Film courses in Ireland

Can anyone out there please tell me how I can obtain details about the various film courses in Ireland. I am interested mainly in Writing and Directing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BlitzKrieg

Trinity has one but its brand new (started last year) so i dont know if its any good, but i went to their open day about it last year and they didnt seem that great. Cause its trinity and also cause its brand new the points are stupidly high and it has to be combined with english, drama or one of the languages.

Apart from that degree there's a few diploma degrees here and there dun loaghiere would be the best for equipment of all the course i think (I think now I think!!! i might be wrong)

But film courses in ireland are not really that great i'm doing film in england and if your willing to travel the distance there are numerous different types of courses available.


If you have the money and the knowledge top of the range would be Reading University which has a course Film T.V Theatre, which is meant to be really good and they have the equipment. But it costs a bundle and they demand quite high...i remember they asked from me was 2 A's and 4 B's all higher. and that had to include English as an A subject.


If u have just the money and not the knowledge u can apply for the New York film acadamy in Kings College London. Sweet feck all study work in it. No theory its all practical work which focuses on directing, techinical work with writing and acting. But it is really really really really expensive. And though you have the know how etc you dont have the artistic credibility of really understanding films (the stuff u would learn in trinity reading and other film courses.)


If like me you had niether in excess u can go for the middle ground. Some Uni's do great courses like University of East London which has a Cinematics course, BUT the Uni itself is a complete ****-hole and is in the middle of industrial bullsh*t so u'll have a dull social life there.

But where i went was APU University in cambridge which recieved high marks for its film studies department and is unique in its combinations you can do film studies with almost anything, the most recommanded being either English Drama or Visual communications. But there are loads more for example i'm doing it with 20th centuary European history and politics (which i hope will give me a edge in documantries.)
Anyway the demands are not too high. Knowledge wise it demands around a B 2-4 C's in higher level subjects. Course score and A in your combination subject (History English etc) and your in for def (like i did )

APU is good i think cause not only do you do all the lovely theory etc but also it has a pratical side which is not kept until the third year for one semester (as it is in trinity and UWE) In APU u do it all the time along with your theory (i start it next semester!!!!) Its not a university with a great name (cause it was until recently a polytechnic) But i think its been great so far.


My best bet is to try for somewhere in england...but thats from personnaly experiance...

Jim

Film Base
Screen Training Ireland

Thanks for the help. I must look into courses in England and maybe America.

James R

Theres one in Cork I know that and a new one starting in September in DKIT.