Short Grass Film Festival

Over the last decade, Kildare County Council have funded a diverse range of films through the Short Grass Films bursary awards and film commission. 

Riverbank Arts CentreNewbridge

Event Details

  • Sat 7 Mar  2020
  • 11.00am

  • Cost: Free

  • Venue Details
    Riverbank Arts Centre

    Main St.
    Newbridge



The repertoire includes short film, animation, documentary, drama as well as feature length films, many of which have received national and international accolades. Kildare Short Grass Films have supported the making of films on location in Kildare and film makers from the county.

The Kildare Short Grass Film Festival is jam packed with film screenings.

The festival will appeal to movie buffs and film makers at all stages of their career.

Following the screenings, there will be a reception and networking event.

Full details of the curated programme of short film screenings is as follows (please note schedule/sequence is subject to change)

Programme 1  – 11.00am     

Art Revolution to Evolution  / Director:  Maebh O’Regan
Clondorca / Director: Ged Murray
Anthromorphic Anomolies /  Director:   Fifi Smith
Duck Egg Blue /  Director: Margaret Rowe
The End of the Counter   /  Director: Laura Mc Gann
JFK The Badgeman Conspiracy / Director: John Sheridan and Paul Valentine
Billy and Chuck / Director: Lee Cronin
Talker / Director:  Adam Cullen

Programme 2  – 13:45pm

Memories of Mariga /  Director:  Jules Charlton
Away with the Fairies  / Director: Helen Flanagan
Says /  Director:  David Christopher Lynch
Tipplers  / Director:  Monica De Bath
In Ribbons  /Director:  Marie-Valerie Jeantelot
Film / Director:  Liam Boland
Blue /  Director: Megan Devaney
Gridlock /Director:  Ian Hunt Duffy

Programme 3  – 16.00pm  
Matterhorn  / Director:  Ken Walshe
Neither  (I Nor Not I) /  Director:   Francesca Placanica
Follow me home / Director:  Helena Doyle
Moth / Director: Allyn Quigley
Horsepower / Directer:  John O’Connell
Shoebox /Director:  Gary Duggan
The Vasectomy Doctor / Director:  Paul Webster
Taking Stock / Director:  Siobhan Mc Mahon
Rip to the rescue / Director: Paudie Baggott

Special preview
We Don’t Choose How / Director:  Natasha Waugh

For general queries about Short Grass Films contact arts@kildarecoco.ie

Booking is free through our Box Office, in person or by phone  (045 448327) or there is a 1 euro processing charge per ticket booked online.

Many filmmakers may also wish to attend the Dublin International Film Festival screening ARRACHT and panel discussion with director Tom Sullivan at Riverbank Arts Centre later that evening.


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