Fastnet Film Festival

Fastnet Film Festival

Also known as: FFF
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Fastnet Film Festival is a short film festival in the coastal village of Schull in West Cork, Ireland, held over five days at the end of May. It calls itself a festival without a cinema: films play in up to 15 venues around the village, from the village hall and a local hotel to pubs and cafés, with screenings also on Cape Clear. More than 500 shorts from over 40 countries are entered each year in competitions for Irish, international, Irish-language and Cork-made films, Irish film students and filmmakers aged 19 or under, with craft prizes alongside. The programme centres on the craft of filmmaking, with seminars, workshops and masterclasses by industry guests, and the festival's Puttnam Script Award funds the production of one short drama to be shot on the Cork stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way.

The 2027 edition runs 26–30 May 2027.

Country

Ireland

Categories

Animation, Documentary, Short, Student

Dates

26 May 2027 — 30 May 2027

Awards and prizes

Competition prizes: Best Irish Short Film, Best International Short Film, Best Irish Language Short Film, Best in Cork, the Tom Clancy Jnr Award for Best Irish Student of Film & Media Studies, Best Young Filmmaker (aged 19 or under) and the An-Sophie Fontaine Human Rights Award in Documentary Film. Craft awards: Best Director (the Jack Gold Prize), Best Screenplay, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography (the Ross McDonnell Prize), Best Editing and Best Actor; genre awards include Best Animation. The Puttnam Script Award funds the production of one live-action short drama made on the Cork Wild Atlantic Way, chosen at a public pitching event during the festival.

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