SCENE 15 YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL

After delays due to the weather, Scene 15 ran Jan 31st to Feb 3rd 2011. Evening screenings took place in Cafe Loco at the Edmund Rice Multiplex, Manor Street. Schools around Waterford showed the films as well.

The Mayor of Waterford, Councillor Mary Roche distributing awards at Garter Lane

Thursday night, 3 February 2011 at Garter Lane Arts Centre, a young audience saw the winning short films in the Scene 15 Youth Film Festival. The films varied from a documentary about the terrorising of old people in Limerick by scumbags to the adventures of a Strabane superhero. There were five awards - Best Documentary, Best Fiction, Made in Waterford, Best Comedy and an Audience Award. The audience award was nominated from local schools and youth projects, where the films were shown over the week.

Scene 15 is funded through Waterford Youth Committee and Waterford Area Partnership and organised by the film unit of Waterford Youth Arts. It fills a gap in Ireland, where there are hardly any youth film festivals. Ken Coleman of WYD-Eye Films said he was delighted with the level of entries, with over 100 films entered from teenagers and youth projects throughout Ireland. He hopes that the festival becomes part of the annual youth film calendar in Ireland.

HOUSE TRAP is an eerie tale, with scary original music, about a young girl trapped in an incomprehensible environment.

STEVE THE ROBOT is about a robot who falls in love with a Tefal Avanti toaster.

HIGHER LEVEL is a dark, ironic and surreal look at what happens to people when they just barely pass the Leaving Cert.

HOME looks at the effect that anti-social behaviour in housing estates has on the elderly living in our communities.

FANTASTICO is about a superhero who saves the people of Strabane, but unfortunately fails to save the mayor of the town.

Watch the five winning films here...