This year's Junior Dublin Film Festival will run between Sunday, November 19th and Tuesday, December 5th. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Maurice Ahern, will officially open the festival in the Irish Film Centre on November 19th and kick off more than a fortnight of films for young people from around the world, as well as a number of exciting workshops and seminars featuring movie-makers talking, answering questions and offering advice about their work. As well as the Irish Film Centre in Temple Bar, the festival's venues include UCI cinemas in Blanchardstown, Coolock and Tallaght, the IMAX Theatre on Parnell Street and the Bray Cineplex.
As the largest film festival of its kind in Ireland, it expect to attract an audience of more than 12,000 young people, teachers and parents.
As part of its sponsorship of the festival, The Irish Times is delighted to offer free tickets for a whole class (up to 30 students) for one of the workshops in the Irish Film Centre. All you've got to do to win is finish this sentence with no more than 20 words: Teenagers make the best movie audiences because . . .
The three best sentence-finishers will each treat the whole class to one of the workshops. Three runners-up will each win a family ticket to one film in the festival.
The deadline is on Friday, November 10th. Send your entries to Film Festival Competition, Media Scope, The Irish Times, D'Olier Street, Dublin 2. Or you can fax (01) 679 2789, or e-mail mediapage@irish-times.ie (but no file attachments please). Be sure to include all your details, including a telephone contact at your school.
The full festival programme has yet to be published - watch The Irish Times for more details.
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