Freshly Squeezed Short Film Festival.

An Empty Room directed by Diana Peñaloza from Mexico.

Kicking off on Saturday, July 7 and running over two days this weekend, at the Screen Cinema in Dublin, is the Freshly Squeezed International Short Film Festival. 

As the name suggests it is a new event, (you can practically taste the pips!), aiming to showcase the work of film school students and recent film school graduates from around the world.  

There is certainly an impressive mix of films and their makers including documentary, experimental, animation and fiction films represented. They also promise plenty of lively post screening activity.

The organisers, students and professionals, alike think there is a gap in the market for a festival showing exclusively new work from emerging filmmakers.  

access>CINEMA is making the whole thing a lot more interesting by offering the Grand Prize– they promise to take the winner under their wing and distribute their film via their network over future months.  The all male jury is made up of : Ken Wardrop,  Conor Horgan, David Caffrey, Mait Laas and David O'Mahony will represent access>CINEMA.

Check out the list of films, events and seminars on http://www.freshlysqueezedfest.com