IndieCork film festival, which this year celebrates its fifth anniversary, has announced that web hosting company Blacknight has renewed its sponsorship of the Blacknight Festival Centre at the IndieCork festival, which will be held in Cork in October.
This is the second year that the independent film and music festival will have an official centre, a networking space for festival delegates and guests, where filmmakers and their audiences can mingle. The Festival Centre will also be a venue for talks, workshops, music performances and screenings.
As in recent year’s The Gate Cinema continues to be festival’s main screening venue, with the Blacknight Festival Centre in The Village Hall on St Patrick’s Quay, downriver from The Gate Cinema, and across the bridge from the city’s main thoroughfare, Patrick Street. It’s a café and vintage shop, with two spacious function rooms upstairs, suitable for the variety of IndieCork talks, screenings and workshops.
It’s a fantastic venue that is creating exciting opportunities in Cork right now. It could hardly be more suitable for us. The addition of the Blacknight Festival Centre in 2016 brought a new dimension to IndieCork. We’ve taken what we learned last year and found a venue which is ideal for the kind of collegiality we want to create around IndieCork. We’ve put a lot of work into the programme this year, sourcing films from Ireland and throughout the world. We’re excited to see how our audience will react to the programme, and hear their feedback over coffee at The Village Hall. Úna Feely – IndieCork
It’s a lovely festival, intimate and friendly, but with a strong artistic voice, and fiercely independent. We’re a small Irish company with a loud voice on our chosen stage, so naturally these are values we relate to. We had a great experience as sponsors in 2016, and we are delighted to be back and looking forward to an exciting festival programme. Michele Neylon, CEO – Blacknight
Blacknight will also contribute to the festival programme, hosting a live workshop titled ‘How to Make a Website in 20 Minutes’. It follows on from a similar seminar given by the domain names and hosting company last year, and is designed to show small independent enterprises like filmmakers and artists how to take ownership and control of their own online space.
Creative artists are not that different to SMEs in general, and many of the same rules apply when it comes to promoting one’s work online. That’s where we come in. Michele Neylon, CEO – Blacknight
Now in its fifth year, IndieCork is ireland’s independent film festival, committed to supporting young and emerging filmmakers, and championing cinema that engages with social, political and cultural matters. The overlap between music and cinema is a particular interest for the curators and the programme features a number of musical events as well as items such as the Film Feast which combines a classic film with a culinary experience.
Further details will be available in the coming weeks at indiecork.com, and the complete festival programme will be announced in early September.