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Goodbye Donegal Hello Meath
It is with great sadness that we have to announce that the Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival will no longer be taking place in County Donegal. The 9th festival will be taking place...
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Arts Council cuts Guth Gafa funding for 2015 to zero
The Arts Council of Ireland has informed Guth Gafa that we will not be receiving any funding support for 2015. This is a devastating blow to our festival. For the past eight years The Arts Council,...
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Arts Council Funding Application and Appeal Documents Letter of Appeal to Director of The Arts Council, Orlaith McBride Guth Gafa Artistic Assessment Maretta Dillon Film Advisor, The Arts Council...
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Return of Guth Gafa ‘Next Generation’ Short Documentary Student Competition
Guth Gafa’s ‘Next Generation’ student short documentary competition has returned. Shortlisted films will be screened as part of this year’s festival from Oct 2nd – 4th 2015 in Kells, Co. Meath and the...
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Call for Irish Feature Documentaries
The Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival is asking Irish filmmakers to submit their feature documentaries for consideration for our 9th festival which will take place in Kells, County...
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New ‘Made in Louth/Meath’ strand
The Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival will take place in Kells, County Meath from October 2nd to 4th 2015 and has a history of screening amazing Irish documentaries. This year, to...
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Guth Gafa launches :fund:it crowd-funding campaign in response to Arts...
Guth Gafa has appealed to the Arts Council against the recent decision to cut all funding for the 2015 festival on the grounds that the geographical location of a festival should not be the main...
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FUNDIT – THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
Just four days to go to support us in our FundIt campaign. We are halfway there with over €4,000 pledged. Thank you to all the wonderful people who have contributed so far. We only have 4 days left...
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An appeal from Festival Directors, David Rane and Neasa Ní Chianáin Devastating news here at Team Guth Gafa – we lost our entire Arts Council grant – yes, a 100% cut after 8 years of continuous...
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Fundit campaign a huge success!
Our :fund:it campaign has officially ended and we raised €10,700 from 122 donors! Our aim was to make up the €8,500 Arts Council cut so we well and truly surpassed this! What a roller coaster ride...
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A TASTER OF WHAT’S TO COME
SUGAR BLUES The Irish premiere of Sugar Blues explores our unhealthy relationship with sugar through the personal story of Czech film maker and mother, Andrea Culkova, who takes on the global sugar...
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Thank you for purchasing tickets/passes for the 9th Guth Gafa Film Festival. You can collect your tickets/passes at our Box Office in Dukes Bros, Market St., Kells before the festival or at the Box...
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GUTH GAFA ANNOUNCES EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
Media students at DKIT at work in the radio studio Two third level Institutions, NUI Maynooth (NUIM) and Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT), are educational partners with the 2015 Guth Gafa...
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Journey To Yu (In The Footsteps Of Rebecca West)
Deirdre Mulrooney, Ireland, 2015, 60’ In her photographic pilgrimage, Dragana Jurišić brings Rebecca West’s 1941 masterpiece into the present day, for an encounter with the medium of photography...
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Brothers
Wojeich Staroń, Poland, 2015, 70’ ‘Brothers’ is the story of an unusual life of two brothers and their complicated relationship. A pragmatist and a dreamer. Alfons is a painter and an acrobat, the...
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Something Better To Come
Hanna Polak, Denmark/Poland, 2014, 93’ Yula lives in one of the most desolate places on Earth: The Svalka, the biggest junkyard in Europe. Surrounded by barbed wire and guards, the area is monitored...
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After The Dance
Daisy Asquith, Ireland, 2014, 77’ Daisy Asquith explores the personal story of her mother’s conception after a dance in the 1940s on the remote west coast of Ireland. Given up to the nuns and raised...
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