by Rose Rushe
APRIL 23 to 25 are dates for this year’s Limerick Film Festival, its schedule and participants announced at George Boutique Hotel on Tuesday 31. Fusing the lead into this three days of shorts, awards and industry leader talks/ workshops, festival director Simon McGuire addressed the legacy of City of Culture investment and the “resulting short film production currently taking place in the city”.
A cohort of film makers and associate professionals based in the Mid-West showed up for the evening news.
As ever the April event will take place on LIT campus, where its founder McGuire teaches in Audio-Video Production.
Brendan McCarthy, co-author of the new MadMax: Fury Road film, due for release in May 2015, will speak on Thursday April 23. Director Kevin Liddy, a Limerick man, will screen his new short, The Suffering Kind (Winner of the Spirit of Cork Indie Film Festival), along with acclaimed film Horse on Friday 24.
