Transition Year (TY) students from counties Limerick, Clare and Kerry are being encouraged to record a short film that predicts what realising the unprecedented renewable energy opportunity on the Shannon Estuary will do for the region and nation.
Supported by Shannon Foynes Port Company, in partnership with The Hunt Museum, the competition – titled ‘Shooting the Breeze’ – boasts a top prize of €2,000.
Shannon Foynes Port Chief Executive Pat Keating said: “We would encourage as many as possible to enter. Our partnership with the Hunt Museum is an extra attraction as students visiting their exhibition (‘Night’s Candles are Burnt Out’) will get plenty of inspiration and insight from it for their short film.”
Mr. Keating added: “Returning this year with the competition is part-icularly timely following the publication last year of the Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce report, which sets out just why the Shannon Estuary can become the green digital powerhouse for the country and export huge volumes of renewable energy to Europe. This is a cue for these young film makers and I’ve no doubt that this will be a project they will be passionate about, given this generation’s focus on and demand for the sustainable future that the Estuary can deliver.”
Sinead Hutchison, Exhib-ition and Events Manager at Hunt Museum, said, “This is all about the future but learnings from the past can certainly inspire the future and museums are enablers of that.”
Information packs and entry forms for the competition are available from eadams@sfpc.ie; telephone 069 73102. Entry forms must be returned by 14th February, with a further eight weeks for the TY teams to create their short-film, which must be submitted by March 21st. The five Best Film nominations will be announced on April 8th, with the chosen teams presenting their films at the Gala Awards Event in the Foynes Flying Boat and Maritime Museum on April 26th.