Winners of the FÍS 2016 Aileen MacKeogh Award visit the NFS
Winners of the FÍS 2016 Aileen MacKeogh Award for Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking, visited the National Film School at IADT this week.
At the 2016 FÍS Film Festival ceremony IADT President, Dr. Annie Doona, invited the top prize winners, Leenane National School, Galway, to a tour of the National Film School as part of their overall prize.
The pupils have also been invited to participate in an introductory Virtual Reality experience while they are on campus.
Their five minute film, ‘When Cropfields Cry’, a re-enactment of eviction, hunger and emigration during the famine, can be seen below.