We are very grateful for the help we have received from local businesses, the Rockabill Film Club, Skerries Community Association and our main sponsors, Fingal County Council and Ardmore Sound . Also, we would like to recognise the kind donations from NCCRI and Shane Holland Design Workshops. We are also grateful for all the support and guidance we received from Access Cinema and Clones Film Festival.

The Festival began with the Ardmore Sound Short Film Competition. Aimed at new filmmakers and recent graduates, it aims to showcase the best of new Irish talent.

The short film competition was followed by a sound production workshop. Ardmore Sound founder and chair, Paul Moore, gave a workshop on film sound at this year's festival. This was a great opportunity to learn more about this crucial aspect of filmmaking. The audience attending the workshop was a mixture of all ages, from young teenagers to students and adults.

Our best attended film of the day was the children's film E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. The venue was filled to capacity and demonstrated a huge interest in family-related films in Skerries. As a consequence we have examined various options to increase the number of screenings and venue options for family films.

Our main feature film was La Vie En Rose. A French-language film was chosen partly to mark Skerries twinning with the canton of Guichon in France. It was important that the festival built upon existing community structures. Yet again the tickets were sold out and people had to be turned away at the door.

After the film there was a closing party in the foyer of the Sailing Club with entertainment from local traditional musicians.

Best Short Film Award designed by Shane Holland

Graduate filmmakers from Dublin City University won the Ardmore Sound
Best Short Film award for their animation Tré Hugger. It was selected from a short-list of ten films from film schools around the country. Second place in the competition went to the very popular Out the Road by Genevieve Murphy of Griffith College and third place went to the film Micko by Tom Byrne, also a graduate of Griffith College.

With a strong environmental message, the five-minute animation Tré Hugger: Boy Inventor by Scott Bryan, Paddy O'Hanlon and Brent Grainger, is the first in a planned series of films about a boy who realises his powers of invention can make the world a better place.

The team, pictured above, received an award designed by Shane Holland who has also designed major awards such as the 02 Ability Awards, the Irish Times Property Advertising Award and the new Tidy Towns award.

7.30 pm Saturday 21st June
The Sailing Club, Skerries

LA VIE EN ROSE (2007)

From Childhood to glory, from triumph to despair, from Paris to New York: the extraordinary life story of Edith Piaf. Intimate, intense, fragile and indestructible, this Oscar winner was a huge success. Cert: 15A

We are very glad that our opening film is French so as to mark Skerries twinning with the canton Guichon in France.
Tickets: €10 (includes launch, film and party)

4pm Sat 21st June
The Sailing Club, Skerries

ET: THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (1982)
He is afraid. He is alone. He is three million light years from home.

After a long search we finally managed to track down a copy of what is one of the world's favourite children's movies - ET: The extra terrestrial. Word is that the movie's US distributers are getting ready for a big relaunch of the film next year so this is a good time before it goes global all over again. Already 26 years old, this is Spielberg at his best and possibly one your children haven't seen already.

Please note: Children should be accompanied by an adult . Tickets €2 per person