This year's Junior Dublin Film Festival runs from Sunday, November 21st, to Wednesday, December 8th, with international films for young people showing at the Screen Cinema, College Street, at the Irish Film Centre in Temple Bar, at the UCI cinemas in Blanchardstown, Coolock and Tallaght and at the Bray Cineplex.
The booking office is at the IFC (tel: (01) 671 4095; fax: (01) 670 3074; email: jdff@indigo.ie).
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 three workshops in the Irish Film Centre as part of the festival: Martin Duffy on November 24th at 10.30 a.m., talking and answering questions about a director's role in making a movie; actor, writer and director Vinny Murphy on November 29th at 10.30 a.m., about bringing his own first feature film to the screen; and multimedia animator Ciaran Bonass on November 23rd at 11 a.m., discussing animation from storyboard and model sheets to finished film.
All you've got to do to win is finish this sentence is no more than 20 words: "I prefer going to the pictures to playing video games because . . ."
The three best sentence-finishers will each treat the class to one of these workshops. Three runners-up will each win a family ticket to one film in the festival.
The deadline is next Tuesday, November 16th. Send your entries to film festival competition, media scope, The Irish Times, D'Olier Street, Dublin 2 (or fax: (01) 679 2789; email: mediapage@irish-times.ie). Be sure to include all your details, including a telephone contact at your school.
