DCU partners with Dublin International Film Festival
DCU’s MA in Documentary Practice has joined forces with the 2024 Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) to support their documentary programme. The course is proud to sponsor the screening of Cannes Uncut, which tells the behind the scenes story of the eponymous French film festival. The programme chair of the MA, filmmaker Tom Burke, will host a Q+A session with directors Roger Penny and Richard Blanshard after the screening on 27 February.
The MA in Documentary Practice builds on 30 years of experience in teaching film and television in the School of Communications, and responds to growing student interest in, and industry demand for, long-form documentaries.
The unique appeal of the programme lies in its multidisciplinary approach to non-fictional storytelling - students will complete full production modules in photography, audio production and video production, and the capstone project is a production-based dissertation that, after a process of development, will be pitched at industry level and shown publicly at the Irish Film Institute as part of the IFI Documentary Festival in September.
You can find out more information about the course here.
The Dublin International Film Festival runs from 22 February until 2 March. You can view their full programme of screenings and events on their festival website.