5th Annual Underground Film Festival Is Nearly Here

The 5th Annual UnderGround Film Festival will take place between August 22nd and August 29th

at venues in and around Cork City. Screening 120 short and feature films in diverse categories such as Local, National, International, Spanish, Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Animation, Experimental, Horror/Sci-Fi and Music Videos.

Proudly supported by Rising Sons Brewery, the UnderGround Film Festival is one of the only Film Festivals in the country to actively give to charity and this year will once again continue to contribute to its long term partners; the ISPCC.

This year’s events programme is the largest to date, with submissions having come from 35 countries but according to Festival Director Darren O’Mahony, the most exciting events are still the wide selection of local made short films. "This year has seen a huge surge in submission numbers, we took in almost three times as many entries as last year and those films have come from all across the globe”, O’Mahoney says. " Shorts made in Cork though will always take pride of place with us with the quality of work on par with any other. The talent is here and we are delighted to encourage it as much as we can.” 

2015 also sees the introduction of the festival's Inspire Awards, which aims to honour Irish Film industry veterans who have successfully managed to carve out careers in a notoriously difficult profession. Being honoured this year are Actress Victoria Smurfit (Ballykissangel, The Beach,
Dracula, One Upon a Time) and Writer/Director Terry McMahon who's highly successful film "Patrick's Day" recently won big at the IFTA Awards.

Interest in the event has been huge and tickets are selling fast. To book your tickets, please visit www.undergroundshortfilmfestival.com