

Darklight Heroes: DC Edition
Friday, December 10th at 7.00 p.m.
Goethe Institut, 812 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Darklight heroes is when some of the festival alumni and contributors from past editions get together to think of the artists who inspire them most from any field and invite them to curate a session in the festival.

who is the dc hero?
Berlin-based animator David O’Reilly

and his selection?
David has declared his film line up top secret and has forbidden us from releasing the details but we can tell you that he has named his selection MIXTAPE OF DOOM – a collection of logic bending neuro-masochistic short films from the past, present and future. early animation, modern rarities, lost television shows and other slices of meat from the media’s most surreal and succulent tenderloins. sounds tasty!

Darklight: State of The Nation
Friday, Decembe 10th at 9.00 p.m.
Goethe Institut, 812 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Darklight Festival Director Nicky Gogan has hand picked a collection of films that she thinks reflects Ireland’s current social climate as well as the state of independent Irish film-making today. In an interactive session that will include input from fellow producer and director, Paul Rowley, as well as a live video link up with Irish guerrilla musician (and director of  Nun’s Fight Club), Declan De Barra, Nicky will lead us through her perspective on Irish cinema.

what’s the line up?

Fall directed by Paddy Jolly
Columbarium directed by Tony Kenny
Let Me Be Frank directed by Niamh Murphy
Rocky Road to Dublin directed by Damien O’Donnell
Old Fangs directed by Adrien Merigeau
Lady On The Rock directed by Jessie Ward
Gravity Loop directed by Paul Rowley & David Phillips
Musicvideo directed by Tu Me Tues
Take ‘Em Up directed by Eoghan Kidney
Untitled Revolution directed by Istvan Laszlo
Nuns Fight Club directed by Declan De Barra
Excerpt from One Hundred Mornings directed by Conor Horgan
Excerpt from His&Hers directed by Ken Wardrop
Divestment directed by Paul Rowley & Nicky Gogan
Rialto Twirlers directed by Annmaree Barry

Pyjama Girls
Saturday, December 11 at 4.00 pm
Goethe Institut, 812 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Includes Q&A with Director Maya Derrington
Pyjama Girls presents the chaotic friendship of teenagers Lauren and Tara as they navigate the trials of life, dressed all the while in their uniform of rebellion: pyjamas. Lauren’s future hangs in the balance as she takes part in street violence with rival teen gangs and faces expulsion from school. balancing tenderness with hilarity, the film reveals the challenges that life throws her – from her addict mother to the disruptive world of the flats – and uncovers the crucial importance of her friendship with Tara

For more info and to buy your tickets, go here…http://www.irishfilmdc.org/