Seasons Greetings from everyone at Belfast Film Festival and Docs Ireland. We hope you all have a peaceful and safe Christmas. We also want to take this opportunity to thank our funders, sponsors and all our customers for your continued support throughout this year. Here’s to a better and brighter 2021!
This year’s independent jury (Tanya Hatsura-Yavorska, David O Mahony, Charlotte Procter) have been very busy, watching and deliberating the 21 best Irish and Northern Irish short documentaries of 2020. And the winner of the Docs Ireland Short Documentary Competition 2020 is……….. HYDEBANK, Directed by Ross McClean Jury’s Statement: Ross McClean’s Hydebank, a portrait of Ryan… Read Article →
This year’s Docs Ireland Competition Jury are: Tanya Hatsura-Yavorska Graduated from the faculty of journalism URAO (Moscow). In 2007-2010 – Executive Director, then Deputy Chair of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee. In 2010-2012 – Head of the EuroBelarus Consortium advocacy program. Head of the public association “Zvyano” since 2014, co-founder of the International Human Rights Documentary… Read Article →
Thank you to everyone who made a submission to this year’s NI Screen Pitch. We had a record number of submissions and it was very difficult to shortlist down to just six projects. Docs Ireland, Northern Ireland Screen are offering a chance for documentary makers, from established filmmakers to new and emerging talent, to receive… Read Article →
It’s been an incredibly hard year for the film industry, but we feel it is important to celebrate and support these films. Again, in the last few weeks, we’ve been forced to change our plans again, this time moving all of our films online, like many festivals before us. Our opening night film is The… Read Article →
We have not one but two festival trailers for you! Enjoy some of our Docs Ireland and Belfast Film Festival highlights coming up this November 2020.
Docs Ireland has a lot to offer this November. A programme of ‘not to be missed’ – new cinema, short films and industry events providing a unique insight into the documentary making process. A programme of fascinating new cinema including The 8th, Lost Boys: Belfast’s Missing Children, The Sheriff and world premiere of the new … Read Article →
After the postponement of Docs Ireland earlier in the year, we’re especially thrilled to present the second Docs Ireland Irish Short Documentary Competition. This year we have a fantastic range of films showing just how versatile and expressive the short film can be. The documentary short is an artform of its own, and excitingly, many… Read Article →
Cork International Film Festival and Docs Ireland have announced their inaugural 2020 Ignite documentary development programme participants. This exciting venture is a cross-border partnership which seeks to foster a new generation of Irish documentary filmmakers from the north and south of Ireland. The programme is a pilot bilingual talent development initiative directed towards emerging Irish… Read Article →
What better way to start the weekend than with some good news! It’s LAUNCH DAY!!! Welcome to the launch of our November 2020 festival. A month of film events brought to you by Belfast Film Festival and Docs Ireland. Here’s a special message from our Chair Mark Cousins and Festival Director Michele Devlin.
Belfast Film Festival and its sister documentary festival, Docs Ireland will both take place this November after being postponed earlier in the year. The two festivals will run across the month of November and will unveil a series of premieres including the world premiere of a new documentary, Martin McGuinness: I Fought, I made Peace,… Read Article →
APPLICATIONS FOR THE NI SCREEN FEATURE DEVELOPMENT PITCH HAVE NOW CLOSED. After the success of our inaugural pitching competition at the 2019 festival, Docs Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen are again offering a chance for documentary makers, from established filmmakers to new and emerging talent, to receive an award of up to £7,500 towards a… Read Article →
A joint initiative of Cork International Film Festival & Docs Ireland, Belfast, supported by TG4, the Arts Council of Ireland, Screen Skills Ireland and Arts & Business NI ‘IGNITE’ is a pilot bilingual talent development programme directed towards emerging Irish documentary filmmakers embarking on their first or second non-fiction feature film. Created in collaboration between… Read Article →
Live and direct to your favourite watching device, the shiny new BFF Player will be our online portal for a regular selection of short films and features, Q&A’s and discussions. Some of these will be new, others are wee gems unearthed from the archives. Our May 2020 selection features Desert Island Flicks and some past… Read Article →
Movie House on Dublin Road was due to close it’s doors to the public on 26th April however due to the current global pandemic the cinema announced its early closure last Thursday. We have been working with the Movie House since they opened their doors in 2007 – a huge chapter of this partnership has… Read Article →
