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Submissions are now ÓPEN for the 6th Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition

(from 1st of May 2018)

Location

Cork, Ireland

 

In association with the IndieCork festival of independent film and music.
 

2018 is Ó Bhéal’s ninth year screening International poetry-films, and sixth year featuring this competition. Up to thirty films will be shortlisted and screened during the festival in October. One winner will receive the Indie Cork / Ó Bhéal prize for best Poetry-Film.The festival takes place between the dates of the 7th and the 14th October, 2018.

Entry is free to anyone, and should be made via email to poetryfilm [at] obheal.ie – including the following info in an attached word document:

  • Name and duration of Film
  • Name of director
  • Country of origin
  • Contact details
  • Name of Poet
  • Name of Poem
  • Synopsis
  • Filmmaker biography

and a link to download a high-resolution version of the film.


You may submit as many entries as you like. Films must interpret, or convey a poem which must be present in its entirety, having been completed no earlier than August 2016. They may not exceed 10 minutes in duration. Non-English language films will require English subtitles. The final shortlist will be announced here during September.

Shortlisted films also appear in Ó Bhéal’s poetry-film touring programme, at a number of film and literary festivals, to date including the Clare Island Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, Stanzas in Limerick, the Cyclops festival in Kiev, Poemaria in Vigo and at the Madeira Literary Festival (2018). Shortlisted entries are also screened throughout the year from Ó Bhéal’s competition shortlist archive (in random), at the start of each Ó Bhéal poetry evening.

 

This year's entries are judged by film maker Oonagh Kearney and poet Anamaria Crowe Serrano.

The submission deadline is August 15th, 2018.


Best of luck!

 

http://www.obheal.ie/blog/competition-poetry-film/

 

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