Film
We believe that film has the unique potential to re-present complex social worlds and human experiences to a wide range of audiences. In working with film we hope to create the possibility for a deeper understanding of issues felt and lived on the ground by different constituencies, illustrating the complex networks and cultural and political affiliations produced through immigration. We research and produce films in-house with practitioners in collaboration with our partnership base, in addition to distributing and exhibiting films through festival, broadcast, DVD circulation and educational outreach.
FOMACS is committed to organizing a major film festival on identities and social justice and our most recent film series Moving Worlds: Cinemas of Migration Part I and Part II represents the first stage of this project, with the aim of building old and new audiences and screening outlets for films. The film series and the forthcoming festival reflect FOMACS’ desire to infuse contemporary Irish debates with a more extensive range of voices, stories, accents, sensibilities and languages, working with film as a medium for social change.
Film Project Coordinator: Dr Alan Grossman, Documentary Filmmaker and Lecturer in Ethnographic Media Production.
Film Series Coordinator: Dr Rashmi Sawhney, Lecturer in Visual Cultural Studies.
Please sample the films featured on this page to learn more about our on-going projects.
FOMACS will host the MOVING WORLDS symposium - 'Documentary Film, Social Media and Community
Engagement' on 25-27 June 2010. For more information you can access the programme here.