Ireland

FOMACS

Forum on Migration and Communications

Contact person:

Siobhan Twomey

E-mail:

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Website:

http://www.fomacs.org

FOMACS – The Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) is a collaborative public media project, producing film, photographic, digital storytelling, radio, animation and print stories on the topic of immigration and integration in Ireland, with the aim of reaching and engaging diverse audiences.

We believe that film has the unique potential to re-present complex social worlds and human experiences to a wide range of audiences. In working with film we hope to create the possibility for a deeper understanding of issues felt and lived on the ground by different constituencies, illustrating the complex networks and cultural and political affiliations produced through immigration. We research and produce films in-house with practitioners in collaboration with our partnership base, in addition to distributing and exhibiting films through festival, broadcast, DVD circulation and educational outreach.

FOMACS is currently planning - with partners in the Irish Film Institute (IFI) and EUNIC, Ireland  (European Union National Institutes for Culture) - a major public film programme in 2010 on identities and social justice, with a specific focus on youth cultures. Our most recent film series Moving Worlds: Cinemas of Migration Part I and Part II represents the first stage of this project, with the aim of building old and new audiences and screening outlets for films. The film series and the forthcoming public programme reflects FOMACS’ desire to infuse contemporary Irish debates with a more extensive range of voices, stories, accents, sensibilities and languages, working with film as a medium for social change.