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Minister Madigan to launch National Youth Film and Animation School and Kilkenny Animated 2018
Young Irish Film Makers (YIFM) has been running as a national organisation based in Kilkenny for 27 years, delivering high quality youth arts programmes through film and digital media nationwide.
Young Irish Film Makers (YIFM) is a digital film training and production centre where young people aged 9 to 25 years, regardless of physical, social, educational, cultural disadvantage or background, can to learn professional level broadcast quality film production.
Kilkenny Animated is a brand new festival of visual storytelling, incorporating cartoons, animation and illustration in a series of exhibitions, talks, performances, workshops and experiences that celebrate the creativity and craft of the visual image.
The festival is hosted by twice-Academy Award® nominated animation studio, Cartoon Saloon and is set against and inspired by the backdrop of Kilkenny’s medieval streets and slipways at the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East.