Waterford Institute of Technology and Nemeton TV are hosting their annual class of 2015 film premiere on 21 May in SCG Dungarvan starting with a reception at 12.30pm.

The students on the postgraduate course, under the keen eye of their lecturers, have worked very hard over the past few months to research, film and edit eight dramas, digital films and documentaries.

The films include:

• A cookery programme filmed in the Tannery Dungarvan, Barrons Bakery and Flahavan’s by Dungarvan native, Grace O Sullivan
• A documentary on Inis Meáin by Clare native Ceri Garfield
• An Ob Doc on Clonmel Woman’s Rugby Team presented by Jennifer Ní hOgáin
• A music documentary on Singer Songwriter from Galway by Andrew Galligan
• Aoife Ní Rian’s documentary features rare footage taken by her grandfather while working for the UN in the Middle East in the 1950’s.

Drama premiere’s include:

• ‘Gaire’ written, directed and edited by Sinead Curran whose locations includes the famous Sin é bar on the quays in Dublin
• Liadán Ní hUallacháin has adapted a short story by Michéal O Conghaile for her drama.
• Writer Gillian Grattan’s film is about the play she wrote and staged in Waterford ‘Hooked’
• Kevin Pim has made a series on lesser known tourism sights in Co. Waterford and includes a story about Jackie Kennedy’s visit to Waterford and an inventive Waterford woman who made hot water bottles out of parts of a World War 2 submarine!!

About the Higher Diploma in TV Production

The Higher Diploma is a very practical course teaching camera, editing and production,s torytelling and scripting skills taught by TV professional directors, producers and WIT lecturers. Guest tutors on this year’s course included Late Late Show studio producer Cilian Fennell, Writer Stephen Sharpe and drama scriptwriting tutor, Louise Ní Fhiannachta, Ros na Rún Story Editor and IFTA award winner for Short film ‘Ruby’.

More information

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Online: www.wit.ie/wd551

To apply

For further information on next year’s course contact Bláithín Ní Chatháin at traenáil@nemeton.ie, call 058 46499 or visit www.wit.ie/551

We are now accepting applications for Round 2. Interviews will be held in early June 2015