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Despite having widened his target demographic, Flynn insists that the festival is still “first and foremost catered to Irish and Irish-American consumers” as a way to celebrate Irish culture and accomplishments. He also lists more discerning viewers with a taste for non-mainstream, art-house movies as a secondary audience...
...selection process for the festival begins by submitting a call for entries, which is how Flynn and his team find 90 percent of the movies shown. There are then three independent judges who spend hours watching and deliberating over the movies to decide which films will appear at the festival. The festival also offers four awards: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Fiction/Animation, and the Director’s Choice Award...
According to Flynn, a festival like this should be of great interest to the Harvard community. He points out that “as our culture becomes increasingly closed off to outside influences it becomes increasingly important to learn how other people create...
...Flynn asserts that, “they work very hard over there in [Ireland] to make films,” with little money and resources, yet the films they produce are exceptional and emotionally complex...
Regardless of the cultural context, such a lesson about creating great art from very little is a unique gift for which Harvard should thank the Flynn, the festival, and, indeed, Magners. That Irish cider ain’t bad either...