Our 2008 Summer School film is now online. This homage to silent comedy was directed by Stephen Colfer from an original story by John Morton. It was produced by Mike Kelly and Darragh Byrne with an original score by Neil Brand the greatest silent movie composer in the world.

Our latest short film directed by Fergal Costello starring Paddy Corr, shot by James Marnell and produced by Darragh Kelly. This uneasy tale of looking into the abyss was rotoscoped afterwards to give it a graphic novel look with some CGI by Alan Doyle who also did sound. Enjoy.

Young Irish Film Makers Summer Feature Film needs a cast and you could be it! We are shooting in July and you need to be availible for the whole month. We are looking for 3 boys and 3 girls for our main cast as well as a dozen or so extras. Parts range from 10-18 [...]

We welcome Angela Barrett as the new full time Artistic Director for Dreamstuff Youth Theatre. She will be joining us at the end of May. Angela was a member here for many years and involved in all our films and plays. She directed one of our funniest productions, The Three Musketeers, in 2005. She is [...]

Mike and Darragh are working with a group of young writers- David Galster, Fergal Costello, Alan Doyle, Aoibhinn Murphy, Peter O’Connor Michael Sherlock and Nick Sheridan to develop the screenplay.
First Draft of screenplay will be ready by Saturday 30th May.
Summer feature will be cast and crewed by YIFM members. The film will be [...]

Dreamstuff Youth Theatre, the stage production unit of Young Irish Film Makers, have begun casting sessions for four of Shakespeare’s plays to be staged as part of their 2nd Shakespeare in the House festival in association with Rothe House on Saturday 27th and 28th June 2009. The performances will be performed on a custom built [...]

Dreamstuff Youth Theatre will stage a true classic of the Irish theatre, The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge from Tuesday 28th April to Saturday 2nd May. 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of J.M. Synge and what better way to commemorate of Irelands greatest playwright than by staging his greatest [...]

Young Irish Film Makers had two wins this year at the Fresh Film Festival. Aisha Baraut won 2nd prize for her film Transparent and Alan Doyle won Best Comedy for Unarmed. The over all winner was Nick Sheridan from Wexford and Rory Reily, an ex-student of YIFM won best individual film maker.

Caffeine – the 24 hour film festival a wrapped up on Saturday last. Teams produced their films in 24 hours based on 3 random objects outlined by YIFM.
The 3 objects were:  

A Key
A Trap
A Light

I personally hope that all that took part this year enjoyed themselfs and hoepfully we will see you back next year?!. Thanks to all who [...]

The Suitors Premiere is taking place on Monday 23rd March at 8 ‘o clock in Langtons. Last years finished feature film be screened to cast and crew as well as invited guests. It will be shown along with a short film “Attic”.

 
Conditions
> All participants must be ages 15 and over
> The Competition runs from 6pm Friday 13th March 2009 to 6pm Saturday 14th March 2009
> Running time of each film must not to exceed 3 minutes
> All films for the competition must be hosted on YouTube, posted as a video response to the YIFM CAFFEINE YouTube [...]