Oska Bright Film Festival Comes to Dublin

dublin | arts and media | event notice Monday November 12, 2007 12:02 by Janet Healy - Arts & Disability Ireland adi at create-ireland dot ie 10/11 Earl Street South, Dublin 8

Arts & Disability Ireland (ADI) is proud to present the Irish Premiere of the Oska Bright Film Festival at Filmbase on 4th December 2007.

Arts & Disability Ireland (ADI) teams up with Oska Bright to bring you a unique film event. Oska Bright is the first film festival anywhere in the world to be run by, and for, people with a learning disability. Now in its fourth year, the Oska Bright Film Festival will visit Ireland for the first time, presenting an enormous, exciting and inspiring range of short films, all created by film-makers with learning disabilities – offering a unique look at a cultural minority using film to express their diversity and power.

Location: Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Date: December 4th 2007
Screening* Times: 12pm / 1pm / 2pm / 3pm
Screening duration: 45 mins approx. Including introduction by Oska Bright Team.
Admission: Free and open to all

Arts & Disability Ireland (ADI) teams up with Oska Bright to bring you a unique film event. Oska Bright is the first film festival anywhere in the world to be run by, and for, people with a learning disability. Now in its fourth year, the Oska Bright Film Festival will visit Ireland for the first time, presenting an enormous, exciting and inspiring range of short films, all created by film-makers with learning disabilities – offering a unique look at a cultural minority using film to express their diversity and power.

"We are coming to Dublin to show Oska Bright films and run a masterclass in film making. Oska Bright is now getting to be an international film festival. When we come we want to show people what learning disabled people can do. We hope more films will be made by Irish learning disabled film makers - we'd love to see more films from Ireland in Oska Bright 2009. See the films, see the people." Andy Kee, Oska Bright Committee member

"We want to see films from Ireland. We know you guys can make fantastic films, and we want to see them in Oska Bright 2009. Get making!"
Matthew Hellett, Oska Bright Committee member and Chair of Carousel

On Monday 3rd December the Oska Bright team will run a workshop at Filmbase for students of the National Institute for Intellectual Disability, Trinity College Dublin, who want to get into film-making. Who knows, perhaps an Irish-made film will be an award winner in the next competition!

*PLEASE NOTE: EACH SCREENING WILL SHOW BETWEEN 8 & 12 DIFFERENT FILMS, WITH 38 FILMS BEING SHOWN OVER THE COURSE OF THE DAY.

ALL FILMS ARE SUBTITLED IN PLAIN ENGLISH & ARE AUDIO DESCRIBED. TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FILMS YOU WILL SEE, VISIT WWW.OSKABRIGHT.CO.UK AND CLICK ‘ON THE ROAD’