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For information on;- National Youth Film School - Dreamstuff Youth Theatre - Mid-year Short Film class terms(Senior & Junior) - Drama Classes (Senior & Junior) - Outreach ProgrammesContact Young Irish Film Makers. Contact details can be found " @YIFM.COM "The National Youth Film School.In the four years of its existence the National Youth Film School has grown into the foremost developmental training and production programme for young people (aged 13 to 20 years) interested in film making and media production. Using such equipment as Panasonic HD Cameras (plus a variety of other formats) and Professional DAT equipment.
Five feature films have been made as part of the National Youth Film School program – THE CHILDREN (2002), STEALAWAY (2003) (both U.S. Film Festival winners), LILY'S BAD DAY (2004) and ELIZA MAYFLOWER (2005). And in 2007 we launched our most ambitious project yet with the NYFS, SUCKERS.
No other film making programme offer you the opportunity to work at such a professional level with broadcast equipment.
Last years feature movie was SUCKERS and was directed by John Doran and Chris Slack from a script by John Morton. It tells the tale of a detention class in a secondary school who are the only survivors against a vampire virus that has turned their teachers into bloodthirsty leeches. It was our biggest, messiest, most ambitious production yet.
In 2008 we made our newest feature film, a feature length homage to the classic silent comedies called THE SUITORS. It is written and directed by Stephen Colfer and will be released in early 2009.
The story involves 3 men (all versions of silent movie comedy stars) who are in a comically intense competition for the hand of the fair Daisy. However, slapstick soon turns to bloodbath as their attempts to sabotage each other gets nasty.
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NYFS Shorts 2008

Check out the first two of this years National Youth Film School short movies made by this years batch of young Rodriguez's and Spielberg's over the past month in our studios in Kilkenny.Both films we...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:43:00 GMT

D Boyz - 2001

The next in our retrospective series is YIFM's second feature film D'BOYZ, a bit of a madcap comic caper about two schoolboys who decide to leave school and form a punk band.It was written by Conal Mc...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 08:56:00 GMT

Under The Hawthorn Tree - 1998

Here's a clip from the first feature film from Young Irish Film Makers.UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE was adapted from Marita Conlon McKenna's hugely popular famine set novel about a parentless family who un...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 03:56:00 GMT

SUCKERS Kilkenny Advertiser Article

Vampires and demons target Kilkenny studentsBy Naoise O' Donovan CooganVampires and fangs are the order of the day in a new film to be premiered on Monday next by Kilkenny's finest - Young Irish Film ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:03:00 GMT

Thank you.

Hey everyone.Today was the official wrap for our 2007 feature film, SUCKERS. Written by John Morton, Directed by John Doran & Chris Slack. I would personally like to thank everyone so much for the...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:51:00 GMT

Weekly Workshops For 2007

Young Irish Film Makers are developing a very unhealthy interest in vampires this year.In July and August they will be shooting their latest feature Suckers a comedy horror film about teachers who bec...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:01:00 GMT