Louth International Film Festival

The Sixth Edition of the Louth International Film Festival, in Association with An Táin Arts Centre and Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Taking Place from 5th–7th September.

"I am a proud patron of the Louth International Film Festival. When the local meets the international, great things happen - this is when art and filmmaking are at the vanguard. Onwards and upwards in our collective seeing!"

— Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC, ISC.

The Louth International Film Festival was established in 2019 by a group of passionate volunteers and filmmakers. Patrons including Hollywood director John Moore, acclaimed cinematographer Seamus McGarvey (ASC, BSC, ISC), and Emmy award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh. The judging panel includes renowned filmmaker Fred Dekker, best known for cult classics such as The Monster Squad (1987) and Night of the Creeps (1986), as well as his work on RoboCop 3 (1993). The festival was founded to support emerging filmmakers and to celebrate creative, challenging, and evocative cinema from around the globe.

Located on the east coast of Ireland, County Louth has a long and rich history of arts, music, culture, and folklore. This festival is a celebration of that heritage, where contemporary visual storytelling is shared through the medium of film.

Investigative, thought-provoking, and innovative documentary, film drama, and animation—both feature-length and short-form—continue this tradition of storytelling, cultural exchange, and the sharing of ideas. The Louth International Film Festival attracts a diverse audience, including members of the local community, film industry representatives, visiting filmmakers, students, and film enthusiasts from all walks of life. We recognise and value our inquiring, critical, and engaged audience, brought together through the arts.

The festival is made possible in part by the generous support of Create Louth, Dundalk Credit Union, and contributions from the local community.

Dundalk native and Hollywood director John Moore had this to say about the sixth edition:

"Everyone is from somewhere, but we like to reach out to everywhere. Local film festivals do this—they bring the wide world to us all and add their own special local magic. Louth is a small county with a huge sense of magic, of history, of story. I wish them continued success with their world-class festival and will continue to support them and cheer them to the rafters."