IADT Film and Television students have achieved major success at the DARE2BDRINKAWARE awards.
Gobias Productions – made up of five students from IADT – won all of the judges categories in the student film competition.
Now in its second year, DARE2BDRINKAWARE is a competition for third-level students, sponsored by drinkaware.ie and organised by the Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA). The aim of the competition is to highlight young people’s attitudes to alcohol: through the use of digital media, students tell their stories and inform their peers about responsible drinking.
The winning IADT film ‘On The Cutting Room Floor’ depicts two workers in a control room within a student’s brain, editing footage from the previous night’s drinking session to ensure the student is left with only positive – though hazy – memories of his night on the town. After the workers delete scenes of drunken clumsiness and embarrassing behaviour, the student awakes in his bathroom with a limited recollection of his antics the night before.
The film was lauded by a prestigious judging panel, which included TV and radio presenter John Kelly, alongside Deirdre Hopkins of the Irish Film and Television Academy, and representatives from the Irish Film Institute, the Union of Students in Ireland, drinkaware.ie and The Digital Hub.
The IADT team behind ‘On The Cutting Room Floor’ is made up of: Evan Barry from Rathgar, Dublin; Richard Boland from The Curragh in Kildare; Simon Doyle from Knocklyon, Dublin; Kevin Herlihy from Tralee, and Ian Hunt Duffy from Blackrock, Co. Louth.
All of the films that made the shortlist for the competition are available to view at www.dare2bdrinkaware.com
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