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Cinemagic 2000 closes with Spotless Reputation The curtain fell on Cinemagic Sunday night with a Canadian film scooping the top award for the second year running. Borderline Normal, a film charting the tough journey from adolescence to adulthood, found favour with the festival's ix-strong child jury. Just ten days
before, Festival Director Shona McCarthy had opened Cinemagic with the
Irish premiere of 102
Dalmations and an affirmation of her ambitions to make the Belfast
festival 'the best Children's Film Festival in the world'. And judging
by the success of this year's event, which included a high profile conference,
a new technology forum, masterclasses, shorts, and features, Shona and
the Cinemagic team seem to have come pretty close. 102
Dalmations Blasts off Belfast's Cinemagic Cinemagic is an international competitive Film Festival for young people in Northern Ireland. It is one of the biggest events of its kind in the UK and has an international reputation for excellence. The festival attracts approximately 14,000 young people annually with an award for best feature film and best short film judged by a panel of six people. It also has a strong educational focus with a packed programme, which includes workshops and masterclasses with some of the industry's top professionals. These events combine with some 70 film screenings over 10 days to give the festival a very unique character. Cinemagic 2000 is comprised of big movie premieres, feature films, family favourites and short film packages with an international conference and interactive fair investigating the impact of digital technology on entertainment in education. |
