The 2023 Puttnam Scholars have commenced pre-production on their Scholarship film after a “writing room” session with Oscar-winning film producer and digital education pioneer Lord David Puttnam in Hayfield Manor last week.

Imelda O’Reilly is an interdisciplinary artist and an award winning Irish filmmaker. She has lived on four continents Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Her work explores themes of Identity, memory, trauma and exile. Her feature screenplay titled We’re the Kids in America was an Official Selection for L’Atélier Cinéfondation Cannes International Film Festival in 2018.

Six UCC students have been awarded the prestigious title of Puttnam Scholar. The Puttnam Scholarship programme offers UCC students from any discipline the opportunity to work with and learn from digital education pioneer Lord David Puttnam, Oscar-winning producer of films including Chariots of Fire, The Mission, The Killing Fields, and Midnight Express. This year’s scholars are final-year and postgraduate students in the fields of Nursing, Law, English and Film & Screen Media.

The Looking Glass Anthology

A reflective collection of audiovisual works

The Department of Film and Screen Media is delighted to present David Martin-Jones Professor of Film Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. His specialism is film-philosophy, and his research engages with world cinemas. He is the author/editor of nine books, including Deleuze and World Cinemas (shortlisted for the BAFTSS Annual Book Award), Cinema Against Doublethink, and Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7 (shortlisted for the MeCCSA Best Monograph Award).

The Department of Film and Screen Media presents a Research Seminar with Mariana Liz - Class and Gender in Small Nation Cinemas: the case of Portugal and Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen on Tuesday 21st of February at 4pm in the FSM Auditoriun - Kane Building Basement Room B10.B.

This talk addresses the ubiquitous global presence and popularity of crime cinema by analysing its capacity to express local, national or regional identities while at the same time being able to facilitate transborder cultural exchanges. Transculturalism is strongly embedded in this genre through both its ability to incorporate and process transnational influences (in terms of style, subgenres, and social criticism) and through its modes of production, cultural circulation, and critical understanding. Starting from an overview of European Crime cinema as a vehicle to address European transcultural identities, the talk will look at influences and exchanges between contemporary European and Asian productions to focus eventually on an analysis of Johnnie To's Vengeance (復仇, Hong Kong/France, 2009).

Things Jazz Gave Me: television documentary and ethnographic fictions - a research seminar with Dr Nicolas Pillai 7th February at 4pm, Film and Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building basement, Room B10.B

Getting your documentary made: Navigating the commissioning process for the first time. A Documentary Workshop with award winning Irish documentary filmmaker David Burke - FSM Auditorium, Kane Building Basement, Room B10.B Friday 10th February at 10 am.

Deac Rossell will discuss his career in cinema as a film journalist for publications such as Boston After Dark, the Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine and The Boston Globe as well as his work as a programmer for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Directors Guild of America, the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the National Film Theatre, London.