All women Documentary jury at @luxfilmfest
Thank you @alexisjuncosa for a wonderful time and a superb selection of film. It was very difficult for us to choose, which is the sweetest problem to have. Very inspired on my way back to @corkfilmfest
It was beautiful to meet you @doggmo@francescristallo@lisahoen@camillechanod
And, every moment of every day: #ceasefirenow !!!#stopbombingchildren
Follow the Spanish PM’s example 🙌
📽️📽️📽️Our last Rough Cut event of 2025 took place in person on Tuesday 2nd December at the ATRL, Trinity College Dublin with thanks to our partnership with Dr Sven Anderson and the School of Creative Arts.
🎥🎥🎥Although it was the final Rough Cut event of the year, it was our first with aemi’s 2025-2026 TIER 2 Artist Support Programme participants.
🎞️🎞️🎞️Rough Cut sessions offer film artists the opportunity to share and discuss works-in-progress in a supportive environment and they play a central role in aemi’s artist support programme.
🎦🎦🎦These events are not open to the public; instead the audience is made up of a small group of peers who are invited to actively participate in the conversations about the works in question.
💥💥💥Film artists Laura Fitzgerald, Erik Nuding and Richie Price all generously presented works in progress at Rough Cut and Aurélie Godet, Director of Programming at Cork International Film Festival lead the responses to our three artist film projects in process.
💥💥💥The film Laura shared was the rough cut of a kind of experimental manual, combining animation and filmed footage about living in the countryside. The idea is to make a HOW TO, like how to deal with gates, cones, bins, cows, fields, neighbours, etc.
💥💥💥Erik shared some material from his first feature in post production, With Their Backs To The Sky, which immerses into the entangled lives of bat catchers, scientists and old world fruit bats in the depleted forest of Madagascar. He will use this as a hinge point to discuss the very earliest ideas for a new film working with the same community, which centers around the recent proliferation of grave bone robbing and its threat to the ancestral ritual of exhumation: a practice sacred to Malagasy identity.
💥💥💥Richie’s project is an abstract exploration of how our perception is infused with memory. It is inspired by the philosophy of Henri Bergson and the theorists and artists he influenced. It will incorporate a blend of live action and a cinematic use of 3D pointcloud / gaussian splat models.
