The National FÍS Film Festival took place on Wednesday the 3rd of November in the Helix at Dublin City University with over 800 children and their teachers attending from across the country.

The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, was in attendance to award the overall winners, St Aiden's NS, Sligo with the Aileen MacKeogh Award. The winning film was entitled “Awful Arabella”. In addition to this, award-winning producer Cathal Gaffney, from Brown Bag Films, also presented twenty-five other awards to the children. RTE’s popular children’s presenter, Sinead Kennedy hosted the event. Awards were presented to schools to celebrate their outstanding film achievements in areas such as animation, acting, editing and direction. Over eight hundred children and their teachers from all over Ireland attended the event.

You can download the full list of awards here:

FIS Film Festival 2010 List of Awards 

2010 is the sixth edition of the festival celebrating outstanding achievements by primary school children involved in the FÍS (Film In Schools) project. The FÍS project is an initiative designed to introduce the medium of film as a support to the Primary School Curriculum. FÍS is managed by the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) in collaboration with the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology (IADT).

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National Broadcast Coverage:
News2day (Nov 04) http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1084114 3min 20 sec in
Elev8 http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1084005 2min 53 sec in
The John Murray Show (Nov 05)  http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thejohnmurrayshow/ 9min 17sec in.