Location

For those of you unfamiliar with Castlebar, the Linen Hall is represented by the yellow dot. There is parking available in the SuperValu car park. It's just off the main street and very easy to find

The Line Up

Friday
Fat Cats -The revenge of the fat cats
E11 - Hot Aches
Ulkc
Enjoy Rage Films
The Lord of the Boats- Painkillers
Colin Wong Filming
Dirmuid Higgins

Saturday
24 SOLO GRIPPED FILMS
Witkc
All Mixed Up
Oil + Water
Martin Sweeney Filming
Zambezi Mosioa Tunya - Olaf Obsommer
Gmit castlebar
Committed
Damming the Nile

Promo

A taste of the 2008 festival.

Previous Years

Line up and results of last years festival, 2007
http://irishwhitewaterfilmfestival.blogspot.com/

How to enter?

Its quiet simple, get out and start filming.

Any enteries can be sent to:

Bryan Fennell

8 Aglish,

Castlebar

Co. Mayo

Ireland

Anyone heading to the intervarsities in Feburary can give it to me there if they wish to do so.

Guidelines

1. Sending in a film to the Irish Adventure Film Festival implies acceptance of its rules and regulations.
   
2. Entries must be received by February 25th 2008. In rare exceptions this can be extended for particular submissions.
   
3. Entries can be submitted on MiniDV, DVD or CD. MiniDV and DVD are preferred but we can cater for CD’s as well. Both NTSC and PAL formats are accepted. If a film submission is in NTSC format please specify this in the application form or through correspondence.
   
4. All copyrights will remain the property of the videographer/editor/director/producer. However the Irish Adenture Film Festival and its committee may use the content insofar as it is relevant to the festival. Films submitted to the film fest will not be broadcast or screened outside of the event unless such an agreement has already been arranged between the film maker and the committee.
   
5. As a general rule film submissions will not be returned to an applicant. If an applicant wishes that a film submission to be returned please specify this on the entry form or through correspondence.
6. Any foreign language submissions should be submitted with appropriate subtitles.
   
7. Entrants are requested to submit a brief bio of their entry and their organisation/club/production company etc. Promotional materials should also be submitted with each entry which will consist of two still images that can be used in conjunction with the promotion of the film and the film festival.
   
8. Entrants grant the festival organisers the right to copy an entry in part or in its entirety in any media format for the film festival.

Why Castlebar?

The Irish Whitewater Film Festival has been held for the last five years in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland. There are a number of reasons for this choice of location. Well actually there are two. Castlebar is the academic base for Ireland’s only BA in Outdoor Education at GMIT Castlebar and with good reason. Within an hours drive in any direction of Castlebar there is a multitude of activities available. These include kayaking (river, surf and sea), surfing, rock-climbing, hillwalking, bouldering, caving, mountain biking, sailing, windsurfing, cliff jumping etc. You get the idea. The original concept behind the film fest is the brain child of Stephen Hannon, one of the Outdoor Education courses chief lecturers.
The second and perhaps the most important reason from a paddlers point of view is that the area’s surrounding Castlebar offer a hugh resource to paddlers of all abilities. Historically Mayo receives the largest amount of rainfall in Ireland per annum. So it’s not a bad spot to be for paddling. To me personally what makes the area of Mayo particularly special for paddling is it’s abundance of mountain creeks and world class surf. Within 50 minutes of Castlebar there are the internationally renowned point and reef breaks of Easkey and numerous others that I would be beated up for mentioning, so I'll keep my mouth shut. And that’s only the tip of the ice berg. Co. Mayo has a hugh concentration of surf breaks along its coast.
Paddling in Mayo is in itself an adventure. Especially if your willing to go off the beaten track. In four years local paddlers have racked up about 7 first/repeated descents in the area. I think that this speaks volumes for the nature of the paddling in Mayo and gives some idea of what an untapped resource it is. When you have the likes of Ali Donald saying that one of his favourite Irish runs is the Shranalong, Co. Mayo then you know you’re onto a good thing.
A run down on some of the runs can be found on Irishwhitewater.com. A big shout out must go to Mr.Seanie Byrne for all hard work he put into designing the site and administrating it. A feat made all the more impressive given the fact that he’s studying for finals this year. I think I speak for allot of people when I say that it’s a great resource for all Irish paddles.

Graham Clarke

What its all about?

The idea for this film festival grew out of a desire for people to see a wide selection of the latest footage of what people were at in whitewater kayaking within Ireland and abroad. As the festival grew year after year the varity of films moved from not just showing kayak films, but to a mixture of adventure genre films. The festival gives people a chance to see what others have being doing to get some adventurous trills and show their own adventures over recent years.